Far East developments: between confidence and arrogance

Korean, Vietnamese and Chinese Female Bodybuilders are quite a different breed these days, they dont fit the usual western standards:

• Have a great body, but are also not shy to use AI at all cost

• Have plenty of followers, but never interact with them

• Show themselves in the public like superstars, but can rarely be seen on the big stages

• Combine traditional appearance with hyper-modern display

Is womens bodybuilding there more of a social phenomenon than a serious sport? Any thoughts welcome, feedback from the source appreciated.

With social media and online influencing, I think it's a lot more common to be interested in building a "bodybuilder's" or otherwise heavily muscular physique without ever intending to get on stage. Hell, even when social media was still in its early days, you had women like Lisa Moordigian who did I think one or two contests before deciding that fetish work would be much more lucrative and without the physical and mental stress of prep for a competition. I don't think "not going on stage" is something that is limited to East Asian bodybuilders.

Also, I'm not sure what your perception of "has plenty of followers but never interacts with them," or "combine traditional appearance with hyper-modern display" is towards them when you also see the same from Western influencers as well. And while you do see image manipulation from notable East Asian bodybuilders, you also see that a lot from other competitors, men and women, as well.

Of course you find similar traits in fbbs from all around the world, but within the Asian community its intensively on the rise. Just take some of the most popular athletes at the moment:

Olivia Bian: 170.00o followers, never replies or likes anything on her page. Rock star appearance on the airport:

Chun-Ri: 130.00 insta followers: posts a lot but not a single comment or message to her fans.

Facetuning is used a lot on SM these days, but nowehere as shameless as among the asian models. The heads and bodies often dont seem to fit.

One appeared in glamour outfit at a fashion show (think it was in Singapur, lost the link)

traditional outfit in a prfossional manner:

Thats glamour muscle, red carpet vibes. One level above whats happeneing somewhere else. At the same time, those women are under represented in the big events. So far, for Olympia: Xinyu Chen is qulaified for Figure, and Yan Hong for WPD, thats about it.

The question remains: is bodybuilding in China/Korea primarily seen as means of self protrayel, rather than competitive sport.

With social media and online influencing, I think it's a lot more common to be interested in building a "bodybuilder's" or otherwise heavily muscular physique without ever intending to get on stage.

I bring this up often on here. A growing number of women want the look but don't want to compete and deal with the prep and the low rewards.

Olivia Bian: 170.00o followers, never replies or likes anything on her page.

I am assuming you are talking about Instagram. She has roughly the same amount of followers on Rednote/Xiaohongshu. And there she does react regularly on comments from users. So I think with the Chinese it's more a case of being active on their own social media. Most Chinese aren't even present on IG at all.

I am assuming you are talking about Instagram. She has roughly the same amount of followers on Rednote/Xiaohongshu. And there she does react regularly on comments from users. So I think with the Chinese it's more a case of being active on their own social media. Most Chinese aren't even present on IG at all.

Now thats an interesting point I have not considered yet.

Excellent observation.

PS: do you live in China ?

PS: do you live in China ?

I don't live in China, but I do have a Rednote/xhs account, and I have Douyin without account (because no Chinese phone number), so I can follow most things (Douyin has some limitations without account, but is accessible).

And very important: I speak Chinese (not natively), although Rednote has a Translate function which can still be helpfull sometimes. (Maybe Douyin has it as well, but not for guests)