For years, millions of NPR listeners knew Audie Cornish and Ari Shapiro as two of the calmest, smartest voices in American media.
Measured. Precise. Composed.
Now they’re discussing ketamine culture, queer thirst traps, AI brain rot, Mar-a-Lago face, and a surgically enhanced internet "looksmaxxing" personality named Clavicular, and they sound like the version of themselves listeners never…
“Looksmaxxing” influencer Clavicular was brutally “mogged” by a judge who sentenced him in a case involving a dead alligator.
Clavicular — the poster child for the looks-obsessed “looksmaxxing” subculture, where young men go to extreme measures to maximize attractiveness — was sentenced to six months of probation Friday for the apparent shooting of a dead alligator in the Florida Everglades…
Controversial influencer Clavicular, who quickly rose to fame as the poster child for “looksmaxxing,” a subculture devoted to maximizing attractiveness using extreme measures, has been charged with illegally shooting a dead alligator in the latest in a long list of criminal charges, allegations, and public embarrassments.
The 20-year-old manosphere figure, whose real name is Braden Peters,…
Manosphere's Blackpill
Journalists, politicians, and celebrities have always rubbed elbows at the annual White House Correspondents' Dinner, but now a controversial influencer and a gay hookup app are being added to the festivities.
Instead of a single night where a comedian roasts the current administration, the WHCD has expanded to an entire weekend of invite-only events, including one hosted by Grindr.
But…
A controversial internet personality who built a following around “looksmaxxing,” the online subculture devoted to maximizing physical appearance, was hospitalized Sunday after a suspected overdose during a livestream, according to multiple reports.
Clavicular, whose real name is Braden Peters, was streaming from a Miami-area restaurant when viewers noticed he appeared disoriented and began…
In an era of overexposure, perhaps looksmaxxing was inevitable.
(RNS) — For Braden Peters, known as Clavicular, looksmaxxing, a total devotion to self-optimization, is aimed at improving every aspect of life, from physical appearance to status, often framed in a language of discipline, hierarchy and 'ascension.'
Dreaming Small — The ‘looksmaxxer’ of the moment has garnered widespread furore over recent controversies. But newsletter columnist Emma Garland asks whether the 20-year-old influencer is actually doing anything that new, and what his rise says about modern turbo-nostalgia’s internet dominance.