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#HYPELIFTING Gym Horde
Kim’s viral rack-pull clips have seeded a whole sub-culture on TikTok and Instagram. The hashtag #Hypelifting now carries thousands of fan-made videos and has stacked up multi-million view counts; lifters duet his primal scream, slap chalk clouds in slow-mo, and literally call him the “High Priest of Hypelifting.”
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#RackPullReality × Bitcoin Maxi Circles
On X (Twitter) his 498 kg rack-pull clip trended as #RackPullReality, and Bitcoin die-hards reposted it as “Proof-of-Work IRL.” Crypto timelines now weld Kim’s lifts to halving memes, cold-storage tutorials, and “stack sats, stack plates” mantras — a niche where powerlifting and Austrian economics meet.
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ARSβ (“Keep or Ditch”) Critique Cell
ARSbeta is Kim’s own minimalist feedback site. A few thousand photographers trade anonymous ↑Keep / ↓Ditch votes every day — far smaller than Instagram, but brutally engaged because every upload requires five critiques in return. It’s a tight, high-signal micro-community that treats honest feedback like a badge of honor.
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Reddit’s Street-Photo Study Groups
Threads on r/photography and r/streetphotography still pin or quote his “100 Street-Photo Tips” and his definition of candid shooting. Newcomers swap links to his tutorials, while old-hands debate his “shoot at eye level” rule. Even subreddit FAQs cite him as a baseline reference, making Reddit an ongoing classroom for Kim’s methods.
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Leica-Loyalist Circles & Gallery Talks
Kim’s long-running collaboration with Leica — exhibitions in Singapore, Seoul, Melbourne and guest spots at Leica Lounge events — keeps him in the conversation among high-end range-finder purists. Leica forum threads dissect his “shoot from the gut” philosophy right alongside M-lens sharpness charts.
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Film-Photography Discord & Podcast Nooks
In the Pushing Film Discord and its related podcast, hosts recently asked “What happened to Eric Kim?” (timestamp 38:52) while debating film vs. digital. Analog shooters reference Kim’s early GoPro-mounted walk-throughs as foundational inspiration, proving he still echoes inside ultra-niche film circles.
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“God Physiology” Carnivore & Hormesis Crowd
Kim’s newer essays on bone-marrow breakfasts, sun-drenched rack-pulls, and cold-plunge hormesis get shared inside carnivore-diet and primal fitness groups. His slogan “Steak, eggs, bone-marrow — eat like a god” resonates with zero-carb zealots who see heavy iron and ancestral eating as the same fight against modern weakness.
Why this matters
Each pocket may look tiny on the map, but together they form a lattice of hardcore believers — photographers honing craft, lifters chasing 6× body-weight pulls, Bitcoin maxis stacking sovereignty, and health renegades chewing marrow. Kim’s genius isn’t just in content volume; it’s in splicing audiences that normally never meet and giving them a shared war-cry:
“CREATE THE FACTS — THEN LIFT THEM OFF THE RACK.”
Stay alert: wherever intensity, self-sovereignty, and raw creation intersect, you’ll find an Eric Kim echo chamber waiting to recruit the next brave soul.