<p>The dating app Bumble has announced that it will be banning users who use the platform to repeatedly body-shame other people.</p>

<p>Bumble said he has updated the content moderator guidelines to provide specific guidance on body shaming. Users who use a language that falls into this category in their profile or app chat feature will first be warned of inappropriate behaviour. If there are recurring incidents or particularly harmful comments, Bumble will remove them altogether from the app.</p>

<p>Body-shaming on this platform constitutes both sending people messages critical of their body or health or writing that a certain body type is unacceptable or undesirable in your bio.</p>

<p>The dating app, which has been immensely popular with millennials and competes with other apps such as Match Group’s Tinder, said it had 42 million monthly active users as of the third quarter of 2020, and 2.4 million paying users in the nine months ended September.</p>

<p><em>(With inputs from agencies)</em></p>


The dating app Bumble has announced that it will be banning users who use the platform to repeatedly body-shame other people. Bumble said he has updated the content moderator guidelines to provide specific guidance on body shaming.

The dating app Bumble has announced that it will be banning users who use the platform to repeatedly body-shame other people. Bumble said he has updated the content moderator guidelines to provide specific guidance on body shaming. Users who use a language that falls into this category in their profile or app chat feature will first be warned of inappropriate behaviour. If there are recurring incidents or particularly harmful comments, Bumble will remove them altogether from the app. Body-shaming on this platform constitutes both sending people messages critical of their body or health or writing that a certain body type is unacceptable or undesirable in your bio. The dating app, which has been immensely popular with millennials and competes with other apps such as Match Group’s Tinder, said it had 42 million monthly active users as of the third quarter of 2020, and 2.4 million paying users in the nine months ended September. (With inputs from agencies)

Dating app Bumble to remove body-shamers off the platform

<p>Academy Award-winning actress Anne Hathaway in an Instagram post shut down body-shamers even before they could act and react after she posted a video of herself looking visibly fuller than before.&nbsp;</p>

<p>Hathaway posted a video of herself in an intense workout regime with a preemptive caption: &nbsp;"I am gaining weight for a movie role and it is going well. To all the people who are going to fat shame me in the upcoming months, it’s not me, it’s you. Peace xx."</p>

<p>She added: "I wanted to set this to Queen’s 'Fat Bottomed Girls' but copyright said no. Continued peace xx."&nbsp;</p>

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<p>This is seen as a smart move as her contemporaries <a href="http://www.wionews.com/world/howard-university-students-sing-rihannas-song-as-anthem-against-financial-scandal-127969">Rihanna</a> and <a href="http://www.wionews.com/world/entertainment-amy-schumer-secretly-weds-beau-chris-fischer-33035">Amy Schumer</a> was body-shamed in the recent past.&nbsp;</p>

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<p>There is no update as of yet on the film that Hathaway is referring to, but she is reportedly starring in the upcoming sci-fi thriller ‘O2’, the Dee Rees-directed adaptation of Joan Didion novel ‘The Last Thing He Wanted’ and a remake of ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’ alongside Rebel Wilson.<br />
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In an Instagram post, Anne Hathaway wrote: '"To all the people who are going to fat shame me in the upcoming months, it’s not me, it’s you'

Academy Award-winning actress Anne Hathaway in an Instagram post shut down body-shamers even before they could act and react after she posted a video of herself looking visibly fuller than before. Hathaway posted a video of herself in an intense workout regime with a preemptive caption: "I am gaining weight for a movie role and it is going well. To all the people who are going to fat shame me in the upcoming months, it’s not me, it’s you. Peace xx." She added: "I wanted to set this to Queen’s 'Fat Bottomed Girls' but copyright said no. Continued peace xx." I am gaining weight for a movie role and it is going well. To all the people who are going to fat shame me in the upcoming months, it’s not me, it’s you. Peace xx PS- I wanted to set this to Queen’s “Fat Bottomed Girls” but copyright said no. Continued peace xx A post shared by Anne Hathaway (@annehathaway) on Apr 5, 2018 at 8:56am PDT × This is seen as a smart move as her contemporaries Rihanna and Amy Schumer was body-shamed in the recent past. Also Read: Rihanna urges fans to delete Snapchat after their ad makes light of Chris Brown domestic abuse case Also Read: 'I was flat-out raped': Amy Schumer reveals being assaulted as a teenager There is no update as of yet on the film that Hathaway is referring to, but she is reportedly starring in the upcoming sci-fi thriller ‘O2’, the Dee Rees-directed adaptation of Joan Didion novel ‘The Last Thing He Wanted’ and a remake of ‘Dirty Rotten Scoundrels’ alongside Rebel Wilson.

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