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I've argued with people who claimed being overweight isn't bad for your health. It's not a common position, but it's not exactly a strawman either. It's more like focusing on the crazies.
But the nature of straw man arguments is that since you are not citing someone who's actually making that argument, there's also not any way to refute it. "Somene somewhere is making a bad argument" doesn't really mean anything. (What's extra ironic is that this is an ad hominem attack against no one in particular)
Its not a strawman unles the bad argument is being misrepresented. Just because you don't care to look for examples for fear of what you may find doesn't mean that anyone who hasn't thrown them at you up-front is engaging in a logical fallacy.
It’s a straw man because the meme references the entire body positivity movement (on Twitter), while the statement it refutes is only argued by a select few.
I'd say it's closer to the Dicto Simpliciter fallacy. Essentially, starting with an unqualified statement and extrapolating to a more general statement. Examples would be things like "Exercise is good, so everyone should exercise" or "Online members of a group said something, so all members of that group agree" or "High BMI is unhealthy, so all people with high BMI are unhealthy"
https://www.palomar.edu/users/bthompson/Secundum%20Quid.html#:~:text=Dicto%20Simpliciter%20%2D%20Secundum%20Quid&text=Description%3A,rule%20should%20be%20rejected%20altogether.