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.
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.
Thumbs are for hitchhiking and being Fonzie.
Osteoblast-maxxing
Everytime i read about this i think of Hammer Smashed Face by Cannibal Corpse.
Same. Oddly prophetic
🤣🤣🤣 im ded
At least take some gold with you
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…
I get the feeling that this is a joke for all but the most stupid people
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.
Wow.
well, looks maxxing is so last year, now we have ball maxxing
Mine don’t need maxxing, but I do iron my sack to get the wrinkles out.
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
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
Maybe the lead weighed him down
Haha gold
ayyyyyy
Auuuuuu
gold too.
Ayahuasca can absolutely trigger latent psychosis, all psychedelics can do that.
Say that latent part again slowly
I’m aware of the meaning. I’m not sure what your point is though.
From an outside perspective it’s this:
- Person acting normal before Ayahuasca (latent psychosis)
- Insane behavior after Ayahuasca (acute psychosis)
I’m pretty sure that none of the Ayahuasca retreats test for latent psychosis or if there is even a reliable way to do that.
Ayahuasca retreats are a scam to relieve drug tourists of their money. I prefer my psychedelic experiences not to start with an hour of projectile vomiting into a bucket, but some people think they have to “earn” a trip by putting themselves through an ordeal. The reality is that botanicals can be dirty drugs with a high body load just like synthetics can be. Also MAOIs can be unpredictable in the magnitude of their effect, and can prolong trips much longer than you bargained for, based on small details of your body chemistry and recent diet.
As for the “latent” comment: using psychedelics can be a stress test, and (as they say of investments) past performance does not guarantee future results. I’ve had entirely positive experiences with psychedelics, but also know that they’re powerful substances that should be used sparingly. People who advocate “heroic doses” are doing so with no concern over the casualty rate. It will go bad for some people, you can’t always predict who, but the odds worsen with dosage and frequency of use. So to me, the “latent” pseudo-explanation is a bit too much like “and if it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.” Too self-fulfilling to be credible.
Ahh ok, so drugs it is. I thought the cause of death was due to the gold injection, im actually shocked he survived that now.
They drowned in a lake
gold is relatively inert, its the ions and the other elements, like nickel, lead,etc that are in gold.
I think the copious amounts of drugs he was doing probably had a lot to do with it. Oh and the injecting gold part.
he had some before the ayushcha binged, the drug put him over the edge.
“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.
Uhh, why would they target white men? You know what it is.
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!
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?
I do it all the time. Currently on the shitter, maxing.
Currently vapemaxxing and shitpostontheshittermaxxing.
Shitmaxxing is the latest fad. Influencers are eating 6 meals a day rather than the regular 3. The rules also include in those meals at least 2 cans of beans, 20 grams of soluble fibre, and a kg of beef.
And that’s just the physical symptoms of social media. The mental damage from using it is much higher.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Proof they can take the biggest dicks.
Lol what a perfect description
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.
Fight Club couldn’t have predicted how stupid this would get.
It’s not a competition. But looking at the numbers it’s justified to focus a little more on women for the time being.
But also focusing on it for women makes it a “women’s problem” and it makes it harder for men to get help.
Look at sexual assault and rape. It happens to men too. Maybe less frequently but more often than anyone truly knows because it’s under reported.
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.
Looks like botched jaw implants.
Wanted to be Daniel Day Lewis, ended up dead instead.
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.
That’s what I’m wondering.
As far as I know gold is chemically inert. All its valence electrons are paired up. It shouldn’t bind or chemically interact with anything. I know it’s safe to put on food. (Expensive food)The article says he was trying other things also, and the cause if death is unknown yet. I have doubts it was the gold.
Gold is not chemically inert. It a larger atom that slightly adheres to other metals with metallic bonds but tends to not form stable ionic bonds. Its also a common catalyst for a variety of reactions.
Your digestive system takes in solids and processes them but it has a size limit on absorbed particles. Powdered gold, even if mixed into a liquid is going to be more dangerous in the blood stream because large clumps that wouldn’t make it through the digestive might be present. That could result in blood clots or other problems.
That could result in blood clots or other problems.
Depending on particle size, the biggest problem could be it getting stuck in various capillaries all over the body. If he injected into an artery, it would first flow out into the body, to wherever that specific artery was feeding, splitting into smaller and smaller blood vessels … until it finally reached blood vessels so tiny that the particle of powdered gold couldn’t fit through, where it would get stuck and then indefinitely clog the tiny capillary. All the blood your heart pumps must pass through a capillary somewhere before it can go back for another trip around. If he injected into a vein, pretty much the same result, except a lot of it would end up getting stuck in the lungs first.
As for what exact effects that would cause… In tiny amounts, it probably wouldn’t do anything noticeable. A blocked capillary here or there isn’t that big of a deal. The body will heal around it and reroute new capillaries to serve that area instead; if a small amount of tissue around the capillary dies, it will be removed by the immune system and healed over. In larger doses, though, I figure you’d see the same kind of circulatory effects that come from untreated diabetes – extremities like the fingers and toes dying and then going necrotic; numbness; loss of eyesight… Probably permanent and irreversible as well, since there’s no way to remove the gold particles from those capillaries without destroying them in the process, which would only make the damage worse.
For anyone else thinking of injecting themselves with gold:
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Don’t.
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Only do extremely small amounts at a time. Micrograms. Fractions of a microgram.
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Be sure to use extremely tiny particles – nano-scale stuff. You want particle sizes that are smaller than a single human cell. And hope the particles don’t clump together.
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His body was found at the bottom of a lake, though. It could be something other than drowning or foul play, but that’s unlikely.
Though I imagine his body would not have reacted well to it long term, either.
