There are two reasons for people to make animations like this on here. One is to grab everyone's attention and two these people are most likely insecure about their OWN body type so they hide themselves behind their screens.
But I'm worried if I were to come out to my parents they wouldn't approve of me because my mom is incredibly religious. She sees goths as being drug addicts and horrible people, but I know, being a goth myself is the complete opposite.
...it's a little hard to explain. Basically I go into this uncontrollable state where I collapse in internal shock...? Yeah it's a little scary, but this one my mom said it wasn't so bad.