I keep hearing the term looksmaxer and every time it’s a person that looks like they were hit with a snow shovel repeatedly.
its a hammer, actually. Bonesmashing.
Osteoblast-maxxing
Everytime i read about this i think of Hammer Smashed Face by Cannibal Corpse.
Ew, you mean that’s real? I thought it was an AI image. I thought there’s no way a real person could be that hideous. But if he literally smashed his own face with a hammer to achieve it, then perhaps a real person could truly be that hideous…
They look like the YouTube thumbnail for a bad GMod edit
He looks like a shitty render out of a lousy Half-Life clone.
Coincidentally, they all remind me of handsome squidward from spongebob, who became handsome after multiple slams to the face from a metal door.
So either he always had some mental health issues, or the lack of nutrition he did to keep the body he had lead himself to make very bad decisions because his brain couldnt process correctly anymore.
I’ve never read anything about the looksmaxxing subculture that made me think it was anything other than people with severe body dysmorphia egging each other on. The least ethical 60s psychological experiment conceived by the most coked up 60s psychologist couldn’t have come up with a more fucked up method of seeing how far people will go.
Eh… I wouldn’t be surprised if they did exactly this in the 60s, just with more LSD involved in the experiment.
i heard of people drilling holes in their skulls for spiritual reasons in roughly that period so this tracks
That’s afaik mostly an urban legend, originated from the “third eye” book by Lobsang Rampa.
well, looks maxxing is so last year, now we have ball maxxing
who the fuck would want bigger balls, that just sounds uncomfortable for everyday life
Great way to move around.
Surely this is satire.
idk, it was covered by some large publications
https://www.healthline.com/health-news/ballmaxxing-more-dangerous-than-you-think
I think the copious amounts of drugs he was doing probably had a lot to do with it. Oh and the injecting gold part.
Looksmaxxing is just a new name for body dysmorphia. The same shit that makes people puke their guts out after eating, or getting plastic surgery done over and over until they look like freaks.
Have you tried shitmaxxing?
“Up until his passing, he was discovering that he had achieved some superhuman abilities, and it’s no joke; he actually did achieve some superhuman abilities,” he said. “He had tapped into a level of consciousness that most people never will.”
Another looksmaxxing influencer, Androgenic, offered additional claims during a livestream, saying Murphy became increasingly focused on gold.
“He started to get this fixation on gold. He started to believe that gold was some gatekept mineral by the higher-ups that basically gives you special powers if you ingest it,” he said. According to Androgenic, Murphy later began injecting gold into his body.
Just so we are all clear, the trans community super duper does not claim him. Wish the political right would focus more on this sort of self abuse instead of the verified science supporting medical transition.
The only thing trans about this now ex-person is how transparently stupid he was (and, very likely, sadly in need of mental health help).
Deathmaxxing!
He’s going to be a strong contender for this year’s Darwin Award!
It’s always the second half of the year that the nominations come in and then by October it’s like the where we’re you at the beginning of the year people.
My favorite darwin is the guy who went alcohooool alcohooooool and drank a bottle of rubbing alcohol.
Did this toolbag think he was an Allomancer or Mistborn? Brandon Sanderson’s works are too dangerous! BAN SANDERSON NOVELS!
/s just in case…
A Feruchemist more likely? Guess the metalmind was empty, or he taped it too much to fast.
I don’t know why these dudes want to look like they’re choking on a shovel.
Proof they can take the biggest dicks.
Lol what a perfect description
His artificial hairline looks worse than if he were bald. And wtf is going on with his jaw?
“Looksmaxxing has drawn criticism because some influencers promote dangerous techniques to change their appearance, including striking or damaging their jawbones and other risky practices.”-from the article.
The looksmaxxing guys have a thing they call bonesmashing where they will hit their jaws with hammers or other implements in order to break it a little. This is done so they can reshape it as it heals. This is a repeated process. The jaw is broken and reshaped continually until they look a little more like the cartoonish over exagerated jawline of the chads from those chad memes. No I’m not kidding and no this is not done with any kind of medical supervision.
From the article it sounds like he has a friend who genuinely believes that he was gaining superhuman powers too. So… clocks ticking on that guy now.
“Up until his passing, he was discovering that he had achieved some superhuman abilities, and it’s no joke; he actually did achieve some superhuman abilities,” he said.
“He had tapped into a level of consciousness that most people never will.”
right, looksmaxxing just screams elevated consciousness - he must have been positively Buddha-like in his detachment from shallow, earthly concerns 🤦
Buddha famously had such a strong jawline from chewing Turkish gum all day. His legacy lives on.
Police in Thailand were reportedly called to the rental property where Murphy had been staying after receiving complaints about a man screaming inside. Officers allegedly found him in an “agitated” state.
uhh you think? Agitated state, fuckin bet. What the hell that must of that felt like?? The agony, like how the hell would thd body even respond? would your blood congeal? the fuck, this some shit out of a horror film.
I will assume he was taking advice from ChatGPT. That is just the kind of dumb shit ChatGPT tries to convince people to do.
LOL at all the downvotes, as if ChatGPT doesn’t tell people to do stupid shit.
People have been mentally ill before AI, and will continue to be after AI
No, there are by now several research papers showing that sycophantic chatbots are affecting regular people just as much as mentally unstable people.
How did the papers screen the participants to make sure they’re “regular people”
this ain’t reddit bro.
I really want to know what “science” he was banking on here. Like, how does this injection work, according to him? I assume he chose gold (as opposed to lead or tin) because he has gawdy Trumpesque notions of success and opulence, but what the fuck does injecting it do (again, according to him)? 🤔
I think they are embracing their environment without much thought beyond.
Snake oil salesmen have been selling colloidal gold and silver for half a century.
The problem with all of these other influencers backing the claim that he’d become “supernatural” before his death will only keep the door open for other followers to copy this lifestyle, just believing this idiot just did something wrong that they can correct. So dangerous.
That’s basically the entire history of magical and/or alchemical elixirs and potions. “Sure the previous emperor died after drinking the lead immortality elixir, but that’s just because he didn’t do it right”
Seems like a self correcting problem, honestly.
Bryan Johnson took synthetic peptides, which triggered an autoimmune disease that will kill him. Now he’s claiming to be a random victim of a “rare disease”.
Lance Armstrong inspired the world fighting cancer…which he caused to himself with a massive cocktail of hormones. US Postal hid the fact that he wasn’t the only rider on the team to get testicular cancer.
