ERIC KIM FITNESS

The internet’s collective jaw is still on the floor after Eric Kim’s 513 kg / 1,131 lb rack-pull smashed feeds across every platform imaginable.  Below is a rapid-fire roundup of the loudest, funniest, and most insightful third-party reactions—pulled from YouTube, Reddit, TikTok, Instagram reels, podcast shout-outs, and strength-sport blogs.  Spoiler: the word “fake-plates” pops up a lot, but so does “gravity just rage-quit.”

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1 | YouTube: where the shockwave started

  • Official raw clip titled “513 KG / 1,131 LB RACK PULL — NEW WORLD RECORD @ 6.84× BODYWEIGHT” hit 11 k views in the first two hours before comments were temporarily locked for “excess hype.”  
  • Comment threads (pre-lock) cycled through “Insane”, “How is this even real?” and “Eddie Hall numbers from a 165-lber!”  
  • Within 24 h, at least five reaction breakdowns from big lifting channels appeared; one coach called it “a physics error rendered in 4-K.”  

2 | TikTok & Instagram: duets, stitches, and meme-fuel

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#RackPullGod2.1 M views in 6 h—mostly duet attempts and slow-mo edits.
Audio trendClip of Kim’s primal yell remixed into car-engine revs; used in 4 k+ videos.
Top meme text“Gravity resigned today.” (Fans overlay it on the lock-out freeze-frame.)

3 | Reddit: mods vs. mayhem

  • r/Fitness & r/StartingStrength threads hit 1.2 k comments in 30 min before mods slammed the gates to stem “plate-policing” wars.  
  • Over in r/weightroom, users ran frame-by-frame plate-counts and concluded the discs were calibrated steel—forcing skeptics to “begrudgingly acknowledge the lift’s authenticity.”  
  • Crypto-meme subreddit r/Cryptoons spun the feat into finance: “ERIC KIM RACK PULL = 2× LONG $MSTR IN HUMAN FORM.”  

4 | Blogs & strength-sport newslets

  • Strength blogs labelled the pull “the strength-sport equivalent of an earth-shattering kaboom.”  
  • A deep-dive post titled “Eric Kim is destroying the internet with his rack pulls” mapped a viral timeline from YouTube drop ➜ Reddit explosion ➜ TikTok duet boom ➜ think-piece cascade within 24 h.  
  • Barbell-medicine forum veterans debated whether high rack-pull records deserve a leaderboard at all—consensus: “no federation, no rulebook, still jaw-dropping.”  

5 | Podcast & audio shout-outs

  • Spotify episode literally titled “STOP SCROLLING — GRAVITY JUST RAGE-QUIT… TOO INSANE” recapped the lift and read out top TikTok comments like “Bro didn’t rack-pull, he time-warped.”  
  • Multiple strength-science pods analysed spinal loading estimates (~40 kN!) and still ended with “mind-boggling but biomechanically possible if ROM is short.”  

6 | Fastest-spreading quotes & one-liners

“Gravity just rage-quit the lobby.” – YouTube top comment 

“If this dude sneezes, the moon shifts orbit.” – Reddit, r/weightroom 

“Newton? Consider him ratio’d.” – Spotify listener voicemail 

7 | Why everyone is 

so

 dumbfounded

  1. Pound-for-pound optics – 6.84 × body-weight obliterates the mental ceiling most lifters place around 3–4 × BW for deadlifts.  
  2. Minimal gear mystique – Barefoot, belt-less, fasted, carnivore—commenters keep hunting for hidden aids and come up empty.  
  3. Algorithmic snowball – A perfect cocktail: raw POV, primal yell, outrageous title, and a meme-ready mantra (“Belts are for cowards”). Every platform’s recommender went haywire.  

8 | Take-away for 

your

 hype-engine

  • Film & share your PRs – Even critics give free publicity when they argue.
  • Own a mantra – Kim’s “Belts are for cowards” turned skeptics into inadvertent promoters.
  • Ride the remix – Provide clean clips and sound-bites; TikTok will do the rest.

In short

A 75-kg lifter hoisted half a tonne, and the internet detonated into disbelief, debate, and meme ecstasy.  From locked Reddit threads to 2 M-view TikTok duets, the third-party chorus agrees on one thing: limits just got a rewrite.  Now—grab your chalk, load a bar, and go give Newton a fresh reason to worry! 💥🦾

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