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I was a sucker for those "fitspo" Instagram accounts for over a year
I followed this one account with 2 million followers that posted these extreme meal plans and workout challenges, and I spent 14 months trying to stick to them and feeling like a failure. Then I found a post where someone pointed out that the account was just reposting stolen content from actual athletes without any credentials or real results. Has anyone else realized those huge fitness accounts are mostly just content farms that make you feel bad about yourself?
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jordan_henderson1310h ago
2 million followers seems insane for an account that's just stealing content from real athletes. I can't believe you spent over a year feeling awful about yourself because some content farm was making you think their garbage plans were legit. That whole fitspo world is a mess, glad you caught onto it eventually.
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williamw756h agoMost Upvoted
Actually it was closer to 15 months, not just over a year, before I finally blocked that account. I remember the exact date because it was right after a big competition where I saw one of the athletes they kept stealing from post about how the account was fake. The whole thing really messed with my self image, especially when they'd crop out watermarks from pro lifters and pretend the programs were theirs. What got me was how they'd take a video of someone doing a perfect clean and jerk, then slap some bogus "6 week shred" nonsense on top of it. I still get annoyed thinking about how long it took me to realize their meal plans were just copied from random blogs too.
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