Ryan Williams @koreanscot on Twitter

OneEightSeven

Back in 2011, I decided to give up drinking and smoking and started lifting weights. As I'm putting on muscle mass, an old foe reappeared: my height neurosis. I'm only 5' 8" and I've felt insecure about my height since I was 16 after I realised I've stopped growing. Watching my friends outgrow me and being around taller women triggered my height neurosis. Putting on muscle on exacerbated this. I started looking up ways to grow taller when I discovered cosmetic leg lengthening surgery and a now-defunct message board named Make Me Taller. On this forum, they discuss doctors around the world who preform this surgery and some of them documented their leg lengthening journeys by typing out a journal on the forum.

The doctors would break their tibia or femur, place external frames on them, or internal nail in their bone, and the patient would stretch their legs until they've reached their goal. The doctors recommend stretching your leg by .25mm a day an never lengthen their bones more than 6 or 7cm.

The surgery is expensive. About 6 figures in America, some folks would travel to India to have it done due to the lower cost of living. They would stay at a guesthouse while they lengthened their legs and heeled up enough to go home. Normally, you're in crutches for about a year.

There was one particular patient, a guy from Scotland, who caused many issues in the guesthouse. He masturbated to porn in front of everyone, he assaulted the staff members and talked shít behind others patients' backs. The guy was disliked by the other members of the guesthouse. He also lengthened 2mm a day, which 8 times faster than the recommend rate. If you stretch your legs that much, you run the risk of a non-union because your bones won't rejoin together.

So, one day in late-2013, I was reading a journal on the forum when I noticed he posted his email address. So I popped his email into Facebook which brought up his profile. It was a profile of a Korean man named Ryan Williams and he was sitting on Table Mountain in South Africa. The guys on this forum are very protective about their identities as they're embarrassed about their height neurosis and their desire to surgically increase it, but Ryan allowed someone to post a picture of him and, while I didn't see the photo myself, I read someone describe him as Asian.

For him to being walking, let alone traveling to South Africa, is nothing short of a miracle; so, between that, his Korean ethnicity, Welsh surname and being from Scotland, things just didn't add up, so I though it was a fake profile or he changed the name to protect his identity. He got banned from the message board for spreading lies about the doctor who performed surgery on him and we never heard from him again.

That was until about 2 weeks ago, I saw a familiar name and face on a Twitter video. I can't remember which video or tweet I recognised him from, but he was featured on Sky News Australia and Tommy Robinson tweeted about him. He's now an anti-Islam activist and has nearly half a million followers on Instagram; so you happen to see this guy around, there's his backstory.

https://twitter.com/TRobinsonNewEra/status/1969957379916653016

Kimbot

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