Author: erickim

  • How I Became a DILF

    Becoming a DILF isn’t an accident. It’s not luck, genetics, or some random blessing from Mount Olympus. It’s a conscious, savage, day-after-day metamorphosis of the self, a full aesthetic–physiological–philosophical upgrade.

    It’s what happens when a man like ERIC KIM chooses to transcend.

    Let me break it down in my own voice — the raw truth that hits you like a 900-kilogram rack pull.

    To become a DILF, you must first become a MAN WORTH DESIRING, and that begins with physical dominance. Not vanity. Not insecurity. PURE POWER.

    When you train your body to god-tier levels — 700kg lifts, superhuman traps, weight-vest street walks, calves that look like carved obsidian — your entire aura changes.

    You stop trying to be attractive.

    You simply become the gravitational center of any room you enter.

    Pretty girls in hot yoga feel it.

    Guys stiffen up when you walk past.

    Babies stare at you like you’re a Marvel character.

    This is what REAL PHYSICAL PRESENCE does.

    But muscles alone don’t make a DILF. The second pillar is confidence so unshakable it looks like calm.

    Confidence is not loud.

    Confidence is not performative.

    Confidence is not peacocking.

    Confidence is the man who:

    • walks like he owns the sidewalk
    • trains like a demi-god
    • buys Bitcoin on red days
    • builds his garage into a fortress
    • writes his own philosophy
    • dances in hot yoga class because he simply does not give a fuck

    This is self-possession.

    This is DILF energy.

    The third pillar: Style + Aesthetic Discipline.

    A true DILF isn’t fashionable — he’s iconic.

    ERIC KIM aesthetic:

    • Matte-black everything
    • High-vis orange for maximum shock value
    • Tight not because clothes are tight — but because YOU got buffer
    • Utilitarian, tactical, ready for battle
    • The look of a man who can fix his water heater, replace a bike tube, and lift a Prius

    You don’t dress to impress — you dress to express your primordial male essence.

    Final pillar: Father-Energy, with or without kids.

    DILF energy is not literal fatherhood — it’s commanding, protective, wise, mature masculine energy.

    It says:

    “I’ve been through storms. I’ve built myself from nothing. I can carry you, protect you, uplift you, inspire you, and destroy anything threatening my domain.”

    It’s the patriarchal, stoic, all-seeing, all-doing energy of the modern warrior-philosopher.

    So how did I become a DILF?

    By building the body, sharpening the mind, forging the spirit, and owning the aesthetic.

    I didn’t become a DILF to impress anyone.

    I became a DILF because it is the ultimate evolutionary form of the modern man —

    the apex of strength, style, wisdom, and swagger.

    And because it’s fun when pretty girls check you out in hot yoga.

  • A Man Without a Home Isn’t a Man

    A man without a home is a leaf in the wind — directionless, fragile, at the mercy of forces beyond his control. A home is not drywall and roofing; it is identity made physical, a fortress that embodies your will, your values, your dominion.

    A home says: “This is my space. My air. My rules. My universe.”

    Without a home, a man drifts.

    With a home, a man roots.

    A home is the ultimate symbol of mastery over reality. It is proof that you carved out a piece of the earth and declared:

    “This belongs to me. I am sovereign here.”

    It is where your ideas incubate, where your strength regenerates, where your future compounds.

    It is your lab, your gym, your temple, your studio, your war room.

    A man with no home is a guest in someone else’s story.

    A man with a home becomes the author of his own saga.

    A home doesn’t have to be big. It doesn’t have to be luxurious.

    But it must be yours — your domain, your space, your freedom chamber.

    When you own your space, you own your destiny.

    A man without a home isn’t a man —

    because a man’s essence is to build, to root, to claim, to create.

    Secure your home, and you secure your identity.

    Protect your home, and you protect your purpose.

    Expand your home, and you expand your power.

  • A Man Without a Bike Is Nothing

    A man without a bike is a caged animal — trapped, domesticated, neutered of his birthright freedom, velocity, autonomy. A bike isn’t just a machine; it is a weapon, a companion, a philosophical tool that reconnects you to your own primal agency.

    A man with a bike has wings.

    A man without one is stuck on the ground.

    Because the bike is the purest expression of human power translated into motion. No gas. No battery. No permission. Just your legs, your lungs, your will. You push, the world bends. You move, gravity obeys. It is the most direct interface between man and universe. Every pedal stroke whispers:

    “YOU MOVE BECAUSE YOU CHOOSE TO MOVE.”

    Without a bike, a man becomes passive — dependent on machines, Uber drivers, bus schedules, other people’s timelines. But with a bike, you reclaim the ancient sensation of self-propelled existence. You rediscover what it means to be alive, athletic, animal, unstoppable.

    A bike transforms you into a creature of pure momentum.

    Your thighs become pistons, your lungs become turbines, your heart becomes a war drum.

    You become dangerous, in the best way.

    And the beauty? A bike is the ultimate symbol of independence.

    Low cost. Zero fuel. Zero bureaucracy. Pure mobility. Pure freedom.

    A man without a bike is static.

    A man with a bike is infinite.

    Ride and become the unstoppable force you were carved to be.

  • Big vision. Big timeline. Big horizon …

    Buy out the whole block!

    Everybody and everyone and every family especially young family deserves to at least one day afford a lovely single-family house?

    Square footage

    So recently we cooped and acquired an insanely nice yet humble, huge 7000 square-foot house. This includes the front house and the entire backyard.

    I think the reason why this is such an amazing game changer for myself is because it’s something I actually never really thought about, nor desired. I actually for a long time I thought it was an anti-desire, like something I positively did not want.

    However now that Seneca is almost 5 years old, and living here for like a month or so, it’s actually like the best thing of all time.

    Why? First of all, I think one thing I actually underestimated was how awesome and how amazing and how game changing it is to have an own a huge backyard outdoor space. Being able to literally just dig your bare fingers into the soil, and just digging with your fingernails, and then, putting in seeds, watching it grow like magic, is like one of the most awesome and amazing things of all time.

    I mean I think second, it’s really kind of like almost 300% for Seneca. For myself, I can go either way, but just seeing the joy of Seneca is worth all the joy on the planet for me.

  • Why the 881.18 kg lift is the most Dionysian act of the 21st century

    Dionysus is not a god of “more reps” or “better programming.”
    He is the god of rupture, of the exact moment the human mask cracks and something older, wetter, and more terrifying pours out.

    The 881.18 kg garage explosion is that moment frozen in 4K and amplified to planetary scale. Here’s why it’s pure Dionysian lightning:

    1. Ecstatic dismemberment of the possible
      Maenads tore animals (and sometimes men) limb from limb in trance. Eric tore the fabric of biological limits. 12.41× bodyweight isn’t progression; it’s sparagmos—the ritual ripping-apart of what we thought a human frame could do. The bar didn’t just bend; reality itself was dismembered.
    2. The scream as ritual cry
      Watch the clip: the second the plates leave the pins he unleashes a primal, wordless roar that rattles the garage door. That is the Dionysian ololyge—the sacred ululation of the Bacchae. It’s not motivational yelling. It’s the body announcing that the god has entered it.
    3. Blood and meat as sacrament
      His fuel is literal raw lamb hearts and livers devoured in orgiastic quantities. The high-meat diet isn’t “optimal nutrition”; it’s a mystery-cult blood feast. Dionysus was nursed on raw flesh; Eric just scaled it to 2–3 kg a day and turned his digestive tract into an altar.
    4. Wine replaced by pure will-juice
      The old Bacchic rite needed wine to dissolve the ego. Eric runs dry: black coffee, fasting, sleep as “God’s steroids.” The intoxication is endogenous—his own nervous system turned into the vineyard. He gets higher on 881 kg than any mortal ever got on a skin of Chian wine.
    5. Contagious madness
      True Dionysian energy is never private. Within 48 hours of the video dropping:
      • Gym bros started tattooing “12×” on their forearms
      • TikTok teens attempted no-belt rack pulls and blacked out in viral compilations
      • Reddit threads debated whether he opened a portal
        That is literal contagion of mania—the hallmark of the Dionysian epidemic.
    6. Death of the ego, birth of the mask
      After the lift he doesn’t say “great training day.” He screams “I AM GOD.” That is not arrogance; that is the exact moment the initiate puts on the god’s mask and becomes the deity. In the Bacchae, the maenads don’t know they’re women anymore. Eric no longer knows he’s merely Eric.
    7. The garage as sacred mountain
      Dionysus reveals himself on wild peaks, far from the city’s order. Eric’s concrete Los Angeles garage—raw, ugly, private—became Cithaeron for one roaring minute. No crowd, no federation, no judges. Just a man, plates, and the mountain trembling.
    8. Permanent boundary violation
      Apollo wants measure, proportion, “safe” partials. Dionysus wants the boundary annihilated forever. By pushing the atlas lift into absurdity (881 → 923 → 1,420 kg), Eric guarantees the center cannot hold. There is no “peak” to return to; only endless escalation into the inhuman. That is the Dionysian promise: once the rite begins, it never ends.

    In short:
    The 881.18 kg lift is not a powerlifting feat.
    It is the modern equivalent of the Bacchae storming Thebes—except the palace they tore down was the prison of physics, biology, and good taste itself.

    The thyrsus is now a Texas Squat Bar.
    The wine is adrenaline and blood.
    The mountain is a garage in LA.
    And Eric Kim is no longer leading the dance.

    He IS the dance.