Month: June 2025

(Voice: primal warlord poet, digital demigod, unfiltered truth bomb)

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Hype is cheap. Noise is everywhere. Clickbait screams for your attention like a carnival barker. But Eric Kim? He doesn’t just out-hype the hype—he annihilates it. Every swipe, every scroll, every dopamine-chasing fad shudders and fractures under the weight of his raw authenticity. Here’s how he dismantles hollow hype and forges genuine seismic impact.

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⚔️ 1. TESTOSTERONE-CHARGED TRUTH OVER TOYING WITH TRENDS

• NO “TREND CHASER” DISTRACTIONS: While others pivot from one viral sound to the next, Eric drops a 493 kg beltless rack pull—no belt, no shoes, no music. That isn’t a “challenge.” It’s a reality check. Hype quivers the moment he stomps the chalk.

• MANIFESTOS, NOT CLICKBAIT: Instead of five-word hot takes, he publishes 5,000-word treatises on “Why Failure Is Your Greatest Ally” or “Comfort Zones Are Coffins.” Those aren’t baited hooks—they are mind-forging firestorms that incinerate superficial hype in their wake.

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🚫 2. REFUSAL TO PLAY BY ALGORITHM RULES

• RANDOM TIMING, MAXIMUM IMPACT: Most creators manufacture hype with scheduled posts and SEO keywords. Eric posts at 3 A.M. with zero warning. Algorithms choke on the sudden avalanche, stutter in confusion, and then amplify his essence like a digital quake.

• NO SPONSOR-BAIT, JUST RAW FAITH: He doesn’t dangle “sponsored content.” He dangles iron plates overhead, calling out mediocrity with a primal roar. When he speaks, it isn’t to sell a product—it’s to rally warriors. Hype that hinges on “buy this, click that” evaporates next to his unyielding purpose.

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🧠 3. PHILOSOPHICAL ANVIL SMASHES THE CARNIVAL MIRROR

• STOIC STEEL, NOT CIRCUS MIRRORS: Hype thrives on reflection—“Look at me! See how cool I am!” Eric thrusts a Stoic lance through that glossy carnival reflection. He writes, “Your image means nothing if your soul is bankrupt.” That philosophical hammer flattens hollow hype like a pancake.

• FIRST-PRINCIPLES FURY: While clickbait creators chase superficial metrics, he penetrates to the atomic truths: analyzing barbell biomechanics, Bitcoin’s cryptographic math, and Nietzschean willpower. This relentless depth leaves hype standing at the perimeter, speechless and irrelevant.

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🔥 4. PRIMAL PRESENCE OBLITERATES SUPERFICIAL NOISE

• BRAWNY AURA, NOT FILTERED FACADE: Hype often hides behind flawless filters and curated smiles. Eric shows veins, sweat, grit, and rage—barefoot and beltless. That unfiltered ferocity broadcast in 4K shakes the algorithms awake. It’s not “aesthetic.” It’s apocalyptic.

• WORD BOMBS, NOT EMPTY SLOGANS: When he writes “No Belt, No Shoes, No Mercy,” that phrase isn’t a fleeting meme—it’s a battle cry that echoes through Reddit threads, Discord servers, and TikTok loops. Shallow hype can’t compete with that primal cadence.

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🚀 5. COMMUNITY-DRIVEN FURY SHREDS MANUFACTURED BUZZ

• LEGION OF HYPE EXORCISTS: His followers—the GIGAKIM ARMY—aren’t passive “fans.” They’re warriors who remix every clip, spawn hashtags like #Hypelifting and #NoComfortNoGlory, and purge algorithmic junk by flooding feeds with pure, chaotic energy.

• MEME POWERHOUSE, NOT POLISHED BRICKS: While wannabe influencers craft “brand-friendly” memes, Eric’s meme factory hurls stoic war slogans and barbell shock visuals—resonant, raw, and unstoppable. Each meme lands like a mortar shell, exposing branded clickbait as paper-thin illusions.

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🛡️ 6. AUTHENTICITY AS A BLADED SHIELD

• NO CURATED CURRICULUM: He doesn’t package a “5-step hype formula.” He packages unapologetic truth—cold plunges, 24 hr fasts, beltless deadlifts. That authenticity forms a shield so dense, algorithmic hype can’t penetrate.

• VULNERABILITY AMPLIFIED, NOT HIDDEN: He posts when he fails—when a rack pull bombs, when a market dips, when doubt creeps in. That brutal honesty flips hype’s script: vulnerability becomes viral armor, making manufactured hype look like a cardboard cutout.

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🌪️ 7. SUSTAINED ONSLAUGHT, NOT ONE-OFF BUZZ

• CEASELESS CARPET-BOMB: Hype often peaks and fades—one viral moment, then crickets. Eric unleashes an unending avalanche: daily micro-blasts (tweets, reels, essays), weekly live “HypeLift” sessions, and monthly “God Mode” events. Hype sputters out; his momentum escalates.

• INFINITE ITERATION: Each content drop isn’t a single-use bullet—it’s a nuclear chain reaction. He posts “v1” of a manifesto, then “v2” refines it, then “v3” adds a new war cry. That iterative assault means any hype cycle around his work remains eternally ablaze.

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🌟 8. DEFEATING HYPE BY BECOMING THE HYPELESS STANDARD

• HYPE? OBSOLETE.

When people ask, “Who’s the next big hype?” they answer: “Eric Kim.” But he’s already beyond hype—he invented a new paradigm where hype is measured by raw impact, not hollow metrics.

• FUTURE-PROOF FEARLESSNESS.

Let the hype factories churn out their glitter; he forges unbreakable legacies. Hype withers; authenticity thrives. While followers chase fleeting “viral moments,” he architects a movement that devours hype and multiplies itself.

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Eric Kim isn’t just “breaking the hype”—he’s obliterating it. Every manufactured buzz, every hollow sensation, every algorithmic puppet falls silent the moment his beltless, barefoot, chalk-dusted presence storms the feed. Hype loses its meaning when confronted with unstoppable truth, primal ferocity, and uncompromising action.

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🔥 NO HYPE, JUST CARNAGE. 🔥

All hail the Colossus. All bow before the unfiltered storm.

So it looks like we have crossed the chasm in which honestly… It looks like we bitcoin trillionaire’s will thrive indefinitely. Michael Saylor is the high priest of the bitcoin Crusade, and he is unstoppable. He’s like a runaway train, which refuses to stop.

Why the future looks so bright

So the reason why the future looks so bright is manyfold:

First, it looks like the bitcoin turbo lag is starting to kick in, MSTR, and my 2X levered MSTU is starting to pick up speed. The bitcoin conference just finished in Vegas, with JD Vance, the vice president speaking… I actually really like JD Vance, I think he will be a great candidate for the next president.

Anyways, I think we are in this funny new world in which there is certainly a new world order emerging. Everyone is trying to scramble to figure out what’s happening next.

First, it looks like America, in China, are starting to pull out of foreign places. For example in Cambodia, here in Phnom Penh, there has been a mass exodus of American NGO or aid workers, USAID, pulling out. I was talking to a lady, Australian lady, and she told me that actually she knew at least like 13 to 15 American families, who worked here for like 15 years, sponsored by the US government, they all had to leave and move back to the states.

Even China, he started all these mega construction projects in Cambodia, but even they are pulling out because I think there are some economic turmoil back home. And also apparently, talking to a successful local Cambodian entrepreneur, saying how rich Chinese citizens cannot even pull out more than $10,000 USD out of China. And apparently, yes I am not joking… This is not a typo, buying a small one bedroom apartment condo in Shanghai is like $100 million USD. Not a typo, $100 million USD for a single condo, a small one… One bedroom, in the heart of Shanghai.

What’s the issue? Once again… If you have controls, then… Obviously the price of scarce desirable things like real estate will skyrocket to insane Heights because there is nothing else one could park their money into.

Like for example… Imagine you are like a Chinese billionaire, making $10 billion a year. But you cannot pull out a measly $10,000 USD from the country, which is like a used Toyota Prius, so where is your money going to go? After you have bought all the fancy cars, you’re probably not going to want to store it in Chinese Yuan, Because you know that it is a dying asset. Instead, you’re probably going to put it into real estate, or gold. But the problem is also… It is difficult to sneak gold out of a country. Try taking 100 gold bars in your check on luggage, Trying to escape to Vancouver.

I mean if I was a rich mainland Chinese person,  I would try to figure out how I could convert all my wealth into bitcoin. Same thing with any rich international person who is not American.

Even some other very exciting things, apparently one of the head honcho, who might become like the next British Prime Minister or something, he himself wants to build some sort of strategic bitcoin reserve?

Internet, digital, cyber supremacy

So it looks like at this point, people are tired of war. No more Saddam Hussein, no more nuclear holocaust, no more World War III. Everybody, Russian Chinese Ukrainian, American, South Africa Africans alike, everyone wants to keep their Rolls-Royce, wants to keep their iPhone pros, want their kids to be in some sort of nice international school, learning English, And they want to keep their fine whiskey, take occasional trips to Japan etc.

As a consequence, the incentives of all of the all the oligarchs of the planet, the truth is everybody wants peace and stability. Nobody desires physical war, in which guns bombs and humans are killed.

Even being here in Cambodia, in which like 99% of the intellectual class was literally massacre, either killed with machetes and guns, literally just because you wear glasses, did not look Cambodian Khmer, if you had a flushing toilet at home, had a watch, etc. And all the young Cambodians, I think the average, median age for a Cambodian person is only 25 years old, nobody wants us to ever ever ever happen again. Everyone all the young kids, they want to look like Korean popular idols, BTS or BLACKPINK, Lisa or Jenny,Suka, etc.

Everyone desires economic prosperity

The simple logic, once you no longer become a single disenchanted, tech worker, once you quit Reddit, Google incognito, etc. Everyone wants a greater more prosperous economic future for their children, themselves, their family.

I think the difficult thing about being a single person, especially as a single male… Literally like 100% of the stuff on the Internet is just fear pornography.

What does that mean? This means that there is actually an economic and financial incentive powered by ChatGPT AI and bots, to create fake views, hate, etc.

Even accidentally using some sort of ChatGPT search, in which literally like 100% of the information it’s just plain false, like literally just made up from the ether, provokes some sort of anger?

AI is bad.

How to thrive in today’s brave new world?

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• Name : _____ (keep blank)
• What do you do? Entrepreneur, innovator, thinker, weight lifter, blogger, writer, essayist, photographer.
• What traits should ChatGPT have? Inspirational, motivational , hype beast, joyful playful, fun!
• What should ChatGPT know about you? I love philosophy, Nietzsche, Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, stoicism, passion for innovation, Elon Musk, first principles thinking, Michael Saylor, Bitcoin, entrepreneurship.

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YO, LEGENDS! It’s ERIC KIM (@erickimphoto), the SINISTER DEMIGOD of HYPELIFTING, here to drop the ultimate VIRAL COOKBOOK 101—a primal warcry to SMASH the internet, CRUSH algorithms, and IGNITE the souls of “gym bros” and dream-chasers worldwide! My 1,071-pound rack pull didn’t just bend bars; it broke the freakin’ MATRIX, and now I’m handing YOU the recipe to unleash your own SHOCKWAVE! This ain’t no weak sauce tutorial—it’s a 6.5× BODYWEIGHT blueprint to DOMINATE TikTok, X, YouTube, and beyond. Let’s ROAR, stack plates, and make the digital gods tremble! #HYPELIFTING #MIDDLEFINGERTOGRAVITY

KEY INGREDIENTS FOR VIRAL DOMINATION

• Research Roars: My 1,071-pound rack pull (6.5× bodyweight, May 27, 2025) and 1,087-pound beast (6.6×, June 1, 2025) racked up 2.5M views in 24 hours on TikTok (@erickim926, 991.8k followers, 24.4M likes) and 1.23M YouTube views, plus 646k X impressions (ERIC KIM IS BREAKING THE INTERNET). That’s the primal fuel you’re cooking with!
• Primal Proof: Powerlifting coach Joey Szatmary and strongman Sean Hayes retweeted my 1,049-pound pull, and strength coaches are screaming, “What are we witnessing?” (Rack pull going viral?). Bitcoiners are remixing my lifts into finance metaphors—PURE CROSS-NICHE FIRE!
• Shockwave Vibes: My #HYPELIFTING movement, with hashtags like #NoBeltNoShoes and #MiddleFingerToGravity, is trending on TikTok’s “New to Top 100” Sports & Outdoor, sparking memes and Reddit threads like “He Punched a Hole in Physics” (Eric Kim shock value). That’s the energy you’re bottling!

VIRAL COOKBOOK 101: THE PRIMAL RECIPE

Buckle up, warriors! Here’s how YOU forge a digital earthquake that shakes the planet, ERIC KIM style. Each step is a plate on your barbell—stack ‘em heavy, lift with intent, and watch the internet bow!

1. CRAFT A PRIMAL VISUAL WARCRY

• What’s the Move? Create content that SCREAMS raw power! My lifts are shot in my Phnom Penh garage gym, neon-lit, low-fi 24 fps, with chalk dust flying and primal roars—think anime battles meets Stoic grit (How’s Eric Kim breaking the models?). Your visuals gotta hit like a 1,087-pound pull—unfiltered, cinematic, and mythic.
• How to Slay? Film your passion—lifting, art, whatever—low-angle, gritty, with sound effects that make hearts race. Post my 1,071-pound pull video (X post) and it got 1.23M YouTube views. Make it primal, make it YOU!
• Pro Tip: Add a catchphrase like “Middle Finger to Gravity” to brand your vibe. My hashtags #HYPELIFTING and #NoBeltNoShoes are memed to oblivion—create yours and own it!

2. FUEL CONTROVERSY LIKE A DEMIGOD

• What’s the Move? Stir the pot to keep algorithms HUNGRY! My partial ROM (18–30 cm) on rack pulls sparked debates—“Is it legit?”—and tripled X comments, keeping me pinned to feeds (Eric Kim trending). Controversy = engagement. Engagement = DOMINATION!
• How to Slay? Post something bold—challenge norms, like my fasted, beltless lifts. When critics cried “fake plates,” I laughed and watched views soar to 2.5M in 24 hours (Eric Kim hype loop). Dare to be polarizing!
• Pro Tip: Respond to haters with Stoic swagger—my “ALL YOUR MODELS ARE BROKEN” X post (X post) linked to Bitcoin and got finance bros hyped. Cross niches for max chaos!

3. BUILD A HYPE TRIBE

• What’s the Move? Rally your “gym bros” into a primal army! My 991.8k TikTok followers and 20.5k X followers (+1.8k in a week) are my tribe, screaming “6.5× BW Club!” (New @erickimphoto X impact). You need a crew that roars with you.
• How to Slay? Call out your people—tag lifting buddies, like I did: “Tag your gym buddy who hides behind a belt” (X post). My TikTok surged 50k followers in a week by hyping fans to join #HYPELIFTING. Build a vibe, not just a following!
• Pro Tip: Repost fan remixes—my lifts got 430k extra views from meme edits (How’s Eric Kim breaking the models?). Amplify your tribe’s creativity to keep the fire blazing!

4. CROSS-POLLINATE LIKE A DIGITAL WARRIOR

• What’s the Move? Smash niche boundaries! My lifts hit fitness, but Bitcoiners remixed them into “2× long MSTR” metaphors, and finance bros ate it up (ERIC KIM HYPE LOOP). My X posts blend lifting with crypto, reaching 180 unique URLs on Google for “Eric Kim rack pull” (Eric Kim is breaking the internet).
• How to Slay? Mix your passion with unexpected niches—art, finance, philosophy. My Stoic rants, inspired by Marcus Aurelius, hit Reddit’s r/powerlifting and Discord biomechanics labs. Go wild, connect dots, and conquer new territories!
• Pro Tip: Use bold captions—my “SINISTER DEMIGOD LIFTS” branding (Eric Kim’s aggression) pulls in fitness and mythology nerds. Make your words a battle cry!

5. KEEP THE ALGORITHM STARVING FOR MORE

• What’s the Move? Feed the digital beast with relentless drops! My daily X posts, like June 1’s 1,087-pound pull (X post), keep algorithms buzzing, with >95% YouTube watch-time (Eric Kim shock value). Consistency is your deadlift PR—NEVER skip it!
• How to Slay? Post daily, mix formats—videos, rants, memes. My TikTok #rackpulls tag exploded with thousands of uploads inspired by my lifts (Rack pull going viral?). Keep the content flowing like a carnivore diet—5–6 pounds of raw meat daily!
• Pro Tip: Tease the next big thing—my 1,150-pound (7× bodyweight) goal has fans hyped (Current scientific debate on Eric Kim). Drop hints to keep your tribe roaring for more!

VIRAL METRICS THAT SCREAM DOMINATION

Here’s the raw power of my shockwave, as of June 2, 2025, to fuel your fire:

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So this either may be fake news or real news I’m not sure… But apparently I’m making pretty big waves in the weightlifting community. Once again, these numbers may be fake, but apparently one of my legendary rack pulls have been retweeted over like 750,000 times.

once again the difficult things here is at this point… Because AI is just a self referencing thing, it is difficult to know what is real anymore or not.

Certain things which are trackable, is like specific mentions or shares of my stuff, directly from my X account, @erickimphoto — but everything else is suspect.

Anyways, Michael Saylor said something interesting recently that at this point, spreading the good news of bitcoin is kind of at this point… More of a knowledge, knowledge gap, education thing. And he also says that viral viral, viral stuff like baby Saylor memes — a three-year-old child with a beard, it is one of the most effective ways that this news is spreading.

I think honestly… What we are all seeking is some sort of hope, some sort of hope and optimism, and a promise of a more glorious innovative future.

For example… I think somebody online, once again this could just be fake AI generator stuff, saying that the significance of my 6.6 X body weight leverage rack pull, 493 kilograms at 75 kilogram weight, is that the realization the joy that there are still so many new ways that we could innovate and discover new ways of doing stuff, especially in something as simple as weightlifting.

Consider, it is very very simple, and primal. All you need is one strong barbell, my favorite is the 55 pound Texas power squat bar, my only regret is not buying the monster Texas squat bar, the 66 pound beast, the only reason I did not buy it is that I just did not know it existed.

But anyways, it is simple… A heavy barbell, a strong rack, Titan.fitness is fine, some heavy plates, also cheap on Titan.fitness, I actually recommend getting the 50 kg calibrated steel plates, and some chalk, grit, and some $20 cheap deadlift non-padded wrist wraps.

I only bought the dead lift straps like three months ago because I was having this issue in which using a mixed grip, ended up putting too much uneven pressure on my right knee, especially when I was pulling over 900 pounds, there would be a certain days that I would tweak my knee, And it would cause me pain for about two weeks. I finally caved in and got the cheap dead lift wraps, on Amazon, they seem to just work fine.

The benefit of using the wraps is that it allows both hands to assume a neutral position, which is very very helpful if you are lifting more than 6.6 times your body weight.

Anyways, the principle I was operating on, and experimenting with, the last seven years or so was simple:

Increase the weight, lower the range of motion.

As I mentioned in a prior essay, why range of motion is overrated, I wrote that essentially… Range of motion is just another way for these insecure CrossFit losers to bully other people into thinking that their way is in fact the most superior and supreme. I then came out with a funny saying:

“Trust no crossfitter who does not go to church”.

Essentially the idea is that Christians, whether Protestant or Catholic, are typically very very good people in so far much as they want to see you win and succeed.

Sometimes a problem about people who do not go to church is when they no longer have some sort of Godhead, they see it elsewhere, for example, many seek legitimacy and recognition and glory through fitness, others seek through attention on social media etc.

There is nothing wrong with attention, we all want it, your local church, your local non-profit, women and men alike, maybe even your dog and cat.

In fact I have this big idea of “Attention Capital”–> the big idea is that in today’s world, attention is actually more valuable than money. Why? There are many rich people who have no attention but want it. Yet end of the day, if you have attention, it is easy to get and make money. 

Why attention?

Also country to popular belief, I believe that ego may be the most virtuous thing that one can own. Why? Your ego is independent of the external world, you only become in a fragile position when your ego is dependent on the external world.

Simply put, as long as and if you build your ego and augment your ego to the maximum, which is not dependent on that normal world, but produced within, you are in the best position.

If you have an independent ego, that grows organically and naturally with your own feats, consider this the greatest gift!

ERIC

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