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(If you’re lazy, the parts in orange are what’s more important to get my point)
Most people won’t agree with this, but looksmaxing is for the most part cope.
Yes, improving your basics like losing fat and fixing your skin can help. But for the average guy who’s already in decent shape, these changes aren’t life changing. You might look a bit better, but not enough to meaningfully impact your life.
After that, there’s basically nothing left except extreme options like steroids or surgery, and both come with real risks and downsides.
The bigger issue is that people obsess over tiny, insignificant things like minoxidil, Lumify, tretinoin, supplements, peptides, diets, etc. Most of this won’t do shit for your looks at a level that actually matters, even if you stack them together.
For a lot of people, this turns into an unhealthy obsession. They spend hours comparing themselves to others, scrolling forums, watching edits, and overanalyzing every detail. Then they convince themselves their life problems come from their looks, when in reality it’s their behavior and lifestyle. Sitting inside all day, having no social life, and obsessing over appearance is what’s actually holding them back.
Most of the “ascensions” you see are laughable. People spend years hyper focused on this and end up improving only slightly, or not at all (most, not all!), nowhere near enough to justify the time and energy.
A perfect example of someone who actually needed looksmaxing and had a real ascension is someone like Bwython. He was far below average, overweight, acne-ridden, and had structural issues like his palate. What actually changed his face was losing weight, going on Accutane, and using a palate expander. That’s it. Three real, impactful changes.
Compare that to people like Bojack or Zeta. There was no “ascension.” If you look at Bojack’s pictures from 2024 to now, he looks almost the same in terms of attractiveness. Maybe a bit older looking, but overall barely changed. Zeta also uses older photos from when he was 12 to exaggerate his “ascension”. In reality, over years of looksmaxing, there’s barely any real facial change. If you look at him from early 2024 to now, that’s around two years of “looksmaxing” with no noticeable difference in his face.
That shows the point. Big transformations only happen in extreme cases. In those situations, fixing the basics can genuinely change your life. But the average person isn’t in that position.
At the end of the day, genetics matter the most. You can looksmax all you want, but you won’t surpass people who are naturally better looking. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try to improve, but you should ask yourself whether you’re overdoing things that don’t actually help, just to cope with the fact that you are genetically inferior.
Looksmaxing made more sense when people first discovered it around 2019 to 2022, because if you actually knew about it back then, there was a good chance you were below average.
But now it’s mainstream, and the average person is already doing the surface bullshit that won’t do shit.
idk, let me know if you agree with me
Most people won’t agree with this, but looksmaxing is for the most part cope.
Yes, improving your basics like losing fat and fixing your skin can help. But for the average guy who’s already in decent shape, these changes aren’t life changing. You might look a bit better, but not enough to meaningfully impact your life.
After that, there’s basically nothing left except extreme options like steroids or surgery, and both come with real risks and downsides.
The bigger issue is that people obsess over tiny, insignificant things like minoxidil, Lumify, tretinoin, supplements, peptides, diets, etc. Most of this won’t do shit for your looks at a level that actually matters, even if you stack them together.
For a lot of people, this turns into an unhealthy obsession. They spend hours comparing themselves to others, scrolling forums, watching edits, and overanalyzing every detail. Then they convince themselves their life problems come from their looks, when in reality it’s their behavior and lifestyle. Sitting inside all day, having no social life, and obsessing over appearance is what’s actually holding them back.
Most of the “ascensions” you see are laughable. People spend years hyper focused on this and end up improving only slightly, or not at all (most, not all!), nowhere near enough to justify the time and energy.
A perfect example of someone who actually needed looksmaxing and had a real ascension is someone like Bwython. He was far below average, overweight, acne-ridden, and had structural issues like his palate. What actually changed his face was losing weight, going on Accutane, and using a palate expander. That’s it. Three real, impactful changes.
Compare that to people like Bojack or Zeta. There was no “ascension.” If you look at Bojack’s pictures from 2024 to now, he looks almost the same in terms of attractiveness. Maybe a bit older looking, but overall barely changed. Zeta also uses older photos from when he was 12 to exaggerate his “ascension”. In reality, over years of looksmaxing, there’s barely any real facial change. If you look at him from early 2024 to now, that’s around two years of “looksmaxing” with no noticeable difference in his face.
That shows the point. Big transformations only happen in extreme cases. In those situations, fixing the basics can genuinely change your life. But the average person isn’t in that position.
At the end of the day, genetics matter the most. You can looksmax all you want, but you won’t surpass people who are naturally better looking. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t try to improve, but you should ask yourself whether you’re overdoing things that don’t actually help, just to cope with the fact that you are genetically inferior.
Looksmaxing made more sense when people first discovered it around 2019 to 2022, because if you actually knew about it back then, there was a good chance you were below average.
But now it’s mainstream, and the average person is already doing the surface bullshit that won’t do shit.
idk, let me know if you agree with me
