Arian Cantaya appeared on my Instagram recommendations at a June 2026 powerlifting competition. He doesn't say, but it looks like a 110 pound clean and jerk.
The guy is really proud of his physique. What parent-managed account posts pictures in the bathtub?
He's got 800,000 followers on Instagram and 1.6 million on Tiktok, so he must be famous for something besides flexing.
Wait -- is he modeling a Pride sweater?
Turns out that it's a Stella McCartney rainbow zip-up jacket. Stella celebrates LGBT designers, and has a line with trans models for Pride month, but she doesn't sell any clothes with Pride Flag motifs.
False alarm.
And taking dance lessons.
Especially dudes who dance with dudes.
Another false alarm -- Arian is dancing with a lady.
When Arian isn't flexing in his social media posts, he's hugging, holding hands with, and hanging out with girls. Either he's intensely girl-crazy, or his parents want us to think he is.
He has six acting credits, beginning with the short Un Pequeño Corte (2021): A girl faces "culturally imposed standards of beauty" and a Mean Boy (Arian, already evaluating the feminine).
Three episodes of The Gordita Chronicles (2022), featuring Emilia, a sassy immigrant gordita in 1980s Miami. She babysits Alvaro (Arian), an aspiring rap artist whose songs are about being hetero-horny:
Come and shake those bumpies
Juan Cardenas (left) plays her dad.
More after the break