How Looksmaxxing, Clavicular, And Alt-Right Masculinity Went Mainstream
The Polyester Podcast
The Polyester Podcast
4.5 • 533 Ratings
🗓️ 9 March 2026
⏱️ 30 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Before 21 year old looksmaxxer streamer Clavicular walked the Elena Valez runway at NYFW, his brand of hyper misogynist masculinity was confined to teenage boys in their bedrooms and the terminally online taking the piss out of him. But after making his fashion debut, Clavicular has garnered attention from nearly every mainstream mag imaginable. With other designers sending ‘looksmaxxing’ T-shirts down the runway, has inceldom found a mainstream home?
In this week's episode, hosts Ione and Gina unpack Clavicular's lore, from bone smashing to extreme racism, dissect the fashion world's continuing flirtation with the alt right and ask whether or not deplatforming really works for gen z influencers?
Support our work and become a Polyester Podcast member <3
Order Ione's book, Poor Little Sick Girls, here!
Order Gina's book, Greedy Guts, here!
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | Hi Gina. Hi, Ioni. Hi everyone. I'm Gina, the senior editor-in-chief of Polyester. And I'm Ioni, the founding editor-in-chief of Polyester, and this is the Polyester podcast, a feminist pop culture podcast, dissecting the discourse on a weekly basis. Please make sure to like, rate, subscribe and review. And if you didn't know, we've just added a million new perks to our members platform |
| 0:22.4 | stuff like free physical merch free digital merch more secret podcasts than ever |
| 0:28.6 | if you want to sign up you can find the link in our description wow wow wow we need a soundboard |
| 0:36.7 | do you have any reviews i all need we don't need a soundboard. Do you have any reviews I all need? |
| 0:38.6 | We don't need a soundboard when we've got each other. Yes, we have reviews. This one is five stars, Fave Forever, in a very fitting, but also very junior high yearbook fashion. Please don't have a change. I live for this Sunday pod drop. You're my favourite pod people. You're So Real. TYTY from Aela Bay in the US, which is very lovely. |
| 0:56.9 | Thank you. |
| 0:57.2 | Do you not know what TY? Sunday pod drop. You're my favourite pod people. You're So Real. TiTY from Ayla Bay in the US, which is very lovely. |
| 0:57.0 | Thank you. Do you not know what TY means? Thank you. Have you never said TY by itself? |
| 1:02.9 | Only when referred to BB babies. |
| 1:05.3 | No, that's Thai. It's very different. What do you mean? |
| 1:08.0 | It's Thai, not TY. Oh, I don't know as one word. |
| 1:11.2 | And then on Spotify, we have, this is from our Weathering Heights episode. |
| 1:16.2 | Loveheart emoji, fairy emoji, bubble emoji says, screamed when I saw this had been uploaded. |
| 1:21.8 | Time to lock the fuck in. |
| 1:24.5 | And then Gabb says, finally, this is a safe space for Emerald, for now haters. Thank you. |
| 1:29.1 | Thank you. It is. We've been fighting for our lives in the WhatsApp chat about it, to be honest. |
| 1:34.7 | We have, yeah. It's been a long winding road to this episode as well. |
| 1:38.9 | What do you mean? To this episode. Today we are talking about clavicular. |
| 1:43.5 | The only's boyfriend. Not my boyfriend. We did are talking about clavicular. Aeony's boyfriend. |
| 1:45.1 | Not my boyfriend. |
| 1:46.6 | We did record a mini episode on this, but we recorded it the day... |
| 1:52.4 | He was invented. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from The Polyester Podcast, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of The Polyester Podcast and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.