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Dwayne Johnson Workout Hair Loss Joke

This is a two-panel comparison meme featuring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. The top text lists an extremely intense daily workout routine: 150 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats, and 30 km of running. The left panel shows a younger Dwayne Johnson with a full head of hair, smiling and posing casually. The right panel shows the more recent, significantly more muscular, bald Dwayne Johnson with a serious expression on a film set. The bottom punchline text reads "and ended up losing hair!". The joke references the popular plot point from the anime *One Punch Man*, where protagonist Saitama follows this exact workout routine to gain super strength, but loses all his hair as an unintended side effect, drawing a funny parallel to Dwayne Johnson's transformation over his career.
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150 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats, 30 km running everyday; and ended up losing hair!

Overview

This is a two-panel comparison meme featuring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson. The top text lists an extremely intense daily workout routine: 150 push-ups, 100 sit-ups, 100 squats, and 30 km of running. The left panel shows a younger Dwayne Johnson with a full head of hair, smiling and posing casually. The right panel shows the more recent, significantly more muscular, bald Dwayne Johnson with a serious expression on a film set. The bottom punchline text reads "and ended up losing hair!". The joke references the popular plot point from the anime One Punch Man, where protagonist Saitama follows this exact workout routine to gain super strength, but loses all his hair as an unintended side effect, drawing a funny parallel to Dwayne Johnson's transformation over his career.

Origin notes

This meme was shared on X (formerly Twitter) by the account @WholesomeMeme, under the original title "Hair or not... Still made it.". A small watermark for the Facebook page /SarcasmLol is visible on the right panel, indicating the collage edit was first shared on Facebook before being reposted to X. It is a derivative work based on the widely circulated One Punch Man workout routine meme format.

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