His gonzo argot of ‘mogging’ and ‘jestermaxxing’ masks a malign chauvinist philosophy, and his audience keeps growing
How’s your “jestermaxxing” game? Have you been “brutally frame-mogged” lately? If you’ve been finding this kind of online discourse even more impenetrable than usual, a 20-year-old content creator calling himself Clavicular is probably to blame.
Born Braden Peters, Clavicular is a manosphere-adjacent influencer who has recently broken containment for a string of high-profile controversies, including livestreaming himself apparently running over a pedestrian with his Tesla Cybertruck and being filmed chanting the lyrics toKanye West’s Heil Hitlerin a nightclub with the self-styled “misogynist influencer”Andrew Tateand the white nationalist commentatorNick Fuentes.
Before taking up with what some feel are among the worst men alive, Clavicular was known only as a “looksmaxxer”, a young man intent on optimising his physical attractiveness by frequently extreme measures (such as steroids, surgery and, er, taking a hammer to his jaw).
Yet Clavicular’s gonzo live streams and absurd lingo have seen him escape his subcultural silo, landing him a modelling gig at New York fashion week and aprofile in the New York Times.
So where has he come from? And what does his rise mean for humanity?
Peters came to prominence last year on the streaming platform Kick (like Twitch, but more laissez-faire with content moderation), where he nowhas nearly 180,000 followers. That’s dwarfed by his audience on TikTok which, at time of writing, ismore than 760,000.
Clavicular’s niche is looksmaxxing, a practice of physical self-optimisation increasingly popular among young men. (His screen name refers to the collarbone, which is prized within that online community.) Having achieved a disquieting transformation himself, Peters first gained a following for posting about the process behind his hard-won face and physique, and the rewards he has allegedly reaped with women.
For a fee, Peters will also coach individuals on how to “ascend”, as he puts it, and become more handsome themselves, though lately his focus has shifted from looksmaxxing-specific content to streaming great stretches of his day-to-day life. Peters earned more than $100,000 (£74,000) from Kick last month alone; his most recent upload to the platform is more than nine hours long.
Peters is notorious for the extreme lengths by which he claims to have achieved his chiselled appearance. By his own account,he is infertileas a result of years of steroid abuse, and uses methamphetamine to suppress his appetite. “It’s really not as bad as people think,” he told another Kick streamerlast October.
Source: Drudge Report
