This is why i hold social media fitness in high regards. 
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Update:
Consumed 1/2 a chicken and 1.5 pigs worth of ribs. Probably could have done more but they cut you off at dessert.
Ribs were pretty good for mass cooked food.
Show was hokey by my daughters loved it.
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Thatās some strong photoshop skills
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The hilarious thing was. You had all these novice indviduals just praising how awsome he was. Im like really? No one is going to bring up the obvious? 
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You mean his weirdly oversized hands? My goodness, theyāre bigger than his entire midsection. Those are some big hands!
But now I have a new goal. I want to build biceps as big as my belly!
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This is when I express to them that ribs ARE dessert.
But well done!
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I could say somthing about his hand size possibly causing him a complexā¦ but i wont go there. :
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Probably the same people that think/thought the Liver King is natural and people like Simeon Panda etc. Iām convinced these people do novices more harm than good and not just by scamming them financially.
Eh, I grew up thinking Hulk Hogan and Arnold were natural.
But I also grew up knowing that some dudes just picked better parents than others, and that just because someone ELSE could achieve something didnāt mean I could.
But it DID mean I could do the most with what I had.
Like, legit, this was super pivotal for my upbringing, since I was a fat kid myself.
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Eh, there have always been bubble gum wrapper and cereal box scams. Similar to my take on the Planet Fitness thing (killing small gyms?), if people get started because of one of these wacky influencers and actually like it, theyāll figure out whatās real and whatās not as they move along.
Everyone starts somewhere. Only very rarely is it in a safe, supportive place with excellence on display. Sometimes! As with @bulldog9899ās pups. But usually not.
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Road Warriors on my end.
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Oh my god I LOVE this reference! I definitely had a pair of X-ray specs.
I can remember my brother waiting for things to come, haha. Just a really funny and cheerful part of being a boy, I think.
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@bulldog9899 Itās funny: I honestly didnāt watch much wrestling, but Hulk was just EVERYWHERE growing up that I couldnāt NOT know him.
@EmilyQ Itās an era that weāll never experience again! Iāve tried explaining it to my kid. āNo no, you donāt get it: weād write a LETTER to a company telling them what we wanted, then weād have to go get a money order and put it in the envelope, put a stamp on it, mail it, wait for the company to get the letter and cash in the money order, then theyād mail us back the thing we ordered. The whole process would take 6-8 weeks and youād NEVER know when it was going to comeā Itās just unfathomable.
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I find that social media either creates allot of either extreme expection on one end ā¦ created by indviduals you mentioned above.
On the opposite end you got those who cater to the low expectation crowd ā¦ which i think is negative.
Finding the middle ground for some can be a challenge.
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@zecarlo called me āThe master of lost clauses.ā I was kind of pissed, but since my ego is too big to be fragile, I went back to my writing with a more critical eye.
He is right.
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- Went to a national olympic lifting competition with my teenage kids to watch their friends compete
- Was having a blast
- Then an extremely obnoxious vegan chick (an actual woman mind you, not a āwomanā) absolutely dominated in her weight class
- Did an impromptu speech after the medal ceremony claiming that her strength and size (pretty impressive for someone in the 71kg/155lb category if weāre being honest) came from a vegan lifestyle
- Now my kids are googling chickpea recipes and inquiring how does pea protein powder taste
- Iām in a very bad place right now
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My daughter loved steak. As a young kid, she would look at the cows out the window of the car and say, āOoh, look. Snake!ā
She meant steak.
As a pre-teen moving into her woke period, she decided to go vegetarian. She is a big kid, it was middle school mean girl years so I asked her if it was a health or ethical choice and she told me both. She wanted to be a veterinarian at the time. And was particularly fond of pigs.
It lasted off and on for a few years, but she always ate bacon - it is a gateway meat. And whenever we went out to dinner, she would order a filet mignon (havenāt convinced her of the Rib Eye superiority yet).
She is no longer interested in being a vet (calculus and chem got her), still loves animals and eats mostly plant based, but is a solid carnivore at heart.
This too shall pass.
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Like peas no matter what flavors are addedā¦
Iāve tried it.
Misattribution of success is unfortunately way too common in many areas.
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Another here with a one-time āvegetarianā daughter who made exceptions for burgers, certain chicken dishes, and bacon.
Pea protein is nasty. I accidentally bought some in January.