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I thought the fight-club look was supposed to be back in? Lean and purposeful looking.

• dirtyid 7y ago
  It was a years ago, I think there's a... muscularity threadmill that maps with the growth of fitness social media in the last few years that started prioritizing towards size via functionality and strength. It started with relatively attainable fightclub look, aesthetics that is preferred by women, but people who enjoy fitness culture rarely stops there (it's a comparably easy and attainable body type) so the trend gradually shifted towards getting bigger and stronger to impress other audiences in fitness culture (read: men and a revival of machismoism). You also have the parallel influence outside of fitness of hollywood action stars getting bigger as well. I could be completely misreading the trend, but male aesthetic standard changes over time.
  • filoleg 7y ago
    it hasn't fully kicked-in in the mainstream yet, but I agree that it is going in the direction you are describing, and movies map to it quite nicely. Just take a look the change over time in looks of Wolverine from the first X-Men movie to the most recent movie featuring him (all played by the same actor btw, Hugh Jackman). Back then, even though he was obviously fit and muscular, he had a physique that was fairly easily attainable by an average male without sacrificing much. Over time, it got to the point that there is no way an average male would be able to gain such physique without being obsessively controlling with the nutrition and spending all of the free time outside of work at the gym.