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    Haylee Palmer

    Professor Gonzalez

    ENC1102

    8 March 2024

    Literature Review

    For my research paper this semester, I am writing about how social media can be toxic to

    users, but more specifically how GRWM TikToks, productivity videos, and the “it girl” aesthetic

    can cause mental health problems amongst younger girls. For my research I have gathered six

    articles, journal entries, and papers to analyze what other people have found on this topic. Each

    source adds a different perspective on my claim because they all discuss different things about

    how said videos can be toxic to the viewers mental health.

    The first source I chose is Bella Hadid Shares Tearful Photos of Her Mental Health

    ‘Roller Coaster’ written by Carolyn L. Todd. This article was intriguing to me because although

    I am researching how social media allows for an unrealistic expectation of reality and life to be

    shown, celebrities also struggle with it as well and it’s not just “normal” people who deal with

    this issue. This source is different from all of the other five because I feel that it is overlooked

    how celebrities still have emotions just like the rest of us, and they can get caught up in the

    fakeness of social media. Hadid made a post on Instagram in 2021 discussing how just because

    her life looks amazing and perfect on social media, doesn’t mean it actually is.

    The second article I chose is titled The Power of Social Media: Stigmatizing Content

    Affects Perceptions of Mental Health Care written by Sarah K. Competiello, George Y. Bizer,

    and D. Catherine Walker. This source is different from the other ones I chose because it conducts

    a study that proves the things people read on social media affect their emotions afterwards. The
    purpose of this source was to show how easily people can be affected by what they read on social

    media. The article also came to the conclusion that there are a large number of people who have

    mental health issues but don't reach out for help, and this is because of what they read on social

    media.

    My third source is 13 Social Media Plugged In: How Media Attract and Affect Youth

    written by Valkenburg, Patti M., and Jessica Taylor Piotrowski. This article focuses on the

    feedback people receive on social media, which isn’t necessarily included in my other sources.

    The theme of this source is to show how easily people can leave negative comments on people's

    social media profiles. If people post public GRWM and productivity videos, they will be

    dramatically more likely to receive hateful comments, which can be destructive to the content

    creator and their followers.

    My fourth source is another article, ‘GRWM’: Modes of Aesthetic Observance,

    Surveillance, and Subversion on YouTube written by Amy Lynne Hill. This article differs from

    all of my other sources but still supports my claim because it talks about all of the editing that

    goes on behind making videos for social media. Instead of talking about all the toxicity caused to

    viewers after they are posted, it goes into detail about the editing that the creators do to make

    their videos seem more aesthetic, put together, and to make themselves look more flawless.

    The fifth source I will be using is Becoming “That Girl”: A Digital Ethnography of

    Productivity and Wellness Culture on YouTube written by Kate Norton. This source is different

    from the other sources because it is another paper written by a student at the University of

    Chicago, that is researching and analyzing the same topic that I am writing about. This author

    focuses on the “it girl” aesthetic which is often used in productivity videos or “day in the life”

    videos to make the creators life seem more aesthetic and energetic. Unlike my other sources, this
    paper goes into detail about specific things celebrities and influencers unintentionally say that

    can cause the viewers to feel more insecure about themselves.

    My last source is titled 9 Wellness TikTok: Morning Routines, Eating Well, and Getting

    Ready to Be “That Girl” written by Katlin Marisol Sweeney-Romero. This article discusses the

    different TikTok trends that allows people to “romanticize” their life and make it seem better

    than it actually is. The author adds in popular hashtags that were popular as well as the “it girl”

    aesthetics. The article discusses how even though influencers and celebrities post healthy

    lifestyle videos thinking they are promoting a well being, it can be overwhelming to the viewers

    to feel that they have to live up to the expectations that content creators seem to have as a normal

    lifestyle.
    Works Cited

    Todd, C. L. (2021, November 10). Bella Hadid shares tearful photos of her mental health “roller

    coaster.” SELF.

    https://www.self.com/story/bella-hadid-mental-health-struggles-instagram

    Competiello, Sarah K, et al. “The Power of Social Media: Stigmatizing Content Affects

    Perceptions of Mental Health Care.” Social Media and Society, vol. 9, no. 4, 1 Oct. 2023,

    https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051231207847.

    Valkenburg, Patti M., and Jessica Taylor Piotrowski. Plugged In: How Media Attract and Affect

    Youth. JSTOR, Yale University Press, 2017,

    www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt1n2tvjd.16?searchText=social+media+affects+mental+health&s

    earchUri=%2Faction%2FdoBasicSearch%3FQuery%3Dsocial%2Bmedia%2Baffects%2

    Bmental%2Bhealth&ab_segments=0%2Fbasic_search_gsv2%2Fcontrol&refreqid=fastly

    -default%3A962a04afeaadecdf1f4da30ca6e13ffa&seq=25. Accessed 29 Feb. 2024.

    Hill, Amy. “GRWM”: Modes of Aesthetic Observance, Surveillance, and Subversion on

    YouTube.

    https://mediarep.org/server/api/core/bitstreams/c7141d34-580d-437b-a655-807ff52f8cc3/

    Norton, Kate. “Becoming “That Girl”: A Digital Ethnography of Productivity and Wellness

    Culture on YouTube.” Knowledge UChicago, knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/5989?

    ln=en&v=pdf. Accessed 13 Mar. 2024.

    Sweeney-Romero, Katlin M. “Wellness TikTok: Morning Routines, Eating Well, and Getting
    Ready to Be “That Girl.”” TikTok Cultures in the United States, 1 Jan. 2022,

    www.academia.edu/85307816/Wellness_TikTok_Morning_Routines_Eating_Well_and_

    Getting_Ready_to_Be_That_Girl_. Accessed 9 Nov. 2023.

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