Normalfags ruined the internet lifting subculture?

Confirm/deny?

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I would argue that lifting has been somewhat immune to this pattern becuase lifting requires discipline and effort, both of which normies lack. Jow Forums still has hilarious happenings and a yearly recap comic that highlights these. Despite this famous comic, Jow Forums still continues to yeild funny content in high concentrations.

berkhan kind of talks about similar things in his book. honestly normalfags can only diminish your enjoyment of something if you try to play by their rules. the influx of people usually brings more money and elevated status to the people who pander to them but if you're just a weird autist who likes picking up big things then there's no reason to change your behavior at all or even associate with normalfag communities. true enlightenment is going oromode & cutting out all distractions from the outside world to solely focus on gaining strength

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Basically this. It requires work and persistence. You can't buy your way into lifting.

>inb4 gear

Yes, but who is left over? Only us again.

Disagree heavily. Normies made lifting fun, and they were around long before you dorks. The misc used to be hilarious, and it was filled with normies who had normal social lives and liked to goof around. Autists made everything serious and """blackpilled""" as a cope to their own loserdom. The Fitness "Industry" has always been bullshit, and has since before the 1950s

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This is stupid shit. Bodybuilding has been quasi-mainstream since pumping iron.

How has fit changed or "been cleaned up" aside from the fact that there's not child porn posted here when jannies were asleep?

>implying we're not the normalfags

Jow Forums is definitely more boring now but it's really more because of the misery community than "normies." Zyzz was about as normal a guy in Australia might have been, he just did roids and partied, but in an entertaining way.

>normalfags ruined the internet
ftfy

make Jow Forums homosexual again

Culture is irrelevant. Anyone who lifts seriously does it alone.

cant wait for beta brother

The only thing that might have had dropped the quality of this board is not the influx of normies, it's the influx of incels from r9k who come here and make their shitty cope threads that they create in order to delude theirselves into thinking that lifting/exercising isn't worth it so they don't feel bad for sitting in their basement all the time.

You can see it in all the ''why bother lifting if'' ''what's the point of having muscles if I'm bald!'' ''Muscles are non practical in this day and age!'' threads/posts.
It really triggers my shit that the jannies are more concerned with deleting tinder threads than these shit asinine cope threads that are made 10 times a day every fucking day.

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Nearly every board on Jow Forums that I frequent has run a similer post in the last two weeks. Jow Forums and /b/ always have them. But Jow Forums,/o/ Jow Forums, /his/ and /lit/. And there's tons of thread derails that eventually swing to talking about the good o' days.
I won't claim to be an oldfag, but I was here before 2016. Has anyone else noticed this pattern?

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Fucking sick of seeing Jow Forums BTFO threads on the daily now, with some smug incel pastaing some shit he found after lurking and saying hur dur all that matters is FACE.

Its cause of phone posting. Years ago Jow Forums was exclusively dorks who sat on their PC all day. Its too fast paced and thoughtless now. Also there was a phase when this board tried really hard to kill any non fitness related threads. Its also why it changed from health and fitness to just fitness.

>4/3/2/1 1RM and more than that on most lifts
>still no gf
>haven't fucked in a while
>shitpost and stare at my phone regularly
>laugh at my own jokes and make semi consistent gains
>still autistic

Reeeee

If the subculture requires a high level of effort then this doesn’t apply.
For fitness i’d say it has only gotten less normal over the years.

So many socially inept people getting into it while the average normal fag is fatter than ever.

pretty sure lifting culture/subculture has always been by normies for normies for at least a century. internet lifting cultures at least since the early 2000s. its always been the "chad" stereotype to lift and often time these people like zyzz, rich, etc. were just uber chads with a lot of friends and low inhibitions. but it is refreshing in a sense. at least you know the normies youre posting with generally have enough discipline to continue building their body, and it's great to belong to a community that actively supports one another to be their very best. most underground cultures are more elitist than the very normies they say are elitist. lifting is a very level-headed kind of interest, with some outliers that are fun to meme about, but typically have people that are cool to hang around and talk with.

>oromode
>enlightenment instead of deathmatches in some god forsaken alley
wat?

This. The Jow Forumsblackpill/lookism faggots are what's ruining Jow Forums with their crabs in a bucket mentality.

Normies casually lift and end up looking better and being stronger than you incels who track macros and bring a notebook to the gym lmao

This is true, and it helps protect Jow Forums moreso than other communities like those for video games or whatever else. However, it still happens because you don't *actually* need to lift to infect the online fitness culture. Always remember that at any given time, 90% of people on Jow Forums and similar places will have been lifting for less than like 3 months tops, and are still complete noobs with the stench of afterbirth still wafting off their DYEL bodies.

And then there's all the people on Jow Forums who literally don't lift at all. The people who only come here for that vegan/carnivore autistic shitflinging, the Jow Forumsfags with their crab mentalities who only come here and try to blackpill people into giving up and not improving themselves at all, the people who only come here to post in "thicc/fit/thin/whatever girl threads" that are just thinly-veiled excuses for softcore porn dumps, all the threads by and for fat people acting like some sort of 12-step program for each other, and I could keep going.

desu I just find that shit hilarious.
>wtf bros what's the point of lifting??! look at these deformed quasimodo looking guys, ITS OVER!

Gotta love the projection on their end, as if looking ugly like that is actually common. All they do is reveal themselves to be hideous 1/10 fuckers

It was funny at first but it kinda bums me out to read their posts all the time.

>However, it still happens because you don't *actually* need to lift to infect the online fitness culture
This is why we should have mandatory body avatars on Jow Forums

lifting and exercise have been for normies ever since the bodybuilding revolution of the 70s you dipshit

Jow Forums and misc are the ones who brought weirdness and autism INTO bodybuilding.

before the 70s, bodybuilding was generally a thing for carnival freakshows, "the amazing sandow", etc.

sums it up.

Jow Forums is super boring compared to 2011

A lot of that is user base but mods too now, they encouraged the degradation of the board by being too strict.

desu if people actually played videogames, /v/ would have much higher quality posts. It's much easier to make stuff up and talk shit about games they never played, or screenshot someone's Twitter post and get 300 replies.

Jow Forums has some OKAY threads but even then, you have to take everything with a grain of salt.

You're just more depressed and cynical.

No, he's right. In 2011 posters are encouraging and uplifting. There was a lighter air. Literally everything now is COPE COPE WHY BOTHER FACEHEIGHTFRAME

A lot of that has to do with trolling culture on Jow Forums. People are posting for reactions rather than anything meaningful.

Are you faggots so out of touch with reality that you think you created lifting subculture on the internet? L M A O

>Jow Forums created the hobby of weight lifting
>Jow Forums created a hobby that has been around since the Victorian era

Anyone who believes this is a zoomer with no knowledge of history.

Maybe you didn't because you're underaged

strengthen your mind against the masses, become the murderer you were always meant to be

>using the world incel unironically
hello r*ddit

I invented lifting culture
AMA

Actually kind of a great idea
>inb4 post body

What's the Neolithic Era like?

If two guys were on the moon and one killed the other with like a moon rock or something would that be fucked up or what?

ha ha that's so crazy ha ha like what ha ha

Have you ever thought that you might have just grown out of this place?

>clean it up so it’s not “dirt anymore

Fuck you I’ll dirty bulk if I want

what are other methods of masking your bisexuality?

>t.incel

Like it says in the pic, this happens to every sub culture. It even happened to Jow Forums which is ironic because that was the one board solely for anti-normalfaggots, and even that got ruined by normalfaggots

itt: npc's who learned what "crabs in a bucket" meant 2 weeks ago and can't stop talking about it

based incel in a bucket

oh god, the incel bucket is even worse than the crab bucket desu

>npc
>Thinks everybody else is as young and inexperienced as he is

Yep, there's an incel

all these r9k blackpilled crabcels posting about how they're never gonna make it out of the bucket

Fuck off delusional boomer, go take your pills. You going off the deep end again