Barbarian Bikini Armor - Ridiculous or Sort of "Realistic"?

Obviously fantasy barbarians are cool. And as fictional characters they can have whatever arms, armor, and clothing (or lack thereof) that the artist or writer feels like creating. On the other hand internal consistency in a particular RPG / video game / movie / comic book / novel scenario helps immersion. Some outfits don't necessarily make sense even within the logic of that world.

So time to go full over-analyzing nerd and have a chat about how convincing certain barbarian outfits are, or how practical they would be if they existed in real life...

This is a response to Shadiversity's video ("Can the Fantasy Barbarian / Bikini Armor be realistic?")
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Iw_RD_h6bc
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