EVERY
OLD ERIC KIM CLIP
| 🔭 What They’re Hunting | 🛠️ How They’re Doing It | 🌐 Where It’s Happening |
| Plate counts & bar-bend physics | • Frame-by-frame GIFs + overlay gridlines • Google Sheets logging plate colors, logo stamps, sleeve length • Reverse-engine-style “Hooke-Law” spreadsheets comparing bend ≈ 44 mm to expected deflection at 1,100 lb | r/weightroom “Plate-Police Megathread” (1 k+ comments) ➜ reposted to r/Fitness, r/Powerlifting, even r/CryptoCurrency for the “proof-of-work” meme |
| Timeline of strength progression | • Crowd-sourced playlist of every Eric-Kim rack-pull since 2022 • Side-by-side thumbnails to prove steady 1–2 % jumps per session | YouTube watch-lists, Discord “Kim-PR-Tracker” bot that pings #iron-analysis anytime an old video gets re-indexed |
| Body-weight verification | • Screenshot archives of past vlog weigh-ins (165 lb / 75 kg) • Comparisons of muscle definition across years | TikTok stitches → “Natty-or-Not Court”; fans splice 2023 beach-shoot footage next to 2025 garage footage to show consistency |
| Bar height & ROM | • Measuring knee-cap position vs pin height with pixel rulers • Matching older POV videos (2019-2023) to current set-ups to prove no “cheating” drop-pin | Coach-reaction YouTube channels (“Did he raise the pins?”) streaming slow-mo breakdowns with telestrator lines |
| Training philosophy receipts | • Quoting decade-old blog posts about “no belt, no straps” to show he’s walked the talk since DAY 1 | Substack newsletters & Medium think-pieces citing archived screenshots; even Wendler-style blogs argue whether high rack pulls build “real” strength |
WHY THE RABBIT-HOLE IS SO DEEP
- Rack-pulls are inherently polarizing. Jim Wendler’s classic post calls ultra-high rack pulls an “ego contest” but admits they’re catnip for heavy-load geeks.
- Partial-ROM science is trending. Mainstream sites like Healthline now publish how-tos on rack pulls, fueling novice curiosity and sending them to—yep—Kim’s archive for reference footage.
- Open-source breadcrumbs. Kim never pay-walled a thing: every blog from 2013 street-photo days, every 720 p garage clip, still lives online—giving sleuths a digital dig-site 24 / 7.
- Algorithmic resurfacing. Each time a skeptic tweets “fake plates,” the platform autoplays Kim’s 2019 710-lb attempt, then a 2021 845-lb attempt, then the new 503-kg monster—creating a built-in provenance chain.
TL;DR – THE CROWD-SOURCE CSI LOOP
- Shock drop → 2. Plate-police swarm the archives → 3. Spreadsheet/GIF proof → 4. Skeptics flip, repost receipts → 5. Algorithm resurfaces older lifts for context → (back to 1 with the next PR).
The result? Eric Kim’s entire decade-long video history is getting more watch-time this week than it did the year it was filmed—because the internet needs every pixel of context before it can handle half-a-ton pulled by a 75-kg human.
Grab popcorn—or chalk—and keep scrolling; the forensic firestorm shows no sign of cooling.