2014, Cat Pausé, “Causing a Commotion: Queering Fat in Cyberspace”, in Cat Pausé, Samantha Murray, Jackie Wykes, editors, Queering Fat Embodiment, Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 82:
To this end, some fat activists began promoting the use of a fatspo tag. By tagging representations of positive fatness as fatspo, they disrupt the discourse of what bodies are aspirational. They attempt to reclaim the narrative back from those who engage in fat shame.
2014 August 7, Annaliese Watkins, “What's Next in Unrealistic Expectations of Women?”, in HuffPost[1]:
However, for all the negative messages the internet spreads about body image, there's a plethora of sites, memes and pins that seek to reassure and re-normalise the normal. Fatspo was introduced to counter thinspiration, with sassy Someecards humorously turning thinspo mantras on their head, e.g. 'nothing tastes as good as thin feels. Except cake and pie and not needing everyone's approval.'
2015, Janessa Escajeda, "Internalized Weight Bias and its Association with Short-Term Weight Loss Outcomes In Adults Utilizing an Online Weight Loss Platform", thesis submitted to Arizona State University, page 3:
One example of this is the fatspo movement, where individuals take pride in the curves on their body that result from greater fat mass.
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[2]:
Many gather on social media under hashtags such as #fatspo, short for “fat inspiration”, a topsy-turvy version of the infamous #thinspo, which was banned from Instagram in 2012 over fears it encouraged eating disorders. […] The #fatspo campaigners have raised two important points: that far too many people do not like how they look, and that suggested methods of losing weight are not working.
Noun: "material created and/or used to inspire weight loss by presenting fat people in a disparaging manner"
2021 May 18, Lauren Strapagiel, “People Have Been Flipping “What I Eat In A Day” TikToks To Be Anti-Diet And I Was Immediately Hooked”, in BuzzFeed News[3]:
I searched "what I eat in a day" on Twitter to see how the conversation had translated to that platform, and the results were horrifying. The most popular results were from "pro–eating disorder" accounts who reposted the TikToks as "fatspo," sometimes even estimating the calories consumed in plus-size creators’ videos so they could revel in their disgust.
2022, Zoe Alderton, Preventing Harmful Behaviour in Online Communities: Censorship and Interventions, Abingdon: Routledge, →ISBN, page unknown:
Thinspo is relatively diverse and has traditionally been understood as either positive or negative. […] The latter refers to images of obesity or stories about death by overeating (often called ‘fatspo’). […]Fatspo is more actively contextualised, often used as a form of revenge or an expression of self-disgust.
2022 November 13, lex (@sexylexii777), Twitter[4]:
fatspo threads actually make me feel so bad bc it’s just random people in the pics that don’t have any idea that they ended up on edtwt to be made fun of. and like i don’t understand bc i only care abt my own body not other people’s so why don’t y’all just do the same
