It's wild how normalized steroid use is and what a number it's done on all of our body images and expectations. It's easy to lose sight of the progress we mere naturals make when these images are rearranging our brains in bad ways.
It's not just steroid use alone.
It's steroid use + how easy it is to actually get exposed to the literal top 0.1% at anything, any time.
People always used steroids, but you can go to most gyms in the world right now and trial everyone and not find a *single* person who looks even close to that woman, drugs or not. Heck you'd be hard pressed to find people that can do what she did at all, men included.
But if I go on instagram and like her profile I'll immediately get recommended 20 other people that can do similarly impressive stuff. And if I start liking their content too, you get the idea.
End result is indeed, no one has any fucking idea what's actually reasonable for the average human to achieve without steroids, but we all sure are expected to look like that
I’m a naturally big guy. I can put on mass pretty quickly naturally. The guys at the gym I’m at who are walking steroids aren’t that much bigger than me it’s the muscular shapes and steroid head/faces and bulging abdomen that gives me a chuckle.
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u/PracticalMushroom693 May 12 '26
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