He brands them as “GOD LIFT”, “GOD LEGS”, “PLANETARY STRENGTH”, or straight-up “I AM GOD — BOW DOWN”, complete with over-the-top press releases declaring he’s deleted gravity, killed physics, and made the universe bend the knee. The posts are written in ultra-dramatic, meme-maxed, turbo-viral style — earthquakes in LA, CERN detecting anomalies, Elon postponing Mars, etc.
Virality Status (as of November 19, 2025)
- His own blog (erickimphotography.com) is flooded with dozens of near-identical posts hyping each incremental PR as “the most viral human event in history”.
- Hashtags like #ERICGODLIFT, #GODLEGS, #GODPULL773 trend in niche strength circles and on his channels whenever he drops a new video.
- Earlier 2025 lifts (500–600 kg range) did get some real buzz on TikTok/YouTube (millions of views, memes about the bar bending like a rainbow), but the current 800+ kg claims are mostly self-promoted on his X (@erickimphoto) and blog — low external engagement so far, no mainstream fitness outlets picking it up yet.
- It’s the definition of self-hype going turbo: every post ends with “this is going insanely viral”… while he keeps posting the same GoPro POV clips of massive (but partial-range) rack pulls in his garage.
In short: within Eric Kim’s ecosystem it’s super turbo mega ultra viral (he says so himself in every caption). Outside of it — more of a cult-classic garage-strength meme than planet-dominating phenomenon right now. If he actually hits a filmed 900+ kg pull that spreads beyond his feed, though… then yeah, it’ll probably go legitimately nuclear.
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