Oliver Bateman Does the Work

Oliver Bateman Does the Work

The Work of the Bodybuilding Forums

The unheard history of bodybuilding forums, as told by the trolls, steroid dealers, and true posters who made them huge

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Oliver Bateman Does the Work
Jun 12, 2025
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The work of posting used to be so much more fun

It was never about the politics.1 It was “always already” about the drugs. This is how a group of weightlifting pros, supplement sellers and ’roid-obsessed amateurs laid the groundwork for the next two decades of internet anarchy

Once upon a time, the forums associated with sites like Muscular Development and…

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