If you’ve ever considered taking excessive amounts of steroids and hormones, smashing your facial bones, and becoming infertile in the name of beauty, chances are you’re inspired by Clavicular, a popular looksmaxxing influencer. Braden Eric Peters is a growing creator in the manosphere known for promoting the looksmaxxing lifestyle, in which young men, in particular, will use any means possible to optimize their physical features. He has gained immense popularity due to his unconventional methods and association with controversial figures. Peters, a Bohoken native, is set to come to Snevets for observation by the Biomedical Engineering Department. Snevets students will have a special opportunity to not just meet, but also study Peters as he implements his unique means to beauty.
“Science never crossed my mind when I started looksmaxxing. I just wanted to look like a FaceApp filter,” shared Peters in a press release regarding the Snevets program.
Students will be able to study a variety of Clavicular’s tactics and their biological, chemical, and physical bases. The BME department, with its large range of expertise, will focus on rehabilitation and tissue engineering to repair damage made by those who participated in looksmaxxing. Although people like Clavicular may not be open to rehabilitation in this sense, the research will provide valuable tools and information for the future.
The main biochemical looksmaxxing method being studied is prolonged steroid usage. Anabolic steroids are typically used to create the effect of larger muscles, but prolonged usage has been shown to reduce sperm count to critically low levels, rendering the user infertile. Clavicular has admitted that he is, in fact, infertile, and that his body does not produce any of its own testosterone. Beyond infertility, these anabolic steroids can decrease all reproductive hormone levels, and these hormone fluctuations can cause depressive symptoms, fatigue, and a wide range of related symptoms. BME students, in collaboration with the Department of Chemistry, Chemical Biology, and Biology, are working to understand amplified testosterone input and how the body adjusts to it.
By far, Clavicular’s most notorious looksmaxxing tactic is bonesmashing, where participants will use a hammer or their fist to smash their facial bones. The desired effect of this process is to create a generally more chiseled look, but this is obviously quite dangerous and not endorsed by any doctors. In studying Clavicular’s case, BME students and professors have hypothesized that bonesmashing has long-lasting neurological effects in addition to physical pain and prominent jawlines as short-term effects. While they are still in the experimental design phase, the team aims to use their research to create educational and preventative resources urging prospective looksmaxxers to back down from this bonesmashing.
“I hope the main thing that Snevets kids learn from studying Clavicular is that fixing your chopped-ness is not worth this long-term damage to your body,” said one student on the bonesmashing branch of this program.
Future plans for this program will expand to the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Peters has requested to be the sole model for a special four-credit advanced figure drawing course, citing the intricacies of his optimal human build as the reason for an extra credit hour. The Visual Arts Department has declined this request, but the Science, Technology, and Society Department would like its students to dissect the role of misogyny in his personal journey and rise to fame. Overall, Clavicular is an interdisciplinary case study bridging biomedicine, chemistry, engineering, and social sciences.
Disclaimer: This article is part of The Stupe and is satire
