Delving into looksmaxxing, the hosts explore bizarre techniques like tongue pressing, face hitting, and growth hormones. Originating in PUA and incel forums, looksmaxxing has become a tiktok trend. They also discuss jester maxing and its impact on beauty standards, relationships, and psychology.
Looksmaxxing originated from incel forums and now influences TikTok trends.
Looksmaxxing emphasizes physical appearance, money, and status for attractiveness.
Deep dives
Evolution of Looksmaxing
Looksmaxing, a term popularized on incel forums, has evolved into a widely embraced concept by young TikTok users. Originating from in-cell adjacent websites from 2015, looksmaxing delves into ideas of beauty, self-improvement, and psychology. The trend involves using phrases like 'maxing' to describe intense focus on particular attributes, such as 'jestermaking' for humor or 'davemaxing' for musical skills.
Cultural Impact and Critique Obsession
Looksmaxing emerged from the PSL community born from incel forums like puahate.com. It emphasizes looks, money, and status as key factors in attractiveness, rejecting traditional pickup artistry methods. Users critiqued each other's looks based on rigid beauty standards, focusing on facial ratios that couldn't be easily altered. This obsession led to low self-esteem and extreme measures like 'rope maxing' or total celibacy.
We dive into an online community hellbent on improving their physical appearance through bizarre techniques like pressing their tongue to the roof of their mouth, hitting themselves in the face, and taking experimental growth hormones. Originating in Pick Up Artist (PUA) and incel forums, "looksmaxxing" has since become a proper tiktok trend.
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