Will Tennyson's Double Standards Are Insane @Will Tennyson

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0:00 Hi, I'm going to be reviewing Bill Tennyson's latest video called, I investigated the country where it's illegal to be fat.

[video] 0:09 South Korea, the world's beauty capital, where being fat isn't just frowned upon, you're openly shamed. Shop owners will clearly say to you like, oh, yeah, there's no clothes for you. In a country where appearance can feel like currency, the pressure to be thin is everywhere. On billboards, subway floors, and storefront windows, a constant reminder to change and be better. Creating a standard so intense it's driving a surge in weight loss drugs, extreme dieting, and potentially...

0:35 It's clear that they want people to change, but do they want people to be better? That's the question.

[video] 0:43 something much worse. Okay, so I have to get the 75 kilograms? I'm here to find out just how bad it really is. Welcome to South Korea, everybody. Before we get started with the day, I want to see what level of freak show the locals are going to see me as. So behind me, there's a fat test that are in all the parks in Korea. They really just said, let's gamify emotional damage. So whatever I get here is going to dictate how I feel about myself today and probably how I eat. So according to Google Translate, this first one here says...

1:09 He's obviously joking, but... You should never base your life on somebody else's ideas, which is what you're seeing here. Some humans put some symbols on wood, and you are supposed to interpret the symbols, as in read them, and then you're supposed to believe that this is what you should follow. But that should never be the case, no matter what.

[video] 1:38 You're an alien, dot, dot, dot. I mean, I'd rather be called an alien than a fat ass. So I guess if I can't fit through this, I'm not considered human.

[video] 1:48 That was very close.

1:49 This next- That is actually pretty outlandish, you could say. You just wouldn't see that anywhere else. Hmm.

[video] 1:59 This one is, you shouldn't be like this, which kind of sounds like a threat.

[video] 2:08 The reason Will is struggling here is because he's overweight, as I have said in many videos.

2:33 He may not see it that way, just like a lot of people nowadays, because he has too much muscle mass. He doesn't have a natural physique, but it's not because he has too much fat mass. And people like him believe that they are not overweight if they have too much muscle mass. But what is the actual difference between the two?

[video] 3:01 Right, exactly, that's what I mean. He believes that he's in a good shape. And that's because he was told by people through the media that

3:32 his shape is a good shape. And in Korea, it may not be the case. It really just depends. But naturally, he is not in a good shape. If you leave out all of the ideas which were put out there by other humans, If we simply look at his body or any bodybuilder's body nowadays, then we can see that it doesn't look like the bodies of natural humans. That's clear. There's nothing to argue about.

[video] 4:07 Here we have average, which I would never be so grateful to be called mid in my entire life. I would love to be average. And then we have thin, thin, and then here it says skinny, and it looks like they've removed, actually, one of the poles here, because maybe it was probably too extreme. I don't even think a 90-day fast in a caved-in rib cage I could fit through that, because thin. Barely, my quad goes through that. And the crazy thing about all of this is that this is literally in the middle of a children's park, and they're probably going to see this as a game, and you want to beat the game.

4:37 I do have to say that's pretty hardcore. Zero store.

[video] 4:40 I had no idea about any of this.

[video] 5:01 do so the first spot that we're checking out is the zero store so zero calories and zero employees this is just another serve yourself kind of place this is pretty sick i just feel like i found a loophole in my fitness journey no way it's zero calorie ice cream that's sick packaging like zero cal What is any of this made out of? The ice cream may be made out of water and artificial sweeteners for the most part, I would assume, I don't know. But this?

5:26 What could that be possibly made out of?

[video] 5:44 something that was made in the laboratory i would assume wow i've never seen a coke zero tall boy oh i have to get that that's so sick i wonder if they have zero calorie pizza just like cardboard that has a tomato scent 43 gram protein in that that's a hefty boy I swear, I think this must be what heaven looks like. There was so many different options of zero calories, zero sugar snacks to choose from, especially...

6:12 The joke about all of this is that food obviously doesn't have calories. Calories are simply an unscientific, vague, man-made way of measuring the energy in the food. And the reason I put energy in quotes is because in reality, they simply put... food in an oven, that's how it all started. And then they imagined that this and that food has that many calories based on how the food burns, basically. It's an absolute joke. Meaning that it's possible that you can get some kind of energy out of some of this, Meaning that officially it wouldn't have zero calories, but it's all bullshit anyway.

[video] 7:02 Jelly, which is often seen as Korean ozempic, providing you with something to fill your stomach with little to no calories at all. All this unsupervised protein is pretty incredible. Koreans must be trustworthy. All right, so we got a few things from the zero store. We got to start off with the zero calorie ice cream. I don't like, what is this? Is this supposed to be like great white shark flavor? Like it doesn't really tell me anything and I can't really understand the back of it, but it's pretty in your face about being zero calories. So you really can't forget it. All right, so visually, shark-like, as in gray, and ominous. It looks like meat that's been left in the freezer for, like, a month. Smells actually fire, though.

[video] 7:33 Wow, what? Not as offensive as I thought it was going to be. That's actually quite good. There's a lot of flavor going on. I thought it was going to be very neutral. It's very fruit punchy. Oh. When you bite it, it doesn't taste bad. It just doesn't taste like anything, really. Just the outside's very fruity. Inside's nice and, like, red like that. But... If I was on a diet to keep my mouth out of trouble, very good. We're going to be trying the infamous cutting jelly, as in the malnutrition maximizer, because there's literally, I mean, there's nothing in it. Zero calories. This is just really to fill volume in your stomach.

[video] 8:06 Not bad. Have a couple of these, like three of them for breakfast, and you're good. Crazy to think right now as we speak, I'm losing weight eating ice cream and jelly. There's no calories in it, but I'm burning calories talking to you. Think about that. We've got a protein muffin, 200 calories, which practically at this point feels like a...

8:18 That people also believe that they are burning calories. That's all imaginary.

[video] 8:24 Binge. I don't know if I should do it. I kind of feel bad. I want to fit through that tree.

[video] 8:29 Nailed it. Just a chubby boy. In Korea, enjoying a muffin. Running on just 200 calories for the day, I headed to another spot built entirely around low-calorie, zero-sugar options. We're in a zero-sugar cafe right now where the owner actually invented their own sweetener called Swello. Not to be confused with the Pokemon. But as you can see, they have protein overnight oats, no-sugar added cream pudding. I got two spoons with my order, so I don't know if I'm being fat-shamed right now because to me, this looks like a meal for one. But maybe she thinks that I need to share it. The chubby boy over here.

8:59 But there's somebody filming you, obviously. Probably his girlfriend, right?

[video] 9:09 So am I considered kind of like chubby in Korea? Not chubby, you would just be considered like a buff dude. If you look at the vast majority of like idols, for example, they're really skinny. I even have a friend who was an idol trainee, but he started working out and he wasn't even like bodybuilder big, like he was probably around my size. And they were like, you can't be an idol anymore because you're too big. So they actually dropped him from the training program because they were like, you're going to be too big compared to everybody else on stage. What is the ideal male and female?

9:34 Again, it's interesting to think about who's pushing all of this because they're in Korea in the media. They push different kind of bodies when you compare it to what they push in the so-called West.

[video] 9:48 Male physique. I think for men, it's the same anywhere in the world. You got to be tall, right? So if you're 180 and above, that's like...

9:55 Everywhere they promote weakness, that is clear. If you will be very thin, have very little muscle, then you will be weak. If you will be big, immobile and slow like Will, then... When it comes to fighting and survival, you will be just as weak. It's the same thing.

[video] 10:17 You're considered handsome because you got that going for you. Yeah, so Will definitely would be considered a handsome guy in Korea. But actually, I could use just Will as an example.

10:25 Obviously, you're not going to be considered handsome because you're tall. It's simply a great bonus to have, but it doesn't make you handsome.

[video] 10:35 of like why you would be considered a handsome guy by Korean standards. So you also have what's considered like a small face. So in Korean society, when people say you're beautiful or you're handsome for men or women, one of the things they'll comment on is like, wow, you have such a small face. Basically what it means is like, if you look at the proportion of your face to the rest of your body, like it looks smaller, right? And so that's what people mean by having a small face. It has a lot to do with proportions. And of course you have like a very defined jawline. So I think in that regard, it's not too different from what the standard would be for men anywhere you go in the world, right? And then for women, This is like super stringent standards. There is like a specific angle of like your forehead to your nose and then an angle of like your nose to this part of your face right here. And so like those angles are all like measured according to like what's called the golden ratio or the Fibonacci sequence.

11:21 If you are, I think, over 60... That's probably why they are getting all of those nose jobs there. The question is... Is it how Koreans are actually supposed to look like, or is somebody pushing this standard on purpose? I don't know. I'm not from Korea, obviously. I've never been there. I couldn't possibly tell you how you are supposed to look like if you're from there, seeing as I'm from somewhere completely else.

[video] 11:59 I would say like four kilograms. You're considered like chubby. 64 kilograms? Yeah, for a Korean woman. Regardless of the height? Yeah, regardless of the height too. Yeah, it's tough because nowadays Korean women, like they are also conscious of like their breast size, but because like naturally Korean women just don't have a lot of like subcutaneous fat, it's hard to get that naturally. So one of the most common procedures that women will get is like breast implants, right? And it's like, again, sometimes you can kind of tell because it's like you have a very skinny woman, but her like breasts are large and it's kind of like, well, how do you get that? That's kind of like, I would say the most,

12:31 It's obviously all because of the rice seed-based diets that people used to eat in those regions. Nowadays, Korean people are developing a lot better than the North Koreans, for example. When you compare them, they are also much taller. The men obviously strive for that.

[video] 12:56 flooded with more zero calorie stores on every corner, plastic surgery ads everywhere, and impossible beauty standards at every turn. These are the kinds of signs that you see in front of every single gym. Like talk about a transformation. Like I don't think I've ever related so hard to a before side of a transformation in my life. Like when I see this, I don't see motivation or inspiration. I just see pressure. So these ads on the wall, this is not possible to be attained naturally. You can get it naturally, but there are some markers that show that it is plastic surgery. So for example,

13:28 But this girl on the right side... What do you think about it? I don't think that she looks normal, so to speak. It looks AI-generated, fake, photoshopped, call it whatever you want.

13:53 Hmm. Maybe I just don't get it because I'm not from there.

[video] 13:57 Bridge is kind of what I was talking about earlier of like that ideal angle that like women want. And then this like pointed nose and this angle from like here to here again, more often than not, you actually need an implant to get that pointy nose because it's very rare to see that like just naturally through genetics. And then the husky blue eye.

14:16 It's rare to see it naturally. Then why would you want that? It just doesn't make any sense. And blue eyes also makes no sense. The people there are going against their own nature. And again, the question is who is pushing all of this? Some Korean people in the government? I doubt it.

[video] 14:38 It just seems like a huge business.

14:45 This is what I got out of the video so far. There's very huge businesses behind it, so to speak. As in people who have an interest for you to get plastic surgery, use a lot of makeup, get all of these procedures done.

[video] 15:06 A lot of women will feel self-conscious going out and not wearing lenses because it's just become so commonplace. So would you say anime has a big impact on the style and how people look? I think it has a lot more to do with Korea is such a trend-driven country. So if they see like, oh, you know, this influencer that I follow on social media started wearing colored lenses. Like, I want to do that too. Yeah, and then, like, trends just move so fast. So we're walking by a bunch of these markets, and the clothing is so small. It's insane. On this tag over here, it says F, which stands for free. So free size is basically the idea that, like, it's, like, stretchable. So if you're a Korean person, you should be able to

15:43 It looks like it's made for a child.

[video] 15:45 It's like one size fits all. Yeah, but as you can see here, it's not a very friendly size for a lot of foreigners, right? I feel like I'm at a pet store shopping for my dog. Yeah, I was going to say, I feel like in the States, I'd see this at the children's place. I think that if I went into a store and asked for my size, they would just hand me a salad or something. That is crazy. I don't even think my quad could fit in that. Yeah, I think that's actually, you're right. Yeah, that's like the size of one of your quads. That's literally my quad. I have a mini schnauzer at home. This would fit him, I think. But we wanted to see if the men's clothes had more realistic sizes.

16:18 So I kind of want Will. If you're that underweight as a woman, it's unlikely that you're fertile. And again, then you have to wonder who's pushing this.

[video] 16:30 To try this one, because it says here OF, which stands for overfit. And it's the idea that it's a baggier fit, so... Yeah, I don't know, man. I literally cannot fit my head through it. There is a button if you want to unbutton that thing there and see if you could pull it through. There we go. I mean, I can get it on. Like, if a Korean dude was wearing it, it's supposed to be very loose, but now you just look like a private school kid. Yeah, the private school boy. That's supposed to be, like, a baggier fit, I believe, but you make it look like a regular fit. Yeah. Yeah. I only have to fly halfway across the world for my calves to feel above average.

17:00 Right, but if Will wouldn't go to the gym all the time, then he would fit right in there. And actually, it would be loose.

[video] 17:10 For the fact that this is oversized, I kind of feel fat. Dieting alone can't always get you the body that you want, which is why Korea is packed with beauty clinics promising to speed up the process. Hi, we just wanted to see, like, if you have, like, a menu of different, um, like, fat loss options. Lipolysis injection. So these are kind of, like, the fat-melting injections that I talked about. So they got, like, stuff for double chin over here, um, contouring for the face. And it's, uh, $99,000 for a session. So that would be, like...

17:35 Koreans eat a lot of raw animal foods. If they would eat even more of those foods, then they wouldn't have to worry about their weight, the fat.

[video] 17:46 around, right now with the exchange rate, maybe, no, not even, maybe like $70. So this is specifically targeting arms, thighs, abdomen. It's very popular, because again, it's hard to actually do the work of eating properly, moving properly, right? But it's like, why do all that when you can just melt it off? And the proportions that people want to see are literally impossible to get, so you have to do it this way. That's right, because you can't target fat loss through natural means, right? You guys want to see Lear, the ampoules, right? This is the Lear injection, one of the most famous. You're actually killing off a part of your body which you got because you ate too much unnatural food.

[video] 18:36 try to do another thing, more smoothly. This is kind of aggressive way to reduce fat. So what do you think of Korea's body image culture? Body motion. Actually, I like it because I get money from those kind of culture.

18:52 That's what I meant.

[video] 18:54 I don't think today is a super dangerous thing because, you know, cultures from the America or the Europe, they are really damaging their health. Ideal culture must be between the European style and Asian style. What's your opinions on Korean beauty standards? So, I'm French. I feel like it's much more standardized in Korea. When you moved here, did you look a lot different than you do now? So when I moved here, I was overweight, basically. There was kind of a pressure myself to fit in. Like in France or in Europe, you will never have, I'll say, kind of negative remarks. But in Korea, they'll be like, oh yeah, that's why you're fat. Also, they're a lot more like forward here. Yeah, exactly. Which, to be honest, is not that bad. Once I've lost weight, it's like much more direct also on the other way. If I did gain a little bit, people would make a comment straight away and say like, oh, you gained some weight. And the whole reason to make that comment is like I noticed you or like I care about you. And so you're supposed to feel good, like you're supposed to be like, oh, she noticed and like she really cares about me and she thinks I should lose weight for my health.

[video] 19:49 Koreans are a lot more direct with how you look because I feel like in North America, if someone gained weight, you wouldn't really say it, but maybe you just like think it. So here they actually...

19:56 It's not as if there's anything directly unhealthy about having the fat. It's that you can link it to all kinds of diseases, and that's because you will become fat when you eat unnatural food. It's not as if the fat itself somehow magically makes you sick.

[video] 20:20 Well, that is pretty good because it means that people actually say what they think. They probably don't in a

20:44 many other cases, but at least they do when there's something off about you, which will pretty much always mean that you don't look optimally healthy. As long as you don't go overboard and believe that looking like a skeleton is healthy, really, it's the way it should be.

[video] 21:08 So you look like you lost weight. Do you like how forward people are in Korea? Or what do you think about that? Could you ask her to tell me the first thing she thinks about?

21:29 right but they are not actually being rude obviously they simply literally say what they see it's not as if they lie to you you lie to people when you say that you look completely fine even though you don't oh excuse me and do not worry i won't get offended

[video] 21:54 We were longtime friends, and you saw me for the first time, what would you have to say to me? There's a golden proportion of your face. I learned recently, it's like 1, 1, and 0.8. So maybe your bottom is a bit long, like this part. My bottom's a bit long? That's it? You could get some facial for your skin. Is it hard being a girl in Korea?

[video] 22:21 It's interesting that they still talk behind people's backs even though they already say so much in your face.

[video] 22:52 with people normalizing under eating and fearing calories just to chase an unrealistic look, like calling 130 calories a meal or using formulas like height minus 120 as a body weight goal. So I spoke with a K-pop singer who had to stay anonymous to avoid backlash about what that pressure actually feels like behind the scenes. Do you think there's a lot of pressure on you to be skinny? Yes, for my fans. Is that good? I don't think so, but they need it. It's interesting that these so-called K-pop stars don't try to change anything and that's because they can live comfortable lives. Why would they complain?

23:43 They may not like it deep down, but they want to have a good life. They want to provide for their families also. Why would they say anything to jeopardize that?

[video] 23:56 Why do you think are related to the K-pop culture? Yeah, I think so. So the girl back in the cafe said that she needs to be skinny for her fans. Does that make sense to you? Oh yeah, 100%. I would imagine that a lot of her success is going to depend on her followers and fans hyping her up, sharing her music, and just continuing to engage with her content. But if she were to gain weight, then they're just going to lose all interest in her. Regardless of talent? Oh yeah, regardless of talent. Because it's just kind of like, no matter how talented you are, it's not like I couldn't find 15 other people who are equally as talented as you. So if you want to make it, you have to be talented and you've got to be beautiful. And you've got to be a great dancer.

24:28 criticized for having a belly again it sounds like they are pushing infertility and uh the birth rates everywhere are going down although some people are being targeted more than others well not everywhere i shouldn't say everywhere in some countries uh

24:54 I better not say in which ones the birth rates are actually going up, but it's very few, very specific ones. And then in the other ones it's going down. What's the connection?

[video] 25:04 What would you say is like a big factor in Korea's low obesity rate? Would you say it's all lifestyle or any like genetic components to that? So I think one of the things that people don't know is that in addition to the social pressure that there is to stay thin and stay healthy, East Asians have a way lower subcutaneous fat cell count than our Western counterparts.

25:26 And this is quite common in Korea, where you'll see like those skinny fat... How can you have a fat cell count?

25:34 That's such nonsense.

[video] 25:38 So we are going to see how easy it is for me to go to a clinic, get a prescription, and get some Magovi. Let's see. Is it here? Here. Oh, shit. Wow. It might be busy. Yes.

[video] 25:50 What's the name that you use in Korean? Will. I just walked in, said my name, gave my ID, and it's good. Do you have a preference of Igovi or Manjaro? What does he recommend? He said then you would have to get a consultation with the doctor. I'd like to see him here right now. Right now. Is it a long wait? I don't think it's going to take that long. Okay. We're in the waiting room right now for the weight loss drugs. Everyone in here is supposed to be for the same thing. People are just coming in, asking for it. You're like, yeah, just take a seat, keep it with the doctor, and you're good.

26:16 The doctor will probably say, oh, you are big boy, you need it.

[video] 26:21 So, we're going to have a prescription in like 15 minutes. We're just going to wait here. Okay. After I gave the doctor my height, weight, and goal, he implemented my stats into a BMI chart and called me obese. Which he is, of course, by definition.

[video] 27:01 And he kept adding lower weights until it put me in the normal category.

[video] 27:12 The doctor is telling me I have to lose 15 kilograms or 33 pounds without any sort of background knowledge of my medical history or even my body composition.

27:20 Oh, he looked so super sick here.

[video] 27:26 As fat and muscle ratios greatly impact your BMI score, and these lax measures are causing serious harm. And just like that, within a matter of minutes, I got a prescription, adding to Korea's major drug misuse problem. Oh, she's asking if you want to get the injection here right now. No, I'll do it later. Yeah, yeah. All right, so this is pretty insane. We got it super easily within like 10 minutes. And there it is. So the doctor said I need to get to 75 kilograms, which now that I'm thinking about it, that's below my bodybuilding contest weight. So I think I would actually die. Yeah, you'd be like 168 pounds. That's how much I weigh, and I'm 5'8". Yeah, so they don't look at your body fat percentage. They just go like, okay, height, weight, you're obese. And then there's no other discussion about, like, do you work out consistently? Here you go. Obviously, because none of this is about health. It never is.

[video] 28:35 It's clear Korea is facing a serious issue that can't be ignored. The relentless pressure to look a certain way, combined with the deeply ingrained culture of body shaming, is quietly taking a toll on people's lives. Over time, it doesn't just affect how you see yourself, it consumes your thoughts entirely. And eventually, you give in.

28:51 It's interesting how Will almost seemed to be shocked when he looked at what's going on in Korea. But when he looks at what's going on in Canada, where he's from, the US, Europe and so on, then he doesn't seem to notice anything. Men are told that it's good to be overweight and even obese, Do you have trouble breathing when you simply go out for a walk, when you do normal everyday activities? That's fine because you're a bodybuilder. You go to a gym and push and pull metal for no reason at all. But if you're better at it, then you are a better man. He goes to Korea and talks about these people who simply tell you what they actually see when they look at other humans.

29:44 And he portrays them as weird because they simply talk about this actual reality. They don't ignore it. They don't try to sugarcoat everything. Am I saying that what's going on in Korea is normal? No, as I said in this video, it's not normal whatsoever. But that part is normal. It's natural to do that because you're simply talking about what's actually going on in this reality.

30:19 It's also problematic in the so-called West, and as we can see also partly in Korea and in many other places, they tell men that it's fine to be overweight. It's even good to not have a natural body. And in Korea, they also do that. But they more so tell women that it's fine to be underweight. What happens if you're overweight or underweight? You may become infertile. And then the question is, why are they pushing this in certain places? Of course, you will generally feel unhealthy, depressed. You will experience a lot of problems. When you look at underweight and overweight people, then when it comes to strength, fighting, and your survival, you will see the same problems. Really,

31:16 If you would go through all of the points, you would pretty much over 90% of the time see the same problems when it comes to overweight and underweight people. Because when you are not at your natural weight, then you will always experience problems. Thanks for watching.