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Looksmaxxing

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Self-improvement culture focused on maximizing physical attractiveness, associated with the blackpill mentality and criticized for stripping people of their unique character.

Mentions (14)
"People openly talk about race, IQ, Jews, conspiracy theories, the third world, mass immigration, looksmaxxing, dating hierarchies, all of these things have become mainstream discourse now it seems. I felt like a freak, FREAK, for believing in this stuff a decade ago so I swept it all under the rug a"
"I just stumbled upon this lookmaxxing influencer who made some videos with Nick Fuentes recently. He's actively encouraging young men to take steroids and get plastic surgery. Why the fuck isn't this against the Instagram/TikTok TOS? Gen Alpha is so fucking cooked"
The whole "looksmaxxing" rabbit hole is horrifying · u/deepad9 · ↑405 · 2025-07-28
"Just thinking about the men who successfully looksmaxxed and became seething sociopaths who run through as many women as possible yet despise every single one of them. I think incels are right when they say that intense loneliness and ostracization during your formative years irreparably harms you."
The white-hot hatred that fuels successful looksmaxxers · u/No-Accident4137 · ↑387 · 2025-02-15
"I think he went down some self improvement rabbit hole, and again he looks better, but he even began to alter his personality. More reserved, less willing to do anything awkward, just quieter in general. It's like he lost his glow in a way, or his spirit/soul has been dimmed."
"It's incredibly surreal to see stuff like looksmaxxing--an idea once siloed off in niche forums for overly-online freaks--skyrocket in relevance so much so that I'll hear my little 11yo nephew talking to his friends about mogging or whatever."
What deranged internet ideology will be mainstream five years from now? · u/Love_Takes_Miles_ · ↑273 · 2026-01-20
"At the risk of sounding like a male feminist, I feel like this new culture in men of "looksmaxxing" is just society raising the bar for men's beauty. My question to the air I guess would be hasn't that already been the case for women for centuries?"
"Looksmaxxing" should make straight men more empathetic towards women. · u/SunnyDTastesLikeShit · ↑220 · 2023-12-04
"She also has been talking about looksmaxxing and mewing which is the more alarming part of this. She is very beautiful and sweet, but it seems like the crevices of the internet are creeping into the mainstream."
"The fact that presumably sexually normal people are on this sub talking about how men are screwed by their bone structure from birth is further indication that our society is absolutely diseased."
"After spelunking through tiktok for a bit, the algorithm has finally realized that I am in fact a Sensitive Young Man and it's doing everything it can to poison my spirit with videos of looksmaxxers and drunk women twerking in bikinis"
"Looksmaxxing, being nazis etc. The internet has always got memes from 4chan but the nasty incel and antisemite stuff is big on there too now."
Weird how Tiktok is just 4chan 5+ years ago · u/Tomatillo62sass · ↑32 · 2023-09-27
"If you ever have the misfortune of realizing you are autistic or unreasonably ugly, *do not* looksmaxx. It will not work for you. Try looksminning instead. By doing this, you enter your element completely, divorcing yourself from the rest of this impure world."
Greetings - the solution is looksminning, not looksmaxxing · u/SummerTiny5062 · ↑30 · 2025-08-04
"I constantly hear people drop things like mogging, canthil tilt, prey eyes, mandibles, brow ridge, "it's over bro", ropemaxx. I have an incel-ish friend that told me about this a few months back and nobody said any of these. In the last month suddenly everyone has been dropping these terms. These da"
Crazy how looksmaxxing has become so mainstream · u/Lanky_Perception5764 · ↑27 · 2024-02-21
"We eventually drifted apart because he fell so far down the incel rabbit hole and started doing all these crazy looksmaxxing type practices. He'd starve himself to lose as much weight as possible, literally only eating gummies haha, he started making a perpetual 'duck face' because he said it made h"
"It's hard not to notice that the looksmaxxing movement shares similarities with pro-ana communities. While there are communities dedicated to improving one's appearance that maintain a positive and encouraging tone, both pro-ana and looksmaxxing are about picking your own body apart and basically pu"
Looksmaxxing is the lingering after-effect of the marvel franchise · u/MelanieFotzenberg · ↑97 · 2026-01-05
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