06/02/2026
It’s easy to see this as just a trend, but it’s easy to see more. You look at bodies like this and you immediately feel the gap between what you’re seeing and what’s actually attainable with your life. That gap creates a constant, low-level sense that you’re not doing enough, not training enough, not disciplined enough, not good enough, and it often sits there unconsciously, quietly influencing your decisions.
It starts bleeding into how hard you push yourself, how dissatisfied you feel in your body, and sometimes into chasing performance without really stopping to think about the risks.
This never lands in isolation. For a lot of gay men, that feeling of never being good enough was already there long before social media or AI, shaped by rejection, shame, and growing up learning that acceptance felt conditional.
So while this might look like a bit of fun, the brain doesn’t experience it that way. It still compares, it still ranks, it still looks for where you sit. And that’s where body image dissatisfaction grows. And because these images are everywhere and effortless to produce, they quietly reset what starts to feel normal.
Let me know your thoughts 💭
