Introduction
Hidden in the shadowy corners of forums like .org and similar incel communities, the blackpill ideology has taken a fatalistic worldview asserting that physical attractiveness, determined largely by genetics and immutable facial features dictates one's romantic and social success. For adherents, known as blackpilled individuals, this revelation often spirals into looksmaxxing, a desperate mission to optimize appearance through any means necessary.
Among these methods, bonesmashing stands out as a particularly grotesque and hazardous practice, deliberately striking one self's face with blunt objects like hammers or knuckles to micro-fracture bones, supposedly prompting them to heal thicker and more defined for a better chiselled jawline or more prominent cheekbones.
Proponents claim this aligns with scientific principles like Wolff's Law, promising a path to ascend from subhuman status to a Chad like allure. Bone smashing is not only pseudoscientific but a form of self harm that exacerbates the very insecurities it seeks to cure.
This mythical writeup debunks the practice by examining it's origins, scrutinizing mis-application of Wolff's Law, reviewing the scant evidence from anecdotal reports and flawed studies and highlighting overwhelming proof of it's inefficacy and dangers. In doing so, it reveals bonesmashing as a tragic symptom of blackpill despair rather than a rational solution to being boneless.
Blackpill and Bonesmashing, a art of self destruction
The blackpill, a evolution of incel philosophy posits that looks are 80-90% of a man's SMV, with bone structure and height as a non negotiable gatekeeper to desirability and future success.
Bonesmashing fits neatly into the extreme interventions recommended by like-minded incels on forums such as looksmax.org and incels.is, originating as a satirical meme in incel spaces, mocking the futility of altering one's genetic lottery loss.
What began as ironic posts morphed into earnest experimentation when it leaked to TikTok's grey space amasssing millions of vews.
In Blackpill lore, bonesmashing is sold as empowerment, a free accessible hardmax against the Blackpill truth.
Users document "progress" with before and after photos, attributing swelling or asymmetry to "bone growth"
This isn't liberation, it's entrapment.
The Blackpill's emphasis on looks as destiny drives vulnerable preadolescents into masochistic rituals, amplifying body dysmorphia and isolation.
Some say it works and some say it's cope, revealing the ideology's internal fractures.
Bonesmashing doesn't challenge the Blackpill, it embodies nihilism turning users into unwitting propagandists for a cycle of harm.
Wolff's Law: Misapprioated science
At bonesmashing's core lies a bastardized appeal to biology: Wolff's Law.
Articulated by 19th century anatomist Julius Wolff, this principle states that bones in a healthy organism adapt to mechanical loads placed upon them, growing denser and stronger under sustained, functional stress, or weakening under disuse.
For example, weightlifters develop thicker femurs from squats.
Astronauts lose bonemass whilst in microgravity.
The law operates via mechanotransduction: osteocytes sense cyclic strain, triggering osteoblasts to deposit new bone along stress lines whilst osteoclasts reabsorb excess.
Wolff's Law and bone's structural adaptation to mechanical usage - National Institute of Health
Blackpill enthusiasts twist this into justification for trauma stating fractures are just extreme loading; bones heal back better.
Wolff's Law demands controlled, repetitive loading - not acute uncontrolled impacts that cause pathological fractures.
Facial bones, unlike weight bearing long bones are thin, irregular and pneumatized. Evolved for lightweight cranial protection rather than load bearing.
Cyclic stresses like chewing or orthodontics can subtly remodel them per Wolff's Law, as seen in the functional matrix theory where soft tissues guide skeletal growth.
Hammer strikes induce unwanted microfractures, inflammation and malunion (a bone fracture that's healed incorrectly), not adaptive hypertrophy as Wolff's Law states.
I can't be bothered writing more since all in all it originated as a joke as a misunderstood translation of Wolff's Law.
If you bonesmash you are simply promoting orbital fractures, tooth avulsion and vascular damage.
PS: I wrote this from a neutral perspective
Bonesmash=cope
Hidden in the shadowy corners of forums like .org and similar incel communities, the blackpill ideology has taken a fatalistic worldview asserting that physical attractiveness, determined largely by genetics and immutable facial features dictates one's romantic and social success. For adherents, known as blackpilled individuals, this revelation often spirals into looksmaxxing, a desperate mission to optimize appearance through any means necessary.
Among these methods, bonesmashing stands out as a particularly grotesque and hazardous practice, deliberately striking one self's face with blunt objects like hammers or knuckles to micro-fracture bones, supposedly prompting them to heal thicker and more defined for a better chiselled jawline or more prominent cheekbones.
Proponents claim this aligns with scientific principles like Wolff's Law, promising a path to ascend from subhuman status to a Chad like allure. Bone smashing is not only pseudoscientific but a form of self harm that exacerbates the very insecurities it seeks to cure.
This mythical writeup debunks the practice by examining it's origins, scrutinizing mis-application of Wolff's Law, reviewing the scant evidence from anecdotal reports and flawed studies and highlighting overwhelming proof of it's inefficacy and dangers. In doing so, it reveals bonesmashing as a tragic symptom of blackpill despair rather than a rational solution to being boneless.
Blackpill and Bonesmashing, a art of self destruction
The blackpill, a evolution of incel philosophy posits that looks are 80-90% of a man's SMV, with bone structure and height as a non negotiable gatekeeper to desirability and future success.
Bonesmashing fits neatly into the extreme interventions recommended by like-minded incels on forums such as looksmax.org and incels.is, originating as a satirical meme in incel spaces, mocking the futility of altering one's genetic lottery loss.
What began as ironic posts morphed into earnest experimentation when it leaked to TikTok's grey space amasssing millions of vews.
In Blackpill lore, bonesmashing is sold as empowerment, a free accessible hardmax against the Blackpill truth.
Users document "progress" with before and after photos, attributing swelling or asymmetry to "bone growth"
This isn't liberation, it's entrapment.
The Blackpill's emphasis on looks as destiny drives vulnerable preadolescents into masochistic rituals, amplifying body dysmorphia and isolation.
Some say it works and some say it's cope, revealing the ideology's internal fractures.
Bonesmashing doesn't challenge the Blackpill, it embodies nihilism turning users into unwitting propagandists for a cycle of harm.
Wolff's Law: Misapprioated science
At bonesmashing's core lies a bastardized appeal to biology: Wolff's Law.
Articulated by 19th century anatomist Julius Wolff, this principle states that bones in a healthy organism adapt to mechanical loads placed upon them, growing denser and stronger under sustained, functional stress, or weakening under disuse.
For example, weightlifters develop thicker femurs from squats.
Astronauts lose bonemass whilst in microgravity.
The law operates via mechanotransduction: osteocytes sense cyclic strain, triggering osteoblasts to deposit new bone along stress lines whilst osteoclasts reabsorb excess.
Wolff's Law and bone's structural adaptation to mechanical usage - National Institute of Health
Blackpill enthusiasts twist this into justification for trauma stating fractures are just extreme loading; bones heal back better.
Wolff's Law demands controlled, repetitive loading - not acute uncontrolled impacts that cause pathological fractures.
Facial bones, unlike weight bearing long bones are thin, irregular and pneumatized. Evolved for lightweight cranial protection rather than load bearing.
Cyclic stresses like chewing or orthodontics can subtly remodel them per Wolff's Law, as seen in the functional matrix theory where soft tissues guide skeletal growth.
Hammer strikes induce unwanted microfractures, inflammation and malunion (a bone fracture that's healed incorrectly), not adaptive hypertrophy as Wolff's Law states.
I can't be bothered writing more since all in all it originated as a joke as a misunderstood translation of Wolff's Law.
If you bonesmash you are simply promoting orbital fractures, tooth avulsion and vascular damage.
PS: I wrote this from a neutral perspective
Bonesmash=cope
