A Public Service Announcement

[ricard brady smith]

A PUBLIC SERVICE ANNOUCEMENT
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In our spare time, we've been combing through your profiles and have noticed something. Some characters have bodies that are nearly physically impossible.

There are several points I need to bring up. Before I do, though, please calculate your character's BMI here.
Once you do, please keep that number in mind while you peruse this checklist:

• Is your character severely underweight (BMI under 16)? If so, does your picture actually reflect this? Do you at least add this into your description?
  
• Is your character overweight? (BMI over 24). If so, does your picture actually reflect this? Do you at least add this into your description?
  
• If your character is BMI 18 or under, they cannot be toned or fit. Even 19 is pushing it a bit. People that are toned and fit have muscle, which weighs more than fat. Underweight people are generally skinnyfat. What's skinnyfat, you might ask? They are skinny, but have no muscle mass. They are definitely not toned.
  
• Females, I know it's tempting to think that those anorexic emo boys in myspace poses are toned, but they aren't. There isn't muscle there. Those are ribs. Ribs are not muscle. This ties into the above point.
  
• Please keep your characters weights believable and in a normal weight range. If they are not and are either above or below it, please make a note about that in your profile. People with a very low BMI are very seldom, if ever, an hourglass/curvy figure. People with a very high BMI are definitely not rectangular shaped, either.
  
• The vast majority of male adults are well within the normal weight range, or a bit above (BMI 21-26). Generally speaking if your character isn't Asian, they are not going to be the irl version of Skeletor. Stop that.
  
• On an unrelated point, if your character has a mental or physical illness, please look it up and show at least some symptoms of it. I could say Ricard is a bipolar recovering meth addict, but he sure as hell doesn't act like it.
  
  This is a Public Service Announcement brought to you by your mods. Please enjoy your day.