As if the pressure on celebrities (and women around the world) to be Hollywood thin wasn’t great enough, a "thinspiration" group took it upon itself to shame women they don’t believe to conform to their beauty standards.

The group, called “Operation Harpoon”, is encouraging people to send in photoshopped images of celebrities, plus-size models and even non-famous men and women that are being manipulated without permission to look skinnier. It describes itself as “a collaborative art project open to interpretation”. A bully forum, basically.

One of the women whose photo was manipulated, Tess Holliday, a plus-size alternative model spoke to US Weekly, and said: “People that do this kind of stuff will never get it,” she said. “They need to work on their own issues and why they have so much hate and anger first. It’s disgusting, yes, but I can’t even take them seriously, and no one else should. Honestly, to me, it’s a joke.” 

Thankfully the Facebook group and Instagram page have just been closed down.

Holliday has the right attitude. The only thing the contributors have is too much time on their hands.