2 papers
cs.CY2026
The Body as Status: Muscularity, Engagement, and Body Image Risk on #GymTok
Magdalayna Curry, Minh Duc Chu, Changhao Yan +3
Body image concerns among boys and young men are increasingly oriented toward muscularity, with social media serving as a central context for communicating and evaluating these ide…
cs.CV2026
BigTokDetect: A Clinically-Informed Vision-Language Modeling Framework for Detecting Pro-Bigorexia Videos on TikTok
Minh Duc Chu, Kshitij Pawar, Zihao He +7
Social media platforms face escalating challenges in detecting harmful content that promotes muscle dysmorphic behaviors and cognitions (bigorexia). This content can evade moderati…