its a hammer, actually. Bonesmashing.

https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-bonesmashing-and-does-it-work-the-controversial-incel-tiktok-trend-explained

They look like the YouTube thumbnail for a bad GMod edit

He looks like a shitty render out of a lousy Half-Life clone.

Coincidentally, they all remind me of handsome squidward from spongebob, who became handsome after multiple slams to the face from a metal door.

The only thing trans about this now ex-person is how transparently stupid he was (and, very likely, sadly in need of mental health help).

Have you tried shitmaxxing?

And that's just the physical symptoms of social media. The mental damage from using it is much higher.

It's always the second half of the year that the nominations come in and then by October it's like the where we're you at the beginning of the year people.

My favorite darwin is the guy who went alcohooool alcohooooool and drank a bottle of rubbing alcohol.

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.

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

he had some before the ayushcha binged, the drug put him over the edge.

Proof they can take the biggest dicks.

Lol what a perfect description

A Feruchemist more likely? Guess the metalmind was empty, or he taped it too much to fast.

“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.”

right, looksmaxxing just screams elevated consciousness - he must have been positively Buddha-like in his detachment from shallow, earthly concerns 🤦

"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.

Looks like botched jaw implants.

Wanted to be Daniel Day Lewis, ended up dead instead.

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.

I think they are embracing their environment without much thought beyond.

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.

Snake oil salesmen have been selling colloidal gold and silver for half a century.

Fight Club couldn't have predicted how stupid this would get.

It's not a competition. But looking at the numbers it's justified to focus a little more on women for the time being.

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

He did that, too!

I really need to finish that

Tried reading Red Rising and couldn't get too far in.

Deadmaxxing. Next big thing.

Seems like a self correcting problem, honestly.

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”

Bryan Johnson took synthetic peptides, which triggered an autoimmune disease that will kill him. Now he's claiming to be a random victim of a "rare disease".

https://www.news18.com/lifestyle/health-and-fitness/bryan-johnsons-autoimmune-gastritis-diagnosis-is-raising-awareness-about-a-rare-digestive-disease-10207459.html

Lance Armstrong inspired the world fighting cancer...which he caused to himself with a massive cocktail of hormones. US Postal hid the fact that he wasn't the only rider on the team to get testicular cancer.