Generation Flex Trailer

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00:00When you're a little boy, you are always flexing and proving how strong you are.

00:07When you get older, you start looking at guys with muscle, and that looks good to you.

00:14All my life, I've been like a skinny kid.

00:16I really started to notice the way that I looked.

00:19It became like a struggle.

00:21I looked up on the internet, how can I gain muscle quickly?

00:25You know, like on social media, like Instagram.

00:27Being fed different people that have a specific body.

00:31Six-pack.

00:32Broad shoulders.

00:33Super jacked arms.

00:34I want to look like that.

00:36The more boys post fitness-related content, the more likely they actually are to get likes.

00:41You see everyone in the comment section wanting to get that body, and then you look at yours.

00:46This rise in pressure of muscularity has driven many boys and men to become preoccupied and obsessed with going to the gym.

00:52It was a while without being at the gym for like two and a half hours.

00:55One hour was never enough.

00:57No.

00:58The designers behind social media know how to draw us in.

01:02Any platform, you'd see influencers that have a lot of muscle promoting these different brands.

01:07There are a lot of risks.

01:08Most of these are not regulated by the Food and Drug Administration.

01:11There were some nights where I just wouldn't sleep.

01:13It was just like really bad.

01:14It was just too much.

01:18The next thing I remember, paramedics around me.

01:21His muscles were just growing faster than his bones.

01:26The algorithms got you.

01:29And it will send you more and more of these images.

01:33I was just trying to look better.

01:35I never knew that there was going to be consequences.