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[–] stermy4u@lemmy.world 264 points 2 months ago (4 children)

I keep hearing the term looksmaxer and every time it's a person that looks like they were hit with a snow shovel repeatedly.

[–] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 160 points 2 months ago (6 children)
[–] Ariselas@piefed.ca 89 points 2 months ago (4 children)

bone smashing? I must have the manliest left thumb on earth.

[–] Tyrq@lemmy.dbzer0.com 54 points 2 months ago

I see you out there thumbmaxxing

[–] Dojan@pawb.social 23 points 2 months ago

There's some money to be made in that. Try OnlyThumbs.

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[–] qualia@lemmy.world 23 points 2 months ago

Osteoblast-maxxing

[–] BehindetheClouds@reddthat.com 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)
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[–] Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Everytime i read about this i think of Hammer Smashed Face by Cannibal Corpse.

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[–] Witchfire@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

They look like the YouTube thumbnail for a bad GMod edit

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 126 points 2 months ago
[–] HeyJoe@lemmy.world 58 points 2 months ago (4 children)

So either he always had some mental health issues, or the lack of nutrition he did to keep the body he had lead himself to make very bad decisions because his brain couldnt process correctly anymore.

[–] Catoblepas@lemmy.blahaj.zone 83 points 2 months ago (7 children)

I’ve never read anything about the looksmaxxing subculture that made me think it was anything other than people with severe body dysmorphia egging each other on. The least ethical 60s psychological experiment conceived by the most coked up 60s psychologist couldn’t have come up with a more fucked up method of seeing how far people will go.

[–] SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Eh... I wouldn't be surprised if they did exactly this in the 60s, just with more LSD involved in the experiment.

[–] rain_enjoyer@sopuli.xyz 13 points 2 months ago (3 children)

i heard of people drilling holes in their skulls for spiritual reasons in roughly that period so this tracks

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[–] affenlehrer@feddit.org 26 points 2 months ago (4 children)

From what I heard he had a psychosis after an Ayahuasca ritual, then used gold from jewelry which might contain lead and other nasty stuff for consumption and injection and also used SSRIs before he died, so possibility serotonin syndrome.

[–] ryannathans@aussie.zone 24 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Sounds like they were mentally ill beforehand, ayahuasca didn't do that

And then he was found at the bottom of a lake, which would be unusual for serotonin syndrome

[–] 4am@lemmy.zip 15 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Maybe the lead weighed him down

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago
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[–] BarnWolf@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago

I think the copious amounts of drugs he was doing probably had a lot to do with it. Oh and the injecting gold part.

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[–] arc99@lemmy.world 50 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Looksmaxxing is just a new name for body dysmorphia. The same shit that makes people puke their guts out after eating, or getting plastic surgery done over and over until they look like freaks.

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[–] inb4_FoundTheVegan@lemmy.world 49 points 2 months ago (2 children)

“Up until his passing, he was discovering that he had achieved some superhuman abilities, and it’s no joke; he actually did achieve some superhuman abilities,” he said. “He had tapped into a level of consciousness that most people never will.”

Another looksmaxxing influencer, Androgenic, offered additional claims during a livestream, saying Murphy became increasingly focused on gold.

“He started to get this fixation on gold. He started to believe that gold was some gatekept mineral by the higher-ups that basically gives you special powers if you ingest it,” he said. According to Androgenic, Murphy later began injecting gold into his body.

Just so we are all clear, the trans community super duper does not claim him. Wish the political right would focus more on this sort of self abuse instead of the verified science supporting medical transition.

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[–] KingPorkChop@lemmy.ca 40 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] matlag@sh.itjust.works 31 points 2 months ago (1 children)

He's going to be a strong contender for this year's Darwin Award!

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[–] CubitOom@infosec.pub 30 points 2 months ago
[–] Bhaelfur@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Did this toolbag think he was an Allomancer or Mistborn? Brandon Sanderson's works are too dangerous! BAN SANDERSON NOVELS!

/s just in case...

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[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 25 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I don't know why these dudes want to look like they're choking on a shovel.

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[–] kryptonianCodeMonkey@lemmy.world 24 points 2 months ago (2 children)

From the article it sounds like he has a friend who genuinely believes that he was gaining superhuman powers too. So... clocks ticking on that guy now.

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[–] Shumina@lemmus.org 19 points 2 months ago

We’re in the “The Beautiful Ones” part of the collapse of our little mouse utopia.

[–] Ougie@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

His artificial hairline looks worse than if he were bald. And wtf is going on with his jaw?

[–] DeLacue@lemmy.world 12 points 2 months ago

"Looksmaxxing has drawn criticism because some influencers promote dangerous techniques to change their appearance, including striking or damaging their jawbones and other risky practices."-from the article.

The looksmaxxing guys have a thing they call bonesmashing where they will hit their jaws with hammers or other implements in order to break it a little. This is done so they can reshape it as it heals. This is a repeated process. The jaw is broken and reshaped continually until they look a little more like the cartoonish over exagerated jawline of the chads from those chad memes. No I'm not kidding and no this is not done with any kind of medical supervision.

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[–] FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world 18 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (7 children)

I will assume he was taking advice from ChatGPT. That is just the kind of dumb shit ChatGPT tries to convince people to do.

LOL at all the downvotes, as if ChatGPT doesn't tell people to do stupid shit.

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[–] W3dd1e@lemmy.zip 17 points 2 months ago (3 children)

People are so worried about women and body dysmorphia, but we should remember that men need help with dysmorphia too.

I didn’t know who this guy was before he died, but I read an article about things he was doing and saying. He was not okay. It seems like he was suffering from some kind of paranoia as much as dysmorphia.

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[–] KiloGex@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

The problem with all of these other influencers backing the claim that he'd become "supernatural" before his death will only keep the door open for other followers to copy this lifestyle, just believing this idiot just did something wrong that they can correct. So dangerous.

[–] Jax@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

Seems like a self correcting problem, honestly.

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[–] QuantumSparkles@sh.itjust.works 15 points 2 months ago

That’s basically the entire history of magical and/or alchemical elixirs and potions. “Sure the previous emperor died after drinking the lead immortality elixir, but that’s just because he didn’t do it right”

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[–] herseycokguzelolacak@lemmy.ml 15 points 2 months ago

I nominate Connor Murphy for a Darwin award: https://darwinawards.com/darwin/

[–] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Police in Thailand were reportedly called to the rental property where Murphy had been staying after receiving complaints about a man screaming inside. Officers allegedly found him in an “agitated” state.

uhh you think? Agitated state, fuckin bet. What the hell that must of that felt like?? The agony, like how the hell would thd body even respond? would your blood congeal? the fuck, this some shit out of a horror film.

[–] Steve 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (3 children)

That's what I'm wondering.
As far as I know gold is chemically inert. All its valence electrons are paired up. It shouldn't bind or chemically interact with anything. I know it's safe to put on food. (Expensive food)

The article says he was trying other things also, and the cause if death is unknown yet. I have doubts it was the gold.

[–] Fedizen@lemmy.world 17 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Gold is not chemically inert. It a larger atom that slightly adheres to other metals with metallic bonds but tends to not form stable ionic bonds. Its also a common catalyst for a variety of reactions.

Your digestive system takes in solids and processes them but it has a size limit on absorbed particles. Powdered gold, even if mixed into a liquid is going to be more dangerous in the blood stream because large clumps that wouldn't make it through the digestive might be present. That could result in blood clots or other problems.

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[–] 58008@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

I really want to know what "science" he was banking on here. Like, how does this injection work, according to him? I assume he chose gold (as opposed to lead or tin) because he has gawdy Trumpesque notions of success and opulence, but what the fuck does injecting it do (again, according to him)? 🤔

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[–] NM_Gringo@lemmy.world 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Edible gold is a food additive (code E 175) but you don't want to inject it. Holy crap.

[–] OrteilGenou@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

You've never tried a Goldschlager IV bag? Bru...

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[–] lemmelemmy@feddit.org 12 points 2 months ago (7 children)

How the hell you’d inject gold?

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[–] SnarkoPolo@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Conservatives have spent the last 50 years devaluing education. This is the result.

[–] Duamerthrax@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago

Some problems solve themselves.

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