Face-Dunking Fitfluencer Ashton Hall Promotes ‘The…
What in the stereotype-soaked stunt is this???
Say what you’ll about viral fitness influencer Ashton Hall, but the brotha has already gone from amusing the web with bizarre, outlandish exercise routine videos to formally selling a Hollywood movie, with a bizarre, outlandish exercise routine video—fried chicken and watermelon and all.
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This time, Hall has teamed up with actor Glen Powell, who stars in the upcoming movie The Running Man, which is predicated on Stephen King’s 1982 e-book of the identical title, but there’s a short second in Hall’s exercise video that’s raising eyebrows.
From KTLA:
To promote his upcoming film, Glen Powell met up with Hall for a routine of their own. The routine was uploaded to Instagram early Tuesday morning.
“From IG reels to the Big screen,” the caption stated. “‘The Running Man.’”
It begins off with Hall dunking his face in a bowl of lemon ice water.
After toweling off with some completely positioned Clean Towels.
At 8:54 a.m. he opens up his laptop computer on his desk and provides the ending touches to a doc titled “Glen Powell ‘Running Man’ Training Routine.”
The digital camera cuts to the 2 males assembly and starting their coaching.
At 9:31 a.m., they strap on their weighted vests and get to work. An hour later, they take off for a run. However, it appears the pair skipped out on Hall’s well-known sprints.
Then at 12:19 p.m., the influencer heads to the flicks where he’s served fried chicken and watermelon as he’s seated to watch the trailer of the Maverick: Top Gun 2 actor’s new movie, The Running Man.
Now, off the highest, you, me, and most likely Dr. Umar Johnson are all asking the identical evident query:
Why TF is this man in this video with a plate of fried chicken and a bowl of watermelon chunks?
Sure, a Black man all of a sudden leaning into Black stereotypes while selling a white-led film that had nothing to do with Black stereotypes looks like some Sunken Place-agacent (uncle)tomfoolery — but, to be honest, Ashton Hall is…attention-grabbing.
Back in March, Hall earned the web’s collective side-eye by posting a video purported to show his morning fitness routine, which begins at 4 a.m. and consists of him doing morning push-ups on his balcony, burying his face in a bowl of ice, sprinting at high speeds on the treadmill, swimming for roughly 20 minutes (4 minutes of which have been, apparently, spent suspended in mid-air from the diving board), wiping his face off with a banana peel, burying his face in more ice, brokering some random business deal over a Zoom call, and then being served breakfast by somebody all-camera. Also, for some purpose, the polarizing influencer made sure we watched him brush his tooth. (I don’t know why we couldn’t have just assumed that was half of the routine.)
He’s also apparently fairly fond of watermelon and is seen eating it in his videos.
Look, I do know none of this explains the chicken and watermelon, but, come on, y’all — this is strictly the type of dude who would randomly pop up with chicken and watermelon with no further context.
Shout out to Ashton Hall for making it to the film advert business, though.
The Running Man hits theaters on Nov. 7.
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