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“I realized that for a huge chunk of my audience, the workout was the foreplay,” Sham told me over a surprisingly bland kale smoothie. “The heavy breathing, the flush, the exhaustion that looks like vulnerability. They didn’t want the porn version of sex. They wanted the porn version of a PR.” This isn’t just marketing copy
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Meet “Sham.” He’s a composite of a dozen creators we spoke to: late 20s, chiseled but not freakishly so, with a following that treats his leg day video like a season finale. Sham started posting free workout tutorials on TikTok. Then he noticed something. The comments weren’t about his squat form. They were about the sweat pooling at his collarbone.