Looksmaxxing Shows You How Much America Has Rotted Culturally

One of the unfortunate things about being on X way too often is that you’re constantly exposed to news about people you neither like nor care about. If you’re wondering who those people are in my case, this small, but noteworthy list of words I have muted gives you some hints:

At the risk of sounding like Grandpa Simpson talking about new cultural fads…

…I’d like to note that I have seriously considered adding a lot of streamers on there as well. You might say, “Streamers? What are those? Like who?”

Streaming is live broadcasting to an audience, and among some of the more famous people doing it are Asmongold, Pokimane, Destiny, XQC, Adin Ross, iShowSpeed, Kai Cenat, HasanAbi, MoistCr1TiKaL, Sneako, N3on, QTcinderella, ExtraEmily, Jack Doherty, and Jynxzi.

You might be thinking, “Wow, do I need to listen to all these fresh new voices to find out what’s going on in the world?”

No, you absolutely do not.

Other than Asmongold, who seems to spend most of his time gossiping and posting things like, “This is brutal,” and “She’s done for good after this” mixed in with sometimes surprisingly insightful commentary, pretty much every other clip you see from all these people is them saying outrageous things, doing crazy stuff, getting involved in some controversy, getting arrested, talking trash about each other, etc., etc. In other words, completely valueless garbage. I will give a partial pass to iShowSpeed and Kai Cenat, who are both loud and wildly emotional, but at least somewhat likable; otherwise, it’s hard to even know what the appeal of most of these people is. I’ve never heard a clip of any of them saying anything smart or worthwhile, and half of them come across like the extremely annoying character you root for the killer to decapitate first in a horror movie.

All that being said, there is one particular streamer I was forcibly exposed to who has caught my attention because that person could be said, in a roundabout way, to be the personification of much of what’s wrong with our culture.

His name is Clavicular and the first time I heard of him was when he deliberately ran over a “stalker” who was throwing himself on the hood of his car:

After running over him, someone in his stream said, “Is he dead?” He coolly replied, “Hopefully.”

In any case, the police declined to prosecute, and he seemed pretty unapologetic about deliberately running over someone:

Clavicular is a “Looksmaxxer.” Certainly, there’s nothing wrong with improving your appearance. In fact, everyone could probably benefit from that, at least to a certain extent.

However, Looksmaxxing takes this concept to the extreme. In Looksmaxxing, looks are EVERYTHING. In that way of looking at the world, your looks determine where you stand among other men, among people in general, and even determine your worth as a human being.

It’s like the Greek myth of Narcissus, who was so in love with his own beautiful reflection that he stared at it until he wasted away, but portrayed it as a VIRTUE:

So, what is Clavicular’s life like?

Well, he apparently has a very contentious relationship with his parents, which he seems to bring up a lot:

He says they don’t support anything he does:

Perhaps that’s related to the fact that he recently overdosed on air while he was livestreaming:

To give you a little more background on Clavicular, here’s an excerpt from a GQ article about his adventures in Manhattan:

Clavicular took it further than anyone else: he claims to have smashed his face with a hammer to make bones regrow sharper, smoked meth to curb his appetite, and performed “dick-ups” by placing weights on his penis to maximize girth and erection strength. At age 14, he’s said, he began injecting testosterone he’d ordered from the Internet, with no parental or medical oversight. Now his body can’t naturally produce it; he believes he’s currently infertile.

He has also mastered clipfarming, the strategy of doing such unhinged things on livestream that they get clipped and go viral on social media. In his Truman Show-esque daily streams, he gleefully says slurs and brutally eviscerates women’s looks. Just before Christmas, he appeared to hit a guy with a Cybertruck while streaming and driving, and said on camera that he hoped the guy had been killed. (No charges were filed.) In January, he popped out to a Miami club with the Avengers of far-right dorks and danced to Ye’s “Heil Hitler.”

...He’s used the risky anabolic steroid trenbolone, which is not approved for humans—just animals—and claims to have smoked meth to burn off flab (Did it feel good? “Of course, it’s fucking meth.”) His purported pill intake includes everything from beta blockers (for anxiety reduction) to minoxidil (hair growth) to melanotan II (sunless tanning) to retatrutide (appetite suppression). After just three weeks at Sacred Heart University, the school kicked him out when Looksmax users tipped them off about his habits, and steroids were found in his room.

...At one point, he recommended his audience try to reduce anxiety with baclofen, a muscle relaxer. In December 2024, while driving home from his job at a restaurant in Massachusetts, he crashed his car. On the Looksmax forum, Clavicular wrote that it was because he’d fallen asleep off the baclofen. “No comment,” his publicist says when I bring this up. “Oh yeah. It’s silly,” Clavicular adds. “How about we comment on the car crash where the driver fucked up my Sprinter? Bro, this fucking retard drives it under a bridge that says seven-foot clearance, and it’s a fucking Sprinter.”

...His first spotlight moment came in December, when he told the Daily Wire’s Michael Knowles that even though his personal politics hewed closer to JD Vance’s, he would vote for Gavin Newsom in 2028, because Newsom is hotter and Vance is “obese.”

So, let’s start pulling all of this together.

To begin with, Clavicular is making a lot of money, getting a lot of attention, being treated like a “star,” and he really does seem to be doing well with women:

In other words, Clavicular is perfectly checking all the boxes our culture is telling people it’s most important to hit. Fame, money, looks, women – that’s what winning is, right? If you have all that – and Clavicular does – you’re at the apex. It doesn’t get any better than that unless it’s having even more fame, money, looks, and women.

Right?

Yet, this guy is a DISASTER of a human being.

He’s obviously got some serious problems with drugs. He’s practically the walking, talking definition of narcissism and shallowness. Is he immoral? If anything, it appears more like he’s amoral. He doesn’t seem to have any values that go beyond, “I want to do what I want, when I want to do it, regardless of how it impacts other people.” All those women who are attracted to him? Well, it’s questionable if he’s getting anywhere with any of them because he has publicly admitted that his drug habits have left him with serious erectile dysfunction at 20 years of age:

Moreover, although any honest person would say he’s a good-looking guy, all of us get old. If the only thing that makes you valuable is looks, well, by his own standards, he’s going to spend the majority of his life as a not particularly valuable person after he ages a bit, assuming he isn’t already dead by then.

Is this an admirable person? No. Is he a good person? No. Is he a smart or wise person? No. Would you want your kid to grow up to be like this? No. Even his own parents don’t want him to be like this. Do you think our society would be better off if more people were like this? Obviously not. Yet, if all of this is true, why is our society promoting people like this non-stop?

You know what Clavicular really is? He’s someone who paid attention to the values we’re pushing as a society today and went all the way in adopting them. He is the endpoint of what modern American society tells people to pursue. That’s why Clavicular is really just a symptom. The disease is the rot we’ve allowed to infest our culture.

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