fatfluencer

English

Etymology

Blend of fat +‎ influencer or fatness +‎ influencer, modelled after fitfluencer.

Noun

fatfluencer (plural fatfluencers)

  1. (social media, neologism) An influencer who primarily creates content related to the acceptance of being overweight.
    • 2019 May 5, Helen Chandler-Wilde, “As another study points to the dangers of obesity, is the game finally up for ‘fat-fluencers’?”, in The Telegraph‎:
      Another so-called ‘fat-fluencer’, 34-year-old Leanda Lewis, posts pictures of herself in plus-size fashion on Instagram with the username just_eat_the_doughnut. […] Yet with their raucous trumpeting of anti-body shaming slogans […] , fat-fluencers have tapped into a rising societal awareness of the importance of mental health in overall wellbeing.
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