Open Post: The Kids Are Not Alright: Looksmaxxing. WTF Gen Z?

What are these problem children up to now?

Um…Nothing good so it seems. For those who haven’t paid attention because the “you in danger girl” meme silently distracted you from absorbing this knowledge with cute kittens and puppy algorithms, then I am sorry to be the one to have to drag you out of protective, blissful ignorance. I am sorry. I am. 

To put it bluntly, Gen Z wins the most absurd generational trend category in a landslide. Just look at Gen X. Their entire youth was an exercise in survival of the fittest; Darwin’s theory was in full effect.  One friend remembers eating bowls of cereal and pouring milk from cartons with the faces of missing kids with "have seen me" on them. Basically, a latchkey kid is home all alone and decides a bowl of cereal sounds good, but some authority thought that advertising that bad shit happens to kids while kids make a bowl of cereal was an ace idea. Maybe the vulnerable child knew little Timmy before the bad man in the van got him. Life was really real, all the time. This was the generation that was told if you fall and it hurts like hell, well, the thing to do is run it off. Get up and start running, that broken femur? Just run it the hell off, it will hurt less. Imagine telling a teenager to looksmaxx in 1986? They would say bitch I am just trying to graduate from high school with all my limbs intact. Get out of here with that. 

This madness maxxing of one's looks has levels, too. “Softmaxxing” is just a glow up, haircut, skincare, gym, and posture. Normal stuff, but when a title. A bit obsessive, but okay, nothing too delulu. Then you get to the real bonkers mental breakdown level with “hardmaxxing,” This is where you wonder who allows these men to roam free and why they aren’t institutionalized. The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 5th Edition (DSM-5) is the guide for diagnosing mental disorders, published by the American Psychiatric Association. I anticipate an emergency reedit to include this insanity any day now. 

Hardmaxxing includes: jaw implants, chin implants, buccal fat removal, eye lifts, anything that can physically change the geometry of your face. Changing eye color to the ideal blue. Open discussions about breaking and resetting bones to improve facial ratios. Not metaphorically. Literally. Like taking a hammer to their own faces and hoping the healing makes them handsome. Injecting non-medical grade materials into their bodies, including their genitals. Using anything to get to this ideal, no matter how dangerous it is. It is more than extreme. It is diabolical and misguided. They need therapy, not sledgehammers to their cheekbones. 

They measure everything. “Facial thirds,” where your face is divided into three sections and analyzed. Cheekbone projection. Eye spacing. Achieving the canthal tilt-upturned eyes, clavicle length is a road to happiness. They practice expressions including something called “hunter eyes,” which is just squinting in a way that suggests you’re thinking very hard about things, important things.  Deep, mysterious, deeply thought stuff. There are tutorials to learn how to blink properly. They all want to be a "Chad," which is a modern-day Prince Charming with the jawline, success, women, and all that, but skipping the internal work entirely while thinking Andrew Tate's life advice is gospel. 

It is weird, but raising an entire generation on aggressively filtered social media images, can we really be shocked that this is the result? 

These incels(they are part of that manosphere mess)are bizarre. See: Clavicular. He’s just overdosed on something. They say he overdosed on a substance, but I think it is from a mixture of too much stupidity flooding underactive neurotransmitters. By the way, he was born in 2005. Naturally.