2023 Trends and Stats*

• Female tweens and teens were 44% more likely than males to have body image and disordered eating content flagged.
• Suicide, depression, and anxiety alerts peak at ages 15–16, and are slightly higher for females than for males.
• 12-year-old females had the most frequent suspicious encounters with risky contacts.
• 8% of tweens and 10% of teens encountered predatory behaviors from someone online.

*In 2023, Bark analyzed more than 5.6 billion messages across texts, email, YouTube, and 30+ apps and social media platforms. These findings exclude school-based accounts.