The darkness behind looksmaxxing

背后的黑暗令人惊叹

Today, Explained

2026-02-19

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When streamer Clavicular bashes his face with a hammer or does meth to stay skinny, it's not just himself he's hurting. This episode was produced by Dustin DeSoto, edited by Amina Al-Sadi, fact-checked by Andrea Lopez-Cruzado, engineered by David Tatasciore and Patrick Boyd, and hosted by Noel King. Illustration photo of a male TikTok influencer hammering his cheekbone. Photo by CHRIS DELMAS/AFP via Getty Images. Listen to Today, Explained ad-free by becoming a Vox Member: vox.com/members. New Vox members get $20 off their membership right now. Transcript at ⁠vox.com/today-explained-podcast.⁠ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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  • By now, you've definitely heard that Clavicular got brutally frame-mogged by an ASU frat leader.

  • Yo, Clav, two words.

  • Frame-mogged.

  • Maybe you heard that he mugged the Dime Square jester gooners.

  • You probably know that Clavicular, Little Mantaid,

  • and Whitey supremacist Nick Fuentes danced to Heil Hitler in Vendome,

  • and then Clav got fight-mogged in the club during Fashion Week in New York.

  • Or maybe you're lucky and you have no idea what I'm talking about.

  • A remarkable new online subculture has young men clockwork-oranging,

  • bashing their faces with hammers and snorting crystal meth to drop weight,

  • all in the interest of being the most handsome boy.

  • Coming up on Today Explained, Clavicular and the Lux Maxers.

  • I got in the water in the very early morning before the sun had risen and the water was pitch black.

  • I started swimming and I felt the water hollowing out around me and felt like something really big was swimming below.

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  • This is Today Explained.

  • My name is Charlie Wurzel,

  • and I'm a staff writer at The Atlantic and the host of its podcast, Galaxy Brain.