This was a wide-ranging conversation. We talked about mIRC WWE roleplays, the impossibility of creating a genealogy of bodybuilding forums, how trolling evolved from Usenet to Twitter, the implicit similarities between Aimee Terese and Zyzz, why the digital invites body modification, male-to-male transsexuals, and the lasting impact of what the New York Times’ once dubbed “the male fitness internet.” Read Oliver’s EXCELLENT reporting here: The Unheard History of Bodybuilding Forums Steroid Solidarity Muscle, Smoke, Mirrors The Life of a Jacked Guy in 2019 How Selfies and Social Media Shaped Modern Bodybuilding What Could Have Triggered Elliot Rodger? Books referenced: Muscle, Smoke, and Mirrors by Randy Roach Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder by Sam Fussell Theme: I Should Have Walked Away by KAAZE
This was a wide-ranging conversation.
We talked about mIRC WWE roleplays, the impossibility of creating a genealogy of bodybuilding forums, how trolling evolved from Usenet to Twitter, the implicit similarities between Aimee Terese and Zyzz, why the digital invites body modification, male-to-male transsexuals, and the lasting impact of what the New York Times’ once dubbed “the male fitness internet.”
Read Oliver’s EXCELLENT reporting here:
The Unheard History of Bodybuilding Forums
The Life of a Jacked Guy in 2019
How Selfies and Social Media Shaped Modern Bodybuilding
What Could Have Triggered Elliot Rodger?
Books referenced:
Muscle, Smoke, and Mirrors by Randy Roach
Muscle: Confessions of an Unlikely Bodybuilder by Sam Fussell
Theme: I Should Have Walked Away by KAAZE