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Yikes, 4chan as culture? I expect there is much truth in what you are saying, but I remember quite clearly an incident in 2014 where a fellow fitness enthusias
by m0llusk 3y ago
Yikes, 4chan as culture? I expect there is much truth in what you are saying, but I remember quite clearly an incident in 2014 where a fellow fitness enthusiast and bodybuilder chastised me for offering him food with tofu in it because of the estrogen content of soy. He was already injecting testosterone, so ingesting soy would be, as he put it, "going the wrong way".
In my experience hardcore competitive bodybuilding culture in particular does not cross over with 4chan very much. The users of 4chan tend to be too young to have entered to competitive bodybuilding scene so the generations are different, plus there are other cultural issues. Putting time into 4chan and time into the gym are not obviously exclusive of each other but in practice end up being so.
- 13_channel_ctf 3y agoFWIW 4chan has a pretty active /fit/ board with pretty frequent bodybuilding threads. I actually run an imageboard myself. Btw, if anyone from 13chan is reading this, the solution to the challenge is "im_from_13chan_that_means_im_cute" I love 13chan <3
- philwelch 3y agoThere was an infamous 2008 case study of a man who developed gynecomastia while consuming three quarts of soy milk a day[1]. I actually remember rumors about this so I wouldn’t be surprised if those same rumors spread around the bodybuilding community. It certainly seems that the soy-estrogen theory became widely accepted “bro science” somehow; I just don’t know of any evidence that it was in any way related to anti-Asian racism. [1] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18558591/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18558591/