The gym is one of the very few places where I find being around other people tolerable.
Especially when I see really unfit people making an effort, however tentative or small. Sure they have made bad choices in the past and likely will again, but at least for the time they are working out, I can appreciate the obstacles and inevitable insecurities that they had to overcome to be there.
Even the most vain wannabe influencer working out in full makeup and a g-string (or the roided-out grunting douche bag) is being tricked by their vanity into doing something at least somewhat good for themselves.
That said, anyone who records video (other than for the purposes of discrete form assessment) can fuck right off and die in a fire for all I care.
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