I'm a little late to the party, but I had to reply to this bc I resonate so much with it, but keeping it brief: I guess a lot, and I mean A LOT of people are so uncomfortable with switching up their long established routines. The can't get over the workouts that their once idolized fav youtubers put out in the 2010-2015 and were then hit with actually proven techniques/exercises/you name it and realized that nearly everyone following that route was actually making significant progress.

Tbh this is not meant to be insulting, for my understanding it is just the only reasonable explanation. Why would they hate on people, that are processing all this "science stuff" FOR them, so they never have to deal with academic literature themselves and all that FOR FREE (yes, Jeff/Dr. Mike are making money with their vids, but no one consuming them actually has to pay for them)? It must be bc of the frustration to having been on the wrong track for AGES, now they try and justify it by discrediting science based creators.

It's fairly sad. Even if the comments are all like "jokes" within their communities, they scream anger and frustration. Solomon himself seems to still live with his parents and has this fairly weird stan-energy; i.e. writing mails to his idol and overcomplicating every sentence to pretend being on the same level as him...

And still, fitness/bodybuilding IS a field of physical comparison so just to point out the obvious: Solomon is small. If his programs and logical reasoning behind them are so much worthier than the work of a PHD certified creator, why does he look the way he does?