"a Turkish sugar-free chewing gum that some looksmaxxing influencers use in the belief it can help strengthen the jawline."
Oh shit I know this gum, it gives you jaw cramps.
this post was submitted on 11 Jul 2026
334 points (98.3% liked)
Not The Onion
21937 readers
1269 users here now
Welcome
We're not The Onion! Not affiliated with them in any way! Not operated by them in any way! All the news here is real!
The Rules
Posts must be:
- Links to news stories from...
- ...credible sources, with...
- ...their original headlines, that...
- ...would make people who see the headline think, “That has got to be a story from The Onion, America’s Finest News Source.”
Please also avoid duplicates.
Comments and post content must abide by the server rules for Lemmy.world and generally abstain from trollish, bigoted, ableist, or otherwise disruptive behavior that makes this community less fun for everyone.
And that’s basically it!
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
If no one else did it after him, then he is no influencer.
His artificial hairline looks worse than if he were bald. And wtf is going on with his jaw?
Its almost as if this looksmaxing and other social media shit is a kind of mental illness that gets worse with time. especially when they find an audience that encourages them to go even further off the deep end.
You know, I think I'd rather just continue being ugly.
Survival of the fittest. Nature doesn't care.
More like "dumbfluencer".
We’re in the “The Beautiful Ones” part of the collapse of our little mouse utopia.
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)? 🤔
Heres a super wild speculation.
Elden Ring a Game. Where super powerful beings had shards of elden ring. Made them powerful. Im not sure but its supposed to be made from gold. Whole game has gold theme.
I think they are embracing their environment without much thought beyond.
Gold is inert, so it should not have done much, I think.
Can a scientist please chime in on this?
My take: The gold probably wasn't the problem. You have to ask yourself, how did he get metal into his veins? It was either dissolved or suspended in a liquid. If it was suspended, that guy was giving himself embolisms by injecting small foreing objects into his bloodstream. If it was dissolved he was probably injecting himself with pure poison.
I mean, let me shove liquid metal into your veins.
I don't think toxicity is the problem.
Paracelsus has famously claimed, the dose makes the poison. His point is basically, everything is potentially a poison. One can possibly get Oxygen or water poisoning even though both substances are vital for our survival.
if its ionic form, or its in salt form it can somewhat poisonous, also gold jewelry is often contaminated or combined with other metals lead, nickel, copper, etc. elemental gold is inert though.
trying to be a greek god with thier gold ichior blood.
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.
I keep hearing the term looksmaxer and every time it's a person that looks like they were hit with a snow shovel repeatedly.
its a hammer, actually. Bonesmashing.
bone smashing? I must have the manliest left thumb on earth.
I see you out there thumbmaxxing
There's some money to be made in that. Try OnlyThumbs.
load more comments
(7 replies)
He looks like a shitty render out of a lousy Half-Life clone.
load more comments
(1 replies)
view more: next ›