If there is one thing that both ends of the political spectrum would like us to believe, it’s that there is a crisis of masculinity these days. The narrative is that society stopped encouraging them to be alpha male providers, then Andrew Tate suddenly got wished into existence. While we all have different ideas of how this issue should be approached, there is one thing that is not up for debate: men will do some truly cringey things in the name of trying to prove their manhood.

Case in point is an amusing video that has been doing the rounds on Twitter, showing a group of men attending a fake military fitness bootcamp. Although all the participants seemed to be taking it pretty seriously, the wider internet took a dim view of this overwrought performance. Paying that much money just to make yourself suffer isn’t going to make you a better person.