“Looksmaxxing” influencer Braden Peters paid $10,000 bail and surrendered his passport at the Thursday arraignment

Braden Peters, the controversial “Looksmaxxing” influencer known as Clavicular , pleaded not guilty to criminal rape charges in Massachusetts on Thursday, according to NBC News . He had been accused of assaulting another influencer , who was a teenager at the time, at his family’s home on Cape Cod in May 2025.

A judge set Peters’ bail at $10,000 at the arraignment. His lawyers had argued a day prior that the influencer neither posed a danger to his community nor a flight risk. Peters has no previous felony convictions. NBC reported that Peters paid the amount in cash on Thursday.…