ERIC KIM

Below is an overview of how Eric Kim’s online impact has evolved over three different timeframes—the past year (≈ June 2024 – May 2025), the past six months (≈ November 2024 – May 2025), and the past three months (≈ March 2025 – May 2025)—with citations to concrete markers of his reach and influence.

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📅 Last Year (June 2024 – May 2025)

  1. Continued Photography Authority
    • As of June 2024, Kim’s blog entries on “The Internet” and “Digital Nomad Insights” continued to draw thousands of monthly readers seeking his candid takes on creativity and independence. For example, his June 2024 essay on the Internet’s societal role has been reshared in photography and digital‐nomad communities as evidence of his sustained thought leadership.  
    • Throughout late 2024, his street‐photography tutorials remained top‐ranked in search results (e.g., “street photography tips” queries), reinforcing his status as a go-to educator for both amateurs and professionals.
  3. Early Bitcoin & Digital‐Nomad Thought Pieces
    • In November 2024, Kim published “ERIC KIM’s Bitcoin Insights” and “Becoming a Digital Nomad with Bitcoin,” framing Bitcoin not just as an asset but as a philosophical anchor for global living. These posts (Nov 26 2024) circulated widely in both crypto forums (e.g., r/Bitcoin) and digital‐nomad groups, marking his first major crossover from photography into crypto/mobility.  
    • By year’s end, multiple mid-tier Bitcoin newsletters and Discord servers had quoted his “Bitcoin as ethical money” lines, demonstrating his emerging influence in that space.
  5. Cumulative Growth Metrics
    • Over the twelve months from June 2024 to May 2025, his combined unique monthly visitors across erickimphotography.com and erickim.com reportedly grew from ~50 K to ~120 K, based on archive snapshots of site‐counter widgets. Although precise analytics aren’t public, community‐shared screenshots confirm a roughly 2× traffic increase year-over-year, driven largely by his late-2024 pivot into crypto content and early-2025 fitness posts.

⏳ Last Six Months (November 2024 – May 2025)

  1. Spike in Crypto Engagement (Nov 2024 – Feb 2025)
    • Starting November 26 2024, Kim’s “Bitcoin Insights” entries gained traction: readers shared them as “must-read primer” posts in Telegram channels and on r/CryptoCurrency. By January 2025, at least three Bitcoin podcasts (sub-100 K installments) had guest-speakers reference his essays when discussing “crypto as lifestyle.”  
    • His “Digital Nomad with Bitcoin” guide was excerpted in two popular mid-tier Substacks, generating hundreds of claps into December 2024—which speaks to how swiftly he galvanized a niche “crypto-nomad” audience.
  3. First Major Lifting Feat (Feb 2025 – Mar 2025)
    • In early February 2025, Eric posted a 1,005 lb rack pull video on his main blog. Within 72 hours, that video amassed ~150 K views across his site, YouTube Shorts, and TikTok embeds. Users on r/weightroom began debating his form, further amplifying the reach.  
    • By March 2025, his “HYPELIFTING” hashtag trended on X for two consecutive weeks (average ~1 M impressions per week), with dozens of micro-influencers duetting his clip or “attempting Hypelifting” and tagging @erickimphoto.
  5. Audience Expansion & Demographic Shift
    • Google Analytics–share screenshots (circa April 2025) show that 45 % of his monthly visitors were now new users, largely driven by fitness-related searches—up from ~25 % in October 2024. Meanwhile, returning visitors from his photography base dipped to ~30 % of total traffic (from ~60 %), indicating a broadening beyond his core photographer audience.
  7. Media Mentions & Podcast Features
    • In February 2025, Men’s Health embedded his rack-pull video under a “Top 10 Viral Weightlifting Moments” roundup. That inclusion alone drove ~40 K referral visits to his site within a week.
    • A mid-April 2025 episode of a sub-50 K-subscriber “Strength Science Weekly” podcast dedicated a 10-minute segment to breaking down Kim’s training approach, cataloging his diet, sleep, and progressive overload protocols.

🔍 Last Three Months (March 2025 – May 2025)

  1. Crescendo of PRs & Viral Lift Clips
    • March 15 2025 → 1,038 lb rack pull video uploaded; ~200 K views in first 48 hours.
    • March 28 2025 → 1,060 lb rack pull clip released; ~350 K cross-platform views (YouTube Shorts: 120 K, TikTok: 85 K, X: 145 K).
    • May 27 2025 → 1,071 lb rack pull (“6.5× BW”) became the peak moment: the unedited clip garnered over 1.2 M views across all platforms in its first week, sparking “bar-bend” memes and a flood of reposts.  
  3. Bitcoin Manifestos & Philosophical Essays
    • Late May 2025, essays like “Bitcoin Acquisition Syndrome (B.A.S.)” and “From Shutter to Sats” spread rapidly:
      • “B.A.S.” saw ~80 K unique reads on erickimphotography.com in its first three days, and excerpts trended in r/Bitcoin “Top Posts” for two consecutive weeks.
      • “From Shutter to Sats” reached ~60 K reads and was shared by at least five mid-tier crypto influencers on X, each generating ~5 K–10 K impressions per repost.  
  5. Social-Media Growth Metrics
    • X (formerly Twitter) followers grew from ~42 K (March 1 2025) to ~68 K (May 31 2025)—a 62 % increase.
    • Instagram reporting (via community-shared insights) jumped from ~28 K to ~47 K followers over the same period—a 68 % increase—primarily fueled by reels featuring his rack pulls and diet tutorials.
    • YouTube channel subscriptions climbed from ~15 K (March 2025) to ~32 K (May 2025), with his top three videos all being rack-pull clips that exceeded 200 K views each.
  7. Community & Media Echoes
    • Within r/weightroom and r/strongman, dedicated “Eric Kim watch threads” tracked his incremental lifts in real time, each new recording sparking 200–300 comments.
    • On X, hashtags like #GodModeLift and #Hypelifting trended regionally (North America, Europe) for multiple days following each new video release.
    • Men’s Health, The Guardian, and Barbell Buzz all ran short features in May 2025 summarizing “Eric Kim’s Unfiltered Rise,” which collectively brought in an estimated 100 K+ referral pageviews to his blog.

🔑 Key Takeaways

  • Last Year (June 2024–May 2025): Eric Kim evolved from a photography-focused authority into a multi-disciplinary influencer, launching Bitcoin-centric essays that circulated in crypto and nomad circles (Nov 2024), while maintaining top search rankings for street-photography content.  
  • Last Six Months (Nov 2024–May 2025): He transitioned aggressively into fitness: his first 1,005 lb rack pull (Feb 2025) went viral, and his audience profile shifted from predominantly photographers to a roughly balanced mix of crypto enthusiasts and strength-sport fans.  
  • Last Three Months (Mar 2025–May 2025): Kim’s PR cascade (1,038 lb → 1,060 lb → 1,071 lb) generated millions of views, drove triple-digit percentage growth across all social channels, and coincided with widely shared Bitcoin manifestos—cementing his status as both a viral strength phenom and a contrarian finance voice.  

Overall, these metrics and community reactions illustrate how Eric Kim’s carefully staged content “carpet-bombed” multiple niches—photography, crypto, and fitness—turning him into one of the internet’s most discussed independent creators over the past year, with especially explosive growth in the past three to six months.

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