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News: Thousands sign petition to ban thin vlogger from YouTube
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Thousands sign petition to ban thin vlogger from YouTube
Thousands sign petition to ban worryingly thin vlogger from YouTube amid claims she is promoting anorexia to teenage fans - Eugenia Cooney, 22, has more than 890,000 followers on YouTube
- The self-proclaimed 'emo' from Greenwich, Connecticut is worryingly thin
- She insists she is naturally slender and does not suffer an eating disorder
- More than 9,000 people signed a petition to ban her from the internet
- It pleads with Cooney to seek help and stop 'influencing' young viewers
- YouTube would not say if it was taking action against her popular channel
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Thousands of people have signed a Change.org petition demanding that a severely thin vlogger be banned from YouTube because they fear she is promoting anorexia.
Eugenia Cooney is a 22-year-old New York based video blogger with an online following of almost 1 million.
She has received a ******* of abuse and pleas to get help from fans both angry and concerned about her tiny frame.
Nearly 10,000 people have signed a petition calling for her to be temporarily banned from YouTube and seek medical help.
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Viewers have expressed both concern and contempt for vlogger Eugenia Cooney, 22, from Greenwich, Connecticut, who they say is promoting anorexia on her popular YouTube channel. More than 9,000 people have signed a Change.org petition asking that she be removed from the service until she seeks medical help. Cooney, who has more than 890,000 YouTube subscribers,insists she is 'naturally' thin.
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'Eugenia Cooney has a serious medical condition and needs to seek help. She has been influencing her viewers by her serious underweight condition,' it said.
'She may not be intentionally influencing her viewers but showing 50 per cent of her body in videos and pictures are not helping girls with anorexia or any eating disorder,' said administrator Lynn Cloud.
Among those to have signed the petition is one person who claimed their cousin starved herself to look more like the vlogger.
'My little cousin lost 17lbs because she wanted to look like Eugenia. She is now receiving care. She is only 12-years-old.'
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YouTube would not say whether it would take action against her account. Eugenia is seen above in a recent video trying on Halloween costumes
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Since joining YouTube in 2013, Cooney has amassed a following of 893,481 and receives financial contributions from fans.
She is also popular on social media with 432,000 Instagram followers and 115,000 fans on Twitter.
Her videos range in content but most include hair, make-up and wardrobe advice from the soft-spoken internet star.
Among the stream of comments beneath recent posts are many condemning Cooney's weight.
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Cooney, 22, insists she is 'naturally' thin despite viewers' accusations she has an eating disorder
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Unhinged fans have told the woman how she will 'die soon' unless she 'starts eating', with some angrily accusing her of promoting eating disorders.
'Look at those legs. I've seen cripples in wheelchairs with thicker legs than those,' said one user beneath a recent video.
'You look so ill I can see your bones through your skin,' said another.
Alarmingly, other viewers told her she was 'fat' in mocking posts. 'Lose some weight fat ass,' said one.
Cooney's images also appear on 'thinspo' accounts and websites. One collage was shared with the hashtags 'bonespo'.
A Twitter user responded to it: 'I need to be her size.'
In a Facebook comment on her public page, one person said: 'How many times do I need to throw up a day to look like you?'
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Eugania apologized to fans she offended, insisting she isn't trying to do 'anything wrong'
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Last week Cooney addressed criticism of her weight in a YouTube video where she revealed she had declined an offer to appear on Dr Phil to discuss it.
'I'm just kind of naturally like that, I guess. There isn't really a reason,' she giggled in an attempt to explain her size.
Elsewhere she remarked there had been an increase in negative comments and told anyone who didn't like her content to tune out, apologizing to anyone she had offended.
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concerning.
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Member Since: 5/27/2016
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People need to mind their own damm buisness. If she loves her body why crucify her just because ur utopian vision of women should be non skinny  o swear to god people on the internet have literally nothing better to do but pop their heads out and boss other people on how they should live their own lives
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Member Since: 5/27/2016
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I suppose she could negatively influence her audience, but she's not actively trying to glorify anorexia or anything.
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Member Since: 8/19/2013
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She certainly doesn't look healthy 
But i think they need to leave her alone, instead of hating her, people have to help her
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Her legs in the Harley Quinn video 
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Thin Lives Matter 
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I'm so fat compared to her
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omg she looks like a deer
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Member Since: 1/1/2014
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it's very unhealthy, but I don't think censoring someone is the right thing to do. You should have a talk with your kids rather than trying to ban a woman from making Youtube videos for her living that people aren't forced to watch
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Cooney, who has more than 890,000 YouTube subscribers,insists she is 'naturally' thin.
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Bitch please, she's just a walking skeleton she deffo doesn't look "naturally" thin.
Anyway, people need to mind their own business, if she wanna look like a walking stick it's her problem and I don't think she's promoting eating disorders.
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Why does her sorry video remind me of Marina Joyce? I get the same off vibe from them both, repeating things over and over and just being generally strange. and they do the same thing with their hands where they don't put them down 
Delete her
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Her weight is her issue, if her family and friends don't bother to do anything about it, why should you ???just **** off. If people look at her and say wow I wanna be that awkwardly thin, then go for it, stop trying to make everything a ****ing issue, then when **** gets real, nobody pays attention. If people don't have the common sense to live their lives for themselves, and have to emulate other people, then they deserve what they get.
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This bugs me because she's never advocated for eating disorders or purposely tried to influence anyone. She's simply just existing as a skinny person and thats enough to piss people off and have them try to ban her
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If you ban her, you'll have to ban fat positivity too then.
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Hello, police? Please come on the internet and ban her from it.
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Strong Marina Joyce teas.
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OMG that thigh gap in the Harley Quinn video
Eeeeeewwwwwwww
She needs help and it's not a coincidence that she goes out of her way to show her body off, she relishes in the fact she's dangerously thin. Ugh.
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She is SCARY tho omg. I'm high as **** right now and this has me shakin'!
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People need to mind their own business. Annoying.
She's ill though. Hopefully she gets some treatment.
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