Dunning-Kruger effect on you

[AverageGeneticLover]

The Dunning Kruger effect in looksmaxxing goes far beyond misrating. Sub5s don’t just think they look decent their brain literally can’t perceive high-tier aesthetics. Their neural baseline was built on soft social feedback and zero exposure to elite faces. They look in the mirror and see “normal,” not realizing their midface is flat, their canthal tilt is negative, and their orbital support is non-existent. It’s not denial, it’s perceptual illiteracy. Their internal rating engine is calibrated to low-tier norms, so their SMV feels inflated without knowing it’s delusional.



HTNs and low CDs, on the other hand, suffer the inverse. Years of exposure to ideal faces, blackpill breakdowns, and morph analysis shift their baseline into hyper-perfectionism. They spot sub-mm flaws no one else would notice. Their perception is no longer emotional, it’s forensic. Their aesthetic self-worth collapses because they’ve overfed their brain on elite-tier data. The result is visual overstimulation and calibration burnout. You stop seeing yourself like the world does.



Here’s the real issue: your self-perception is a distorted output of your aesthetic feedback loop. A sub5 raised on validation thinks he’s HTN. An HTN flooded with elite exposure thinks he’s mid. Both operate on internal lies. Until you recalibrate through objective ratings, harsh comparison, and real-world feedback, your actions will be misaligned. You’ll either chase too high and cope, or doom at a level below your actual value. And that’s the true danger not looking bad, but believing you are someone you’re not.

 

[FlotPSL]

Finally somebody said it

 

[Sadist]

skimmed thru, dnr full

AMEN

however this also goes beyond facial ratings, as it alsl applies to knowledge, as people think they know way more than they do, etc.

 

[InanimatePragmatist]

The Dunning Kruger effect in looksmaxxing goes far beyond misrating. Sub5s don’t just think they look decent their brain literally can’t perceive high-tier aesthetics. Their neural baseline was built on soft social feedback and zero exposure to elite faces. They look in the mirror and see “normal,” not realizing their midface is flat, their canthal tilt is negative, and their orbital support is non-existent. It’s not denial, it’s perceptual illiteracy. Their internal rating engine is calibrated to low-tier norms, so their SMV feels inflated without knowing it’s delusional.



HTNs and low CDs, on the other hand, suffer the inverse. Years of exposure to ideal faces, blackpill breakdowns, and morph analysis shift their baseline into hyper-perfectionism. They spot sub-mm flaws no one else would notice. Their perception is no longer emotional, it’s forensic. Their aesthetic self-worth collapses because they’ve overfed their brain on elite-tier data. The result is visual overstimulation and calibration burnout. You stop seeing yourself like the world does.



Here’s the real issue: your self-perception is a distorted output of your aesthetic feedback loop. A sub5 raised on validation thinks he’s HTN. An HTN flooded with elite exposure thinks he’s mid. Both operate on internal lies. Until you recalibrate through objective ratings, harsh comparison, and real-world feedback, your actions will be misaligned. You’ll either chase too high and cope, or doom at a level below your actual value. And that’s the true danger not looking bad, but believing you are someone you’re not.

High Tier trvthnvke.