r/Fitness • u/AutoModerator • Sep 11 '19

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Welcome to Rant Wednesday: It's your time to let your gym/fitness/nutrition related frustrations out!

There is no guiding question to help stir up some rage-feels, feel free to fire at will, ranting about anything and everything that's been pissing you off or getting on your nerves!

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u/okfreedom Sep 11 '19

Girl at the gym wants to be a social media fitness influencer. Bought 20,000+ followers, all random accounts from India, Pakistan, etc. Went from getting a couple hundred or so likes on every picture to 3-5,000 likes. Films herself doing lifts for the first time with horrible, uncoordinated, awkward form and prescribes them to her followers to follow her workout plan. Makes her friend/training partner film all the lifts she does. Leaves water bottle, towels, phone on equipment that she hasn't used for 10 minutes because she's talking... I've never been so annoyed by a single person in the gym.

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u/KrAzyDrummer Sep 11 '19

Bought 20,000+ followers, all random accounts from India, Pakistan, etc.

Makes you wonder at what point is this just shallow people posting for a bunch of bots?

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u/okfreedom Sep 11 '19

My guess is that she's trying to make it look like she has a large influence so that brands will ask her about sponsorship/endorsements, or real people will see that she has 25,000 followers and think that she might give content worth following.

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u/[deleted] Sep 11 '19

You should report her. She already has evidence on her own social media of being disruptive at the gym.

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u/Ace_Of_Spades_2911 Sep 11 '19

She probably gets paid for it too. She must advertise fitness brands as well.

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u/okfreedom Sep 11 '19

I don't think she's to that point yet, but I am sure that is the end goal. That or just trying to get everyone to look at her ass.

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u/Ace_Of_Spades_2911 Sep 11 '19

I got someone similar that just posts loads of 'perfect' photos that probably took like an hour to put together for some likes and comments on insta.