Citations:meanspo

Noun: "(informal) thinspo content that is deliberately cruel or insulting"

 * 2016, Johanna Chisholm, "Instagram and the Human (Mis)Connection", paper submitted to City University of New York, page 3:
 * Another 14-year-old girl with a pro-ana Instagram said in a direct message from her account that she would intentionally follow accounts that would spam yours with meanspo
 * 2017, B. Autumn Jaworski, "#Hashtag Trigger Warning: Using Tumblr To Understand Current Conflict In Higher Education", thesis submitted to Georgetown University, page 20:
 * However, mean comments about a person's weight can trigger an adverse reaction from some viewers; for example, a meanspo blog may trigger the relapse of an eating disorder. Therefore, the meanspo writer chooses to place a trigger warning on her post.
 * 2018, Zoe Alderton, The Aesthetics of Self-Harm: The Visual Rhetoric of Online Self-Harm Communities, page 24:
 * The practice of meanspo is also a response to this desperate need to find motivation by putting oneself down.
 * 2018, Y. Gerrard, "Beyond the Hashtag: Circumventing Content Moderation on Social Media", New Media & Society, Volume 20, Issue 12 (2018):
 * Some users also offer and request ‘meanspo’, short for ‘mean inspiration’, where users post negative comments about other users to discourage them from eating.
 * 2019, Tara L. Deliberto & Dina Hirsch, Treating Eating Disorders in Adolescents: Evidence-Based Interventions for Anorexia, Bulimia, and Binge Eating, unnumbered page:
 * Therefore, if these behaviors are occurring, we strongly encourage carers to set parental controls on all electronic devices to block the eating disorder from receiving reinforcement in the form of meanspo on social media, pro-ana websites, pro-bulimia (pro-mia) websites, and the like.
 * 2019, Kyle Aaron McGregor & Olivia Clancy, Starving For Support: Natural Language Processing And Machine Learning Analysis of Anorexia Nervosa In Pro-Eating Disorder Communities", Journal of Adolescent Health, Volume 64, Issue 2, 1 February 2019, page S53:
 * Additionally, users’ frequently requested “meanspo,” an extension of thinspo that serves as an inspiration for thinness by using aggressive and abrasive rhetoric to encourage users to aspire for thinness.
 * 2019, Haley Gustafson, "The Limits of Empathy", Mercer Street (New York University), 2019/2020 Issue, pages 126:
 * Some of the meanspo I’ve read use language as vicious and demeaning as incel “sui-fuel,” posts that encourage incels to kill themselves (“Incels” 00:14:11).
 * 2020, Tosca Koot, "Pro-Ana Weblogs: Pro-Anorexia Communities on the Internet", thesis submitted to Tilburg University, page 37:
 * Meanspo often contains messages talking about how eating food will make you fat, so that when you are eating or feel like eating, you can read the messages in order to suppress the urge to eat.
 * 2020, Riley Willman, "Ana", The Rapids Review (Anoka Ramsey Community College), 2020 Issue, unnumbered page:
 * Thinspiration, thinspo, bonespo, meanspo, sweetspo, anything that could motivate me not to eat, not to consume, not to gain, not to fail.