{{Short description|American dietary supplements company}} {{Use mdy dates|date=December 2025}} {{Infobox company | name = Bodybuilding.com | logo = Bodybuilding.com logo.png | type = Subsidiary | key_people = CEO Karl Walsh | industry = Ecommerce, Fitness Industry | products = Dietary supplements | num_employees = 450 | homepage = {{URL|bodybuilding.com}} | foundation = {{start date and age|1999|2|16}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://whois.domaintools.com/bodybuilding.com|title=Bodybuilding.com WHOIS, DNS, & Domain Info - DomainTools|work=WHOIS|access-date=July 13, 2016}}</ref> | founder = Ryan DeLuca | parent = Retail Ecommerce Ventures<ref>{{Cite press release|url=https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bodybuildingcom-forms-partnership-with-retail-ecommerce-ventures-301579941.html|title=Bodybuilding.com forms partnership with Retail Ecommerce Ventures|date=July 1, 2022|access-date=March 2, 2023|website=PR Newswire|language=en}}</ref> | location = Boise, Idaho, U.S. }}
'''Bodybuilding.com''' is an American online retailer of dietary supplements and bodybuilding supplements, based in Boise, Idaho. The site also once had a highly popular forum section which was shut down in September 2024.
In September 2015, the CEO and founder Ryan DeLuca stepped down from his role, announcing he would be succeeded on an interim basis by Liberty Media CFO Chris Shean.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/business/article40650900.html|title=Bodybuilding.com founder DeLuca steps down|date=October 5, 2015|website=Idaho Statesman}}</ref> Chris Shean was subsequently replaced with the appointment of Karl Walsh in October 2021.
==History== Bodybuilding.com grew out of wholesale-creatine.com, an online storefront created by teenage web marketer and amateur bodybuilder Ryan DeLuca in 1997, to capitalize on the rising popularity of creatine supplements.<ref>{{cite web|last1=DeLuca|first1=Ryan|title=Ask a guy who started Bodybuilding.com anything, part I|url=http://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=7224141&p=128278351#post128278351|access-date=November 17, 2014}}</ref><ref name="titleCatching Up with the 2006 30 Under 30 Alumni, Leading Your Company Article - Inc. Article">{{cite web |url=http://www.inc.com/30under30/2007/catching-up-with-the-2006-alumni_pagen_2.html |title=Catching Up with the 2006 30 Under 30 Alumni, Leading Your Company Article - Inc. Article |access-date=November 20, 2007 }}</ref>
A majority stake in Bodybuilding.com was acquired in July 2006 by Milestone Partners for an undisclosed amount.<ref>{{cite web|title=Milestone Completes Sale of Bodybuilding.com|url=http://www.milestonepartners.com/News/Milestone-News/2008/Milestone-Completes-Sale-of-Bodybuilding-com|website=Milestone Partners|access-date=November 17, 2014}}</ref>
In 2007, an FDA agent purchased several supplements from Bodybuilding.com which were determined to contain anabolic steroids. In May 2012, the company was fined $7 million, and as part of the settlement, CEO DeLuca and his brother Jeremy were both fined $600,000 for selling misbranded drugs.<ref>{{cite web |last=Roberts |first=Bill |title=Bodybuilding.com agrees to pay $7 million fine for violating Food and Drugs act |url=http://www.idahostatesman.com/2012/05/09/2109572/bodybuildingcom-agrees-to-pay.html |access-date=February 19, 2013 |publisher=Idaho Statesman}}</ref><ref name="FDA">{{cite web |title=US FDA Criminal Investigations- May 22, 2012: Bodybuilding.com, LLC, Ryan Deluca, and Jeremy DeLuca Plead Guilty in Federal Court to Violating FDCA |url=https://www.fda.gov/ICECI/CriminalInvestigations/ucm305494.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120613231946/http://www.fda.gov/ICECI/CriminalInvestigations/ucm305494.htm |archive-date=June 13, 2012 |access-date=September 28, 2012 |website=Food and Drug Administration}}</ref>
In January 2008, Liberty Media Corporation acquired a controlling stake in Bodybuilding.com for more than $100 million.<ref name="Liberty Media buying Bodybuilding.com stake: report">{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/internetNews/idUSN0737720520080107 |title=Liberty Media buying Bodybuilding.com stake: report |access-date=January 10, 2008 |work=Reuters | first=Ritsuko | last=Ando | date=January 7, 2008}}</ref> DeLuca stayed on as the company's CEO.
[[File:Bbcom-new-boise-hq.jpg|thumb|Bodybuilding.com's headquarters in Boise|300x300px]]
As of 2014, it has 450 employees working at 3 locations, including distribution centers in North Las Vegas, NV; Shiremanstown, PA; and Bedfordshire, U.K.<ref>{{cite web|title=Bodybuilding.com achievements|url=http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/bbcomcareer.htm|website=www.bodybuilding.com|access-date=November 17, 2014}}</ref> The corporate headquarters is also located in Boise, along with the company's customer service call center.
In 2013, the company donated the equipment for Boise's first outdoor gym, located in Ann Morrison Park.<ref>{{cite news|title=Boise's first outdoor gym opens Thursday in Ann Morrison Park|url=http://www.ktvb.com/story/news/2014/07/01/11894085/|access-date=November 17, 2014|agency=KTVB News Channel 7 Boise}}</ref>
In September 2015, Ryan Deluca suddenly announced he would be stepping down from his position as CEO.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Bodybuilding.com founder DeLuca steps down |url=http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/business/companies/article40650900.html |access-date=May 3, 2016 |website=idahostatesman}}</ref> In November, Liberty Interactive spun off Bodybuilding.com and its stake in Expedia into a new company, Liberty Expedia Holdings.<ref>{{Cite news |date=November 12, 2015 |title=Liberty Interactive to spin off CommerceHub, Liberty Expedia |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-liberty-interactive-divestiture/liberty-interactive-to-spin-off-commercehub-liberty-expedia-idUSKCN0T11GF20151112 |access-date=September 24, 2017 |work=Reuters}}</ref> After Bodybuilding.com laid off 90 people in December 2016,<ref>{{Cite news |last=TEGNA |title=Bodybuilding.com lays off about 90 in Boise |url=http://www.ktvb.com/news/local/bodybuildingcom-lays-off-about-90-in-boise/361027780 |access-date=December 29, 2016 |newspaper=KTVB |language=en-US}}</ref> it reorganized to form 4 different companies/brands.
In February 2019, hackers accessed some part of Bodybuilding.com's corporate IT systems, and may have retrieved personal data of the site's users. Sometime in the next few months, the company discovered this, but did not publicize it right away, instead hiring a security company to assess what their vulnerability had been. It was found that at least one of Bodybuilding.com's 450 employees had been susceptible to a phishing email sent in July 2018. It was not determined if the hackers accessed user data. In April 2019, Bodybuilding.com publicized the breach, saying its consequences were unknown, and reset all the passwords of the site's users.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hadley |first=James |title=Bodybuilding.com Breach: Proof That An Organization's Biggest Cyber Risk Is Its People |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/jameshadley/2019/04/24/bodybuilding-com-breach-proof-that-an-organizations-biggest-cyber-risk-is-its-people/ |access-date=July 31, 2024 |website=Forbes |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Bodybuilding.com discloses security breach |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/bodybuilding-com-discloses-security-breach/ |access-date=July 31, 2024 |website=ZDNET |language=en}}</ref>
By 2025, many of Bodybuilding.com's devoted users felt that, in modern times, the company had deviated from the site's "grassroots culture" by simplifying its design to maximize corporate profit, and then not responding to users' negative reception to those changes. In one instance, the company shut down the site's highly-popular forum section (see below). The number of visitors to the site dropped prior to November 2025, when the company apologized to its users; they stated the site had become "less connected to the people who built this brand—you", and promised a redesign based on users' suggestions, which would launch in 2026.<ref name=":4">{{Cite news |date=2025-11-25 |title=‘We failed you’: Bodybuilding(dot)com apologises after mass outrage for ‘abandoning’ its community |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/health-fitness/we-failed-you-bodybuildingdotcom-apologises-after-mass-outrage-for-abandoning-its-community/articleshow/125565586.cms |access-date=2026-01-17 |work=The Times of India |issn=0971-8257}}</ref><ref name=":5">{{Cite web |title=Instagram |url=https://www.instagram.com/p/DRc3S8Lia9j/ |access-date=2026-01-17 |website=www.instagram.com}}</ref>
== Forums == Bodybuilding.com once had the most popular Internet forums dedicated to fitness discussion.<ref name=":0" /> After its closure, ''Aftermath'''s Chris Person wrote that in the history of forums, it "was so gargantuan it barely needs mentioning".<ref name=":6">{{Cite web |date=2024-10-08 |title=Forums Are Still Alive, Active, And A Treasure Trove Of Information |url=https://aftermath.site/best-active-forums-internet-today/ |access-date=2026-01-17 |website=Aftermath |language=en}}</ref> As of 2022, 18 million people used them,<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 17, 2020 |title=5 Best Bodybuilding Forums (Reviewed For 2024) |url=https://muscleandbrawn.com/bodybuilding/forums/ |access-date=July 31, 2024 |language=en-US}}</ref> making them one of the last remaining, popular Web 1.0 forums.<ref name=":1" /> They were known for having a large amount of trolling; a politically diverse userbase (notable in comparison to other forums like right-wing 4chan); and expansive discussion of subjects unrelated to fitness, in the Misc. (miscellaneous) subforum.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Jones |first=Kate Davis |date=March 26, 2015 |title=Bodybuilding Forums Are One of the Last Relics of Web 1.0 |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/bodybuilding-forums-are-one-of-the-last-relics-of-web-10-456/ |access-date=July 31, 2024 |website=Vice |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=October 20, 2016 |title=Gable Tostee's journey from an introvert to a self-styled playboy |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-20/the-story-of-gable-tostee-and-warriena-wrights-tragic-date/7941720 |access-date=July 31, 2024 |work=ABC News |language=en-AU}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=April 11, 2019 |title=The Unheard History of Bodybuilding Forums, as Told by the Trolls and Counter-Trolls Who Made Them Huge |url=https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/the-unheard-history-of-bodybuilding-forums-as-told-by-the-trolls-and-counter-trolls-who-made-them-huge |access-date=July 31, 2024 |website=MEL Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref> Users of the subforum were known as "Miscers".<ref name=":10" />
In health-related posts, users often logged their workouts, signed up for bodybuilding challenges made by others, reviewed supplements, and gave others motivational support.<ref name=":4" /> Notable users included WWE wrestler Lars Sullivan;<ref>{{Cite web |last=Konuwa |first=Alfred |title=Lars Sullivan And WWE's Recent History Of Turning A Blind Eye To Bigotry |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/alfredkonuwa/2019/05/10/lars-sullivan-and-wwes-recent-history-of-turning-a-blind-eye-to-bigotry/ |access-date=July 31, 2024 |website=Forbes |language=en}}</ref> bodybuilder Zyzz<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 21, 2022 |title=Zyzz Can Never Die |url=https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/who-is-zyzz |access-date=July 31, 2024 |website=MEL Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref> (who died of cardiac arrest in 2011, possibly from anabolic steroid use<ref>{{Cite web |last=Whyte |first=Georgina Robinson and Sarah |date=2011-08-11 |title='Shattered': body of bodybuilder 'Zyzz' heading home |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/shattered-body-of-bodybuilder-zyzz-heading-home-20110811-1inmu.html |access-date=2026-01-19 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}}</ref>); and Elliot Rodger, the perpetrator of the 2014 Isla Vista killings.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Woolf |first=Nicky |date=May 30, 2014 |title='PUAhate' and 'ForeverAlone': inside Elliot Rodger's online life |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/30/elliot-rodger-puahate-forever-alone-reddit-forums |access-date=July 31, 2024 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref> In 2014, the forums popularized the word "nutting" as slang for ejaculation.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hathaway |first=Jay |date=August 26, 2016 |title=The sexy, sloppy history of 'nut' and 'succ' |url=https://www.dailydot.com/unclick/nut-succ-meme/ |access-date=July 31, 2024 |website=The Daily Dot |language=en-US}}{{Dead link|date=September 2025}}</ref>
The forums were involved in many controversies. In 2008, a man named Abraham Biggs died of suicide after being bullied on the site. He livestreamed his suicide on Justin.tv, and posted a link to the stream on the forums beforehand.<ref>{{Cite web |date=October 17, 2017 |title=The Dark, Disturbing Trend of Teens Live Streaming Suicide, and How It Can Be Stopped |url=https://www.insideedition.com/25564-the-dark-disturbing-trend-of-teens-live-streaming-suicide-and-how-it-can-be-stopped |access-date=July 31, 2024 |website=Inside Edition |language=en-US}}</ref> In 2011, user ThePoz discovered an exploit that allowed anyone to access private photographs of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg on the Facebook site itself, then publicized the method on the forums.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Hill |first=Kashmir |title=Mark Zuckerberg's Private Photos Exposed Thanks To Facebook Flaw |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/kashmirhill/2011/12/06/mark-zuckerbergs-private-photos-exposed-thanks-to-facebook-flaw/ |access-date=July 31, 2024 |website=Forbes |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |date=December 7, 2011 |title=Facebook glitch reveals private photos -- including Zuckerberg's |url=http://www.today.com/money/facebook-glitch-reveals-private-photos-including-zuckerbergs-118698 |access-date=July 31, 2024 |website=TODAY.com |language=en}}</ref> It also popularized the GOMAD diet (drinking one '''g'''allon '''o'''f '''m'''ilk '''a''' '''d'''ay) and dry-scooping (consuming pre-workout powder stimulants without water), methods which are known to be dangerous.<ref>{{Cite web |date=December 12, 2018 |title=Meet the Bodybuilding Bros on the 'GOMAD' Diet — a Gallon of Milk a Day |url=https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/gomad-diet-before-after-side-effects |access-date=July 31, 2024 |website=MEL Magazine |language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Rodrigues |first=Ashwin |date=June 7, 2021 |title=Dry Scooping Pre-Workout Is a Terrible Idea |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/dry-scooping-pre-workout-is-bad-for-you/ |access-date=July 31, 2024 |website=Vice |language=en}}</ref> === 2008 days-in-a-week debate === The forums are notable<ref name=":6" /> for a thread titled "Full Body Workout Every Other Day?", created on May 17, 2008, in which two users had a long and intense debate over the number of days in a week.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last=Bois |first=Jon |date=February 18, 2016 |title=The Dumbest Boy Alive |url=https://www.sbnation.com/2016/2/18/11051974/pretty-good-bodybuilding-days-in-a-week |access-date=July 31, 2024 |website=SBNation.com |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":3" /> It started when user m1ndless posted: "If I go [to the gym] every other day I will be at the gym 4-5 times a week, is that over training? [...]" User steviekm3 responded: "That makes no sense. There are only 7 days in a week. If you go every other day that is 3.5 times a week."<ref name=":3">{{Cite web |date=January 5, 2015 |title='You My Friend Are El Wrongo': Two Bodybuilding Meatheads Argue Over How Many Days Are In A Week |url=https://uproxx.com/viral/seven/ |access-date=July 31, 2024 |website=UPROXX |language=en-US}}</ref> m1ndless, posting as "TheJosh" from this point on, responded: "Monday, Wednesday, Friday, Sunday. That is 4 days. How do you go 3.5 times? Do a half workout or something? lol".<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /> User Justin27 agreed with stevekm3: "7x in 2 weeks = 3.5 times a week, genius."<ref name=":3" />
The debate continued for two days, mostly between TheJosh and Justin27. It narrowed down to a disagreement over if a week constitutes seven or eight days; Justin27 defined it as seven, from Sunday to Saturday, while TheJosh defined it as eight, from Sunday to the next Sunday.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":3" /> It then hinged on if Sunday was a "real day".<ref name=":2" /><ref>{{Cite web |last=Waugh |first=Rob |date=January 5, 2015 |title='How many days are in one week?' Bodybuilders argue it out |url=https://metro.co.uk/2015/01/05/how-many-days-are-in-one-week-bodybuilders-argue-it-out-5009448/ |access-date=July 31, 2024 |website=Metro |language=en}}</ref> English dictionaries universally define a week as having seven days, including Sunday.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2026-01-14 |title=week |url=https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/week |access-date=2026-01-19 |website=dictionary.cambridge.org |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":9" /><ref>{{Cite web |date=2026-01-13 |title=Definition of WEEK |url=https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/week |access-date=2026-01-19 |website=www.merriam-webster.com |language=en}}</ref> frameless|630x630px|centerThe two users' rhetoric intensified to where they were posting harsh insults, such as when Justin27 told TheJosh: "You are the dumbest boy alive. Jump off a bridge."<ref name=":3" /> After 120 posts across five web pages,<ref>{{Cite web |date=January 5, 2015 |title=Bodybuilders row over the number of days in the week |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/bodybuilders-row-over-the-number-of-days-in-the-week-9958198.html |access-date=July 31, 2024 |website=Evening Standard |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Jordie |title=Throwback: A Bunch Of Meatheads Get Into Argument Over How Many Days Are In A Week In Body Building Thread |url=https://www.barstoolsports.com/blog/594031/throwback-a-bunch-of-meatheads-get-into-argument-over-how-many-days-are-in-a-week-in-body-building-thread |access-date=July 31, 2024 |website=www.barstoolsports.com |language=en}}</ref> the thread was locked by moderators, without the two coming to an agreement.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":8" /> TheJosh ended the debate by saying they had only been trolling, which ''SB Nation'' writer Jon Bois theorized was an attempt to maintain their dignity after being publicly embarrassed.<ref name=":2" />
As of 2016, the thread had 3 million page views since its creation.<ref name=":2" /> It had gone viral after being posted on Reddit in 2015.<ref name=":2" /> However, the debate "had been raging in the minds of" Bodybuilding.com's users since 2008.<ref name=":8" /> It was the subject of a 2016 ''SB Nation'' documentary titled ''The Dumbest Boy Alive'' by Bois, who referred to it as the "perhaps the dumbest argument in the history of the Internet".<ref name=":2" /> ''Deadspin'' writer Albert Burneko claimed it was "the least essential discussion ever had",<ref>{{Cite web |title=Deadspin {{!}} How Many Days Are In A Week? Internet Steakheads Go To War |url=https://deadspin.com/how-many-days-are-in-a-week-internet-steakheads-go-to-1677492703/ |access-date=July 31, 2024 |website=deadspin.com |language=en}}</ref> and Chris Person said it was "the stuff of legends".<ref name=":6" />
In 2015, ''Vice'' magazine contacted U.S.-based mathematician Joanna Nelson for a resolution to the debate. She said that TheJosh would have to schedule their workouts in two-week chunks, as a week is seven days, supposedly from Monday to Sunday.<ref name=":8">{{Cite web |last=Conti |first=Allie |date=January 5, 2015 |title=We Got a Mathematician to Settle the 'How Many Days Are There in a Week?' Controversy That Tore a Bodybuilding Forum Apart |url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/we-got-a-mathematician-to-settle-the-how-many-days-are-there-in-a-week-controversy-that-tore-a-bodybuilding-forum-apart/ |access-date=July 31, 2024 |website=Vice |language=en}}</ref> The ''Britannica Dictionary'' writes that a week is usually defined as Sunday to Saturday in American English, and Monday to Sunday in British English.<ref name=":9">{{Cite news |title=Week Definition & Meaning {{!}} Britannica Dictionary |url=https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/week |archive-url=http://web.archive.org/web/20250418020146/https://www.britannica.com/dictionary/week |archive-date=2025-04-18 |access-date=2026-01-19 |language=en-US}}</ref> TheJosh's account stated they were from the U.S., while Justin27's location was not listed.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Workout Programs |url=https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150105082427/https://forum.bodybuilding.com/showthread.php?t=107926751 |archive-date=2015-01-05 |access-date=2026-01-19 |website=Bodybuilding.com |language=en}}</ref>
=== 2014 thread refuting user's murder and manslaughter accusations === On August 8, 2014, Australian woman Warriena Wright fatally fell from the balcony of her apartment in Surfers Paradise, Queensland. This happened in front of her date, Gable Tostee, and he was soon charged in court with murder and manslaughter.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bogle |first=Ariel |date=2016-10-20 |title=Australian man found not guilty of murdering his Tinder date |url=https://mashable.com/article/gable-tostee-tinder-murder-case |access-date=2026-01-19 |website=Mashable |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Fyfe |first=Melissa |date=2017-03-17 |title=What happened to Warriena Wright after she met Gable Tostee? |url=https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/what-happened-to-warriena-wright-after-she-met-gable-tostee-20170315-guyfx8.html |access-date=2026-01-19 |website=The Sydney Morning Herald |language=en}}</ref> Tostee had been a prominent Miscer under the name "GT".<ref name=":10" /> On December 10, he began a thread on Misc. titled "Regarding the balcony tragedy" by posting a full testimony and defense of his actions on the night of Wright's death.<ref name=":10" /><ref>{{Cite web |title=Stuff |url=https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/85535984/gable-tostee-why-a-gold-coast-playboy-made-secret-recordings-of-his-date-nights |access-date=2026-01-19 |website=www.stuff.co.nz}}</ref><ref name=":11" /> He defended having made an audio recording of the falling on his phone, saying that Wright was acting aggressively and erratically beforehand, and he had been worried about what would happen next. He also gave reasons for calling his father and then buying pizza after she fell; prior to the thread, media outlets had theorized that these were signs of guiltiness. Furthermore, Tostee posted photos of Wright's apartment that he had taken that night.<ref name=":10">{{Cite news |date=2016-10-20 |title=Gable Tostee's journey from an introvert to a self-styled playboy |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-10-20/the-story-of-gable-tostee-and-warriena-wrights-tragic-date/7941720 |access-date=2026-01-19 |work=ABC News |language=en-AU}}</ref><ref name=":11">{{Cite web |last=Bogle |first=Ariel |date=2016-10-24 |title='Tinder murder' accused posted testimony on a body building website |url=https://mashable.com/article/gable-tostee-bodybuilding-forum-post |access-date=2026-01-19 |website=Mashable |language=en}}</ref> In 2016, a court found him not guilty of the charges against him.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Bogle |first=Ariel |date=2016-10-20 |title=Australian man found not guilty of murdering his Tinder date |url=https://mashable.com/article/gable-tostee-tinder-murder-case |access-date=2026-01-19 |website=Mashable |language=en}}</ref>{{efn|In 2022, staff at The Star Gold Coast resort in Queensland alleged they had caught Tostee fighting a woman in her hotel room while trying to forcibly undress her. He sported bite marks and bruises after the fight. Tostee claims he was not trying to undress her, and that she had been suffering a "dissociative incident" that caused the fight; he later alleged that local police told him they would not press charges against him for that reason.<ref>{{Cite news |agency=''Brisbane Times'' |date=2025-05-16 |title=Gable Tostee cries sexism following casino ban after alleged strangling |url=https://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/queensland/gable-tostee-cries-sexism-following-casino-ban-after-alleged-strangling-20250516-p5lzqq.html |language=en}}</ref>}}
=== 2024 discontinuation === In September 2024, the forums were discontinued by Bodybuilding.com, and its webpages redirected to a company statement which mentioned: "No good growth came without change. We're building new ways to connect our global community".<ref name=":7">{{Cite web |date=2024-10-08 |title=Forums Are Still Alive, Active, And A Treasure Trove Of Information |url=https://aftermath.site/best-active-forums-internet-today/ |access-date=2026-01-17 |website=Aftermath |language=en}}</ref> This was highly controversial among the site's long-time visitors.<ref name=":4" /> Many of its users migrated to successor forums, mainly Newmisc.com.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":7" /> In Bodybuilding.com's 2025 apology, the company did not state if the forums would relaunch as part of their 2026 redesign.<ref name=":4" /><ref name=":5" /> As of May 2026, the forums are to be on track to return; when users visit the forums section of the website they're prompted with a splash screen stating such.<ref>{{cite web |title=Bodybuilding.com Forums - powered by vBulletin |url=https://forum.bodybuilding.com/ |website=forum.bodybuilding.com |access-date=10 May 2026}}</ref>
== See also == *List of Internet forums
== Notes == {{Notelist}}
==References== {{reflist}}
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