Meanings
- informaluncountableMaterial created by and/or intended for fat people that promotes body positivity.
To this end, some fat activists began promoting the use of a fatspo tag. By tagging representations of positive fatness as fatspo, they disrupt the discourse of what bodies are aspirational. They attempt to reclaim the narrative back from those who engage in fat shame.
2014, Cat Pausé, “Causing a Commotion: Queering Fat in Cyberspace”, in Cat Pausé, Samantha Murray, Jackie Wykes, editors, Queering Fat Embodiment, Farnham: Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, page 82Antonyms: thinspo
- informaluncountableMaterial created and/or used to inspire weight loss by presenting fat people in a disparaging manner (associated with online communities encouraging eating disorders).
1 more example
I searched "what I eat in a day" on Twitter to see how the conversation had translated to that platform, and the results were horrifying. The most popular results were from "pro–eating disorder" accounts who reposted the TikToks as "fatspo," sometimes even estimating the calories consumed in plus-size creators’ videos so they could revel in their disgust.
2021 May 18, Lauren Strapagiel, “People Have Been Flipping “What I Eat In A Day” TikToks To Be Anti-Diet And I Was Immediately Hooked”, in BuzzFeed News
Synonyms & antonyms
nounMaterial created by and/or intended for fat people that promotes body positivity.
Origin
From fat + -spo, after thinspo.
Full word history & related roots →Cite this entry
fatspo. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fatspo
“fatspo.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fatspo. Accessed November 4, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “fatspo,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/fatspo.
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