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Flipboard Culture Desk
Flipboard Culture Desk
@CultureDesk@flipboard.social  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

Looksmaxxing, the relentless drive to "maximize" one's appearance, is increasingly mainstream — and having an overwhelmingly negative effect on young people's mental health. @MarieClaireUK takes a look at the origin of the term in incel communities, how young people are paying to get strangers to assess their appearance, and the spread of Looksmaxxing to the aesthetics industry.

https://flip.it/4A6MSj

#Beauty #Lifestyle #MentalHealth #Looksmaxxing

Marie Claire UK

“I Lost Myself in the Process”—How “Looksmaxxing” Culture Is Reshaping the Tweakments Industry

The pull of "self-optimisation" is rampant, but inevitably tied to the incel culture that birthed it
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Kevin Russell
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@kevinrns@mstdn.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 5 days ago

@CultureDesk @MarieClaireUK

And its ugly.

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Sheldon
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@sysop408@sfba.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 days ago

@kevinrns geez, so they reinvented the Hot or Not website?

Is there nothing in tech that isn't cyclical? This will die out and I suppose the next time around when it comes back we'll be getting people to compare their DNA against each other alongside their looks?

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