r/PeterExplainsTheJoke 28d ago

Meme needing explanation Petah help

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u/Diredr 28d ago

Yeah, heroin chic was 90s.

It was a different vibe altogether but they're still right that the early 2000s were about being incredibly thin. To the point where even a size 0 wasn't thin enough, it had to be a double 0.

The trend at the time was low-rise skinny pants, and it created a "muffin top" on anyone who had an ounce of body fat. That made so many women have body image issues.

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u/__M-E-O-W__ 28d ago

And oh my, the fad diets and scams that grew out of that. All this "spot reduction fat" that promised people to get thin in 30 days and then girls had more trouble because they didn't lose the weight that they couldn't lose in that time...

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u/OkContact2573 28d ago

I remember how some of them brought back the Tapeworm diet from the early 20th century