• lechekaflan@lemmy.world
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    14 minutes ago

    Definitely a Darwin Award winner.

    Article also reminds me of a Superman fanboy in my country going to huge costly lengths to look a lot like Christopher Reeve’s Superman.

  • KiloGex@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    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.

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      4 hours ago

      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”

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        “Looksmaxxing” is garden variety body dysmorphic disorder, but it’s quite clearly treated vastly differently because the sufferer is male presenting.

        Your comment is akin to saying suicide makes depression a self correcting problem. That’s pretty fucking heartless, don’t you think?

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          but it’s quite clearly treated vastly differently because the sufferer is male presenting.

          This is so dumb, people are overwhelmingly cruel to women with eating disorders. Whether eating too much or too little. Not to mention, a woman with an eating disorder isn’t eating more/less because she hates men. Incels started looksmaxxing because of red pill manosphere brainrot like ‘you must be 6’13" and square jaw and straight white teeth and muscles in order to have a CHANCE with a 7.5/10, because all women are whores and driven by primordial urges’ . It’s an entirely incorrect interpretation of how human beings interact propogated by chronically online cave trolls.

          My comment is no where near saying suicide makes depression a self correcting problem. There are myriad circumstances that can lead someone to suicide. Looksmaxxing is at its core an overreaction to a problem that incels conjured up. Or more accurately misinterpreted, yes male loneliness is a problem but so is female loneliness; it’s an epidemic on both sides.

          If you’re too dumb to understand that maybe you shouldn’t pump random shit into your veins in an attempt to look younger or more attractive, so be it. You will become a lesson for anyone paying attention. (Proverbial you)

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          Treated differently only because the overwhelmingly male population that suffers from it is actively hating people who they deem different and taking a lot of online space doing so. That’s fucking heartless, indeed.

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    12 hours ago

    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.

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    11 hours ago

    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.

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      8 hours ago

      It’s not a competition. But looking at the numbers it’s justified to focus a little more on women for the time being.

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    14 hours ago

    His artificial hairline looks worse than if he were bald. And wtf is going on with his jaw?

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      9 hours ago

      “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.

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    13 hours ago

    “a Turkish sugar-free chewing gum that some looksmaxxing influencers use in the belief it can help strengthen the jawline.”

    Oh shit I know this gum, it gives you jaw cramps.