The ‘sick’ filter that makes the users appear fat is withdrawn after reaction to tiktok: ‘Fuels of toxic diet culture’

They are going #nofilter.

The controversial filter “Chubby” has faded by the Capcut video editing app after receiving reaction from users to Tiktok.

A Tiktok’s spoken person confirmed in the post that the filter had been removed from Capcut.

The filter was being applied to the photo on Capcut and then loaded on to tiktok, both applications owned by Bytedance.

A Tiktok Spox told the BBC that the content with the filter was being revised. Effective videos were then flags to be inappropriate for recommendation for other users and teenage accounts were forbidden to watch them.

“Definitely is undoubtedly a step in the right direction,” Tikker Sadie Bass, who previously slammed viral filter on social media, Tod BBC.

“I am happy that Tiktok did it, because ultimately social media should be a fun, hearty place, not somewhere where you get excited about the way you look.”

The 29-year-old content maker, who greets Bristol, posted a video this week before the filter removed, saying he “wanted to shout”.

“Why are you acting as if being fat is the worst thing in the world?” She said in the clip, which is massive over 618,000 views.

After catching the wind that the filter was deleted, she was rejoiced online, saying she is “beyond happy”.

“So important to know the harmful effects they may have. No one deserves to see their bodies ridiculed,” she wrote. “Thank you for every single person who spoke and commented because we make this change happen.”

It is just one of the many creators in the application that were particularly open to the filter, which was called “cruel”, “toxic”, “disrespectful” and “sick”.

Some even said the trend was a way to see the “Girls’ tool”.

Dr. Food and Food Scientist Dr. Emma Beckett told the BBC that the online fad was “a big step back” for body positivity.

“Just just the same old fake stereotypes and tropes for people in bigger bodies that are lazy and flawed, and something to be desperately avoiding,” she explained.

“The weight gain fair contributes to eating disorders and body dissatisfaction, it nourishes the culture of the toxic diet, making people fixed for food and exercises in unhealthy ways and opening them to deceive fabricated products and diets.”