context because this is kinda a terminally online meme:
A popular online “looksmaxxer” got a bunch of cosmetic surgery and people are making fun of how it isn’t worth it for male insecurities
This guy is an asshole and the hate is deserved. He shot an alligator on stream for views (which is illegal btw) and overdosed on stream and a bunch of other bad shit. Along with promoting insecurities/dangerous chemicals/steroids/treating women like objects/penis pumps/etc to children.
For those that don’t know looksmaxxing is a movement that expanded from incel culture and involves taking TRT (steroids) underage, smashing your face bones with a hammer, diy surgeries, etc. It is expanding massively online and creates a LOT of new words that Gen z use half ironically half unironically.
TLDR: Dumbass alpha male got a bunch of useless cosmetic surgeries and is ruining his life for views. People are making fun of him for it.
Imagine doing all this, just for Luigi Mangioni to be the real definition of an attractive male, and he isnt even out trying to be called pretty. He just is.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone go in for elective cosmetic surgery and come out looking better. There was end up looking like half melted shop mannequins.
Now he looks like he’s suffering from some bone wasting disease.
I’ve seen it, but the problem is twofold: Firstly subtle is better, adding a cup size using fat from elsewhere in the body or trimming a little bit of bone can look good because it’s not a radical change that looks artificially constructed. Secondly, it takes a long time to heal right, it looks worse while healing, and it can be easy to not notice the change over that time.
I’ve seen friends get facial feminization surgery and yeah, they look like a train wreck for a month but a year after surgery sometimes they look better. That said, you also usually need a surgeon willing to tell you no when you ask for too much.
It’s not the looks but the wealth expenditure.
Being able to spend ludricrously on the scam is a sign of power amongst the elite, and that’s only one half. The other half is the attention it provides and that’s an economy all on its own.
Material nihilism, where people realise there’s no point in hoarding so you gotta splurge AND hoard before you die.
The first thought whenever I see that guy is “Dennis Reynolds, but scarier”.
promoting insecurities/dangerous chemicals/steroids/treating women like objects/penis pumps/etc to children.
I had heard of hitting your jaw with a hammer, which is definitely all kinds of batshit insane, but in addition to Looksmaxxingn in general and this whole sentence sounding very Epsteinesque, aren’t penis pumps alleged to be the cause behind his distinctive egg shaped dick deformity?
For a better understanding of how Epstein used the internet and tech to target and undermine the education, mental health and well being of youth, (to clarify, this is in addition but not unrelated to his other criminal activity), I recommend the Behind the Bastards episode about Epstein and Activision.
Dude was strategically planning ways to use video games and social media to target America’s youth with the ultimate goal of creating a society of sexist, misinformed, uneducated, and insecure voters who would be willing to vote against their own interests and easier for the elites to control.
this is like mtm transmasc for cis men…
like how they call HRT TRT if its dudes taking testosterone
Is this a sentence that I might need to understand IRL, or is it just social media stuff?
(I don’t know if this question will be offensive, so apologies in advance if so.)
I meant that is like being trans for cis men - masculinising their bodies by taking HRT, and getting surgeries and stuff, except it’s to the gender they were already assigned at birth, so like male to male (mtm) transmasculine people, lol
Just a random thought though, not that important
Ahh I see. It’s like gender reaffirming surgery for a male to become… still male, but “more so”.
Thanks for clearing that up. Sometimes I feel like a boomer trying to keep up, lol
I just watched Channel 5 interview with him. Before I thought that he is stupid and trashy. He actually seems very smart but a bit misguided.
a bit
Charismaxxing is where it’s at. It literally gets you everything you want in life.
Nice. Which part of my face should I smash with a hammer to get that!?
I prefer ethicsmaxxing. I’m okay with being hated if I know I’m doing the right thing.
Feeling like you’re doing the right thing does not strictly require ethics.
The best part about getting old with a beer belly is being in a loving relationship with someone who can see past that and not caring at all. The last time I smashed my face with a hammer was never.
Sucks to be young people these days, though.
I’m old with a beer belly! Where do I claim my loving relationship?
I think that’s how the swingers movement started.
Weren’t there memes on lemmy just last week making fun of beautiful women who get cosmetic surgery? Dude seemed fairly attractive already but still felt the need for surgery. Unless it was a “if this video gets 10k likes I’ll get surgery” situation.
I’m so pissed he’s appropriating circuit queen culture for straight people. Like, acknowledge your roots!
The other boys will think he is so pretty 🫣
This is my take on it, too. The kinds of things these guys are doing seem to cater to the male gaze.
Developmentally, it’s pretty normal for adolescents to style themselves to impress their same-sex peers for a while before they start trying to attract romantic partners. Maybe these guys are in a state of arrested development, maybe they’re gay … but definitely they’re very troubled if they think hammering their facial bones is a good idea.
People like this (the guy in the topic, not you, Escape) are the kind of people to unironically say that liking women is gay.
So its 100% for the boys to think he’s a pretty pretty princess.
Bruh those legs are twigs.
Now.
https://www.boredpanda.com/looksmaxxer-clavicular-had-third-surgery-in-three-weeks-people-concerns/
I just can’t imagine what that child experienced that led to this. It’s a sickness.
He figured out that looks are insanely important in society (which is true) and tries to get maximum out of his potential in looks. I mean, he might actually fuck everything up as “experimenting” goes (i mean, using methamphetamine combined with steroids while also lightly hitting your face with a hammer is not usually called “experimenting”, it’s closer to “being a junkie”). He is a bad influence due to his “methods” for sure but figuring out that human society has ridicuolosly deep roots in lookism is not something that indicates “horrors that a child experienced”. You just have to pay a little bit of attention to surroundings during e.g. school, especially during high school and you can easily figure out that absolute most of social success comes from good looks (which comes from particular bone structure of your skull).
Should avoid that site. Its a bit of a plague of data sharing agreements.
Weird. I got options to reject cookies.
maybe we are europeans and they are not
Body Dismorphia.
After further reading, I’m convinced it’s probably his upbringing, coupled with that. Maybe slides along the B-C spectrum.
B-C spectrum?
I believe they are referring to Cluster B and C personality disorders.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Classification_of_personality_disorders
It’s all of our “upbringing”. Our society is shit.
The cycle repeats. The cycle continues.
You said it!
Happy cake day, btw
Is it? Thank you! ❤️🌹 This is my other cake day, I don’t recall when I began with Ernest (may he be blessed) and . social, whenever the r****t mod blackout/walkout was!
People forget that this affects men, too
“People concern”. Not me. I sleep fine.
Dude doesn’t even look all that good. This “looksmaxxing” stuff is just spicy body dysmorphia.
It really is. Dysmorphia must be getting so bad in boys now. We didn’t care when it was women but not that it’s making news cycles more means boys are being impacted.
im guessing he was suppose to be thiels new replacement BLOOD boy, after thiels previous one got defenestrated.
Clearly a young man with too much attention. Turn down the volume
