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Very much agree. I think people need to internalize that not every post/reel/meme on Instagram (or the internet at large) is meant for them. When I was a teen in the early aughts (the peak of "thin is in"), I would have found Danae Mercer's content revolutionary for my self-esteem (even in my privileged body). I was starved for images of real, non-perfect, larger-than-a-size-2 women.

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Totally. It's hard for me to find these posts totally bad because I keep thinking of how much I would have needed them myself as a teen, and that's only from my exposure to movies/tv/magazines. I didn't even have "perfect" people on social media to contend with.

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