Table 2.
Descriptive statistics on pro-anorexia and anti-pro-anorexia videos on YouTube.
| Video characteristics | Pro-anorexia | Anti-pro-anorexia | |
| Videos, n | 133 | 262 | |
| Comments, n | 2114 | 10 047 | |
| Commenters, n | 1594 | 6309 | |
| Comments/video | 15.89 | 38.35 | |
| Comment uploaders, n | 115 | 590 | |
| Video views (total), n | 1.4 million | 4.8 million | |
| Videos views, mean | 10,189 | 18,399 | |
| Video active (months), mean (SD) | 34.16 (28.84) | 18.63 (19.90) | |
| Video duration (mins), mean (SD) | 251.57 (178.71) | 526.83 (404.09) | |
| Video likes/dislikes |
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Likes, mean (SD) | 33.56 (61.05) | 179.03 (325.58) |
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Dislikes, mean (SD) | 7.35 (18.14) | 7.20 (25.38) |
| SentiStrength |
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Positive | 2.02 | 2.16 |
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Negative | –1.89 | –1.89 |
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Positive (uploader) | 1.75 | 1.92 |
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Negative (uploader) | –1.61 | –1.75 |