I f you’ve heard the term looksmaxxing – the manospheric pursuit of male aesthetic beauty via steroids, peptides , cosmetic surgery and total commitment – you probably know the name Clavicular . With more than 2 million followers and a cluster of mainstream media profiles , the 20-year-old streamer born Braden Peters has become the chiseled face of a once fringe movement to achieve algorithmically defined good looks by any means necessary, from daily methamphetamines to breaking your jaw with a hammer. Clavicular has courted attention for a nihilistic worldview expressed in blunt, idiosyncratic argot: “hardmaxxing”, “bone smashing”, anything to increase your “SMV” (sexual market value).

Baffling, horrifying or grimly compelling, depending on your view, Clavicular would be a fascinating documentary subject.…