This is a genuine question because I know that I overthink.

If someone says that they think you are hot but only ever post and boost body types that are nowhere even similar to yours, do you believe them?

I struggle to believe that people who, over months of image sharing have only posted/boosted slender models mean it when they say that they like mine.

My images contain fat.

Please reply with your views.

I'm not sure that I explained myself well and it is a complicated area. I started thinking about it because there are always people who support body positivity in private but publicly post a small slice of body types.

I wonder why the difference. I know that there have been people who I have later discovered didn't want others to think that they would like outside the slim genre.

I'm not criticising. I'm wondering.

@ht_honey ah, I don't know why they would unless they are part way along that journey of uneducating themselves from bullshit societal "standards" and relearning what is actually sexy, but they are still in a sheep mindset about what to repost for clout?
@fuzzypeach I think that you may have hit the nail on the head.
@ht_honey Well there can be many different reasons for that. Mostly it is from shame. People are ashamed and afraid of that what the others says or think about that what they are doing, especially today online. You know.. "What my boss is going to do when he get what I am doing online?". I don't wonder for them, because all that "privacy hype" made by media, has gone a bit to far and to misleading. The second thing is that, that the society is not ready for people who are open, open minded etc.
@ht_honey 2/n The society is not yet ready for the real freedom. Especially in the own body, intimacy and similar topics. Look at the whole gender story and how the people/society reacted on/to it. It's a basically a same thing. Tons of negativity, harassment bullying. That's why lots of people are separating their private stuff and thoughts from their let's say professional, work or even family ones. I saw such behavior many times. At work one face, at home, privately totally different one.
@ht_honey 3/n Keeping it separate, the work life from the private life is not that bad. I personally learned and did that due the time and also due to the art of my work I did many years. It was sometimes even necessary to do that. But it was an healthy separation. I was perhaps lucky because most of my friends, my family and also my husband knows about what I was doing for living. They accepted that and me, and never had any problems with. Perhaps that's the clou here - the lack of acceptance?