context because this is kinda a terminally online meme:

A popular online “looksmaxxer” got a bunch of cosmetic surgery and people are making fun of how it isn’t worth it for male insecurities

This guy is an asshole and the hate is deserved. He shot an alligator on stream for views (which is illegal btw) and overdosed on stream and a bunch of other bad shit. Along with promoting insecurities/dangerous chemicals/steroids/treating women like objects/penis pumps/etc to children.

For those that don’t know looksmaxxing is a movement that expanded from incel culture and involves taking TRT (steroids) underage, smashing your face bones with a hammer, diy surgeries, etc. It is expanding massively online and creates a LOT of new words that Gen z use half ironically half unironically.

TLDR: Dumbass alpha male got a bunch of useless cosmetic surgeries and is ruining his life for views. People are making fun of him for it.

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    Imagine doing all this, just for Luigi Mangioni to be the real definition of an attractive male, and he isnt even out trying to be called pretty. He just is.

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      It really is. Dysmorphia must be getting so bad in boys now. We didn’t care when it was women but not that it’s making news cycles more means boys are being impacted.

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    promoting insecurities/dangerous chemicals/steroids/treating women like objects/penis pumps/etc to children.

    I had heard of hitting your jaw with a hammer, which is definitely all kinds of batshit insane, but in addition to Looksmaxxingn in general and this whole sentence sounding very Epsteinesque, aren’t penis pumps alleged to be the cause behind his distinctive egg/lemon shaped dick deformity?

    https://www.thedailybeast.com/epstein-victim-describes-his-extremely-deformed-fruit-shaped-penis/

    For a better understanding of how Epstein used the internet and tech to target and undermine the education, mental health and well being of youth, (to clarify, this is in addition but not unrelated to his other criminal activity), I recommend the Behind the Bastards episode about Epstein and Activision:

    https://www.iheart.com/podcast/105-behind-the-bastards-29236323/episode/part-one-how-jeffrey-epstein-helped-build-the-modern-world-323226341

    Dude was strategically planning ways to use video games and social media to target America’s youth with the ultimate goal of creating a society of sexist, misinformed, uneducated, and insecure voters who would be willing to vote against their own interests and easier for the elites to control.

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    Im so glad they are. A soon as you research this guy and see how he’s telling the next generation of males to basically be incels and hate women, its clear he’s a piece of shit. I reckon he’s close to killing himself anyway from depression so fingers crossed

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    I don’t think I’ve ever seen anyone go in for elective cosmetic surgery and come out looking better. There was end up looking like half melted shop mannequins.

    Now he looks like he’s suffering from some bone wasting disease.

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      I’ve seen it, but the problem is twofold: Firstly subtle is better, adding a cup size using fat from elsewhere in the body or trimming a little bit of bone can look good because it’s not a radical change that looks artificially constructed. Secondly, it takes a long time to heal right, it looks worse while healing, and it can be easy to not notice the change over that time.

      I’ve seen friends get facial feminization surgery and yeah, they look like a train wreck for a month but a year after surgery sometimes they look better. That said, you also usually need a surgeon willing to tell you no when you ask for too much.

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      It’s not the looks but the wealth expenditure.

      Being able to spend ludricrously on the scam is a sign of power amongst the elite, and that’s only one half. The other half is the attention it provides and that’s an economy all on its own.

      Material nihilism, where people realise there’s no point in hoarding so you gotta splurge AND hoard before you die.

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      Is this a sentence that I might need to understand IRL, or is it just social media stuff?

      (I don’t know if this question will be offensive, so apologies in advance if so.)

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        I meant that is like being trans for cis men - masculinising their bodies by taking HRT, and getting surgeries and stuff, except it’s to the gender they were already assigned at birth, so like male to male (mtm) transmasculine people, lol

        Just a random thought though, not that important

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          Ahh I see. It’s like gender reaffirming surgery for a male to become… still male, but “more so”.

          Thanks for clearing that up. Sometimes I feel like a boomer trying to keep up, lol

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    The best part about getting old with a beer belly is being in a loving relationship with someone who can see past that and not caring at all. The last time I smashed my face with a hammer was never.

    Sucks to be young people these days, though.

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    I knew this guys name for a minute but forgot it. It’s something like “testicular”, isn’t it?

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      People like this (the guy in the topic, not you, Escape) are the kind of people to unironically say that liking women is gay.

      So its 100% for the boys to think he’s a pretty pretty princess.

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      This is my take on it, too. The kinds of things these guys are doing seem to cater to the male gaze.

      Developmentally, it’s pretty normal for adolescents to style themselves to impress their same-sex peers for a while before they start trying to attract romantic partners. Maybe these guys are in a state of arrested development, maybe they’re gay … but definitely they’re very troubled if they think hammering their facial bones is a good idea.

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    im guessing he was suppose to be thiels new replacement BLOOD boy, after thiels previous one got defenestrated.

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    I’m kind of interested to see, five years from now, his “redemption arc“ videos where he realizes everything he did was stupid and wrong and he’s gained 100 pounds and is trying to tell everyone he realizes how wrong he was.

    That should be amusing

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        Not if they get clean they don’t. Really either he’s acclimated to amphetamines and getting clean will make staying thin very difficult or he isn’t and staying on meth will likely push him past skinny and into visibly unhealthy looking.

        And it’s difficult to stay a high profile meth addict.

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      So-called “alpha-male” couldn’t walk in a straight line after some dental-grade anaesthetic.

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      Not gonna lie, after I had my wisdom teeth removed, I was goofy balls for the next four hours. They put me in a recovery room.

      Not hating on the guy for that. When you have your wisdom teeth removed, they put you under, and recovery is a bitch

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          This thread make it sound like wisdom tooth removal is some huge surgery. I just had some local anesthesia as the tooth was pulled. Fun cracking sounds in my head, some bleeding from where the tooth was that stopped after an hour or two. But it was pretty quick and I could just go about my day afterwards.

          I guess different places and different people?

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            I had bleeding for hours, and whatever is wrong with my stomach meant an endless cycle of nausea and being waterboarded by my own blood.

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            Tooth?

            I had all 4 extracted when I was 16, long before they came in. And, yes, it WAS surgery performed by an endodontist. I was sedated for the procedure, and it took several hours for me to recover from the sedation.

            There are many different ways that people deal with their wisdom teeth. This is how I dealt with mine— or, more correctly, how my parents decided to deal with them.

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          Yeah, I’m not gonna judge the guy considering how he looked after surgery. Anyone would look like that.

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        You know how some of the genes associated with red hair are also associated with resistance to pain killers? Would it be appropriate to tease someone because they carried those genes? Or, would it be hate speech?

        This is like the opposite: he could have an innate sensitivity to the medication and what’s why he went “goofy balls” to require a wheelchair.

        I got “lucky” with my wisdom teeth; I was conscious during the whole removal procedure and was even able to drive myself home. But, I didn’t have any choice in how deep / what orientation my wisdom teeth ended up in while my bones were fusing as a small child. It could have been a much more difficult procedure and made me “goofy balls” through no choice / with no control of my own.

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          So… just because you chose less deleterious painkillers for your wisdom teeth extraction doesn’t impact your morality. You are still the same shitbag (or not) before and after. And so is he. That is not the argument that I was making.

          I was simply commenting upon the fact that, after such heavy sedation, we all look pretty goofy, regardless of who or what we are

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            I was agreeing with and “yes, and”-ing your post.

            The image is denigrating him based on something entirely outside his choices and control; that’s unfair because “after such heavy sedation, we all look pretty goofy”.

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      Legally, hospitals wont let you leave without being wheeled out in a wheelchair under general anesthesia. Doesn’t matter if you feel ok to walk, it’s a liability thing with them

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      Have you ever been so manly that you couldn’t walk after getting your wisdom teeth removed?

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        Not to defend the guy but when I got my wisdom teeth removed they wouldn’t let me walk. They said it was a liability thing that any time they discharged a patient who received any amount of anesthetic in the prior 24 hours they had to wheel the patient out in a wheelchair. So I had to sit in the chair until they got me out the hospital doors but after that they didn’t give a fuck what I did.

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          My experience exactly, I had hand surgery late afternoon and spent the night at hospital because I only woke up from sedation at around midnight, but since it hadn’t been 24 hours between the anaesthetic and the early morning discharge, wheelchair it was.