self-image

“The movies, that great repository of the American self-image, have begun to depict people who look and feel more like my parents,” the younger Specktor writes.

As someone who is very body positive and has struggled with their self-image in the past, using it couldn't be further away from how I personally use social media and I was unhappy that TikTok pushed it to me in the first place.

Growing up in a world ruled by social media and social Darwinism — and an older generation’s cluelessness as to what that entails — does, however, form a background to the narrative, such as it is, along with exchanges on the meaning of masculinity and the distorting power of teenage self-image.

Germans have suffered a kick in the gut - in terms of self-image and their country's international reputation.

"It has a really negative impact on your self-image and your time," she says.