I really like the format of these forums. Unfortunately today it's all about Instagram and such. I really hate IG lol even though I'm on there too. Just quick dopamine hits, no patience for anything else.
Guys like Animal are at their best when they're not on their home turf and can get challenged a bit.
Yea, at one time he was posting more on Anabolic Fitness that I was a Mod at, than he was his own forum. This was early 2000's. He would do his ranting and posting, then somebody would ask a question or challenge him, and he'd go on another rage of posts, and most were of good quality. However, he was easily agitated if somebody questioned him, and he couldn't edit or ban the guy from our forum, so he would either have to resort to good posts, or his posts were edited (not removed) from him cussing people out. He was active there for a good while, then eventually, like most places, he was banned for inappropriate behavior (after like 1,000's of warnings). Lots of potential, but he was his own downfall. He was real active back in the 90's at a few places, and I knew him most at EliteFitness back in the 90's where guys like Pat Arnold, Bruce Kneller, Duchaine, Derek Cornellius, Hulkster, and many others posted. Most of them were on the MFW newsgroup prior to that, then migrated over to some of the forums. He and Duchaine couldn't stand each other...but that was the case with most people and Animal. After EF, he bounced around a few forums before opening his own. In the 90's on EF, and then early 2000's, as I mentioned on another post, he was part of dispelling the 2-on-2-off and short cycles, and often called them Fango-Wango cycles. He was a smart guy, an innovator of sorts, but has been stated already, he was his own worse enemy. There were many guys who were smarter than he was, but many were not willing to put into place actions that Animal did. He was willing to openly talk about stuff, but also put into place actions to follow and 'obtain' things, and I think that is what set him a part from other nerdy guys. Add in a mega poster with an abrasive attitude, and you have Animal. I can't say anything about him over the last 10-12 years, as he pretty much was exclusive to posting on his forum, which I lost access too from inactivity. I'm still saddened of his death, there were some good times in the hecticness, but I hope he finally has peace, it didn't really ever feel like he reached it here in our world. People who never witnessed "Animal," missed out on a whole era, for better and worse. He was a pioneer of the online community for sure....one unique fukker.
I hear ya on IG and social media....can't stand them! I use FB for contacting old friends, reading a few articles, some news, and genealogy searches, but that's it. I only go to IG to read DC's posts, and i don't have a twitter or anything else, lol. I'll forever be a board junkie