Why Young Men Have More Body Image Issues Than Ever Before

Well no shit, Sherlock.

[QUOTE]“If you think about the changes over the last 30 to 45 years in how men are depicted in Hollywood, cartoons, magazines and action toys, you’ll see that men’s bodies today appear much more muscular,” says Dr. Harrison Pope, director of the Biological Psychiatry Laboratory at McLean Hospital in Massachusetts. These unrealistic media images have contributed to low body image satisfaction among men—usually just considered a problem for women. A study last year found that American men are just as likely as women to feel unsatisfied with their physiques, while another study found adolescent boys who are dissatisfied with their body shape may be more likely than girls to self-criticize and feel distress. Studies have even shown that men feel worse about their bodies after playing video games with ripped characters.

It's a good pressure.

We need goals to strive for and bodies can be made.

OP THIS ARTICLE IS A YEAR OLD

F&F

I love how every generation thinks that a common issue is unique to them. The desire to be handsome and muscular has been around for decades - or do Millennials and Gen Z's think that we grew up under a rock?

A year old, R4? I guess we fixed that problem.

Next!

Bullshit

[QUOTE]The desire to be handsome and muscular has been around for decades - or do Millennials and Gen Z's think that we grew up under a rock?

Are you kidding me? What teens “decades ago” were walking around looking like this?

Teens don’t walk around looking like that now.

Every once and while you see a high school kid obviously on steroids but it doesn’t seem like an epidemic except on Instagram

Anus shaming has become rampant

Is it really all Hollywood to blame though? Seems too easy.

It's HW, tv, Instagram, music video, magazines, facebook, etc.

It has been an issue for women since decades, now it's an issue for men too. Maybe things gonna change a bit.

So it is an old article. It is still worthy of discussion.

Where are all these young men? All I see are fat cunts

60's Batman, anything else to add?

A lot of these BDD guys are homophobic. Strangely enough.

[QUOTE]Where are all these young men? All I see are fat cunts

How about the kid from R8?

Me think R17 doesn't get the point of OP's article.

Welcome to our world

The kid posted at R17/R18/R19 is NOT the typical 20 year old who plays video games all day and then posts on 4chan and (until recently) the incel section on Reddit. There are much more of THEM than guys who look like this kid.

[QUOTE]Teens don’t walk around looking like that now.

Yes, many of them do. Instagram is not some obscure thing, it has 800 million users worldwide, most of them young. Practically every teenager has an Instagram account and guys like R8 are a dime a dozen on there for a reason. Those young men are a reflection of their peers, they’re not outliers like R22 claims.

You also have to take into account the young men who don’t look like them, but are exposed to those images daily and feel shameful because they don’t look like them. That’s partially what the article is about. Just because a kid isn’t jacked and shredded doesn’t mean he possesses no desire to be so.

Just like there's more plain Janes than Supermodels in the world.

If you’re a young man in today’s world, then society is telling you that this is what you’re supposed to look like so you can take selfies on Instagram. Even if they don’t look like this, they still may feel shame due to their failure to achieve the ideal.

I'm so happy to have been a teen in the 90's without Instagram, facebook and steroid famewhores.

Ok. Clearly there are more shredded Instahoes than shut-in gamers in the 18-24 demographic. My mistake.

Not to mention that young men/teens have grown up their entire lives on a steady diet of easily accessible online porn. So they are seeing these sculpted porn gods with enormous cocks, and probably feel inadequate or like they have to measure up.

[QUOTE]Ok. Clearly there are more shredded Instahoes than shut-in gamers in the 18-24 demographic. My mistake.

There are also more women who look like Rebel Wilson than Kate Upton. Does that mean that women don’t suffer from body image issues? Has Rebel Wilson become the standard and therefore no woman feels shame for looking like her? How fucking dense can you be?

Since apparently all the young men these days look like Instahoes, then this is a non issue.

Believe it or not, shut in gamers are people with feelings who know what’s going on in the world. They’re capable of guilt and shame just like their female peers, and they know that the entertainment world and social media are telling them that they’re not really men unless they look like this:

I love how this has become a thread to plug instahos.

[QUOTE]Since apparently all the young men these days look like Instahoes, then this is a non issue.

The problem with people like you is that you think of Instagram as this little box with most “normal” people quarantined from it. You can’t accept that it’s become a part of our lives and has enormous influence over human behavior.

It's all about the Instahoes on Datalounge. They are DL gods and legends.

[quote]I love how this has become a thread to plug instahos.

How exactly does that distinguish this thread from any other DL thread?

Exactly, R35. Carry on.

[quote]You can’t accept that it’s become a part of our lives and has enormous influence over human behavior.

We know, we know. DL was told in plain terms from a bisexual teenager that Instagram was specifically created to take selfies. Nothing else.

Not every gamer looks like.....THIS.

Here in Italy all the teen boys i see are either rail thin (worse than Chalamet, like they never ate food in their life) or already obese. Where are these muscled boys??

But they do, apparently! I want to believe!

Instagram r39.

Am I the only one who don't find those freaks attractive?

[quote]Where are these muscled boys??

You're not looking in the right places (i.e. Instagram). Which is indicative of the real world, of course.

the IG troll has been AWAKENED!

[quote] and they know that the entertainment world and social media are telling them that they’re not really men unless they look like this

The hilarity of a sentiment like this being posted on DL where every man with 3 or more extra pounds on him is a fattie, and every thin man who doesn't take steroids is ugly and needs to go to the gym is simply beyond.

And no, R42, you are not.

The IG troll is probably one of those who has less than a hundred followers yet follows thousands of hoes. I don't know where they find the time.

[QUOTE]It's all about the Instahoes on Datalounge. They are DL gods and legends.

These so called “Instahoes” are just normal people taking pictures and uploading them, and their numbers are growing daily. They’re not some sub or superhuman entity the way you’d have us think. Instagram is a reflection of what hundreds of millions of people think and do in their daily lives.

Instagram is now the whole society? That's it, it's over.

Yes, it is. 800 million users and counting.

More hoes..... MORE HOES!

Instahoes are still the exceptions. A tiny minority.

Get outside a bit to see what most people look like.

If you're not an Instahoe, you're not even a real person.

They are not hoes. They’re guys who have been brainwashed into believing that they must look like this in order to be viable.

[quote] More hoes..... MORE HOES!

Here ya go, R50

Not enough abs.

We should empathize with these young men, not belittle them.

Too fat, R54!!

I'm sure the struggle is real.

Yeah, I feel real bad for them.

Believe it or not, they’re under a tremendous amount of pressure.

All that flexing takes its toll on one's mental health.

R15,.that's a real man with a real man's body. I've seen pictures of West shirtless, and he has a very nice body. The same with George Reeves as Superman. Real men and not pampered boys who need steroids and artificial enhancements to make pretend.

Do you downplay the self esteem issues that women suffer from as well, R61?

What will happen to these guys? Porn? Prison?

Any grown ass woman who suffers from low self esteem because of Kim Kardashian or Nicki Minaj is ridiculous. But you only asked the question just to post another pic of a muscled teen.

R64, OnlyFans.

[quote] What will happen to these guys? Porn? Prison?

Worse! They'll hit the wall of reality that is your thirties when their metabolism starts to change...

It does seem like porn to me. Would an employer want to hire that?

R65 are you a woman?

You're joking, R67? An office full of flexing young guys is a DL utopia!

No, R68. Please post another typically muscled teen of today. Thank you.

Instagram is not REAL people. I don't want to know how many filters have been used in those photos.

don't worry, those vapid instahios will face the real word when they turn 30, their dick will shrivel and grow bitch titties.

Some very sexy bros posted here. Many thanks

You're welcome, R72. I didn't post them but someone felt the need to with every reply to me. I know some of you can't go on without your Instagram fix.

I'm a millenial. About half my friends who also game and spend time on reddit (all but one are straight) are in good shape. None are as buff as the muscle bros posted here but many have visible abs and I consider pretty attractive. Our generation is pretty health conscious generally I think. I don't think any of my male friends have low self esteem, even the overweight ones. I think the millennials that work out just like to look good.

[quote] I don't want to know how many filters have been used in those photos.

Why don't you want to know?

Yes, R71–I don’t see any of these same guys at my as they appear on their Instagram. They are really muscled out on instagram but not at all in the gym.

*my gym

[QUOTE]I don't think any of my male friends have low self esteem, even the overweight ones. I think the millennials that work out just like to look good.

Well looking good is apart of self esteem. You look good, you feel good.

R78 Sure, I more meant, I don't think any of the ones who work out have low opinions of themselves and that's why they do it.

You never know what’s really going on inside someone’s mind. Sometimes the best looking people have the deepest insecurities.

Maybe R80 but I feel like I know my friends pretty well. Granted none look like THAT^^^ People who take it to that level have to be driven by something

They are indeed driven by something. The question is what.

This is what manhood consists of today.

At least they aren’t obese.

There’s plenty of room between those two extremes, R84.

Lol @ the irony of a thread about body image issues becoming a thirst trap. Never change, DL.

R85 is an extremely sexy guy

I just wanted to show examples of what the article was focused on since many insisted that young men aren’t under any kind of pressure.

Notice how this young man thinks lifting weights and being “aesthetic” is the only way he’ll be successful in life.

Dudes wanna be Alpha beasts like Ryan Spiteri

It's Jeff Seid and Zyzz. They weren't just about bodybuilding but also made lots of vids of them picking up girls and such. That's the ideal these guys are going for

And where is Zyzz now? 💀

Very good point R92

Jordan Peterson's quasi-alt-right fortunes are rising among the gamers who can't/won't "get aesthetic"...

[QUOTE]And where is Zyzz now?

For one, perhaps two generations of young men now, he’ll live forever. His name, message and image lives on through guys like this.

Whoever is posting all these instahos... thank you. Jay Cass is HOT

If my 20-something kid was doing nothing but taking selfies, going to the gym, eating me out of house and home, and spending what little money he has on roids and supplements, I'd kick his ass to the curb.

Even a lot of gamers and techie bros are jacked now. You should see our new IT hires. They look like Instagram fitness models.

R99 is right. Here is shredded competitive video gamer and fitness model Doug Censor

The "fan" is hotter than Jeff Seid here.

And remember that most guys aren’t walking around in spaghetti tank tops. Someone like this may not appear to be an Instagram fitness bro when he’s wearing a shirt or a hoodie. They’re all over the place even when you can’t notice.

Name of the "fan" at R102 please!!!

A lot of former/current geeks and nerds find weighliftling and supplements to be the easiest way to “cool bro” status. They are right

The fan is boss yo

I'd love to listen that guy on the right in R102 be interviewed on Fresh Air.

That guy is Jeff Seid, R107. He’s one of the originators of the modern day “aesthetics” movement.

Jeff has gotten uglier over time. Roids do that sadly. Who is the guy next to him at R102 though???

His bro is hot

That's his brother? What's his name?

He’s not his brother. His name is Daniel Rumfelt. R102 is just him and Jeff Seid photoshopped together.

Many thanks R112!

Jeff was a work of art in his prime. Unrealistic for most guys to go for that

That’s not going to stop them from trying.

Mmmmm

They need to build a bridge and get over it.

Women have had hundreds of years of it, with greater intensity.

I love the juxtaposition of geekiness with muscled jock broness. All these geeky guys at my gym in glasses with python biceps and bubble butts are driving me wild!

Adolescent males have been feeling pressured to buff up for decades now. It's the level of self-absorption in the instaho set that I find deeply unattractive.

They have thousands of people telling them how good they look every day. Hard not to become self absorbed

I love the male office muscled new interns dressed in their form-fitting shirts and pants. They look almost pornographic with jacked v-shaped sculpted torsos about to burst forth, thunder thighs, and huge bUbble butts. They to The gym every day!

[QUOTE]It's the level of self-absorption in the instaho set that I find deeply unattractive.

But would things be any different without Instagram? Or would we just not see it?

Instagram is not the only cause, but it’s a huge accelerant and motivator. Gymspiration is headquartered at instagram

My personal belief is that the problem would exist even without Instagram. This guy would still look the same even without Instagram.

The overdeveloped muscle and vascular definition is unattractive to me. The men start to look like lumps of meat rather than human beings.

Beautiful

You can’t just blame Hollywood anymore.

Yeah, every young actor now has to be an anabolic power lifter. That’s a given and a change from yesteryear. Yeah, every actor is now paid according to the size of his tit—er, pecs, as woman always have been.

But I’d wager a greater influence now is Instagram. The types of guys who DLers worship, even as you hate Kardashians for being famous for their asses, these Instagram “personalities” (naked people) are famous for their bodies and faces and nothing else. And so guys lift and starve themselves, take pictures, and either become grandiose or depressed based on their numbers of followes and image likes.

And most of the guys here love this and fuel it. I don’t like it. I grew up with serious body image problems for a number of reasons and as 40 approaches I care less than I ever have. I do think it’s fucked up that women have lived this way for at least centuries and instead of improving on that, it’s instead become more equal by giving young men feelings of inadequacy and self-disgust, too. Pretty fucked up if you ask me.

But I know: you’ll tell me to stop whining and shut up, and the here’s-a-bodybuilder-from-Instagram threads will keep appearing with greater frequency. You can’t change things that no one wants to change. People love to set up unrealistic expectations to make themselves and others always feel inadequate.

R128 Chances are that he wouldn’t look like that without IG unless he is a professional bodybuilder or a porn star. Male models, actors, and everyday guys did not look like that even 15 years ago.

True story: I know a guy who works for a national radio station. He’s kind of an artsy geeky guy. 20, 15, 10 years ago he had a cute face and a slender body and he basically looked like a twinky gay guy. He used to say he had never seen the inside of a gym, sort of as an “in your face” to body-obsessed gay guys. Then Instagram came along. At first he posted pictures of himself hanging out with friends (lots of women), and then over time he started bulking up, the clothes started coming off, and almost all of his selfies now are at least shirtless (many in swimwear or underwear) and almost all of them with other shirtless/almost naked bodybuilder-type guys—lots of them, in groups. I am envious of the photos of his life on a certain visceral aesthetic level and I’m sure that is the point. On a more overt level, I’ve been sad to watch this transition. This guy went to a top toer university and he has what would be a dream job for many and now it seems showing off his pecs and ripped abs and showing off that his friends have pecs and ripped abs, most of their pictures looking like covers of gay porn movies, is his priority. Maybe that’s a gay dream for some but to me it’s sad to see an interesting person reduced to that following the advent of Instagram.

Are you sure, R112?

I don't think R112 is correct... The noses are different.

Jeff has only a sister.

[QUOTE]Chances are that he wouldn’t look like that without IG unless he is a professional bodybuilder or a porn star. Male models, actors, and everyday guys did not look like that even 15 years ago.

Your story was interesting but I disagree with this part. Social circles and peer pressure to conform would still exist without Instagram. Your friend might have eventually done the same thing without it, just minus the selfies.

Yes, I concur that the male aesthetics fixation has reached an unhealthy level. However, I am still strongly attracted to jacked dudes and don’t think it can be changed. It’s like telling folks eating bacon is unhealthy. People are going to still naturally be attracted to Buff dudes.

Exterior versus sustainable

R144, he makes a good point. I think everyone should just aim for 10%, not 6-7%.

[quote] They weren't just about bodybuilding but also made lots of vids of them picking up girls and such. That's the ideal these guys are going for.

Then they’re idiots who don’t know the first thing about women.

When a female sees a body like the ones posted above, the first thought is rarely a drooling “wantwantWANT” as for many a gay man; it’s more, “this guy could so easily kill or maim me”. Whether it’s roids or narcissism these jacked guys red-flag for grown women, and it’s only naive horny little girls that think otherwise.

It’s also obvious to most women that men like this are into themselves and consequently will be poor listeners & conversationalists, which is another point against as women want to be wooed & charmed more than flexed at.

A man whose main priority is his body and impressing his gym buddies or his IG folllowers is not an attractive prospect to any woman, particularly not one who wants a relationship. Even the Thots find these guys tiresome, especially if they aren’t rich. It’s boring, dealing with men like that.

These RedPill idiots would get further with woman if they developed social skills, nurtured a personal talent, became stylish, and:or got involved in the Arts or business. Being interesting & engaged with the world is a really attractive quality, as is being able to make your own money doing something you love or that is beautiful or fascinating.

Authentic charm and seductive skill help, too. If morbidly obese or fug as a male, it’s wild how far good tailoring & good humor plus an attentive love style can take you straight women. No gym required.

Bodd

Or gay men, R146. Well said. Brilliantly said.

We’re trying to have a serious discussion here, R147.

R149

I’m really tired of the cookie cutter gym bodies. Whoever thought that would happen? They’re a dime a dozen, insipid and they spend their lives working out and making love to themselves through a smartphone camera and projecting their self-lust to anyone in the public who will click a little heart button. It’s deranged. People are not even living anymore. They can’t take their eyes off of themselves.

How much time do they really spend “worshipping themselves,” though? It only takes one second to take a picture. Maybe this is just what gives them the self confidence to pursue other goals in life.

Hott

I’m happy with this pressure. Get thee to a gym!

But they’re not just hitting the gym. They’re hitting illegal substances as they strive for “aesthetic” perfection.

Nice

It’s called having goals

I think it’s called peer pressure.

[QUOTE]Michael Webster, 35, from Commando Flow said young men unrealistically told themselves the perfect body was achievable overnight.

[QUOTE]“I can see why it’s an issue with social media ... people think they have to look a certain way,” the Vaucluse resident said.

[QUOTE]But trainer Dylan Rivier, 37, from Bondi, said most of his male clients simply wanted to look “lean and athletic”

[QUOTE]“Most guys will tell you they don’t want to be a big bodybuilder,” he said.

Love these physiques

I think these kids become obsessed with Instagram filters.

[QUOTE]A man whose main priority is his body and impressing his gym buddies or his IG folllowers is not an attractive prospect to any woman, particularly not one who wants a relationship. Even the Thots find these guys tiresome, especially if they aren’t rich. It’s boring, dealing with men like that.

These guys don’t seem to have trouble finding women, however.

Exactly, chicks are throwing themselves at aesthetics bros. Hot chicks. Some people here are stuck in 1974.

R172 they’re trophy boyfriends, though. These girls aren’t imagining marrying or building a life or starting a family with guys like this. They’re disposable man-candy.

For keeps most normal straight women want a wealthy attentive respectable man who will treat them like a lady, ‘do right’ by them and their kids, buy them a house and please their parents etc. They aren’t hoping for a ring from the trashy Insta-ho.

So just because a guy lifts weights and posts pics on Instagram means he can’t be a respectable man who will do right by them? What exactly makes these guys “trashy”?

These guys are a huge, huge turn off now.

Without reading the thread or the article,it makes perfect sense. Everyone is ripped in media and male fitness is celebrated. Tons of porn guys have six packs, a tight round ass and a big dick. Boys/young men can't help that you have to have this to get ahead in life, sex, relationships.

IG troll

SO many personal ads now say that you are not worthy of consideration unless you have ripped abs, huge pecs, and python biceps. It’s a necessity to date hot guys.

[QUOTE]Everyone is ripped in media and male fitness is celebrated.

[QUOTE]SO many personal ads now say that you are not worthy of consideration unless you have ripped abs, huge pecs, and python biceps.

Exactly. Which is why I believe we’re looking at victims on Instagram, not perpetrators.

Qwin is smokin

All my life, most of my female friends have dated jockish guys on and off (and gotten off on it), and then latched onto a schlumpy, decent guy and married him. Anything other than that has been an exception to the rule.

Today, I notice that the younger women I work with seem to be a lot more like guys always have been: they want a standardized version of ‘hot’ first, and then money, and then prestige, and they are very distressed over having a hard time finding this guy in DC. Several of the young women (25 - 30) I’ve worked with have been actual competitive weight lifters and CrossFit addicts who measure out their protein/carb/fat ratios and are super aggressive, and all of these women have had trophy boyfriends whom they seemed more bothered by than in love with; they act the way men in their 20s are expected to act. It’s very odd to me to witness this. The whole gender fluidity thing really is more than just how people dress; guys are becoming more self-conscious, image based, narcissistic based on appearances and self-involved, and the girls are becoming harder, more objectifying, career driven and overall have a harder time settling on a guy because they need someone Instagram-hot.

That’s just my read as an outside observer.

This Instragam shit is fucking ridiculous. How do they get those bodies if they never leave their BATHROOMS. So all these twit fucks do is work out and take pictures of themselves? That sounds interesting.

The sad truth is that people put themselves under stress and pressure to assimilate and fit in. It's not "I do this to feel better about myself / feel healthier /feels right for me / etc.", but "the only way I get accepted by others / my peers / etc. is by doing what they do".

Of course social media or the gaming community do not represent ALL of males, but they represent social norms that are being pushed or promoted.

What amazes me is how you're all fooled by the packaging. The most important thing is that we raise kids to have values. If you work out and drink your protein shakes and look terrific, that's all wonderful but you should be a decent human being first and foremost. There are decent people who look like schlubs and decent people who look amazing. There are assholes who look like schlubs and assholes who look amazing. Appearance does not tell you everything about the person.

Appearance does not tell you everything about the person.

With all due respect, R191, are you FUCKING KIDDING ME?

Working out in the early AM at my gym is the best time because everyone there has white hair. Nobody is taking selfies, nobody is taking pics of you, they aren’t following you around—it’s wonderful.

[QUOTE]There are decent people who look like schlubs and decent people who look amazing.

Exactly. Judging one by their weight lifting routine is preposterous. And Instagram selfies have become so commonplace that you can’t really judge someone for posting them, either. The days of “Instathots” being the only ones posting shirtless selfies is long gone. This is now a normal thing:

That's what you get when people are raised to seek validation from others. What else is Instagram but to seek validation through how many followers you have? And the things you do to get those followers.

These days it's not enough to be a good person. You need to show people how good of a person you are, because you being a good person doesn't mean anything when nobody else is validating you for being a good person. Same goes with having a super hot and / or healthy body.

R193, that’s exactly why I don’t work out in the morning: no hot dudes. When I go in the evening, the gym is packed with hot, ripped jacked bros flexing in skintight compression wear. This is true gymspiration that keeps me working out and eating clean. Evenings are for hotties.

[QUOTE]What else is Instagram but to seek validation through how many followers you have? And the things you do to get those followers.

It’s a social platform. Your goal may not be getting millions of followers. Many just use it to broadcast a message and image to the world while picking up a few friends along the way.

THere is an attitude that comes with the physique

^^Guess Cobra Kai never die, huh...

Does no one recognize the irony that a thread asking why young men have psychological disorders related to body image immediately devolved into people posting gratuitous Instagram photos of half naked young men who almost certainly are either narcissists or have eating disorders in an effort to be hot enough to broadcast his abs daily?

“1 in 10 men ages 18-34 (9%) have been teased, ridiculed, ‘trolled’ or ‘body shamed’ about their appearance or weight online or on social media.”

R205, that seems like an underestimate

"That's what you get when people are raised to seek validation from others. "

It's not just INstagram. It's everything, including forums like DL. Whether on purpose or not, a lot of people constantly seek validation through the internet, social media, texting, etc. I see it in adults raised nowhere near such technology as well.

Flex

[QUOTE]“1 in 10 men ages 18-34 (9%) have been teased, ridiculed, ‘trolled’ or ‘body shamed’ about their appearance or weight online or on social media.”

Is it any wonder why they strive so hard to look like this?

I'm glad all these hot young men have body issues. Hit the gyms then hit Mama's mussy.

Way to revel in the misery of others, R214.

As long as the average American is grotesquely overweight, I don’t want to hear that the pressure to be fit is a bad thing.

More people not caring about diet and fitness is the widespread epidemic and much more dangerous.

Show me some black And brown ones.

r220, the problem is that some people see these ideals and get even more depressed and eat their feelings.

Our society throws a lot of shit at us. "You are only worth something when you are rich / powerful / look like a model / etc." We are not supposed to be happy about who we are, because we are supposed to compare us to others who are way more richer / powerful / prettier and - as a result - make us feel like shit. Making us easy pickings for snake oil salesmen selling us all kinds of bullshit.

R198: pathetic, 58 y/o self described muscle queen who thinks by using all the right buzz words, (ripped, jacked, swole, etc.), the "gym bro dudes" will let him suck their cocks.

So sad.

MOre!

Actually R223 these guys seem to enjoy looks of jealousy and admiration from other males in the gym. So R198’s behavior is probably welcomed.

I really cannot get over the public encouragement of pathological narcissists today. These people are going to be as fucked in the head as Donald Trump is when they get older, and they’re going to fuck up a lot of things for a lot of people.

But would it be any different without Instagram? They’d still be lifting weights. They’d still be narcissistic.

Good god...are any of them NOT on roids?

I grew up in the 80s and 90s and the only gay role models I had were gay porn actors. Straight acting, muscular, etc. compared to the handful of out gay celebrities who tended to be more like Paul Lynde or Jm J Bullock. So, yes, I thought having a great body was my key to happiness. If I could transform, then I could get what I wanted, be respected, be fuckable. Needless to say, no matter what I did, I never felt that way. I didn't sense straight guys had the same issues until the last 10-15 years. Now it seems we all feel this way. I'm fucked up so I'm assuming it is the same for this generation as a whole now. Finally I'm normal!

[QUOTE]Good god...are any of them NOT on roids?

I actually think that most of the guys posted in this thread just do it through dieting and weightlifting. They’re not really that big.

Our bodies have not evolved, our ability to locate , purchase and use PEDs has evolved exponentially. When these Facebook/Instagram bros hit 40 they will be faced with mental issues surrounding not being young/hot forever and deep, deep depression . Suicide rates will soar. Physically , after years of testosterone and GHB overuse their bodies will no longer make testosterone naturally, they will need to go on HRT to maintain a normal testosterone level. Bodies will shrink , cardiovascular issues and cancers will become pandemic. Wait until 2025-2030 you will start seeing this.

But life has evolved. We have way more leisure time: many spend theirs on the couch racking up Netflix hours or in front of their computer watching cat videos and shopping and on Pornhub. What if people spent it in the gym? I think that’s what these guys are doing: showing that which the human body is capable if one dedicates all of their free time to weightlifting. Just like guys in prison who come out buff. Why? Because all they do is eat and lift weights.

r230, being on roids doesn't necessarily mean you have to be huge.

R235 If you are on roids and work out everyday, you will swell in size even if you aren't trying to. Skinny guys who are just ripped but not particularly large almost certainly aren't on it. It doesn't produce that kind of look

Well you need to have some kind of additional proof. You can’t just point at every guy who lifts weights and scream “Roidz!”

When you have a guy who is HUGE but still shredded, that's almost certainly roids. Nearly impossible to put on that much muscle cleanly. The one exception is very short guys, less than 5'9". Short guys put on muscle easier than taller guys.

There are always signs

R237's pic is not likely roids

r232 = roids

[QUOTE]When you have a guy who is HUGE but still shredded, that's almost certainly roids. Nearly impossible to put on that much muscle cleanly.

Yeah but they don’t put it on “cleanly.” They just rarely show you what they look like while they’re fat and bloated from putting the weight on. They take a bunch of pics and show off while they’re lean but when it’s time to bulk they’re wearing extra clothes and either stop posting shirtless or use some old pics from when they were still lean.

Men never had issues till the gays.

excuse you R241? care to elaborate?

I would not be surprised if, when the book on this male “aesthetics” period is written, the first few pages deal with gay worship of the male physique in its extreme form. Might R241 be onto something?

The Next phase will be the production of supplements that attain the results of steroids without the negative side effects. SARMS is less dangerous than steroids, but it still suppresses natural testosterone and likely has negative cardiovascular and carcinogenic effects. Companies are now trying to develop supplements that have supplements that will get Dudes ripped and swole in a much safer way than SARMS.

Can you imagine the money to be made, R246? Wish I could invest in that crap...

There will never be a supplement that can alter the makeup of human hormones without producing side effects.

Well even ordinarily medicine such as aspirin and Flonase has side effects, but I think the risks and side effects can be muted for at least modest aesthetic results. Already creatine and whey protein provide results a mass market that would have been unthinkable 50 years ago. I think there can be a class of supplements that go beyond creatine, BCAA, whey that is not much more harmful.

Well if you’re right, this could be the beginning of a long trend.

Models recreate Calvin Klein advert to open up the conversation around men’s body image

Physique connotes power

Supplement use is skyrocketing

pits

[quote]Men never had issues till the gays.

Men, gays, same thing. But you wouldn't understand that, not having a male reproductive system, and all.

Ken is hot

Interesting names on all these muscle guys: Qwin, Xander, Lolo, Kamil.

Muscles matter

They matter a little too much to guys like this.

I just clicked this thread for the first time. Its a month old. Obviously it quickly morphed into an opportunity for sad DL Instaho trolls to post pics of Instahos. Predictable and pathetic.

It is porn which influenced Hollywood, then instagram etc.

Mathew Zeven is Boss, yo!

Buff dudes get mad respect

Part of what’s driving them is a yearning of respect from peers.

YEAh, and more guys than ever want to be Alphas or hotties. Physique is considered important to attwijg those goals. Also, guys want to date and have access to hotties, and you need to have the bod to mingle with hotties today, male or female.

Alphas my ass. Fully bloomed body dysmorphia for a decade or two doesn't make one an alpha. Exceptional professional achievement does. As does being a brilliant and generous lover, friend, and son, for the long haul.

R277, tell that to drooling Millennials and Gen Zers who proclaim swole fitness bros “Alpha,” “Zaddies.” Old timer definitions are not relevant.

Millennials are fat af. Just because the hot ones are hot doesn't mean it's mainstream.

Gen Z is even fatter, R279.

I ignore Hollywood and the types who run it. Anything for a buck my mom would say. She also says they'd rob the eyes out of your head if they could.

OK thanks R278. So in their slang, Alpha just means big muscles. I suspect its the old gay DLers who are drooling the most.

Urban dictionary for Alpha:

"Usually used as a term for a badass male who attracts women without trying. His superiority and pure confidence allows him to achieve success. He does not WANT, because he is the WANTED. May also be used to describe a "manly" achievement or situation."

Even in the urban dictionary it seems to mean more than muscles, more like the general meaning - leader.

I don't know if girls and young women are automatically all over muscle bodies. Are they? Confident, handsome, and sure, fit. I thought girls liked pretty faces, fit bodies, nice asses and charm. I think a lot of people want a young man who is judged to be headed to or already in a lucrative profession.

They wouldn’t be doing this if it resulted in negative feedback from girls.

They all look the same.

At any rate, I’ve always been hot for bearish types. Beefy with body hair.

So I’ve aged out of an IG phenomenon that was never for me in the first place. Sort of like dodging a bullet that was never aimed at me.

R282, you realize Urban Dictionary has pages of definitions of Alpha? One is: Alpha A male person that is physically and mentally superior than most other males, making him a sexual target for females. The opposite of this would be a beta.

After reading this thread I have more body issues than ever before.

Blame Hollywood, R291.

It’s all about gains

I like that one

I don't have any body image issues now, bitches.

Steroids aside, how healthy is it long-term to have that little body fat and the be consuming all the extra protein via shake or powder? I don't think all of the "natural" supplements are necessarily that good for you either.

I do like a nice flat stomach and can appreciate a nice six pack, but I think when you cross the line of being ultra defined where it no longer looks natural and is not as attractive to me.

Cheetos are "really screwing up these kids."

R301 No studs are doing it for you, babe.

[QUOTE]Steroids aside, how healthy is it long-term to have that little body fat and the be consuming all the extra protein via shake or powder?

I’m not an advocate for the lifestyle that these young men choose, but it’s certainly not for that reason. Who gives a shit about the “long term”? A long term isn’t even guaranteed. You better live for today as much as you can. And for Justin here, this is how he’s living the dream.

I WAS talking to a Fitness bro who advised everyone to get a doctor who is “sports nutritionist” and will monitor my health as I take potent supplements

What “supplements” did he recommend?

SARMS, r309

The Male aesthetics community offers intense male bonding and adoration.

BROtherhood

BOnding

It's usually the smaller guys, who become obsessed about getting buff . You don't see a lot of really tall guys who are bodybuilding fanatics.

That’s because it’s easier for short guys to pack on muscle.

Tall dudes have a very hard time looking muscled

MOre!

They’re starting out so early now.

THe FDA needs to regulate supplements

The sad part is, IF these guys reach old age, they will all look like deflated baloons....see Arnold and Sly for examples.

Josh

Josh rocks yo

While our boys are taking selfies, wallowing in narcissism, and measuring their self worth through amassing Instagram followers, I have a sense that their Chinese equivalents are picking up the slack in AI innovation, engineering, and remaking the world from Africa to Hong Kong.

You obviously haven’t been following the Hot Asian Muscle Dudes thread

[quote] While our boys are taking selfies, wallowing in narcissism, and measuring their self worth through amassing Instagram followers, I have a sense that their Chinese equivalents are picking up the slack in AI innovation, engineering, and remaking the world from Africa to Hong Kong.

I have a feeling that there are plenty of American, pencil-neck nerds who couldn't bench-press the bar but who have been doing computer programming since they were kids.

I fucking hope so.

They will have a much easier time of it turning thirty and forty, when the bloom is off and the repetitive motion injuries start to crank up.

I am guessing the phenomenon of Asian musclemen is more a US than an Asian thing, but the internet can spread an infection instantaneously.

Maybe everyone is destined to be like the human Ken doll in the future. A new aesthetic awaits.

PLENty of geeks and nerds are muscle aesthetics bros.

This guy’s a software developer.

Put down those carbs, dudes!

University professor here, often ogling the cute guys in the cafeteria. The jacked 20 year olds are few and often the most obnoxious, kind of leveling out some gains they've made living at the gym in terms of getting positive attention from the girls [and guys] around them. From what I observe the pretty girls here are way more impressed by friendliness and "normalcy" though some do hang onto the gym crowd. The truly gorgeous men, as always, are those with great genes; while muscles help, nothing compares to natural hotness, often devoid of big biceps.

344 here -- coincidentally to this thread one of the classes I teach is substance abuse, and we cover steroids for a week every semester. When students are sharing their high school and college experiences with steroid users, both in dating and social settings, the responses are uniformly negative..."at first he was hot but would get angry"..."he had no dick" [Really a reference to the common smaller balls among many steroid users which tends to shrink penis size a little]..."once he stopped it was obvious where he got his muscles"..."I helped inject them in his ass in the school gym"...[and my favorite quote from a former girlfriend] "he had a good complexion but tons of zits on his huge upper back!" Not sure if that last one was a steroids thing.

Bump

OTher dudes look up to you and say your physique is “goals.”

I love it how in the gym so many nearly naked dudes have other guys snapping pics of them flexing in the lockerroom. Never has the pumped male bod been so exalted.

Dudes are so proud and fraternal about their jacked physiques. Aesthetics is family

Most guys wanna be Alphas.

All the men need to ripped while the women can be fat Cows. It's like bizarro world

A lot of chicks are into bodybuilding now

I always have to laugh at those instahoes . Even when they are so beautiful with perfect bodies I get bored to look at them after a while . They’re disposable and interchangeable with each other . Maybe it’s because I need something more than just astaethics ? Some shred of intellect maybe ?

Aesthetics are hot 🔥

Why do people keep referencing "supplements"? The majority of these pics are roids.

Dudes today are afraid to even take their shirts off at the beach or pool if they aren’t jacked or ripped. Aesthetics have become just as big for males as for females, and muscles matter.

So many guys have Bodybuilding.com shirts on these days

Trying to get chicks

R353 Not all, but I surely would like to have one in my bedroom

Tight bods Rock

Oh, that bro is fine!!!!

Never satisfied

Train legs twice per week for max gains

Some of these pics are kind of creepy. They are all obviously very fit - and some are hot, but some are so out of proportion that they look like caricatures. I would imagine with some it is also an addiction that is interfering with other parts of their lives. Plus, who knows what some are putting into their bodies.

Uh okay r379. You are the type to see negativity in anything. Moving right along....

Well - the thread did start out with an article about body issues and problems it is creating for young men. There are about twenty other Instagram threads where one can be negative free.

Body dismorphia is a mental sickness that can be perpetuated through social media. It's all about taking things further in order to be (finally) really worthy of love and respect from others. Finally be that alpha dog.

Smith

Creatine is Great

Every time I see this thread I click into it, see R4's response and think what a massive cunt R4 is.

Every time.

[QUOTE]Well - the thread did start out with an article about body issues and problems it is creating for young men.

Exactly. The focus needs to be on these young men who have been victimized by unrealistic body image standards.

I see elementary school kids lifting heavy weights now

No amount of working out will take away the ugly.

Is this really a thing?

Yes it’s a thing, R400. In fact it’s more than a thing. It’s an epidemic plaguing young men across the world.

Beautiful

I need to cut my caloric intake and up my cardio.

I think a lot of guys need to do that.

A lot of these steroid queens are in for a nasty surprise when the bad side effects, and health problems catch up to them.

So hot. More!

Triceps

Poor straight guys have to be a 9 to be able to get with a 4.

Brendon Michael

There is nothing wrong with wanting to be the best version of yourself ... for yourself. It gets tricky when you do it to get other people's approval and praise. Because when you do it for yourself you can feel great pride in what you've accomplished so far. But when you do it for others all you see is that you still are not getting enough approval and praise and need to work harder.

Gymspiration

I love the male muscle show offs

R39, I thought they all look like Andrea Occhipinti or Pietro Boselli or Michelangelo's "David."

I thought this was a thread about the actual issue of body image.

More!

I recently spent two nights with a delightful 19yo E European chappie. Sweet as sugar. He works out A LOT but still has a decent amount of body fat which gives him squeezable, suckable tits and an arse that fans out when he bends over in a spectacular fashion. However, he's gone back to his home country for three months and showed me how he wanted to develop his body: shredded and 'anatomical'--my word for how blokes look when they're all muscle and no fat. I begged him not to. I don't want to spoon a marble statue. He's PERFECT as he is. Fingers crossed....

They really look all the same . Nice bodies and fug faces you literally fall over them on Instagram . There are a few who have it all ! And now they will have the same issues as women had to endure for over 30 years . I’m glad I was born in the fifties and grew up in the sixties and seventies . No social media thank god . A magazine now and then and that was it .

Their faces mostly are not unattractive

They are hot

Muscles matter

Muscles connote power, dominance. Most men want to be Alphas.

I always hate how the soaps will hire 25 year old grown men with big muscles to play 15 year old boys.

Body issues indeed

17 years old???!!!

Men : must be tall, muscular, deep voice, rich etc

Woman : must have a pussy thatts it

a little unfair

And completely untrue r435.

Do you actually know any women?

Jake Elgie

Yummm

Men have always faced pressure to meet beauty expectations associated with men; it is just that most of the wold has exclusively focused on women. It is like with baldness; the world and science field still think baldness only affects women psychologically.

Alpha beta, what the fuck does it all mean? One of my good friends has been owner of gym for nearly 30 years. He laughed when I showed him this thread. He's seen guys like this come and go for years, it's like an assembly line. The only difference now is they have a self-congratulatory outlet in social media to take bows. In this population that you starry-eyed delusional teenaged sissies seem to worship, there is more doping, drug and alcohol abuse, mental illness, depression, bipolar disorder, NPD, BPD, HPD, laxative abuse, anorexia, and gay for pay than in any other. He advises them to take a look at some of the bodybuilding luminaries of he 1980s and 1990s who are now in their 50s and 60s and see what they look like today. No body in this world replaces professional achievement, education, intellect, empathy, compassion, and the ability to be a real human being, son, spouse, sibling, friend, and lover. Teenagers and young adults have a lot of pressure? Phooey! You put the pressure onto yourselves instead of onto ventures that can create a foundation of accomplishment, security, and stability that can last a lifetime. Being healthy and fit is a fine complement. Destroying your body and crippling your mind and heart to achieve a cosmetic effect that is TEMPORARY is the epitome of ignorance and stupidity. And most of you motherfuckers indulge it! These Instahoes aren't the role models. They need the role models. And they aren't here.

Exactly, R441. These young men are killing themselves.

R443 R444 - Men. The new women.

Muscles open doors. Even if you are not qualified enough for a job you could be hired only for your good looks.

Women's ideal body is easily achieved whereas men's ideal body takes harder work but that harder work pays off.

R445 Open doors for what? Porn,. rentmen, drug dealers aka personal trainers, bartenders, bouncers, fluffers?? I would say construction, but they save their muscle for the gym, not the cinder block. Some of the guys hired in entry level positions, no shit, didn't even know how to address an envelope, and many of them are the epitome of laziness. Maybe some middle aged daddy will take them under wing, but even he'll soon get disgusted when they start pushing 30 and are no longer the peach of the day. Looks help, but successful careers and lives are build on education, training, hard work, character, and integrity. Not muscle. Unless of course you're a whore.

More hotties please

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By the time they're in their 50's, these Instahos, who have never bothered to learn any skill or trade, will be flat ass broke and dependent on food stamps and Section 8 housing to live out the rest of their miserable lives.

Yeah, right... R449

R451 - "Yeah, right." I wouldn't hire you unless it was to mop the floor. Muscles are needed for that. R450 A lot of people mistake muscle with handsome. and they're not necessarily the same thing. Most of these guys with shirts on are average to above average looking guys. Some that have naturally handsome faces and look good in a suit and have a brain to go with it might have an edge over the competition. I know a muscle guy age 39 who landed an interesting job after he failed miserably in IT. He worked as a caddy at a swank golf club. Hoping to land some daddy with bucks. Guess what? Season's over. Still single.

Gym Life

So hot

Do it for the gains bro

Nice

There is such a focus on being an “Alpha” or a “beast” among young men, and being swole is viewed as critical to this goal.

Is it just me or do all these muscle bro-hos start to look alike. Even the black ones start to look the same as the white ones at some point. I miss the lean, fit, and hairy look that was common in the 1970s and 1980s and still existed at the beginning of the 1990s before soyboys and roidaholics replaced men.

Thailand session. Dripping wet and dripping sweat

Be Alpha

Be best

Well, big muscles don't necessarily mean exceptional strength.

Bump

r454 would be perfectly adorable if he had never lifted so much as a bag of sugar.

Yes, r464. Quin Vitale actually looks weird here (the nameband on his underwear doesn't help).

Quin is hot

The six pack is the male equivalent of breast implants.

Torsos matter brah

[quote]The desire to be handsome and muscular has been around for decades

More like since the '80s. For most boomer teens, unless you were on a team, gym was a barely tolerated requirement for graduation. I knew two guys who worked out. They were considered freaks by even the straightest guys I knew.

Slim was all you needed to be those days. GQ changed the whole thing in 1979-1980.

Quin looks weird because of those gargantuan Poindexter glasses.

I was talking about the texture of his skin, r470. Obvs. the glasses leave a lot to be desired.

Even golfers weightlift now

Dennis Nguyen

Who cares. Anyone stupid enough to follow or believe the media deserves whatever they get inc death. This is as stupid as a black person wishing they were white, you have bigger problems.

I love it

r475 If they wouldn't get such shitty haircuts, they wouldn't have body image issues.

Quin is so beautiful. Would it be possible for him to return to having a normal, slim, yet muscular body? He doesn't need to turn himself into a freak.

He’s boss

You can’t blame Hollywood any longer. It has far less of an influence than it used to. It was once a carrier of the disease but the virus is self-perpetuating now.

A Tori Amos lyric is “And I thought that I wouldn’t have to be with you a magazine”—a reference to the pressure of a woman to have to look like an airbrushed supermodel. That was 1996.

Now it’s Instagram. Look around this site. Half the threads are just links to lookalike dudes with lumpy lean bodies and cosmetically altered facial features. The pressure to fit into this box just drove Aaron Schock to such madness that he ruined his life. He appears only to associate with other gays who are similarly body obsessed. All for the Instagram gods.

It's not going anywhere. Men are finally realising that if they are good looking and built they can cash in. Here in England I've seen several sites for straight male escorts. These young guys now have wealthy older women to sell themselves to. It's like straight guys have copied gay men all of a sudden.

Commerce. The fitness and food and druug industries realized there was a huge potential market for equipment, trainers, diets and supplements that could be sold by sex and vanity. Then the beauty industry realized the other half of the population, men, was equally vulnerable to being told they have no value without cosmetics and cosmetic procedures to standardize their appearances, and then social media platforms were invented to fuel and to be fueled by vanity and lust and greed—and voilà. Men have become as vulnerable to the influence of Barbie perfection as women have been for centuries.

And straight buff dudes are loving all the attention they get from males and females for having brolic physiques.

Dudes love being thirst objects

R483 That "dude" does not make me thirsty.

Gym culture is homosexual in its roots and so is the athletic/muscular body as the ideal male body. It's our concept and heterosexual men follow our concept of male beauty.

Just look at this manly little fellow.

It’s all thanks to DL.

inspiring

very slender despite the muscle

I like to drive past his house when he's alone in his room

More bro!

ZoZo

Goals

Ellis Kane

I just wish they'd stop captioning their thirst-trap seminudes with human potentialist coffee-cup bullshit. "If you can visualize it, you can do it." "See it. Be it!" Whatever. Shut the fuck up and show us your ass.

Oh wow

My type

Kevin Hejnas

Looking at all the Instahoes and the supplements they take and the filters and the editing and lighting just makes me appreciate the men who were muscular 60 years ago without any of the supplements and tricks. Clint Walker, Rock Hudson, Robert Conrad. I’m 29 so I’ve only ever known a world where guys are either fat and out of shape, stick thin and out of shape or obsessed hairless gym bros. I go insane for a fit body that looks like the guy hits the gym three times a week or does manual labor. His body hair is natural or trimmed a little and you know he can have a burger or a few beers and isn’t eating pre measured meals out of Tupperware or gorging himself because it’s ‘cheat day’. It’s really hard to find that these days. Vintage porn has become my go to.

Gains Bro

But where's the transphobic angle?

"I just wish they'd stop captioning their thirst-trap seminudes with human potentialist coffee-cup bullshit. "If you can visualize it, you can do it." "See it. Be it!" Whatever. Shut the fuck up and show us your ass. "

Exactly. I'm not ogling your god damned pea brain. I wanna see skin, I wanna see ass and most importantly I wanna see dick. If I want smart, I'll go to the library.

It's just funny that semiliterate 19 year old jocks think they have some deep profundities to share.

I loved how @davymuscle (who i guess is @davymichael right now) would give little lectures about how women should dress modestly because men gonna be men and then like...offers his underwear for sale.

Yah, so stop calling circumcised penises "mutilated".

All penises are beautiful in their own way.

Americans need more body issues. Until the day the majority isn't overweight to morbidly obese ...

Goals

...

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It's amazing how video games are guilty of everything today. When they are guilty leaving fat and sedentary people are guilty of harming the body image of young people.

231 - All these things happen naturally, bodies go down, heart problems and tosterone goes down. Older people are already the suicide band, all these problems that you pointed out happen naturally.

Journalistic media always complaining about everything when not talking about obesity now complains that young people want muscles.

Men have always liked muscles.

Shhh, don't say it. It makes the bodybuilding industry break into pieces R513

Markham Heid are idiot obsessed with health.

Markham Heid is an idiot who wants to pathologize everything. Let's stop living to be paranoid thinking that everything can be bad.

Markham Heid what he does is these people who want to profit from the fear of people like this asshole.

Markham Heid is hypochondriac.

Stupid magazines telling how people should live.

This Time magazine seems to have something against DC movies. Prime attacks the Joker movie and now uses Batman and Superman as bad examples to the young image because they look stronger?

Magazines? In 2019.8? Dude...

Swole is hotc

I saw some idiots here at DataLounge criticizing Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger. Speaking of what years of bodybuilding made them "empty and sick"? They are still in the movies, events are in good shape and are active when most old people their age are vegetating sitting in a chair or in nursing homes.

Another magazine selling pessimism and bad news to attract clicks.

What does a magazine that put Hitler as "man of the year" think it can talk about society

Superhero movies and video games? For, the Greeks and other cultures thousands of years already had muscles and strength that represented a healthy body.

Hum...

KKKKKKKKKKKKKK

Why do people marvel that dudes want to be powerful, strong, Alpha?

Didn't Arnold use to refer to us using the the f* word when he was younger even though his beloved bodybuilding is a creation of our homosexual ancestors? R523

The ironies of life.

too bad all the betas threatened by showcases of testosterone hate all things Snyder. Sadly reviewers at these left leaning sites helped hurt box office performances and triggered the equally stupid heads at WB so they began interfering in his vision. MOS represents the only non-tainted Snyder DC film and it's brilliant. I would have loved to have seen what he would have done if they just let him be instead of B v S and JL

R531 has lots of thoughts about stupid fucking paper-thin superhero piles of garbage.

Look! A forum idiot talking about celebrity gossip, gay porn, and other futile things talking shit about my taste for superheroes. Look yourself in the asshole mirror before criticizing others.

Maybe R533 should read a book that doesn't have any pictures in it before he (and lord knows its a he) talks shit about anyone.

[quote]What does a magazine that put Hitler as "man of the year" think it can talk about society

Poor R25 doesn't understand what Time's Man of the Year moniker actually stands for...

Hot bodies are nice. But long-term steroid use can fuck you up.

True

It’s so gymspiring.

Sexy

Why Are Comic Book Superheroes So Muscular?

Muscle connote power and domination

....

Guys like this can get other hotties

Bump

Caleb Landry

All for the Gram bro!

Dudes respect muscle

It doesn't make sense that heterosexual men get so excited watching a bunch of nearly naked muscle men show off their muscles. There must be a degree of bisexuality in them.

No, it’s a primal bowing down to Alpha indicia. It’s not new

Why is this thread being dug up from March? Really? Why is it? Can someone answer that for me? Can you? I mean who is the idiot that just had to did this up again? Why did the insecure piece of shit feel they needed to bring this up again to have their ego stroked because he doesn't work out and has a shitty body? Seriously OP, go work out and do a diet. Put some serious work and effort into your life and quit coming on here and expecting us to hang on to your whining ways. You're so full of shit for posting this bullshit then dragging it up again. I hate you and I know you're just some big crybaby fatty sitting behind his computer in a fucking 4xxxx caftan. Fucking cow.

Primal bowing down to alpha males my ass.

They like sexy male bodies. Plain and simple.

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Competition

Bigger the better

Jumping in here. Did any Frau Cunts show up to scream about how women’s issues are worse and all men are rapist?

This is a problem for both men and women. Thanks to social media, everyone wants to be perfect and be perceived as such by other people on these platforms.

I'm not attracted to "perfect" shredded bodies. I'm just not. I love guys who look like they don't take themselves seriously. Slight doughiness or even a beer belly bro, whoosh!

It gets hundreds of thousands of drooling followers

Bump

Stretch

Thirst trap

Jacob Shalvey

I love that all the Instagram selfie bros that the Instagram shill heavily spammed the thread with are gray boxes now.

BUMP TROLLS BUMP TROLLS BUMP TROLLS BUMP TROLLS BUMP TROLLS BUMP TROLLS BUMP TROLLS BUMP TROLLS

Austin Cole

Dreams of becoming Alpha

The goal is to look lit in underwear

They're just whiney little pissers is all.

This is why