I keep hearing the term looksmaxer and every time it's a person that looks like they were hit with a snow shovel repeatedly.
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And that’s basically it!
its a hammer, actually. Bonesmashing.
bone smashing? I must have the manliest left thumb on earth.
I see you out there thumbmaxxing
There's some money to be made in that. Try OnlyThumbs.
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

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
From what I heard he had a psychosis after an Ayahuasca ritual, then used gold from jewelry which might contain lead and other nasty stuff for consumption and injection and also used SSRIs before he died, so possibility serotonin syndrome.
Sounds like they were mentally ill beforehand, ayahuasca didn't do that
And then he was found at the bottom of a lake, which would be unusual for serotonin syndrome
“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.
Deathmaxxing!

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.
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.
Did this toolbag think he was an Allomancer or Mistborn? Brandon Sanderson's works are too dangerous! BAN SANDERSON NOVELS!
/s just in case...
We’re in the “The Beautiful Ones” part of the collapse of our little mouse utopia.
I don't know why these dudes want to look like they're choking on a shovel.
People are so worried about women and body dysmorphia, but we should remember that men need help with dysmorphia too.
I didn’t know who this guy was before he died, but I read an article about things he was doing and saying. He was not okay. It seems like he was suffering from some kind of paranoia as much as dysmorphia.
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.
His artificial hairline looks worse than if he were bald. And wtf is going on with his jaw?
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.
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”
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)? 🤔
Its almost as if this looksmaxing and other social media shit is a kind of mental illness that gets worse with time. especially when they find an audience that encourages them to go even further off the deep end.
trying to be a greek god with thier gold ichior blood.
Conservatives have spent the last 50 years devaluing education. This is the result.