What happened to all of the ISTizens here in their early/mid 20's 10 years ago when zyzz mania was at its peak? When wearing neon clothes and rolling molly at an EDM festival shirtless with abs was what 90% of this board aspired to? When 'tfw no gf' didn't reach critical mass yet and getting a gf in hindsight was way easier than it was now? All of those guys are in their 30's or late late 20's now. The young generation of ISTizens during the prime of this board. What happened to them?
They're still here... they didn't make it...
Reporting in. Here since early 2011. In my early 30s now. I made great improvements but ultimately came no where close to "making it"
time to roid
This. Once you realize that mantra I s a cope to keep pushing even knowing you won’t make it, that’s the closest you’ll get to “making it”.
I definitively didnt make it.. still love Zyzz and Scooby and constantly yearn to back to 2012.
>tfw still want to move to Australia, roid moderately, and live the Zyzz lifestyle at 40 years old
Fuaaarrkk....
Actually once I really took it seriously I left IST and then when I "made it" I came back.
i came so close to truly making it bros. i had a beautiful gf, a big beautiful apartment in the best part of my city, was about to start my new job as a lawyer with an unbelievably good firm...
then it just fell apart...
im now 30 and IST but totally alone, girls at bars just see you as creepy older guy now, most of the decent women are taken, and im a soldier which is pretty good for fun times. been recommended for officer though so there may be hope still...
How did it fall apart? Details brah, you are among frogs here.
Honestly man, I think it was weed that helped me frick it up, and it was definitely me that fricked it up. It makes it too easy to be lazy and its not an attractive thing for a woman to have in a partner.
so i smoked too often and things just strated to slide. It sounds crazy but one day you're living with your partner planning the rest of your life and the next you're in your parents spare bedroom wondering what happened.
I started drinking because I was depressed, 70cl bottle of vodka and some beers each day, no way could I keep the law going so didnt finish my qualification which eventually timed out.
After a couple of years i managed to shake the alcohol off.. I just woke up one day and realised I had had enough, but the damage had been done. I knew the army would take me, and that it would force me into getting and staying fit. So here I am...
Weed and alcohol, not worth it. I havent smoked weed in years and I occasionally drink (at weddings etc) but my life is so much better sober.
following on, Id say that the feeling of waking up refreshed and well rested in your bed after achieving something is better than any feeling I ever got from alcohol
Strange, it's the opposite for me, I've been smoking weed for the past 4 months and if anything it's motivated me to push harder on workouts and it legitimately helps with my depression. That said, I've taken a shit load of drugs in the past 9 years (tobacco, weed, coke, xans, crack, MDMA, acid, worst of all heroin/fent) and I'd been an on and off H addict for the past 5 years, I quit last November after ODing and legit dying for the first time in October last year. Weed used to make me real paranoid, because it'd put my subconscious in front of me and that would bring all the problems I don't want to face and make me exceedingly anxious, but something clicked last November when I started smoking again and I just started to enjoy it and concentrate on myself, I guess I just realized an answer that had been brewing in my head for years but I didn't want to accept. Weed affects everyone differently so don't take what I say as a channel for your addiction to voice itself and convince you to get back on again, good on you for being sober, if there's one thing I really gotta quit, it's drinking.
Honestly never paid much attention to IST back in the day, I remember Zyzz getting posted on IST every once in a while in 2011 - 2012 and visited IST once or twice in quarter assed attempts to get fit in between the 13 years I've been visiting chans. Now I guess I just started visiting more often because I've been trying to build discipline and exercise at least every single day, I've started seeing some noob gains but I'm not satisfied, I need to lose fat and gain stamina, so I'm planning to start running soon.
I don't care if I make it tbh, but I'm gonna do my best to get there, I've never exercised in my life seriously before and I've ravaged my body with numerous chemicals, I'm not surprised if I come down with something or die suddenly in the next 15 years, but I at least want to die knowing I did something about all the shit that's been holding me back.
>girls at bars just see you as creepy older guy now
post face
Ascended to the heavens of fitdom (knocked up some rave-roastie and has a little dyel family)
I'm still in the gym mogging dyels brah
Worked out for a year at shitty home gym. Went from 6'4 autist skelly to 6'4 autist skelly with abs and slight shoulders. Found drugs. Fricked hundreds of girls, record was 7 new pussys in one day. 10 years later I have 4 kids to different mothers, I still have abs, just, somehow pressups and sitsups and jumprope daily have made me from returning to complete skelly, just slight skelly. Yesterday I fricked 3 different pussys in the same day (repeats). Oh I've also got chlamydia and herpes. You mirin' brah?
None of this happened.
I know it's hard to comprehend a reality other than your own.
I've had it around 6 times now, was meaning I've got it right now. I mentioned the herp because I just had a outbreak and my 7.5inch penis is covered in it.
Nah the baby mommas have all taken the spawns and fricked off to different city's, I'm not on any of the birth certs :/
Your mirin' brah?
To be fair yes the delivery is larpy as frick. If you've actually fricked that many women it means you have overflowing amounts of confidence and self-esteem that you don't need to seek validation online, let alone seek out any online social interactions at all. But in theory it's believable that someone could have that much sexual success especially if they're tall. Something like 28% of men have 15+ sexual partners in their lifetime, and it's likely the top couple % have like 50+
>If you've actually fricked that many women it means you have overflowing amounts of confidence and self-esteem that you don't need to seek validation online, let alone seek out any online social interactions at all.
stupid theory bro
it's not a theory lol, stupid homosexual. no one buys your story
6'4" is not even that tall, you're not some mythical creature bro
t. 6'7" and muscular
Post body.
Plenty of guys I know have had 15+, and you talk to older blokes and they've all done the rounds in their youth. I've had 12 myself, that's 10 in 4 years if I subtract my 6 1/2 years of relationship, plus 2 men ontop of that but that doesn't. Guys in uni can do that number in a year, but seems less common in the youth of today.
It's less common today because it's harder to lie about women that don't exist.
Most dudes are lucky to frick 1 girls a year. And yea, even back in the day. I’m 35 and when I was in college the guys having sex did so primarily with their one girlfriend. One night stands were rare and shitty, and usually became epic stories. Guys always exaggerated about their numbers to compete with out guys. They don’t exaggerate as much now because everyone is fat and no one goes outside or has girlfriends anyway.
>They don’t exaggerate as much now because everyone is fat and no one goes outside or has girlfriends anyway.
This is because you're 35 and your peers have grown up and realized its pointless and embarrassing. I'm 10 years younger than you and I can attest that guys still brag about this shit
>plus 2 men ontop of that but that doesn't.
If they were the ones on top then it definitely counts, homosexual
>Something like 28% of men have 15+ sexual partners in their lifetime
Is this a joke? Ive had multi year incel stretches and ive fricked 13 women and 4 trannies.
how do you end up with multiyear incel stretches if you're capable of being sexually successful
>record was 7 new pussys in one day
based
>Yesterday I fricked 3 different pussys in the same day (repeats)
based, the baby mommas?
>Oh I've also got chlamydia and herpes.
i had chlamydia, took anti-biotics tho :/
hopefully no herps didnt even test for it lol (just a skin condition imo, not a real std)
>nightlife1.gif
Literally everybody in those countries look at these guys like circus freaks, but you know in their heads they're thinking "look at 'em mirin' brah, the men r jelly brah, the sloots want to fook us brah" kek
>3 different pussys in the same day (repeats)
only based if you didn't shower inbetween
>Oh I've also got chlamydia and herpes
my brother, chlamydia can be treated by taking 2 pills for free, it's gone within a week. Fricking chicks with chlam dick will make some stinky holes
Absolutely not Jesus Christ
Your wages must be garnished to all hell
I’m sorry you had to frick so many dumb fat prostitutes.
still lifting and keeping fit. house, wife, comfy well paid job. working hard to maintain a stress and worry-free life. kind of dread having kids in the next few years because i know that's gonna introduce stress but whatever. zoomies you're a good bunch, YAGMI
For all the old gays, does tinytrip still post here anymore? Loved that guy.
No. Probably off fricking traps in London
i'm 32. hit 1/2/3/4 at 175 lbs 5'11" in 2015 then turned both my ankles playing sports in 2016 and basically stopped working out with spurts here and there. now i'm 180 lbs but weak as shit. just read IST because i'm more likely to continue working out if i talk about it with people and i don't want to sperg on my friends about fitness when they dgaf
>worked out consistently till 2015
>If I talk about it, I'm more likely to continue
>8 years of shitposting and no consistent workout routine
IST in a nutshell.
Yeah, this tbh. People still don't seem to realise that the reason Zyzz got chicks, was because of the confidence and respect of his peers, something he gained from working out.
How did you "make it" with IST?
Browsed here since the day Zyzz died, when it popped up on /b/. My friend browsed here, he's since gotten fat but I continued and did it for over 10 years. 28 now and starting to falter. Banged 3 chicks that were 19-23 and a femboy in the last 4 months of 2022 somehow, bow in a dry patch again. Had a 5+ year relationship too and traveled with another long term gf. Now I just sit at home, jerk off and get harrassed by a "best friend" who've I've known for 1 1/2 years who comes over, drinks my alcohol, pisses on my toilet seat, does coke, makes me by steam games and moans at me that he's board, but house is a shitty batchelor pad, how married life with kids is annoying him and all his mates seem to avoid his annoying ass.
Yeah. Life really is mundane.
Forgot to say, don't be a moron like me and just do bw calisthenics for 8 years, start adding weight early. I would be so much further ahead if I had lifted weights and had some good hypertrophy going.
They're still here....but now with broken dreams & a more pessimistic view on the world
Here. Started lifting because of Zyzz and 11 years strong. Still in shape. Also started roiding 2 years ago. The sides were not worth it so I switched to SARMS.
Pretty much this.
What SARMs are you taking?
I was on in the days of Zyzz. Just check this place out occasionally now. Married (muscles helped meet her in the first place) and rich now. But never got as in shape as I wish I was (did powerlift a few tournies without getting fat like a powerlifter). Guess I partly made it and partly didn't.
Used to browse fit like 10 years ago.
I stopped lifting before the covid shit, just getting back into it this week which is why I'm visiting again after not browsing fit for years.
Never cared for the zyzz shit and partying lifestyle but fit was funny and comfy. I was a typical autistic gymcel neet.
Biz became my main board like 5 years ago, made it with crypto which also made me lazier.
Tried home gym but had no motivation. Signed up to a local gym again this week and forcing myself to go out again.
I'm mid 30s and out of shape, became skinny fat, lost muscle mass, terrible cardio, lower sex drive. This time I'm just getting back into fitness because I hate feeling low energy, back pain creeping up, etc.
It's pretty weird starting this journey all over again a decade later and still seeing the same fricking memes and topics on the front page.
im from the zyzz era, i still gym just train for power to dominate in mma/bjj so i look average physique wise.
I browsed IST from 2011 to 2016, in 2016 I started brazilian jiu jitsu and left lifting behind. now I still train BJJ and run, and I'm starting to miss lifting. I have some running goals I want to achieve, and after that I will return to the gym.
I think many of the posters from that generation would have a similar story - trained for a while and eventually found something else they liked better
Was all about aesthetics and ottermode. I'm 32 now and I'm more about longevity and health so probably a little more chubby than I'd like and focusing more on volume rather than heavy weights. I feel like my generation were the last to make it in a sense. I look at what guys in their early 20s are dealing with now and it's just insane.
Its disgusting too looking at our "peers" in alot of western cities. Lazy fat pos that winge about gen Z and Boomers. These idiots are litrally gen Z / boomer 2.0 but most cant even change a car tyre. Bunch of tards tbh man. At least gen z still has the excuse they are young.
Theyre either fat or died from roid abuse 2% or so of them are like me and at least some what made it. Everyone I know from highschool bar two other guys is a fat piece of shit and I'm only 34 ffs.
People grow up
been browsing since 2005, I was 15.
old IST was 80% spergy ripped dudes in the day.
Got me to lose weight between high school and college (dropped 50lbs), I had a typical bro college experience (parties every weekend, slept with a number of women), met my soul mate, we're still together more than a decade later.
Post-college, in the rat-race and dropped working out. Got fat in my mid-20s, became an alcoholic, really sucked.
Moved to the south, got a good job in biotech, finally getting paid gobs of money vs. cost of living, bought a house, and when I turned 30 I turned my life around.
Covid saw me lose 35lbs, back to my college weight, now I'm the fittest amongst my friends (except for one good dude I know, he's been essentially bodybuilder physique since college and never quit, god bless that man) and Ive started getting interesting from the younger women, although I'm not interested- still a nice ego boost.
Now I'm living the good life. My fiance and I both have really good jobs, we'd be considered a power couple on paper; our sex live more than a decade later is incredible; we love the place we live; I have a ton of hobbies I can pay for easily (gardening, motorcycles, homebrewing, backpacking/hikinh, cooking, kombucha, bread-making, etc) and I've just started building my home gym this year.
I stopped coming here ~2012 and came back out of boredom due to the pandemic and getting my fitness back together.
Its.....changed here, most people are not the spergy fit types, but it seems like fat high schoolers wanting to get fit. Different place.
It used to be a lot of positivity (even in FPH threads back in the day, you would get called out for posting fatties working out, because anyone working out was considered worthy of praise), now its a lot more internal trolling in threads and less camaraderie except in certain oasis threads.
Also frick the jannies for removing /sig/.
Im 36 now. I got fit enough to get laid more, went from 2 girls total to 23 total. Eventually found a wife and made 2 kids. We will make 2 more. I have 7 other biological children from sperm donation. Also I got a job. I can fake being a filthy fricking normie long enough to pass as one.
Never really "made it" but for frick sakes i've done better than some of the people I knew who never made any effort to get fit or improve themselves.
I made it. I got swole as hell, got laid like crazy, moved cities, changed jobs. Finally wound up in my dream job (big mistake, don't become a fricking doctor). Because of residency right now my body is shit; but it's still better than before I found IST
what was your job before
I just thought Zyzz was funny
I didn't have friends or the desire to go to a festival
I just worked out at home I had too much anxiety to get a gym membership until I was 26
And since tfw no gf wasn't a big deal I didn't care about being a virgin or alone. Funny how that works.
I was 15 in 2009. I remember Zyzz back then. I was on IST but not on IST. I browsed bb.com but I had never touched a weight in my life and weighed 130lb. I had a gf though and I had friends. Everything seemed like it would be alright in the end. I'm glad I didn't know any better.
Late 30s here. Divorced but have an amazing 8yo daughter who's already terrified of getting fat and loves being active outdoors, so i know i'm teaching her right. And ive upgraded to a beautiful trad eastern euro housewife. Life is grand
How did you meet her and how does she treat your daughter?
My girl is polish too. Met her at the park we both take our kids too. Stay off apps, there's real amazing women out there if you hunt for the kill. Talking about having one or two of our own now. She wants nothing material at all ever. She wants me to do stuff like make her caramel from scratch once in a while. It's incredible how easily wholesome our relationship is when we can both ignore modern bullshit, and practice strong values. Oh, and the most she's EVER weighed, including when pregnant is 135, and she's like 5'7. Bombshell inside and out
Early 30s here similar situation divorced withiut a kid met a wonderful Polish woman who acts feminine and performs all wifely duties. Western women are absolute shit tier id. Ever go back
10+ years ago I was around but mostly posting on bb.com misc which was better than this place until about 2012 or so when the mods ruined it. zyzz mania was more like 2010-11. After he died his legacy was more like insecure ugly kids hopping on steroids deluding themselves that they were chads and walking around festivals shirtless with manbags, the whole thing was cringe.
What the frick is with these ugly-ass women with perfectly spherical heads?
They have mad it just as our prophet said
It went downhill when the High Test threads disappeared. Now it's a bunch of b***hes who act like school shooters and lift.
Blame the betamax lowtest jannies
I'm 33 now, make ~100k, and am with the woman I will likely marry. I would definitely say that I've made it, I also went from 183 all the way down to 135 and have been lifting seriously for about a year now.
When I think about what I was doing back in my 20s, I wasn't really hitting it like I thought I was. RIP Zyzz, while I didn't want the loose sloots at the EDM shows, I miss seeing that guy do his thing including hating on fat people publicly..
I've got my first babby on the way. I came back now that I am into sports as a 35 y/o. You gays still hate to run.
Still here OP. And, we did make it brah. In my mid 40s now and still jacked and tan.
I was here when Scooby was the riddle master, and when he got doxxer for being a pillowbiter .
Nothing has changed. Homosexual people approach me sometimes, but I have no luck with women whatsoever for being an autist
I'm now competing in untested powerlifting and idolise Konstantin Konstantinovs
>What happened to them?
We aged 10 years and are still here
I did the shirtless festival thing in my 20s. Tried the sleeping around thing but I didn't love it. I'm currently with an amazing woman and really like my body other than some lingering injuries from being stupid and lifting with sloppy form.
>was way easier than it was now
Cope. I'm 50 years old. There's no easier time to date or fug foids than right now. Their standards are so fricking low. Even supposedly tough guys like the Tates of the world spend 95% of their time whining on the internet about their feelings. All I have to do is be not moronic and not whine and women want to frick and marry all the time.
>Inb4 roasties will betray you.
Already twice divorced with 4 grown white kids who go to Christian church. I currently have a vasectomy so there will be no more child support, thank you very much.
What is this phenotype and why do I find it more attractive than a traditional 10/10
because you know they're much more likely to root you
i got a job and a wife
I'm old now. The people you're talking about are somewhere between 28-35 now
I'm 32 and posted on here when the board first got made and zyzz was around. I always thought he was cool and based but I didn't have the same aspirations or fitness goals as him. First of all I'm an artist so I've always pulled girls through that. I never needed to get shredded and otter mode has always suited my frame and personality better. but I did come here to learn more about health & fitness in general because I wanted to be healthier. IST has always been pretty good for no bullshit discussions on that. Truth be told I don't even hit the gym that often anymore. I have my own agency and employees now and I'm usually too busy with that. I'm still like 10% bf and look good but I was never crazy about lifting anyway. However over the years I have gotten incredibly autistic about esoteric ancestral diets. I was one of the first people on IST to raise the alarm about seed oils. As for how I'm doing right now I mostly just come on here to shitpost and occasionally drop some knowledge. I'm finally making good money after 10 years of being broke so my next plan is to find a racist zoomer wife that i can pump 5 kids into.
i was a big /ffit/ poster in like 2012 when i was 24.
I'm 35 now, got married, came out as bisexual, got divorced, just moved in with my new partner.
I've been ding a lot of yoga and i just rejoined a commercial gym to do an upper lower maintenance split and regain some strength.
Anyway here's a body pic i just took
The sauna and the norwood reapers teamed-up.
I’m a fat, out of shape father of 2 with my unironic trad wife. Turns out wagmi is true, but I’ll probably never lift like I used to
I was here back in the zyzz days, nobody was actually wearing neon shorts and going raving. The cult of zyzz was more a misc thing than a IST thing
As for me I kept lifting, finished high school, went to college and got a good job. Life is good, can't complain
>The cult of zyzz was more a misc thing than a IST thing
Yeah. people seem to forget he got famous because of misc even though he was a /fit poster
let me guess, right is also popular for cheating on Black folk?
With*
I'm still here.
I've "made it" in some respects, I own two businesses, make great money, big house, nice car, frens, hobbies, travel.
I'm DYEL but that's OK, at 34 just being in good health and lifting 4-5x a week is an achievement. I have a good trainer and am working on physique.
No wife/gf, that's my one big regret. I dated some nice girls in my 20's, but avoided commitment. I thought being a successful mid-30-year old guy would make dating easy, but the opposite is true: I'm extremely careful about where I spend my limited time and energy, and dating is a terrible use of time.
I'm close to having a few million in net worth and I'm considering just having a surrogate mom, but I don't want a kid badly enough to do that fricked-up social experiment shit.
You could have a gf within a a few months max if you actually tried
Either picturemaxx, approachmaxx, or social circlemaxx
>tfw shit camera
>tfw no friends
cold approaching randos it is then
>When 'tfw no gf' didn't reach critical mass yet
Zyzz said even back then that IST is just a bunch of sad c**ts
tfwnogf is a IST staple from the start
jesus christ, seems like half the people here are millionaires with a body count in the hundreds
I hope the aren't larping I wish them the best.
I became fit and ripped
realized none of that shit matters.
>Used to be on here all the time around 2011-2013.
>I'm 30 now
>Just revisiting today to see what's going on and saw this thread.
I realised this board was bad for my mental health. I eventually found that most of the philosophy, value systems and life advice that you get from IST is bullshit and all comes from some kind of fantasy bro world that is totally detached from reality.
Once I left, I started living life properly - having romantic relationships, friendships, casual intimacy, making achievements and having more life satisfaction.
All I had to do was get the frick out of this IST cult and stop living up in my head. I initially struggled to escape from thinking about myself all the time in situations where it wasn't really ideal. Maybe because I spent so much time on here trying to develop myself. It gave me an inflated self-importance and with that came more insecurity, no matter how muscular or fit I got. I could walk into a room and be the strongest fittest most dangerous guy, but still have the most stunted social skills and have the least fun.
For me this place kind of felt like some sort of kindergarten for growing and grown men who are still figuring out who they are. Sort of a 'safe place' for people who aren't ready to fly from the nest and take on the world head-first.
That all said, I suppose there are other subcultures on IST and some people only come to visit certain threads relevant to their interests - and that's probably a healthier way to use it.
Fitness-wise, my gains and bodyfat have fluctuated for me over the last 10 years. I "made it" for a little while and decided that it was too vain to be worrying about how my body looks - so I changed to just working out for physical fitness.
Recently I had some major injuries that stopped me from training for a few years and now I'm starting again. I've lived a very rich and full life with not many regrets. So that's where I am now.
I don't come here on a regular basis any more. This board fricking blows for reasons you clearly recognize
Now that I think about it I find it weird how this exact time you're describing on this exact board was the very first real introduction to this miserable website I had. I remember even though I had a heard of and even tried visiting IST before, I was put off by the interface. I had a friend at the time kinda give me a tutorial, showing me IST of all places. The only thing I really remember was that someone had started a thread with a nudecast and that the board was otherwise pretty gay.
Strange how that was almost exactly 10 years ago.
Still here brah, guess I never made it