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The fact that the "thinspiration" sites have adopted it is irrelevant.

There's no doubt that as a cultural phenomenon, "thinspiration" is dangerous.

Vazzana points out that not all "thinspiration" sites are a bad thing.

But what if your 'thinspiration' has run out?

Some use pictures of excessively thin models as "thinspiration" for self-starvation.

According to Marwick, sites offering "thinspiration" are not new.

It's what I like to call thinspiration.

Messages and images like thinspiration pictures may inspire some but repulse others."

You don’t have to search very hard to find the excruciating online videos known as thinspiration, or thinspo.

“The thing I have noticed with these thinspiration sites is it really normalizes distorted behavior,” she said.

The young women who congregate on the sites have their own lexicon: tips they share are called "thinspiration," for instance.

To Thein's dismay, however, many images from the exhibition were nevertheless later shared online as thinspiration.

Adam Richman boasts online of his weight loss, under the hashtag 'thinspiration'.

If the health and fitness community - online or offline - want to reclaim "thinspiration", they're welcome to it.

Actress Keira Knightley is a 'thinspiration' for many young women on social media.

However some believe the ads may actually promote thinspiration - advocacy of the disease through social media and 'pro-ana' websites.

Pinterest is prohibiting the use of thinspiration, moderating what it acceptable and healthy behaviour.

Thinspiration videos are a cryptic art with rigid rules, as much a formula as a form.

Instagram has already been forced to ban the sharing of "thinspiration" images that contain messages such as the following.

And 15 per cent even admitted to decorating their fridge with celeb "thinspiration" pictures.

One commenter wrote: 'Unfortunately I think some women could look to these images for thinspiration.'

Miss Air, 34, is being used as "thinspiration" for sufferers who are starving themselves and are desperate to lose more weight.

Like other kinds of photography involving young women, thinspiration is regarded by some as a moral outrage, even a public-health threat.

The soundtracks to thinspiration videos, some of which feature songs explicitly about starvation, are not subtle.

“You are not only killing yourself but you are killing other girls as well,” wrote someone called artslave411 on a recent thinspiration video.

I’ve never seen a thinspo video with a voice-over or even moving images.

From the looks of the thinspo images, “troubled nutritional behavior” seems like an understatement.

Like thinspo, it comes from a dark place.

I'm not trying to be thinspo for anyone".

You don’t have to search very hard to find the excruciating online videos known as thinspiration, or thinspo.

Sarcasm and assonance characterize thinspo poetry: “Eat no evil.”

What’s more, many thinspo sites make explicit their opposition to popular culture, approvingly offering images of women deemed “too skinny by media standards.”

Thinspo's waifs take up scant space, while the toned but lithe muscles of fitspo dominate the image.

There are images of skinny models, celebrities and users' own "selfies" (called "thinspiration" or "thinspo").

Hungryhell’s films are intricate, many of them augmenting the thinspo formula with collage, typography, still lifes, art photography and even painting.

Thinspo videos profess a range of ideologies, often pressing morbid images into double service, as both goads and deterrents to anorexia.

Tumblr and Instagram have banned hashtags related to the thinspo epidemic, and Twitter is under pressure to do so too.

'Thinspo' describes 'thinspiration', the name given to imagery and ideals around extreme ideals of thinness which are strongly used on pro anorexia-websites and blogs.

What's more, "thinspo" photos "pinned" and shared — often featuring scantily clad, sometimes-naked women, many with grotesquely protruding bones — are bypassing Pinterest's no-nudity rule.

The whole spat took place on Twitter after Julie made some pretty uncalled for statements about Zendaya's appearance, calling her a "thinspo model for your impressionable tweens".

The content is so horrifying Instagram, one of the most popular photo sharing sites, has prompts warning viewers about the graphic content when they search for certain hashtags, such as "thinspo."

This material presents itself as subversive and defiant, and thinspo collections are much closer to multimedia journal entries than they are to TV shows or fashion spreads in glossy magazines.

A thinspiration auteur makes her voice heard almost exclusively through these cards, and she sometimes uses them to plead with her audience to go easy on her work or to stay tuned for further thinspo.

Film of runway shows, as it appears on fashion Web sites, presents the models as confident, beautiful, “fierce,” where the same roll, in the hands of a thinspo filmmaker, can make them look disfigured and diseased.

But Fauzi, who is also the creator of "The Thinspo Club" on Facebook's rival social networking site Friendster, said all he was trying to do was gather like-minded individuals to share slimming tips.

Pro-ana sites often (84%, in a 2010 survey) feature thinspiration (or thinspo): images or video montages of slim women, often celebrities, who may be anything from naturally slim to emaciated with visibly protruding bones.

Less than a week after Tumblr officially banned pro-anorexia and bulimia blogs, Business Insider's Jim Edwards notes that bulletin board-like social site Pinterest is also home for "thinspiration" — "thinspo" for short.

As Business Insider's Jim Edwards and msnbc.com's Helen Popkin have pointed out, Pinterest has been become home to a large amount of content related to "thinspiration" — "thinspo" for short — which essentially glorifies eating disorders.

On the flip side of this question, others may be concerned about the proliferation of "thinspo" content on Tumblr, much of which seems to skate under the Terms of Service radar in spite of being against the warnings against posting self-harm.

Look for these upcoming reports throughout Eating Disorders Awareness Week: ABC News will examine why men have a harder time getting an anorexia diagnosis, and we'll give a revealing report on the rise of thinspo (short for thinspiration), a growing web-based movement that promotes anorexia as a lifestyle choice rather than an illness.