How do stories get published?
Personal stories are published only with explicit written consent, captured through our intake form before anything is drafted. The form records permission to publish the story, permission to use any submitted photos, confirmation that the subject is 18 or older, and acknowledgement of takedown rights. No consent, no story.
How do roundups feature people?
Roundups cover public creators who document their own fitness journeys. We feature them through official Instagram embeds — we host none of their photos or videos. If a creator deletes or restricts a source post, the embed disappears from our page automatically. The analysis and commentary are ours; the visuals stay theirs.
Do you use AI to write articles?
Our stories are written the way they’re lived: by real people. Every article starts with a real person’s interview answers or their own public posts, and human writers and editors shape the story around them, with AI tools assisting the drafting along the way. Every article is reviewed and signed off by a human editor before publication — nothing is published unattended. Our drafting rules prohibit invention outright: no fabricated people, quotes, statistics or transformation numbers. If a fact isn’t in the source interview or public post, it doesn’t appear in the article.
How do takedowns work?
Anyone featured on The FitFolk can request removal at any time — no reason needed. Consented stories are removed within 48 hours of a request. Embedded posts are controlled by their creators: deleting or restricting the original post removes it from our pages automatically, and we will also remove the surrounding coverage on request. See how to request a takedown.
Do you use affiliate links?
Product links follow the same rule as everything else here: receipts first. A product appears on The FitFolk only when a real person vouches for it in public — a consented story subject’s own toolkit, a community thread we can link, or a documented brand relationship — never by editorial invention. Buy links point to Amazon; where they earn us a commission, the page says so in a clear disclosure line, and commissions never change what we list. Creators can curate their own picks by claiming their profile.