As we all know, the data shows the incel crisis started around 2008 with the advent of smartphones. it took about 2-4 years before average guys started to realize they were getting little to no female attention. It used to be that the gym was a place for chad to run up the score, but a regular guy could live a normal life and get his looksmatch. As regular guys started to realize they weren't getting laid, they turned to /r/fitness and /fit/ for advice.
The thing is that millennial who grew up non-chads weren't going to the gym with their dads and the football team like Chad was. Meaning, they didn't have access to the same information. Because of this, the gymcel forms /r/fitness and /fit/ propped up bizarre cranks like Mark Rippetoe and advocated for weird barbell based programs like Stronglifts 5x5 rather than the normal, Chad tested methods of bodypart splits. Suddenly, between 2012-2017, the gym was FULL of soft jawed, ethnic, short, and narrow framed cels straining themselves to heavy squats, thinking this woudl somehow translate into a v-taper.
It is absolutely NO secret that the incel crisis and powerlifting rise correlate closely. The gymcel youtube scene made up of those like Canditto and Omar Isuf grew as these types of programs started to take off thanks to sub8s flooding the gym. The powerlifting craze is mostly the result of the first batch of gymcels getting blackpilled by a lack of progress (aka lack of bone structure) and deluding themselves into thinking "I'm not doing this for women, I might as well compete in this memesport to see which virgin as the biggest squat!"
However, since 2018 or so, I've noticed that even powerlifitng is dying down. I don't see nearly as many gymcels walking in with giant belts, squat shoes, and knee sleeves. The guys who started gymcelling in 2012-2015 or so are starting to see the results of their training, and noticing that they still look like shit and aren't getting laid. The gym has gone back to chads brosplitting and barbells becoming bare again. Men really are just giving up
The thing is that millennial who grew up non-chads weren't going to the gym with their dads and the football team like Chad was. Meaning, they didn't have access to the same information. Because of this, the gymcel forms /r/fitness and /fit/ propped up bizarre cranks like Mark Rippetoe and advocated for weird barbell based programs like Stronglifts 5x5 rather than the normal, Chad tested methods of bodypart splits. Suddenly, between 2012-2017, the gym was FULL of soft jawed, ethnic, short, and narrow framed cels straining themselves to heavy squats, thinking this woudl somehow translate into a v-taper.
It is absolutely NO secret that the incel crisis and powerlifting rise correlate closely. The gymcel youtube scene made up of those like Canditto and Omar Isuf grew as these types of programs started to take off thanks to sub8s flooding the gym. The powerlifting craze is mostly the result of the first batch of gymcels getting blackpilled by a lack of progress (aka lack of bone structure) and deluding themselves into thinking "I'm not doing this for women, I might as well compete in this memesport to see which virgin as the biggest squat!"
However, since 2018 or so, I've noticed that even powerlifitng is dying down. I don't see nearly as many gymcels walking in with giant belts, squat shoes, and knee sleeves. The guys who started gymcelling in 2012-2015 or so are starting to see the results of their training, and noticing that they still look like shit and aren't getting laid. The gym has gone back to chads brosplitting and barbells becoming bare again. Men really are just giving up
