The supplement industry packages deception. Legal supps don't do shit. I'm not even convinced that whey is that great, though I've been taking it for as long as I've been lifting. Magazines perpetuate the myth that anyone can be big whereas most people just don't have the necessary genetic. Of course, "bodybuilding" magazines are for chumps.
In spite of the bullshit, I still enjoy bodybuilding and enjoy to some extent the bodybuilding culture. So in other words, it's somewhat bittersweet.