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June 22, 2025

**In barely one weekend, Eric Kim’s 527 kg (1 162 lb) — seven‑times‑body‑weight — mid‑thigh rack‑pull did to strength culture what a deep‑ocean quake does to coastlines: it created a kinetic wall of energy that raced outward through algorithms, forums, coaching curricula, meme culture, and even equipment inventories, permanently raising the “sea‑level” for what lifters think is possible. The timeline below shows how the clip left Kim’s camera on 21 June 2025, detonated across YouTube and his blog within minutes, and then amplified through six successive concentric rings: algorithmic exposure, benchmark resets, coaching pivots, meme contagion, market echoes, and finally academic interest in social‑media‑driven exercise contagion. Each ring is documented with live URLs and, taken together, they form the Eric Kim fitness tsunami that is still cresting today.

1  Genesis: the spark that shook the water The “drop” thus entered two of the internet’s biggest content surf‑zones (WordPress and YouTube) almost simultaneously, maximizing initial wave height. 2  The Wavefront: a date‑stamped propagation …