“Legging legs” is the newest trend to capture TikTok. The hashtag resurrects a beauty trope after which young women have long chased: the elusive Thigh Gap.

Essentially, legging legs supporters say that only women with thin legs should wear leggings — the rest of us should stick to sweatpants or jeans, I guess, on account of our porky stumps. Many on TikTok lament the “legging legs” discussion as a harmful trend that could cause eating disorders and body dysmorphia. The trend was so toxic that TikTok overlords deleted the “legginglegs” hashtag altogether, People reported, and replaced it with information about eating disorders.

“Social media is too freaking harmful and toxic,” one influencer said on TikTok, adding that these trends have just got to stop. “Why is there a new insecurity on this app every week?” another TikToker asked.

Social media have always promoted unhealthy body standards. Platforms present mere reflections of reality, and the internet, with its accessible photos and videos, has made it excruciatingly easy to analyze and overanalyze appearances often to the point of dissatisfaction. It also doesn’t help that most women compare themselves to hyper-edited social-media influencers.

Nevertheless, social-media users still act like platforms should promote goodness every time another ridiculous trend pops up. But when’s the last time a positive social-media trend swept the youngsters? And why do influencers on TikTok or Instagram complain about the harm TikTok or Instagram does to younger generations of women? There’s a pretty simple way to solve harmful trends, or to combat social media’s reputation for promoting negative body image: Ditch the socials.

Why do we act like the trends, and not the platforms that foster them, are the problem?