The following is excerpted from an online article posted by Parents
One of the worst things targeting kids on social media is the Bop House. If you haven’t learned what a Bop House is yet, consider yourself lucky. Bop Houses are similar to content houses where a group of influencers live together to make content all day, every day. However, Bop Houses are specifically for “spicy” influencers, as some TikTokers refer to it, or content creators that sell sexually explicit content online.
Though Bop Houses have existed for a while now, the effects of this content is finally starting to become clear. And now middle school girls are speaking out and sharing what these videos do to their mental health.
In a TikTok several middle school girls share how Bop House videos impact their daily lives, including their interactions with boys their own age.
In a series of heartbreaking responses, the girls all explain how the videos change the way boys in their class perceive them and give these boys inflated expectations. As one girl explains, “Because the Bop House is showing what they’re doing, boys are expecting us girls to do it as well.”
“As we grow they expect us to look like the Bop House and it makes us feel unsafe wherever we go,” a girl shares in the video. The girls who don’t conform to these rigid expectations are casted aside. “Boys think that if we don’t look like that, we’re really ugly,” says one of the middle-schoolers. “They want us to be as attractive as them.”
And it’s not just the pressure to look a certain way; these girls also believe they need to behave more provocatively to attract and sustain romantic relationships and if they don’t comply, the boys in their class will simply watch Bop House content to get their fix.
One student shared what she believes tween boys think: “If I want that, why can’t I just look at it instead of putting effort into getting to know someone?”