i remember my grandma showing me a film she liked from the sixties. it was a noir thing that included a scene in a seedy club. teenage me was astounded to see that the strippers were bigger than me. they had double hips and wide thighs and looked like people i'd seen in real life - and yet they were painted as desirable. i wasn't even larger than average, but i'd just never seen anyone that looked remotely like me in films/tv aside from as a joke.

the degree to which conventional beauty standards (despite often being considered objective) have changed is wild, and how much my reaction saddened my grandma is why i started trying to be nicer about myself. women like us have existed forever and always will

It's not even just plastic, the type of gear a lot of guys get on to get bodies like The Rock is coming home to roost in terms of the damage it does to the body. There's this older sci-fi film called Yor Hunter from the Future released in '83, right at the tail end of what you're talking about. B-movie. Not worth watching unless you like so bad it's good stuff. But you can see in the promotional photos what was "big" and muscular looked like during that time:

Not to brag, but I have comparable measurements from about a decade of program lifting. I still have people regularly surprised I've been lifting as long as I have because I don't look like a professional wrestler. I look like Yor. Because I'm natty and mostly lifting for fun and health. And now I see teenagers getting on chemicals while their bodies are still developing because they want to look like what they see in Marvel films and it's really sad.

It’s even infested amateur porn. Onlyfans now has everyday people pumping themselves with roids and plastic. It used to be the place you could look for more authentic porn that wasn’t made in a sketchy studio.

It's really obvious how 'looking good' to some people = 'an expensive look'

Not just plastic surgery, those massive sunglasses too where I can't see your face, am I supposed to find that hot

Taboo used to mean something! Now everyone is related!

Damn 80s bazinga bandonkas

The "natty" debate, but with boobs and butts.

BBL's are out of control these days

In the 80s bodybuilders became superstars