The chapter explores the concerns surrounding how social media content targeting teenagers, specifically boys, can impact body image, self-esteem, and self-image, promoting unrealistic beauty standards. Examples are shared, including using facial fitness gum to enhance facial appearance, along with humor and banter about trying the gum to achieve a desired jawline effect.
This week, an assassination attempt for the social media age: what the platforms got right and wrong in the chaotic aftermath. Then we talk with the Times reporter Teddy Schleifer from this week’s Republican National Convention in Milwaukee about the wave of Silicon Valley billionaires stepping up to back Trump. And finally, we talk to The Times’s Styles reporter Callie Holtermann about facial fitness gum, a “jawmaxxing” product targeted at teen boys online.
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