“Dangerous and harmful,” are just some of the tags that TikTok added to videos uploaded by Liv Schmidt, a fitness influencer who was recently banned from the platform for violating community guidelines.
The 22-year-old managed to amass almost 700,000 followers on the app where her audience, mostly teenage girls, got a steady stream of diet advice focusing on how to stay extremely thin at the cost of their health.
For instance, one of her series called “what I eat in a day to stay skinny as someone who works a 9 to 5,” reveals a diet consisting of a protein bar, a nibble of bread, a small bowl of pasta and two bites of an ice cream for a total 800 calories.
