Because she's an individual idolized by many young women and fitness junkies, her account is constantly being copied by other Twitter users. Kayla Itsines, a female fitness trainer who is quickly gaining popularity due to her radical weight loss and muscle building workout plans is followed by nearly 400,000 followers on Twitter. A few examples of verified twitter accounts that do not fall under the categories of celebrities or government officials are these: Seattle Children's Hospital in Washington state has nearly 60,000 Twitter followers. A New York Times article told readers that Twitter determines who is Twitter verified on account of their level of public interest. Few individuals know that the specifications for requesting a verification for their personal Twitter account are not all that complicated. In 2009, Twitter started publicly displaying the blue check mark that helps Twitter users verify the accounts of celebrities, public officials, organizations, and etc. Furthermore, in a 2016 article for Slate, author Christina Cauterucci explains that shaving or waxing pubic hair in hopes of achieving a societal standard has been linked to developing and contracting sexually transmitted diseases pubic hair is a gift from evolution meant to ward off infection and irritation. Womyn did not wake up one morning and decide that removing all of our body hair is key to looking presentable society taught us this. In a 2015 article for Vox, Phil Edwards describes how American shaving companies built up a culture and societal norm of womyn shaving armpit and leg hair as fashion trends shifted towards sleeveless dresses.
In her 2014 NYU Press book Plucked: A History of Hair Removal, author Rebecca Herzig estimates that American women spend more than $10,000 dollars on and nearly two entire months of their lives shaving. More and more womyn, including myself, are embracing their body hair and saying goodbye to the razor. From Cosmo raving about Miley Cyrus's armpit hair on the red carpet to Allure's new Dispelling Beauty Myths YouTube series, feminine, and femme body hair has now become a hot topic again as the hairless, wax-happy reign of late 90's and early 2000's crumbles.
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