Should Ariana/her team be posting images like these ?

Because she was scheduled for a high profile performance. It’s pretty common for people to give reason for why they cancel shows

She can post whatever she wants, within the platform's rules/limits. She's not responsible for the world's 'young girls', only for her own children, which she doesn't currently have. End of story.

It’s really interesting that the image being discussed wasn’t the original one posted. I think that’s quite representative of the discourse around arianna

The image has been taken out of context. She didn’t post the image in the way that OP has shared it.

I think there is quite a big difference. The image in the OP looks very much like it’s celebrating how skeletal she is. The actual post as one of 20 imagines, many which don’t display her body, does not look like it’s doing that.

Most people would not zoom in to get a better look of her bones and it doesn’t have the same shock factor as the zoomed in image.

I agree that she is clearly very unwell and there are safety issues to what is essentially pro Anna content being so publicly shared.

But I disagree with images being blown up and taken out of context to make her seem like more a villain in all of this.

It’s publicity, it’s part of being a global star and her social media strategy will be extensive and agreed well in advance- it’s probably been scheduled a year. But She doesn’t need “clicks” (which to me indicates something that you benefit financially from, ie a influencer who is paid for click throughs) and neither is she chasing “views” ie she’s Ariana grande, whether her page gets 15m or 25m views doesn’t have quite the same impact it might do for an influencer using instagram.

Nowadays famous people do need to be “on” for their social media strategy. They don’t ist disappear and stop posting. It’s a business, a planned machine. There always would’ve been a campaign planned for visuals of the tour.

as it is, those visuals are now turning into something much darker and more scrutinised than they would’ve anticipated in say, January when they planned the strategy

It seems like a weird picture to post considering she’s recently been whining about the media making comments on her body. Or maybe she’s just a drama queen who relishes in the attention.

"Ariana grande doesn’t want clicks or views"

Why post at all if she doesnt want clicks or views? Posting on "her own" instagram, means people will see it?

She’s clearly not well and it’s unsurprising after what happened in Manchester, its a lot for anyone to deal with. Someone needs to help her get better asap instead of continuing to push these sorts of images, terrible influence on young girls.

The messaging about her stepping back is hugely irresponsible. It's been framed as her needing to take a break because she is being unreasonably scrutinised. Ie, nothing wrong with her at all, the problem is with other people wrongly suggesting there is. This affirms the beliefs of those suffering from ED. We're fine, they're all wrong.

I was ready to agree with you OP and went to Instagram to report the post for pro anna content.

But you’ve either found a different post or cropped and zoomed in a lot. The recent post with this photo is small, one of 20 and the focus of the image is not on her bones anywhere near as much as the photo in the OP suggests. The image is quite artsy and a small part of a series of photos of the performance.

Something really shocked me in the 00s. I met Sarah Michelle geller. To my knowledge SMG has never appeared unhealthily thin or been in the bucket of thinspiration Hollywood stars. She’s still in the public eye and still looks fantastic.

however she was incredibly, incredinly thin. I had never seen anyone in real life like that.

She actually looked, in real life, Close to the way Ariana looks now in photos, which makes me wonder in a slightly horrified way what Ariana must look like IRL.

I believe the most deadly mental health illnesses are food related such as anorexia.
I remember being young and desperately wishing I looked like Mary Kate Olsen.
It wasn’t until I met Nikki Grahame in real life I realised how fucked up anorexia really is. Until then I just thought being skinny was glamorous.
The Ariana images are akin to the pro ana of my youth. She needs help and she has a duty of care to her fanbase to not release images that look like she’s a few skipped breakfasts away from heart failure.
Children and teens will have these images seen as the most beautiful and glamorous ways to aspire to look because she’s their idol. Same way they felt about her before the weight loss, young people are so impressionable and this is a scary message to send out.
Ariana has better resources than anyone who’ll access mental health services for an ED, I hope those services are utilised and wish her the best of luck in her recovery.

Some of the pics in recent months look like pro ana blog ‘thinspiration’ pics from the 00s. Shocking that her team have posted them. And I don’t mean photos of her looking thin, I mean purposely ones where she is posing and the lighting is tweaked to make her look emaciated. Before anyone jumps down my throat there’s a difference between a photo of someone thin and thinspo photos. If you remember those pro ana days on the internet, you know what I mean.

I’m not convinced by this. Ariana grande doesn’t want clicks or views. It’s a photo she has posted on her own instagram, it’s not click bait.

I think it’s been posted because, due to her eating disorder, she thinks it’s a great image.

Anything for click bait and views is unfortunately the way society works.

People uploading assaults, car accidents, murders or in this case using a vulnerable person’s misery for sport.

It is the new age of watching brutal colosseum blood sports or a travelling to see a public hanging.

People like misery.

Too add, the backlash for her public affair hasn’t helped her mh.

there is a lot of evidence she’s had a form of eating disorder from a young age. Unfortunately think it’s doubtful she will get better but I do think the hope is she can manage her ED enough to maintain a healthier weight.

Oh dear, that is a very worrying pic.

Probably is a good idea that she steps back from fame/the public eye for several years. Get herself well again.

Remember Karen Carpenter.

If it wasn’t for her actual body, this could be taken as a photo about freedom or dancing. If this was someone else I think that’s what it would be seen as

I suspect that her marketing team are hoping that her evident anorexia will just be another marketable feature of her. If she’s taking a break from singing and acting, they’ll need to find other ways to keep the public interest and the money rolling in.

I don’t know how much of the tour is left to do, but she may end up collapsing before it’s over.