please, all you need to do is just take a look at any posts of mine that includes pictures i've made on here and my facebook in say the last 6 months, and compare them to the last 12 months after that to see if any word in my previous post is an attempt to appear "fake modest".
i've actually been working a lot on not posting half naked pictures of myself, even if the reason is one that is justifiable, like an update. once my body started to take shape i also started losing control on just how much i jumped on any opportunity that came along for me to post a half naked picture of myself. It was after user Lee said something to me in one of our chats last year that i finally saw just how much almost every picture i posted just translated into me bragging.
you know what the worst part of your post is Ballabrown24? just how much it is going to affect me. its rare that a post made on the internet can get to me. you can even hurl insults at my way and call me names and usually the best you'll get is a "heh" or a half smile from me, but your post is not even half an hour old and i can already feel its effects mentally.
its funny because just a few days ago at sakura Con i contemplated doing a shirtless, no vest version of Rock lee with his nun chucks for the 2nd day of the con, in fact it was something i thought about that whole week leading up to the con, but ultimately decided not to because of what i mentioned above about me working on not bragging visually (i know i still have a long way to go, but i was proud i stuck to fully clothed rock lee). Also this topic of abs didn't start a few hours ago, i've had time to be fake modest or brag if i wanted. When i saw that hyperbeam had posted an ab shot, i grabbed my phone and wanted to take a quick "ab flexing" shot, post it and hope for one of those events where someone posts a photo and then another person picks on that and a chain starts, but ultimately after about an hour of back and forth with myself i settled for the post you so easily criticized.
sorry i dont mean to shit out a sob story and i'm not asking for anyone to feel sorry for me. i am not going through a hard time, this is all just still a bit sensitive for me as i still work on this problem i clearly developed somewhere along the lines of my weight loss success. i am just sensitive on the matter more than anything right now, which is why i am sure your post will turn out to be one of the rare times a negative post on me actually gets to me. thanks brah