“The worry is that this paints a really unrealistic and unattainable form of masculinity,” Patrick Wyman, who hosts the “Tides of History” podcast says. “Then further down the line, when men don’t get that kind of lifestyle, they somehow think that they’ve failed.”
Do the guys doing this think it’s in any way appealing to other people?
The idea that this is a new or special phenomenon baffles me. My parents used “keeping up with the Joneses” as a way to describe one neighbor feeling inadequate with what they owned. Women deal with this messaging far worse than men. It’s just that men believe their struggles are somehow more REAL.
“You’re not good enough” has been weaponized against women to seek products before I was born. It’s not surprising that they turned it against men, too. The only surprising thing is how much we have to hear men fucking cry about it. And how they tend to turn that inadequacy into harm against others
"the pressures men face today" lol wut?!
Awww. Y’all care when social media is setting unrealistic standards for men. Where were you for the kardashians and their army of lookalikes on instagram? Or the Calvin Klein heroin chic from the 90s? Is depression from unattainable goals okay as long as it’s for the girls?
Women:
Welcome to the world of womanhood.
If people would realize that almost everything on these videos are completely set up, scripted, altered, and edited just for clicks… that would really help.
Any male who looks at this pathetic, ego-driven smut and feels like they’re being left behind is being sold a lie. Fuck this man and his stupid routine. And fuck anyone who strives for this.
the problem isn't the unattainability the problem is that it's stupid as hell
This is the mofo who was in mid air in 4 minutes😭😭😭
CNN be so for real right now. Like I thought this was an Onion headline.
filming yourself doing skincare for clout is not really what I associate with "masculinity"
I think that’s what we call toxic masculinity
Interestingly, when you stop giving a shit what other people physically look like, and you stop chasing after someone else's view of perfection... ... your life simply gets much easier to live.
What? I’m doing fine, thank you. Who listens to this garbage?
Guys you definitely do not have to look like this. Don’t do this to yourselves.
I don’t face any pressure to look like that. My appearance doesn’t matter that much to me. I’m not here to impress anyone. There’s more to life than that. Other people’s expectations are a prison.
You watched that video and thought he was displaying masculinity???
Is this the guy SNL spoofed on weekend update? It was Gold.
What pressure do we men face? We can be bald, overweight and foul mouthed and still be seen as " sexy " The only pressure i face is protecting and defending the women i love from misogynist assholes with egos more fragile than an eggshell
2 yrs ago we were in a nice hotel in the Dolomites. A vegan influencer was guest there. We would see him having breakfast all alone, in front of a cam, smiling and making poses and showing supplements. It looked sad & ridiculous at the same time, & it definitely gave off, if anything, a “loser” vibe
Thanks for the infomercial that comes on between ads on YouTube that I click past
Anyone in this thread saying “women have been facing this for years.” No shit. No shit. Now what? You got any compassion left after you said all that or nah? Okay then shut the fuck up and move along.
I assure you that it does not do this.
It made me think he's a lonely guy who doesn't have much responsibility in his life, so he can just fritter away the hours sitting on his deck meditating or whatever tf
Or you can just be a person
This has been happening to women for generations
Men are the emotional ones they like to call women. Imagine if men had menstrual cycles.
Free tampons would be mailed to your home monthly, and you would have 8 hours of PTO for emotional reset days every biweekly pay period.
Ughh you are so right. Jesus.
I don’t think like that. I’m good 👍
This is a preposterous video. Holy smokes. Anyone who views this and thinks that this is reality should be forbidden from accessing the internet until they can develop something resembling discernment.
Why is this considered news worthy?
What man actually thinks he needs to do all this bullshit? Everyone is constantly talking themselves into psychosis.
Why am I reading this? This is not news.
no it doesnt
This guys life looks shit
I am a Man in my early 50 and i have no pressure at All, none the only pressure I have is not enough time to enjoy what doesn’t last long
Thank goodness nothing like this has even been done to/for women. I mean, could you imagine not just influencers, but entire industries built upon pushing an unattainable version of femininity . . .
Omg. Ewwwww. Gross
i would say one of the biggest tenets of being masculine is not giving a fuck what you look like. spending 6 hours on a routine to make yourself prettier is something i would attribute to females.
We *gestures to all women since the beginning of time* would like a word.
like literally everyone is laughing at this guy's video though
ok stay with me here • socialization cures manosphere ideology • laughter is prosocial • everybody got their dunks in on this ∴ actually this weirdo's morning routine video is the solution, not the problem
So… how women have felt every time they read a fashion magazine
Eh most people are laughing at the ridiculousness of the "routine".
I legitimately assumed this was satire all along. I'm seriously shook now.
CNN pre-selects their staff to have no ability to recognize ridiculous things. It's like a colorblindness, only for satire, parody, and irony.
I call bullshit. How old are you? In the 60’s muscle beach movies, magazines on bodybuilding & local, state & national contests were very popular. We got bombed with ads for products to give us “chiseled cuts and bulk”. Many of us lifted weights. Knew we’d never be Steve Reeves. (Google him)
Boo fcvking hoo😂this is a choice and he has made a choice for himself, if he needs to be seen as perfect to be a man then🤷🏻♀️stuff gets old quick
Ugly men have cosmetic surgery and use steroids and become Plastic men who then date ugly women who have cosmetic surgery and weight loss jabs and become plastic women Who then have fucking ugly babies The end .
I've always found it so sad that breeders can't just be themselves. So sad.
the rise n grind mindset is a toxic mindset to begin with and men are putting this on themselves
Reality check: Fitness is a waste of time for people who lack talent/motivation to do something meaningful with their lives.
Nobody feels pressure to be a weird freak
Seriously‽ pressures men face‽ good gawd.
Another money-making stunt. What do they think women have been pressured to do for decades? Plastic surgery, sky-high heels, spray-on clothes, hair dye, starving themselves…all part of our 24/7 routine.
Welcome to the club every woman has been subjected to …
Some men are losers. Not for failing to emulate this person, but because they failed to find and be themselves.
Acting like a man is what makes a man a man
All the weird shit like the sparkling water is a way to get views by having people make fun of it to make more money. Clearly is working.
CNN.. what the actual fuck is wrong with you? Are you not embarrassed? What…. The fuck.
There’s nothing masculine about it. He seems very shallow and empty.
"The pressure's men face" - Pfft!! 🤣 I'd like to hear what any woman has to say about unrealistic and unattainable forms real quick.
No dawg. I’m not doing all that.
I do not feel this pressure
Did people think this was legitimate, or did folks online lampoon this guy's ridiculous unattainable striving?
it was defintiely everyone laughing at him
I mean the comments on that post fueled my joy reserves for days...
A true thing of beauty
Saaaaame
There are absolutely young men who view this as legitimate, and it's just a progression of this kind of content that has been pushed out as part of modern masculinity, hustle culture, etc. The content wouldn't exist otherwise.
The late, lamented former Internet Main Character Alexsey Vayner made the ultimate template of videos like this nearly twenty years ago. All others are pale imitations www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGMa...
Glorious.
RIP gone too soon
lol, 'fitness coach' is a field with low barriers to entry, which is why it's crowded with all these losers who spend more time on social media hyping themselves and each other than actually working with clients
I mostly worry that I won't be able to make a video funnier than this
I'm not going to give an influencer a single click, so can anyone tell me: does this supposed morning routine include the steroids or is it a complete lie like those losers on LinkedIn?
Nah this whole video was stupid the dude rubs a banana peel on his face, plunges his safe in some bottle water a few times. Doesn't show him shooting up his hrt or Turinabol
I face zero pressures as a man. I literally can do whatever I want and no one cares
This should have been a conversation about how him and others like him are scammers that portray fake lifestyles and perpetrate this shallow nonsense to young men. This article should be scrapped and rewritten by a serious journalist.
Everyone knows this shit is fake dude
I don't know one person who took this all that seriously
Failed?....or that they are owed it and just Take what they want from Those of us who can't defend ourselves...incels...fraudsters...
My favorite part was when he pretended to read a book for 2 mins
For a minute I thought you were talking about LeBron James.
??? Why?
Pretending to read a book for w minutes. Remember the Malcolm X book he was holding saying he was reading it, and it was brand new, no bends or creases or dog eared pages? Like he just bought it as a prop.
For "w" minutes.. my thumbs fail me. For 2 (TWO) minutes..
Who fucking cares
Satan.
Why did that float into your head
My head is a magnet for stupid irrelevant and trivial things. When you said "pretended to read for 2 minutes," the silly story of James reading the Malcom X book was attracted to a few of my dying brain cells. Sort of like a bug zapper inside my skull. "Hey remember this BZZZZT!' Huh? Oh yeah.
Who cares? Jesus @CNN get a grip
Oh please, is this for real?
Also, the steroids.
Unattainable form of homoerotic lifestyle?
Self-imposed. No one asked for this but other men. I don’t know why these guys don’t just come out of the closet and leave us alone
Lol,,, its a weird take on homoeroticism
I swear that’s what’s in the recesses of their whining
I've said for years that some of the "masculinity" arguments and homophobic rhetoric is based on republican men fearing they might like the taste of penis.
Good analysis
True.. The reality is you don’t have to be macho to live a healthy and happy life. Promoting lifestyles like this is completely unhealthy..
None of that is "macho" or "manly"
Ok. That’s your opinion…
Dude is doing everything he loves to do. What the fuck is his issue again?
I feel absolutely no pressure after watching a BS video like that one. It actually relieves me 'cause it makes me laugh so hard.
STFU 🤫
Enough already. Who has the exact life they imagined when they were 10? Who has not thought they failed at some point in their life? Being successful is getting over your childish worldview and actually joining the world instead of being a whiny loser who blames everyone else for their shortcomings.
Why are men so stupid?
Who? Does Mr Hall admit to juicing, or is he just another of the many bullshitters?
He gets up at like 3am and bullshits until 9. Bro is the unhappiest man alive.
It's also most likely *not really his morning routine*. It's portrayed as such, but it's nothing but an ad for Saratoga spring water.
6 hours to do fucking ZIP
Where is the gooning supposed to fit in? He doesn’t even make time for it.
I mean he spends 30 min watching tiktok
I do too but I do it at work
Smdh
Right? It felt like he could have done all this in 30 min. 😂
My routine: 1. Wake up 2. Take a shit 3. Get out of bed 4. Go to work
His routine : 1. Wake up 2. Put face in ice 3. ????? for 4 hours 4. Speak to a computer monitor
My favorite video of his is when he is playing basketball and makes a shot, then his buddy hands him a bigass watermelon slice for some reason
Lol
Hahahhahahhaha Hahahhahahaha ///Laughs in women have Twiggy as a role model. ///Laughs in people calling famous women "fat" for wearing a size 5
I recall people trying to call Kate Upton fat and then tried to do the same to Jennifer Lawrence. Not that they should be insulted over such a thing, but GOOD GRIEF.
“male lifestyle content” please read that aloud to yourselves and then burn it all down
Dear men, Fuck off. Sincerely, The Fat Shaming of Jessica Simpson
It's funny because these are the same mofos who fat shamed Jessica Simpson and cry about how embracing different body types is unhealthy. I hope as many men die from this shame as women have. Maybe then, we will move on. I doubt it, tho.
Ohhhh BROTHER
It's attainable if you grift other men to finance it for a living under the allusion they can have it to without making it their entire life and career.
When I watched that video, all I felt was, not unattainable masculinity nor insecurity, but a whole lot of cringe. The steps these people are willing to go through to delay aging is stupendous. To me it cried of "I'M INSECURE!"
When I came across this video, I assumed it was a parody of wellness regimens
It ain’t realistic.
🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅 who cares
maybe if men stopped creating problems for themselves
Muscles aren't inherently masc tho
The size of these guys brains is directly opposite the size of their biceps and pectoral muscles.
I don't feel any pressure, should I? No masculinity in this, just stupidity. CNN, don't make stupid people famous.
How do you think the CNN people got famous?
Having rich parents
You call that a man
"It’s not clear whether Hall’s routine is meant to be taken seriously..." Well thank fuck you wrote an article on it then. God forbid you try and actually get relevant context first before blasting out useless garbage for clicks!
If I got up at 3:30 every morning and all I got accomplished by 9:00 AM was a workout I’d feel like the world’s biggest loser. Dude is just bumming around for hours
Welcome to the world of women, since forever.
There’s nothing less masculine than obsessing over what you think other men think of you.
💯
This certainly provides perspective on the unholy alliances in Washington and questionable guests at Mar-a-Lago.
jfc you enormous baby whiners
Sorry we’re just catching up to women’s decades of exposure to media and marketing-pushed body dysmorphia and it’s something of a learning curve please bear with us
You wouldn't have to catch up if you'd bothered to take it seriously and listen to us when it was happening to women.
We worked so hard on our bubble of self esteem for countless millennia but now that it’s irrevocably popped it’s clear that we didn’t design the bubble for sound so it’s possible we simply did not hear you
dude...
it’s running through our delicate psyches like the introduction of smallpox to the new world we’re simply lacking any natural immunity
This is the very definition of causing your own problem.
Just be normal maybe
They're joking, Char
If you fall for this bullshit you deserve whatever ill effects befall you because of it
This whole thing was an ad for Saratoga water
The problem with American Psycho was that it presented a role model that was difficult to emulate. These think pieces need more though.
Women: welcome to what we have been sold
CNN and Patrick Wyman might be the only people who saw that video and took it seriously. No one else thinks that's an accurate representation of that dude's regular routine or that it represents "masculinity."
I am worried stupid people will watch a former shitty college running back with 11 yards on 6 carries over his career put banana peel and seltzer water on his face and think it’s something to replicate cus he has bigger muscles than you do
The pressure I face every morning is feeding my cats at 4am.
Oh so that's what that joke on SNL was about. I get it now.
who the fuck is ashton hall
Sounds like the name of a university dorm.
… where you get Punk’d 24/7.
I’m pretty sure that this is fourth or fifth person I read about in the last 24 hours, that tapes her/his mouth for sleep and every one of them has this crazy, multi-hour morning beauty routine and either they are clinically insane or I am.
Didn't he just get evicted? Also he's got big "I'm self conscious about my height" energy
CNN I dont' think you're sending your best
CNN’s dumbest article ever.
no one cares about this
Be sooo fuckin serious fool
This is not the pressure regular men feel. Most have regular lives with regular everyday life pressures. What the fuck is wrong with you, @cnn.com?
I see no difference between this guy and women who con other women into thinking that they need tons of cosmetic surgery to be successful. They promote an unrealistic and unattainable form of femininity, and a whole lot of women fall for the fakery. "Slut your way to fame - the Kardashians did!"
CNN has no shame anymore. This is a dude who is shilling $10 bottles of water on TikTok and somehow you make it a “poor men what will they do article” while marketeers and media have been destroying women’s self esteem since the dawn of time. Y’all pull this headline from the Reddit incel brigade?
Wow. Welcome to women’s lives forever trying to live up to impossible beauty standards. Maybe you guys should have thought about this when you were calling any woman larger than Size 6 fat.
I see these guys and sometimes I find them inspiring. Sometimes they’re ridiculous but I wouldn’t go out on a limb and say they’re doing harm to anyone because there’s little support for it
Welcome to "what it is like being a woman" 101.
It’s relatively easy to raise men not to be so Weak and impressionable. This won’t hurt anyone with an guidance at all
Or maybe people need to stop listening to "influencer" con-men. They are no different than a radio announcer doing an ad hit talking about how much they use a product. Except these ad hits are much longer
That's a critical point. We need to promote a more diverse and realistic view of masculinity that celebrates individuality rather than a cookie-cutter ideal. Failure isn't about not living up to a stereotype; it's about not being true to oneself.
Now they’ll know about unrealistic expectations of others.
How about just trying to be a good human?
Wait, so capitalism THRIVES on misinformation and exploitation of the vulnerable? No way!
Plus the very obvious fact that this ridiculous con artist is 100% juicing.
