Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Looks are so subjective. One person’s 8 is another’s 2.

This is true. The problem with this guy that the teens are idolizing is telling them that their waist needs to be a 31”, the hair needs to be just right, the jaw line should be square, etc. Really ridiculous.

Yep. There are so many ways to be handsome/hot/attractive that don’t reduce to a single set of measurements.

It’s interesting, too, how much men’s definition of male attractiveness diverges from what women find attractive. The ultimate looksmaxxing fantasy male is all about power and dominance signals (muscles, square jaw, predator eyes, broad shoulders, military garb, posing with cars and guns, etc.). Some women are into those things, but personally none of that makes me drool.

Anonymous wrote:Looks are so subjective. One person’s 8 is another’s 2.

This is true. The problem with this guy that the teens are idolizing is telling them that their waist needs to be a 31”, the hair needs to be just right, the jaw line should be square, etc. Really ridiculous.

It exploded with a guy called Clavicular, a 20 year old

An article in the NYT writes

“ Clavicular is a Looksmaxxer, the first star from an online community that holds male attractiveness as the key to worldly achievement. ”

It talks about going to extremes to have a certain look that every man should aspire to. That’s if you’re White. They have been accused of allowing Whites only into their community.

He’s making a ton of money off of this Looksmaxx online. He was arrested recently at a bar, he’s 20,and they found adderal and steroids. No surprise. Plastic surgery is bigger than ever for young guys.

He’s nice looking, not incredible, one thing his nostrils are way too big. I hope the next guy he insults calls him on it. No quick fix for that.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/style/clavicular-looksmaxxing-braden-peters.html

It’s a good thing he isn’t completely oblivious to modern trends. This too shall pass!

Looks are so subjective. One person’s 8 is another’s 2.

I can remember buying a "10" pin on closeout somewhere teens shopped in the early 1980s. Lol. I was probably a 6 but I wasn't going to let anybody tell me that.

It’s so much worse with social media now.

Back in the 80s at my Fairfax County HS, boys would hold up numbers when you walked down one hall. You can’t believe this used to go on !!!

Facebook was based on the college "Who's New" books which college would publish every year in the 1990s. Used by older guys to rank the freshman girls.

Anonymous wrote:and that ‘all’ the kids use and know the terms on the scale including things like ‘LTN’ - low tier normal- Chadish etc. He says he was bothered that his friends said his gf was beneath him on this scale.

I had to hold back on my disgust and horror.

I have an older dc who is not perfect but didn’t seem to go through this astoundingly shallow phase.

Anyone else hear of this?

Ds just turned 18 btw.

Yes. It's gross but also nothing different just new terms.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This has been a thing with teens since I was a teen on the 80s, they just didn't call it "looks maxing" they called it "rating." Tens are vicious now and vicious then.

I was a nerd I guess and my friends and I did not do this

I didn't do this, but the "popular" kids did this to me in the 80s.

It was the whole basis for Facebook, when it started.

Anonymous wrote:This has been a thing with teens since I was a teen on the 80s, they just didn't call it "looks maxing" they called it "rating." Tens are vicious now and vicious then.

The difference now is that guys are doing it to each other, not just girls.

You’d think that would make them realize how shallow and obnoxious it is.

Anonymous wrote:I think these looksmaxxing threads on DCUM are being started by high-schoolers who love watching grownups go off on pop culture phenomena.

Here are some more:

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1312209.page

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/1316584.page

Anonymous wrote:This has been a thing with teens since I was a teen on the 80s, they just didn't call it "looks maxing" they called it "rating." Tens are vicious now and vicious then.

I remember walking down the boardwalk in OC and getting "rated" by a few guys at beach week (I guess) in front of my parents. I was 13 or 14 years old and was so embarrassed.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This has been a thing with teens since I was a teen on the 80s, they just didn't call it "looks maxing" they called it "rating." Tens are vicious now and vicious then.

I was a nerd I guess and my friends and I did not do this

Someone somewhere “rated” you when you were in school. Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook with his ratings of girls at Harvard. It’s an adolescent thing that happens. Looksmaxing is just the modern iteration of notes in school listing people on a scale of 1-10. It was drama in middle school, but social media has amplified it. And some vulnerable teens are getting warped by it.