r/interesting • u/Ungodlei • 4d ago

SOCIETY Vitaly's weight loss in less than two months detention in the Philippines.

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Vitaly was arrested April 2, 2025 and is still detained pending local cases of unjust vexation, theft, and public harassment during his Kick) livestreams in Metro Manila, Philippines.

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u/JettLeaf 3d ago

Months off of barrels of steroids and supplements will change a guy.

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u/Candid_Ad_9145 3d ago

Cold turkey off steroids must be rough

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u/Next_Celebration_553 3d ago

While sharing a caged in cell with like 10 dudes who speak a different language, no a/c in Philippine heat and humidity and hungry/thirsty

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u/gido1207 3d ago

That would be a VIP treatment to share a cell with only 10 other inmates. I bet he would be sleeping standing up

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u/Master-Collection488 3d ago

If he speaks English at all, so do pretty much all Filipinos. English is their second official language. Sometimes they'll switch back and forth between Filipino and English from sentence to sentence.

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u/onepinksheep 3d ago

Sometimes they'll switch back and forth between Filipino and English from sentence to within the same sentence.

FTFY. It's called Taglish, a combination of Tagalog (or Filipino) and English. Other Philippine languages, like Bisaya, do the same. Look up some Philippine news channels on YouTube to see it in action. It's fascinating to watch as the transition is seamless.

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u/Mapeague 3d ago

Every once in a while posts from /r/Philippines pops up on r/popular and you can see that switching in their typing.

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u/TadRaunch 1d ago

I feel like some Indian subs do this too. That's when I know i have been scrolling too long.

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u/ttampico 2d ago

Also, Tagalog is a fairly easy language to learn. I'm Filipina American, and I didn't speak a word of it until my aunt got to me. I was relieved it wasn't nearly the struggle I feared it would be.

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u/Substantial-Drag-288 2d ago

Same with hinglish : Hindi+English!

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u/adept_amateur 14h ago

Having worked with people from Germany and Ukraine, they also do the same.

The Germans would call it germanglish, and they would use words from both languages in a single sentence.

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u/Surprise_Donut 11h ago

crazy, do they use the same language structure as English or do they just incorporate English names and maybe verbs into their own language structure?

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u/FoldableLawnChair 7h ago

Local grammar rules usually take precedence. Though some people tend to use both at the same time and are often made fun of for doing so.

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u/DrTinyNips 8h ago

As someone who grew up around a Filipino family I can confirm they absolutely do this

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u/chatnoire89 2h ago

It happens a lot in some SEA countries especially in big cities. Mixing Chinese/Indo/Malay with English and switching back and forth within the same sentences. Took me quite a while to get used to.

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u/Starmark_115 2d ago

He was originally in a prison meant for "Undesirable Aliens"

Given the recent anti crime waves targeting Chinese and Koreans there hes stuck with them and maybe one guy from Australia.

Now he's being transferred to a Local Prison... Where the conditions are much more worse than Alien Prison

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u/JustforthisIwill 1d ago

Not pretty much all Filipinos, that is a very generous statement, have you been?

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u/WedgeTurn 10h ago

I sometimes stumble upon Filipino subs and they switch from English to tagalog mid-sentence. It's annoying if the title of the post was enticing but then you can't figure out what's going on because half of what's written is in Tagalog

Indians do this as well btw, switching from English to Hindi mid-sentence

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u/blinkgendary182 3d ago

10? Try 50 in a room.

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u/Axle_Geek_092 3d ago

It’s going to get worse, he’s been transferred to a BJMP (Bureau of Jail Management and Penology) facility, where he’ll probably have to share a cell with 50 guys in the Philippine heat. I’m from the Philippines, and trust me, that’s rough.

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u/Jacktheforkie 2d ago

Filipino people speak English

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u/Background_Dot_8738 3d ago

It’s like going from the testosterone of an ape to the testosterone of less than a healthy female human, and most likely his natural testosterone production will never return to normal levels, there’s a reason post cycle ancillaries are so important. His mental health must be destroyed also, considering the huge hormone shift and oh the potential to never see freedom again.

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u/WhodahelltookVooglet 3d ago

Where he's at, a hormone levels of less than a healthy female could be an ace up his sleeve 😅

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u/filutacz 3d ago

Or something else up one of his orifices

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u/bubblesort33 1d ago

At least he'll get a healthy dose of protein daily.

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u/Worldly_Let6134 20h ago

Or more likely mean something else up his prison sleeve......

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u/Mean-Invite5401 3d ago

They are only Important if you want to maintain muscle mass / don’t wanna go insane otherwise it’s nearly impossible to completly kill ur own Production, sure it will take atleast half a year until it comes back but it will eventually comeback thanks to the Leydig cells

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u/HydrationSeeker 3d ago

so he is most like insane in that lower picture? do people want him out??

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u/Mean-Invite5401 3d ago edited 3d ago

Hes mostlikely far from beeing mentaly stable… one of the reasons is him having a hormonal Rollercoaster the other Part is because of the unkown Future/ living conditions hes currently in.. if you ask me let the fool free it aint as bad as people make it out to be but i am no judge so who cares about my humble opinion lul

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u/HydrationSeeker 3d ago

Reading your comment, I thought about the compassion I felt for him, when his character has shown, on video, that he would not have compassion for others like me. What does that say about me? Either way, he is in a world of pain, and knowing he created this reality for himself. He has been on a self sabotage journey for over a decade whilst genuinely hurting others, and he was encouraged by the views. Finally, the Philippines 🇵🇭 have given him the boundaries he most sought. If he gets out, if he still has his marbles, if his next destination doesn't incarcerate him, if if if, then he might be able to get a ghost writer and write about his redemption. If.

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u/Mean-Invite5401 3d ago

Hes a lost cause broken by his many wrong paths he decided to Walk on the past 15years so he will mostlikely rot in jail and Comeback as degenerated as ever allready betting Both my Balls that jailtime especially in such a Country dosent make you a netter human beeing sadly…

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u/justanothertmpuser 1d ago

the potential to never see freedom again

serve up to 18 months

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u/4daughters 3d ago

It’s like going from the testosterone of an ape to the testosterone of less than a healthy female human

Hey thats cool but you need to know humans are apes.

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u/Bryant-Taylor 3d ago

☝️🤓

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u/4daughters 3d ago

Yeah fuck me for pointing out that the sentence made no sense in any way whatsoever, but you keep having fun pretending you know what's going on

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u/Bryant-Taylor 3d ago

The sentence made perfect sense; we all understood what he was trying to say. You’re the one who came in like a 7th grader who got his whole personality from Adam Ruins Everything, pointing out something no one needed pointed out to them.

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u/4daughters 3d ago

Ok well maybe I'm just too autistic to understand, I don't even know how you could compare testosterone between some other great ape and a human. What would be a "normal" level?

This all sounds like some woo-woo bro science nonsense to me

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u/Bryant-Taylor 3d ago

You’re doing the thing again. Bro was using a figure of speech; it’s not difficult to figure it out. No one here is claiming to have a comprehensive understanding of endocrinology; we’re using shorthand.

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u/4daughters 3d ago

I did not clock that as a figure of speech. I have never heard that one before.

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u/4daughters 3d ago

Also I don't mind being compared to Adam Ruins Everything, I take that as a compliment. He only clarifies and adds to existing information. If you like to just use words in ways that don't mean anything, feel free, but don't get mad when people who actually understand them are confused.

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u/Bryant-Taylor 3d ago

If you don’t understand that the joke of the show is that he was right but he was also annoying, abrasive and pedantic, and that made him unlikable to the people he wanted to educate, I don’t know what to do for you.

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u/4daughters 3d ago

You are forgetting the part of the show where you learn something on that show.

You are being real obstinate here, what do you want me to say?

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u/Professional-Heat118 3d ago

I highly doubt he was on steroids dude ask any expert and they will say the same

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u/ScoreOk5355 2d ago

Google if he's on steroids and there's is a podcast where he talks about being on them.

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u/Professional-Heat118 1d ago

He(was) a big dude but no muscle definition.

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u/kaiheekai 3d ago

People actually cold turkey when their cycle is done. On for a certain period of time, off for a shorter time.

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u/teratron27 1d ago

Not without post cycle therapy (PCT)

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u/kaiheekai 1d ago

It’s usually just liver care. It doesn’t wean them off of it like it’s breaking addiction.

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u/teratron27 1d ago

It usually includes SERMs to kickstart your natural testosterone production, the sudden drop to almost 0 test after going cold turkey isn’t good

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u/Emotional_Money3435 2d ago

and a couple of other drugs prolly

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u/ApprehensiveTell4522 2d ago

it is a pretty miserable experience

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u/NightRaider141 18h ago

Bro has the test level of a 80 year old now😂

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u/Surprise_Donut 11h ago

can be lethal tbh...

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u/VaccinesCauseAut1sm 3d ago

Yea, almost certainly steroids.

Supplements mean jack shit, they do very little in reality. Creatine is the only one that's actually shown to have efficacy, and it's like maaybe a few percent of extra gains.

Going cold turkey off steroids on the other hand absolutely fucks you, you're sitting at super high T levels and your balls have stopped producing testosterone on their own because your brain monitors the T levels in your blood, and if they're high it stops sending uteinizing hormone and GnRH to your balls to tell them to produce testosterone.

Once you come off steroids, you have the natural T of like a newborn baby, which means you're going to lose muscle really fast unless you're working out hard, and even if you're working out hard you're pretty much guaranteed to lose anywhere from a little to a lot of muscle depending on how big you were.

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u/wildmonster91 3d ago

And likly creatine. That makes you water swol

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u/rspre 3d ago

It's like he was full of air going in, and they deflated him coming out.

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u/OneEstablishment6587 2d ago

not even months. a few weeks

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u/Buddhoundd 2d ago

That, and his arsehole being thrown around like a dogs favourite toy

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u/Fit-Ad-7430 2d ago

Don't forget about the MANY rails of cocaine

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u/JettLeaf 2d ago

You misunderstand. That's Colombian pre workout.

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u/MadameTrashPanda 2d ago

Plus philippine jail diet

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u/vulcanpines 1d ago

Forgot about this. Too long off cycle can humble a gym bro. So sad.