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Girlfriend's Suspicion Uncovered Child Abuse Material On Boyfriend's Phone

Liv, who had been dating Mason Hull for eight months, grows suspicious that he may be cheating on her. On a night when Mason sleeps beside her, Liv waits until morning and then checks his phone, looking through his messages and most recent chat history. Expecting to find evidence of infidelity, Liv instead uncovers something far more disturbing: proof that Mason is purchasing child sexual abuse material (csam) via Telegram.

The suspicious activity begins when Liv notices a Telegram message from an unknown profile picture, suggestive in nature. Although she initially thinks it could be spam or a phishing attempt, her concern deepens as she reads the chat. The unknown Telegram account openly offers “CP, teens and all group links available,” asking Mason which package he is interested in and what his budget is. Mason responds directly, stating “cp $25 max.” The Telegram account then assures Mason of “quality cp megalink” with “2500 HD video files.” Mason sends pictures as proof of payment, all while lying next to Liv.

In another conversation Liv finds, Mason initiates a chat with a suspicious user by saying "hi!" and receives the response, “cp content available.” After inquiring about the cost, Mason is told it is “$20 for videos, $30 for megalinks, $40 for joining cp group, $80 for all of the above.” Mason replies, “okay $20,” and is told to message a user named “trusted seller” for the link. On April 27th, Mason messages this contact, receives content, and by the next day is asking for more, offering to pay $10 additional. Through these transactions, Mason repeatedly requests and purchases links to illegal content.

When Liv clicks one of the links, she makes the horrifying discovery that it contains videos showing little girls between the ages of six and ten, and even some as young as three. Shaken, she quickly gathers evidence and leaves Mason without waking him or leaving a note. Liv later provides law enforcement with the documentation of Mason’s transactions, the explicit c ...

Looks Maxing: The Belief That Appearance Determines Success and Romance

Looks maxing is an ideology rooted in the belief that physical appearance determines a person’s success in dating, work, social status, and virtually all key life outcomes. Looks maxers insist there are no significant alternative paths to fulfillment beyond optimizing appearance; factors like personality and intelligence are dismissed as irrelevant. Stephanie Soo summarizes the position: “appearance is the end all be all…who you date, how much money you make, and pretty much every other aspect of your life" depends solely on looks.

The narrative is vividly illustrated through the story of Norm, a high school boy with acne, short stature, slumped shoulders, and little muscle. Norm faces rejection and humiliation from his crush, Becky, due to his lack of conventional attractiveness. Motivated by this experience, he undertakes drastic measures to change his looks and is eventually transformed into “Chad Light,” now suddenly desired by the popular cheerleader Stacy. This scenario, described as the “fanfic” of a looks maxer, demonstrates the ideology’s core fantasy: social validation, romantic access, and self-worth flow entirely from one’s physical appeal.

Although the surface-level message can resemble common advice—take care of your health, practice hygiene, invest in skin care—as Stephanie Soo notes, looks maxing goes further, promoting a dogmatic belief that only a narrow set of physical features matter. Traits outside this ideal are dismissed as disqualifying; those who don’t or can’t attain them are written off. Forums like r/TrueRateMe are filled with anonymized photos posted for scrutiny by others, who rate individuals with harsh precision, often denigrating people judged not to fit their rigid standards.

The ideology emerged in the early 2010s on openly misogynistic internet forums, including PWA hate and lookism. Its discourse is marked by extreme and exclusionary ideas about human value, accompanied by a lingo and set of practices that reframe traditional grooming advice as a regime for survival. Some “fraud maxing” tutorials recommend makeup-style techniques right out of mainstream beauty vlogs, but couched in aggressive, masculinized language.

One looks maxer claims, “first impressions are visual, not verbal. You’re being judged before you even speak.” Stephanie Soo points out that looks maxing’s proponents claim this system is hardwired in human biology and that the ideology is only set to grow in influence.

Sexual Level Scale: Numerical Ranking For Facial Attractiveness Based On Math and Aesthetics

Looks maxers operationalize their beliefs through tools like the PSL ("Physical Sexual Level") scale, which purports to assign a precise numerical rating to faces, from 0.25 ("subhuman") to 8 ("Giga Chad"). These rankings, cloaked in the language of mathematics and aesthetics, project an aura of scientific validity, even as they rely on deeply subjective and culturally specific beauty standards.

Each tier on the PSL scale is rigidly defined:

• 0.25–1.5 (“Subhuman”): Exceptionally unattractive, often said to exhibit deformities that could frighten people.
• 1.5–3 (“Low Tier Normie”): Unremarkable and considered ugly but not deformed.
• 2–4.5 (“Mid Tier Normie”): Entirely average, representing the common person.
• 4.5–5.5 (“High Tier Normie”): Good-looking, often the most attractive in modest-sized groups.
• 5.5–6 (“Chad Light”): Begin to experience advantages in life and dating.
• 6–7.25 (“Chad”): Stand out in crowds with striking features; rarely struggle with romantic access.
• 7.25–8 (“Giga Chad”): Exceedingly rare, nearly flawless, considered elite models.
• 7.75–8 (“Terra Chad”): Mythical, universally attractive archetypes—an unattainable ideal.

Stephanie Soo gives examples: Michael B. Jordan and Zendaya are classified by some as "high tier normies," though even a mainstream heartthrob like Michael B. Jordan has been rated as low as 3.5 by a looks maxer. This underscores the constantly shifting and exclusionary standards.

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Stephanie Soo and Rui Qian explore the shifting and interlocking world of the online manosphere, where extremist attitudes toward women are normalized and streamed in real time for male audiences. These communities, defined by “pill” ideologies and a focus on appearance, foster a progression from moderate to extreme misogyny, culminating in exploitative and abusive beliefs about sex, relationships, and gender roles.

Manosphere Communities and "Pill" Ideologies: From Moderate to Extreme Misogyny

Red Pill Ideology: Women Prioritize Status and Looks Over Personality, Men Must "Wake Up" to Succeed Romantically

Stephanie Soo explains that the manosphere’s “red pill” concept originates from the movie The Matrix: in manosphere culture, to “take the red pill” means awakening to a supposed reality in which women, not men, hold the true advantage. In this worldview, women are depicted as manipulative, scheming, and focused only on status and looks. Red pill adherents dismiss the value of personality, arguing that women say they want a good personality but truly desire only wealth (“a rich Chad with a fat wallet”) and physical attractiveness. By contrast, “blue pill” men are derided as naïve “bozos” who put women on pedestals and fail to see this “truth.”

Black Pill: Belief in Rigged System, Looks As Key to Romance, and Pursuit of Appearance Enhancement

The “black pill” represents a more nihilistic evolution. Stephanie describes black pillers as believing the system is fundamentally rigged against average men—looks are all that matter, and the romantic game cannot be changed. Yet, instead of giving up, “looks maxers” within the black pill community aggressively focus on improving their own appearance—to increase their “sexual market value” (SMV). For looks maxers, women are nothing but conquests whose value is defined by numbers, further entrenching algorithmic, dehumanized thinking.

Purple Pill Recognizes Elements of Both Red and Black Pill Ideologies Without Fully Committing To Either

Stephanie notes that “purple pill” individuals combine aspects of red and blue pill beliefs, recognizing some harsh truths of the red pill perspective but not fully endorsing its severity or the fatalism of the black pill ideology.

Looks Maxing: A Manosphere Subset Focused On Physical Transformation and Misogyny

Looks Maxers Believe Women CanNot Value Personality, Intelligence, or Character, Seeing Attraction As Purely Mechanical and Based On Physical Traits

The looks maxing community originated on openly misogynistic forums in the early 2010s. Rui asks if looks maxers care about anything other than physical appearance. Stephanie answers unequivocally: looks maxers are convinced that women do not care about personality, intelligence, or substance—attraction is purely mechanical, driven exclusively by physical traits. They claim women care about looks first, status and money second, and “nothing else really.” In forums, romantic success is depicted as dependent solely on physical appearance and sexual prowess.

Community Misogyny Intensifies With Dehumanizing Terms For Women

Stephanie and Rui highlight the rising misogyny in these spaces, with terms like “land whales,” “deformed girls,” and “foid” (short for "female humanoid") used to dehumanize, insult, and vilify women. The forums assert women have far more romantic opportunities than average men, leading to resentful, hateful language not only for women but also for other men (“social roaches”). Stephanie points to graphic, abusive posts that treat women as commodities to manipulate or “conquer.”

Maxers in the Manosphere Often Adopt Toxic Philosophies About Sexual Control, Emotional Manipulation, and Coercive Tactics As Legitimate Dating Strategies

These forums give explicit, manipulative instructions for sexual and emotional control. Stephanie reads examples: men are advised to use psychological tactics like wi ...

Looksmaxing communities promote extreme and often hazardous measures to modify appearance, ranging from highly invasive surgeries to unregulated substance use and destructive at-home techniques. These obsessive practices can cause permanent harm, reinforce dysmorphia, and extend to every aspect of physical appearance, including the most private features.

Looksmaxers Undergo Extreme Surgeries to Alter Appearance Permanently, Often Without Medical Necessity and With Significant Health Risks

Jaw Surgery Reshapes the Chin Bone For a Projected Jawline, Requiring Weeks of a Soft Food Diet and Posing Serious Complication Risks

Procedures like sliding genioplasty (“genio”) are popularized among looksmaxers to address a so-called “weak chin.” This surgery involves cutting and repositioning the chin bone to achieve a sharply projected jawline. Proponents in online forums claim the surgery is less painful than expected, but the reality is severe: patients cannot eat solid food for three to four weeks, and some report needing two months just to consume soft foods like mashed potatoes.

Height Surgery Breaks Leg Bones, Uses Metal Levers to Lengthen Them, Requires Years to Regain Walking Ability, With Some Unable to Jog For Years Afterward

Height maxing is another extreme, involving surgery where leg bones are broken and metal levers are inserted, which patients must adjust daily over six months to gain very gradual increases in height. This process requires years of rehabilitation, and many cannot walk properly—or even jog—several years post-surgery.

Laser Eye Color Surgery Considered Dangerous

A number of looksmaxers pursue "blue maxing" or laser surgery to permanently alter eye color. This operation removes pigment directly from the retina and is regarded as highly dangerous and unnecessary. Critics point out how the obsession with lighter eyes feeds into community narratives that treat common features like brown eyes as defects, despite universal medical warnings against the procedure.

Looksmaxers Promote Non-surgical Facial Techniques Causing Inflammation and Nerve Damage

Bone Smashing Involves Striking the Face to Create Microfractions to Reshape Facial Structure, a Practice That Can Cause Paralysis, Nerve Damage, and Swelling With No Reliable Results

The practice of bone smashing—striking one’s own face repeatedly with a hammer or massage gun to create microfractures—aims to change facial structure, though every doctor condemns the practice. It can result in facial paralysis, nerve damage, asymmetrical results, massive swelling, and accelerated aging, with no evidence of effectiveness.

Eye Corner Pulling Is a Muscle-Training Exercise Stretching the Outer Corners of Eyes, Supposedly Training Muscles to Hold a "Sharper" Eye Position, but Primarily Creating a Squinting and Straining Appearance

Eye corner pulling involves stretching the outer corners of the eyes with the goal of achieving “hunter eyes,” or a predatory, deep-set eye appearance. In reality, this “training” mainly causes squinting, straining, and possible damage to the delicate skin around the eyes. Ophthalmologists warn against attempting it, due to risks of injury.

Mewing: Tongue Placement Technique For Jawline; Lacks Scientific Support, Orthodontists Warn Against It

Mewing—pressing the tongue to the roof of the mouth to supposedly sharpen the jawline—spreads widely in looksmaxer discourse, but orthodontists warn that it has no proven efficacy for changing facial structure and may even cause harm if done obsessively.

Looksmaxers Use Risky Black Market Treatments At Home

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[restricted term], a powerful prescription drug for severe acne with serious side effects, is abused in looksmaxing by being taken without medical supervision. Its misuse can result in extreme health consequences.

Aqualix, a Non-fda-approved Fat-dissolving Injection in the Us, Is Self-Administered Into Facial Tissue, Bypassing Medical Oversight and Safety Protocols Following Looks Maxer Advice

Aqualix, a non-FDA-approved fat-dissolving injection, is self-administered by looksmaxers directly into the facial tissue, circumventing any medical oversight and amplifying the risk of dangerous complications.

Black Market [restricted term] and Steroids From Non-medical Sources Cause Permanent Damage Including Infertility and Erectile Dysfunction in Adolescents as Young as 14

Looksmaxers obtain [restricted term] and steroids from black market sources. These are taken without prescription or medical monitoring, causing infertility, erectile dysfunction, and hormonal disruption. Some as young as 14 resort to these drugs, and community figures openly admit to permanent damage as a consequence.

Looksmaxers Engage In Extreme Caloric Restriction for Low Body Fat Percentages

14-year-Old Loses 20 Pounds In one Month Through "Extreme Cut," Suggesting Potential Eating Disorder Behavior

Community posts reveal extreme caloric restriction, with reports of boys as young as 14 losing 20 pounds in a month through "extre ...

Predatory Looks Maxers Exploit Insecure Men With Dubious Advice

The looks maxing subculture preys on young men’s insecurities by promoting courses that promise to unlock attractiveness through obsessive, often unproven strategies. Stephanie describes how these courses mimic the formula of pickup artist, cryptocurrency, and finance grifts. For instance, "Mogworts" charges $50 per month, offering memberships to over 2,000 people. The curriculum consists of weekly classes by influencers cosplaying as professors, Q&As with self-styled professional "muggers," PowerPoint presentations, and detailed guides on achieving desired facial features, such as a "razor sharp jawline." Despite the lack of scientific or credentialed validation, Mogworts generates substantial recurring revenue from vulnerable young men seeking confidence and social validation.

The founder of Mogworts justifies these fees and the course’s existence by arguing that social media exposure to attractive and wealthy people inevitably breeds insecurity in young men. He claims his approach ethically guides young men to change what they can about their appearance—in exchange for payment—rather than leaving them feeling hopeless. However, the setup mirrors other predatory digital economies built on exploiting perceived inadequacies.

Clavicular Becomes Leading Influencer, Earning $80,000-$100,000 Monthly From Streaming While Endorsing Extreme Practices

Clavicular stands out as a leading figure in this movement, earning between $80,000 and $100,000 every month from streaming and course enrollment. His looks maxing course alone attracts over a thousand members at $50 each. He spends massive sums—$50,000 to $80,000 annually—on peptides and enhancement drugs, using his income to fund a regimen of extreme self-modification. Stephanie questions whether such high expenditures, combined with the physical and psychological risks of constant drug use, are sustainable or healthy.

Clavicular’s influence extends as he launches college campus tours aimed at recruiting more young men into his ideology. The marketing includes sensationalist stunts, like staged encounters with women, designed to appeal to and further inflame the anxieties and social frustrations of college students. This expansion increases exposure to risky practices and monetizes impressionable audiences.

Promoting Practices Despite Health Risks (Infertility, Erectile Dysfunction)

Despite documented risks such as infertility and erectile dysfunction arising from unregulated enhancement drugs and extreme aesthetic procedures, Clavicular and other looks maxing operators continue to promote these measures as necessary steps toward social and romantic success. Their messaging dismisses moderate self-care, insisting on constant, radical modification as the only viable path.

Clavicular's Predatory Behavior: Public Humiliation, Rating, Harassing Women

Clavicular’s predatory behavior has a documented history. In high school and college, he created anonymous Instagram accounts to post non-consensual, candid photos of girls, brutally rating their looks in the captions. This habit of public humiliation continues: he harshly critiques women’s faces, including celebrities like Sydney Sweeney, using demeaning language to dissect perceived flaws—commenting on “malformed” features or “recessed maxilla,” for example. On podcasts and streams, he rattles off technical-sounding but pejorative appraisals of women’s appearances, while being notably gentler when discussing men.

Clavicular often uses derogatory terms, such as “chagla diets” (referring to “cave dweller” traits), to further demean women. Stephanie observes that he seems to derive satisfaction from female embarrassment, weaponizing looks maxing ideology to reinforce misogynistic power dynamics. His community cheers these tactics, allowing misogyny to flourish under the guise of “harsh truth-telling.”

Clavicular: The Intersection of Looks Maxing, Manosphere Ideology, and Political Extremism With Pla ...