(2021-10-23) D F Is Anorexia The Nexus Of All Online Communities

Default Friend: Is anorexia the nexus of all online communities? Pro-ana-style thinking is both ground zero for understanding the mechanics of digital communities and at the core of all digital communities. (virtual community)

What can you learn from online anorexics? You can earn about social contagions (sociogenic), how the internet is one perpetual text-based role play (LARP), the strange condition of wannarexics who create a parallel life where they are ‘digitally anorexic’ even if they may not be in the physical world

Implicitly, at the heart of every online community—every successful, mimetic one—is an obsession with controlling the body.