By Kevin Paradis

Publié le 16 juin 2026

Nowadays, you open TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and all you see is pretty people who looks good, and eat well. It seems to have become a normality and it’s pretty toxic.  

This “trend” has become viral. Everyone wants to have a healthy life. They pretend running 25 km but in fact they run 5 km, they make you think they lost 60 lbs in 2 months, but they’ve been using substances to lose this weight. Also, they show you how shredded they are but in fact they have an insane luminosity routine and take steroids.  

That’s how far influencers are ready to go to make you believe that fitness is so easy.  

First, training is way easier than they make it looks. They like to show exercise that require to be upside down and are so hard to do that you’re almost nose bleeding. Also, half of these people don’t have any sort of studies, they just republish what they have seen on TikTok and make you think it’s the way to have 66 cm of arm circumference. But “don’t compare your data on social media or apps like Strava. The truth is those numbers don’t necessarily mean much without context, Dr. Sekely said” (Minsberg, 2025). 

Also, those influencers like to take part of the nutrition part and share their perfect diet. Most of them are sponsors, so they just show you something that they don’t even consume. Often, influencers are going to promote processed food with protein and fibers and other fillers. But in fact, it’s simple, you don’t need to have necessarily those types of food. Keep it simple, eat fruits, vegetables, dairy products. Sometimes, we get easily influenced by people who look good. For example, a fitness influencer, was promoting hard consummation of red meat, but studies show that it creates cardiovascular problems. Are we for real, promoting a bloody steak instead of cooked chicken? 

Finally, appearance is now a new trend, and looksmaxxing is the way to get thousands of girls. You may see on TikTok people smashing their face with a hammer or getting a surgery to restructure their jaw. This is brutal, we are getting into a superficial world, and people are now ten times more insecure. Young people are now inspired by dudes who “mog” strangers. You probably saw “Clavicular,’’ an influencer who “likes taking steroids and hormones” (Bernstein, 2026). He also takes methamphetamine to break social anxiety. Also, to solve his self-confidence problem, he opened a club where all the good-looking girls come to meet him or try to sleep with him… All those things are shared by him live, and he influences his subscribers to “mog” other people. 

So, it’s good to have a healthy lifestyle and take care of your look. But, once you are lifemaxxing, try not to fall down the stressmaxxing trap. 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

https://www.merriam-webster.com/slang/mog

https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clavicular

https://www.tiktok.com/@daily.dosee23/video/7591949968051604767?q=clav%20bonesamshin&t=1778258580367

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/01/03/well/move/fitness-trends-tiktok-instagram.html?searchResultPosition=26