I didn't read the Quran till I joined the military and decided to figure out what this is about. My influence is largely Western, I try to be global. And the truth of this myth of the Western, strong male who doesn't feel, it doesn't map to reality for me.
And if you don't, I think you'd get that it's powerful. Everyone knows exactly what they're feeling if they've been through it. They're drunk, but at the same time, no one's embarrassed by that. And that's why they're okay with crying in each other's arms. That was awesome to see the vulnerable expression because when you think of the army, you think fearless, you think zero emotion.ĭG: And guess what, the truth is every guy in that video is a fucking warrior and is fearless, they are. VM: It speaks to also how society thinks men are supposed to be strong with suppressed emotions. I discovered COVID in basic training and knew nothing about it. I didn't see my parents for about eight months.
And then I spent basically a year in special operations training, doing crazy stuff, all during COVID. I went from living in Los Angeles as an influencer. I started choking up.ĭYLAN GEICK: I had a crazy 2020. Why am I getting emotional? When your friends are hugging like, "this is my brother" and he starts crying. VMAN: I literally just got done watching your YouTube vlog about your last day in the army. Read on in the exclusive interview with VMAN below: Slideshow Dylan wears Gucci shirt and shorts. Hailing from Chicago to the wrestling mats of Columbia University, and jet setting as a Los Angeles influencer to sleeping in unkempt army barracks while writing his latest works in poetry Dylan Geick is many of things, but he absolutely cannot be simplified. He is an embodiment of clashing complexities navigated by an enlightened consciousness that most of modern society will never come to terms with. He is a perfect enigma of contradictions where femininity and masculinity sing harmoniously, logic reasons with art, and war births tenderness. He often speaks out about the damage of social media and its ability to simplify people, ideas, and things that just have no business being simplified. Geick, however, is a special case despite his 678K followers on Instagram, over 200K subscribers on YouTube, and nearly 50K on TikTok. Despite Instagram's best efforts to regulate this by concealing the number of likes– the world values people based on social numbers. Humans are a highly complex species, which, due to societal norms, can be susceptible to apply categorical filters in order to give meaning, identity or value in the imaginary social media-based caste system we live in. But one would be remiss and undeniably stupid to attempt to confine him to labels. When you think of Dylan Geick, a few things come to mind: social influencer, for sure wrestler, of course and writer, most definitely. This feature appears in VMAN 46, now available to order.