You’re identified as pregnant by your online behavior. Then, you get pummeled with video after video about the most terrifying aspects of pregnancy. This may be what happens when an algorithm runs off the road.
“Many of us don’t even know the word ‘stillbirth’ until it happens to us,” Vick said. “It’s very important for me … to make sure that these mothers feel like they know that it’s not their fault and they’re not alone.”
Allie Felker, another Push for Empowered Pregnancy volunteer who makes TikToks about her own experience with stillbirth and stillbirth advocacy, agreed. Yet even if womensuch as Vick and Felker think it’s important to make this kind of content, that ethos has its limits.After her stillbirth, Vick says, she spent some time off social media; she found it too triggering.