Memes carry dangerous health-related messages and make light of unhealthy eating habits, researchers from Loughborough University wrote in a letter sent to a British parliamentary committee.
"A substantial number of individuals on Twitter share health-related Internet memes, with both positive and negative messages," they wrote, noting that many "contain inappropriate material."
A picture of an overweight child with the caption "Free food? Count me in!" was sent along with the letter as an example of a meme the researchers found dangerous.
The academics were also concerned by a meme that created a human-like body from pictures of pizzas and hamburgers, with frankfurters used for limbs and a smiley-faced potato for a face.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/18/health/internet-memes-obesity-intl/index.html
Monkey see, monkey... eat?
(Score: 2) by Revek on Saturday October 20 2018, @10:36PM (2 children)
And thus are protected as speech
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(Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday October 20 2018, @10:39PM (1 child)
Fat positivity (the opposite of fat shaming) is free speech, although it kills.
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(Score: 2) by bzipitidoo on Saturday October 20 2018, @11:02PM
Is Heart Attack Grill the ultimate in fat positivity? Well, I suppose the name is not positive so much as facetious.