A 20-Year-Old Meth-Smoking Influencer Is the Future of Right-Wing Masculinity
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🗓️ 10 February 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Sam Stein, Tim Miller, and Will Sommer break down the bizarre, disturbing, and increasingly influential world of “looksmaxxing” and the internet personality at its center, Clavicular. The trio give their takes on how a 20-year-old influencer built a massive following by bone smashing his face, abusing steroids and meth, and livestreaming chaos all while becoming a minor celebrity in right-wing online culture. They explain the strange vocabulary (mogging, jestermaxxing, foids), the overlap with incel ideology, and why figures like Clavicular matter politically, even if you wish you’d never heard of them.
Read more from Will's reporting on Clavicular: https://www.thebulwark.com/p/clavicular-looksmaxxing-streamer-influencer-mogging
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| 0:00.0 | All right. Hey, everybody. It's me, Sam Stein, managing editor at the Bullwork, and I'm joined by the Potato Boys. Is that what we're calling ourselves now? |
| 0:07.7 | We're working through the names. |
| 0:11.1 | So as we start, I just want to apologize for frame mugging you guys so brutally. I know you guys are doing the best you could, but with this wallpaper and with my P-WAT shirt and kind of my cheek bones, I just feel like I'm really... |
| 0:26.3 | You've been bone smashing. |
| 0:28.4 | Yeah. |
| 0:28.9 | Have you bones smashed? |
| 0:30.5 | People are going to not know what we're talking about. |
| 0:33.2 | We're back. |
| 0:34.6 | We have a new piece to discuss, another will masterpiece. |
| 0:37.8 | This one's on clavicular. |
| 0:39.7 | If you had an internet connection this weekend or on Twitter for about two seconds, |
| 0:44.3 | you probably read some nonsense about this man. |
| 0:46.7 | He's 20 years old. |
| 0:48.1 | Is that right, Will? |
| 0:49.2 | Yes, he's 20. |
| 0:50.4 | It's 20 and a half, I think. |
| 0:52.9 | To be precise. |
| 0:54.6 | And he does things to his body that no human being should do all in the name of trying to perfect his look. |
| 1:01.3 | His chiseled. |
| 1:03.1 | Okay. |
| 1:06.4 | Will, what do you go through what clavicular has done to his body and why he's doing? Why should we care about clavicular first? Well, we're going to get to that. Okay. All right. Let's get to that second. This is a man. He's internet famous and he does fucking weird shit to look good and get girls. But, Will, you know this stuff. What is going on here? Sure. So clavicular is a guy who's maybe the most prominent face of what's called the looks maxing community, which is in some ways sort of like a division of in cells. |
| 1:35.0 | These are guys who have decided, you know, that women, you know, everything's against them. |
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