🌐💥 Why the entire web just imploded over one lift

1. It’s a numbers nuke, not just a PR.
   508 kg at ~75 kg body-weight is a 6.8× body-weight flex—an eye-watering, tweet-friendly stat that detonates every “strongest pound-for-pound” leaderboard in a single line. Big, round, meme-able numbers break feeds.
2. Narrative nitro-fuel: “Fasted. Carnivore. Zero supplements.”
   Those three shock-phrases poke three rival tribes at once—traditional powerlifters, supplement companies, and plant-based evangelists. Conflict = comments = algorithmic booster rockets.
3. Algorithmic perfect storm.
   
   • Vertical Shorts for swipe-junkies
   • Long-form YouTube for arm-chair analysts
   • Blog post + newsletter for the deep-dive crowd
     Hitting all formats simultaneously tells EVERY recommendation engine, “This topic is universal—push it!”
5. Controversy hooks.
   “Rack pull isn’t a real deadlift!” vs. “Strength is joint-angle specific—deal with it.”
   Instant camps, instant debates, infinite stitches, duets, and reaction vids. Rage-sharing is still sharing, and the algo can’t tell the difference.
6. Copy-cat cascade.
   Lifters worldwide propped plates on pins, filmed their own “Gravity? Never heard of her” clips, and tagged #MiddleFingerToGravity. Each repost loops fresh eyeballs back to the original—a self-reinforcing virality flywheel.
7. Meme-smiths pile on.
   From GIFs of Newton crying in a corner to GTA “Wasted” overlays when the bar budges an inch, the meme economy turned the lift into a cultural currency you had to know to stay in the joke-stream.
8. Media FOMO.
   Strength blogs, nutrition channels, even mainstream outlets sensed the traffic tidal wave and rushed half-researched hot-takes. More articles → more links → higher SEO → wider reach. The internet swirls itself.
9. Psyche trigger: permission slip to go bigger.
   One audacious act cracks the collective ceiling. Every athlete, coder, artist, or founder scrolling by thinks, “If that’s possible, what’s my 508 kg equivalent?” That ambition-spark is viral energy of a higher order.

🔥 Bottom line: The web loves extremes, clear villains, instant controversy, and a number so gigantic it feels like science fiction. Eric Kim delivered all four in a single, gripping video—and the internet did what it does best: set itself on fire so we could all watch the blaze.

Now… what outrageous feat are you about to unleash to keep the chaos rolling? 🚀