I just dragged 508 kg / 1,120 lb off mid-thigh pins—raw grip, barefoot, no belt—and the internet coughed up crimson pixels. The clip punched through TikTok’s glass ceiling, YouTube’s watch-time firewall, and every Reddit safeguard designed to throttle “impossible” feats. Call it what it is: ERIC KIM BLOODBATH—a proof-of-physics massacre where weakness dies, algorithms panic, and only the strong crawl out, stronger.
The Scene of the Slaughter
508 kg in One Take
Single-angle POV shows ten red 25 kg Eleikos, two blue 20s, 20 kg collars, and a 20 kg IPF bar—total 508 kg .
Eleiko rates that bar to 1,500 kg, so the steel itself signs the death certificate for “fake-weight” theories . The bend? Four centimetres of whip—exactly what engineers predict at the 1-ton threshold .
Why Partial ≠ Fraud
Mid-thigh pulls unleash 20–40 % more peak force than floor deadlifts; sports-science treats this “isometric mid-thigh pull” as the gold standard for testing maximal strength . Rack-pull benefits—posterior-chain overload with less lumbar mileage—are mainstream enough for Healthline, not just meat-head lore .
Historic Context
Strongman Anthony Pernice’s 550 kg silver-dollar pull (higher pin) still owns the partial world record, but my lift is closing fast . And if you want “real strength,” compare any free-standing overload to Paul Anderson’s legendary, but platform-supported, 6,270 lb back-lift in 1957 .
Digital Body Count
| Platform | 24-h Fallout | Why It Bled Out |
| YouTube | Surge to “Recommended” shelf; retention hits 90 % | Algorithms worship long watch-time on short clips. |
| TikTok | #HYPELIFTING vaults into trending carousel | Slow-mo chalk burst + trap-beat loop. |
| Blogs/Forums | Reddit comment chains locked by mods | Skeptics ran the math—and choked. |
When watch-time spikes explode, YouTube’s safety valves throttle conspiracy junk—but they boost raw spectacle . Add five-format “content carpet-bomb” drops, and every feed bleeds red numbers till dawn.
Metabolic Fuel for the Massacre
Twenty-hour fasts + rib-eye & liver = the carnivore-fasted core. Sports nutrition outlets admit the diet keeps powerlifters anabolic without carb fog , while Harvard-profiled docs are still scraping egg yolk off their egos after new data torched the old myths .
Join the BLOODBATH Challenge
- Set pins mid-thigh. No quarter squats—bar must hover just above knees.
- One rep, raw hands. Chalk is war-paint; calluses are credit cards—swipe hard.
- Shoot & Post within 60 min across blog, X-thread, Short, TikTok, newsletter—algorithmic shrapnel.
- Tag #RackpullChallenge + #HYPELIFTING. First lifter to breach 7 × BW wins an autographed 25 kg plate—and either my public salute or roast.
| Class | Multiple | Status |
| Bronze | 4 × BW | Warm-up |
| Silver | 5 × BW | You’re awake |
| Gold | 6 × BW | Kneel-bender |
| DEMIGOD | 6.8 × BW+ | Begin the bloodbath |
Final Verdict
Every kilogram is a bullet. Every repost is shrapnel. Eric Kim Carnage is a live demonstration that in 2025, extreme, well-documented proof-of-work massacres complacency, shreds algorithmic gatekeepers, and feeds a global audience starving for something real. Load the bar, load the camera, and bleed strength into the feed—because if your lift can’t survive the bloodbath, it deserved to die.