Self objectification is when someone views themselves as an object or someone who is just being viewed and used for their body.

Partaking in unhealthy diets at a young age continues to get more severe as time goes on.

The idea of not eating enough to lose weight is commonly spread which can encourage eating disorders, especially among youth.

People feel the need to change themselves, which results in extreme practices.

In this study, there were 4 dolls that fit the beauty standard where the other was a china doll who had a fuller body. Of the 23 cases, the children always chose the dolls that fit the standard first. The children made fun of the china doll and expressed their disapproval of fuller bodies.

Social factors play an important role in the formation of unhealthy standards of attractiveness among children. The idea of perfectionism starts at a young age where they obsess over their flaws.

Perfectionism is a risk factor for emotional maladaptation in the form of depression or anxiety.

There are a number of websites that share information on extreme diets, fat burners, drugs, and starvation journals that resemble slow suicide in aim of losing weight to fit the beauty standard.

The easy access to the internet has increased the exposure to manipulated images and narratives that depict distorted body ideals.

American youth ages 13-18 spend an average of over 7 hours per day engaging with several media forms including TV, social media, games, and more.

Media exposure can cause people to internalize social standards for thinness and beauty, which contributes to body dysmorphia.

Beauty filters and technological ways of improving body shape create a divide between reality and digital beauty.

In public blogs, it's common to come across diet tips, ways to make yourself throw up, “thinspiration” including celebrities or models who may suffer from eating disorders or have died from them, and sharing their own goal weights, BMI, or other measurements regarding the body.

The goal is to always be thinner in order to fit the standard and be socially accepted, but by doing that, people destroy their own health.

There are also cases of talk about self-harm, bulimia, anorexia, and other very dangerous ways to lose weight or harm oneself.

Most of these blogs were made by people ages ranging from 13-19.

Men feel pressured to meet the norm of "protection, strength, and masculinity."

Research links masculine norms with poor mental health and behavior with cross-sectional studies.

• Men oftentimes avoid professional treatment in order to meet the standard of toughness

• Drugs and other distractors are used to keep up the standard as data showed through use of several drugs and alcohol.

The importance of physical measurements are indicators of worth such as good health. This creates a need to fit the idealized body measurements in order to accommodate the worth.

Photo editing is a common tool used by social media users that contributes to the uprising of fabricated images that are then promoted to be the new “beauty standard."

Social media promotes thinness for women and muscularity for men, creating a distorted standard of what is wanted for others.

The social comparison theory suggests that individuals evaluate their own looks by comparing themselves to other people or images. Media plays a big role in this as it is home to distorted images known as the beauty standard.

Vantanian et al. (2015) conducted a study to investigate the effect of Facebook use on women's mood and body image. Those who spent more time viewing body-related images had a more negative mood than people in the control group.

Consumption culture has also made it possible to indulge in reshaping surgeries or beauty products like makeup to make people look like the standard.

Although mass media has allowed for a connection between several cultures, the effects of those can be harmful. This emergence of an interconnected world leads to a dominant beauty standard in the large part of society.

People are not aware that a lot of the images that define the beauty standard are fabricated or manipulated into looking "better."

• In turn they make themselves feel bad for not achieving that physical appearance.

Insecurities change how people view themselves, but can also change relationships, social interactions, and cause depression and anxiety.

Women who did not see the awareness video that claimed that most pictures of models are edited found themselves comparing themselves more than those who did see the video.