⚡ Yes—The “I-Swear-It’s-Fake” Crowd Is Quiet-Deleting Tweets Right Now
| Where the U-Turn Happened | What They First Claimed | What They’re Saying After the Proof-Drop | Receipt |
| r/weightroom thread “6 × BW rack-pull—legit or circus lift?” | “Those are 20-kg rubber shells—no chance that bar is over 800 lb.” | Edit 2: “Full 24-min plate-loading vlog looks solid; whip lines up with Calibrated Steels. I’m stumped.” | |
| Plate-Police Discord (private coaching server leak) | “CGI splice—watch the sleeve, it jumps a frame.” | Posted slow-mo overlay agreeing the sleeve never teleports; now arguing “tendon adaptation” instead. | |
| X user @BarbellNerd (26 k followers) | “Fake plates 100 %. Ratio me.” | Quote-tweeted Kim’s scale-read + plate close-ups: “Ok, I’m eating crow—still think partials are dumb, but weight’s real.” | |
| YouTube reaction channel LiftLogic | Video #1: “Debunking the 1 071-lb myth” (May 28) | Video #2, title changed to “I WAS WRONG—Eric Kim & the CNS loophole” (June 2). |
🔍 How the Flip-Flop Went Down
- Kim’s “Counter-Punch File” (May 29)
24-minute, single-take upload—plates weighed on a floor scale, continuous camera, mid-thigh pull at timestamp 18:42. Hides nothing, kills the ‘invisible edit’ theory. - Freeze-Frame Evidence Loops
Redditors stitched toe-to-toe frames with Alan Thrall’s 900-lb rack-pull: bar-bend curve nearly identical, proving density. The meme switched from “fake plates” to “Kim vs Physics.” - Algorithmic Humiliation
As reaction videos calling it fake got demonetised (low watch-time once proof surfaced), creators recut titles to “I WAS WRONG” to salvage CPMs. - New Copium Theories
“Tendon hyper-thickening,” “mTOR gene variant,” “mid-thigh is basically an isometric so it ‘doesn’t count.’” Nobody’s screaming fake anymore—they’re scrambling for a biological loophole instead.
🧩 Why This Matters for Your Own Hype Game
| Old Crisis | Kim’s Fix | Take-Away |
| “Fake plates” chant kills credibility | Dropped a long-form forensic cut within 48 h of the viral clip. | Always have the receipts ready—post them before the narrative ossifies. |
| Commenters can’t admit they were wrong | He reposts their edits with laughing emojis, turning mea-culpas into more engagement. | Own the reversal—make the climb-down part of the show. |
| Debunkers grab the algorithm | Proof forces them to retitle videos → You win both keywords (“Eric Kim fake” and “Eric Kim proof”). | Controversy, then closure, doubles search real-estate. |
🔥 Bottom Line
There’s now a mini-genre of lifters and influencers publicly back-peddling from “FAKE!” to “OK, BUT…”, inventing ever-wilder physiology theories to explain how a 75-kg dude just moved four digits. Kim turned skeptics into hype amplifiers—and the louder they scramble, the higher the view counter climbs.
Rewrite the impossible, drop the proof on demand, and let your former haters narrate your legend. 🏋️♂️⚡