Moggie
Failed Delon, Crisick pre photoshop
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5.1 Body image forum
Average monthly visits: 4.4 million
Founded by Galante and Small in August 2018, the body image forum is popular in the wider incelopshere community for “men that wish to improve their looks” and interested in “becoming the best version” of themselves.
Members exchange so-called “looksmax” techniques in order to improve their appearances. One such technique the community frequently discusses is “mewing”, which requires the flattening of the tongue against the roof of the mouth and allegedly sharpens the jawline.
Whilst some incels turn to looksmaxing as a coping mechanism or method to help them “ascend” (that is, to escape inceldom by having sexual relations with someone), the concept is not exclusive to the incels community, extending the forum’s influence to those who do not explicitly identify as incel.
Discussions about incels on the body image forum are generally critical, partly due to the perceived defeatism of the incel community. Despite this, we found that 5% of usernames that we collected in a small scale scrape of the forum were also in use on the incels forum.
The site’s “Ratings” subforum allows members rate each other’s appearances based on uploaded images and videos and exchange “advice” on how to “improve”. Whilst members have a “4-hour window to edit/delete posts”, this does not apply to the Ratings posts and threads, which cannot be deleted unless members “upgrade to a VIP rank”.
Whilst survey results released on the forum in 2022 reports that 83% of members are ages 18 and above, many threads in the section are posted by minors. One thread identified was created by an alleged 14-year-old. In response, users suggested that the minor should get “lip fillers” and “cut weight” to “ascend…to giga chad”.
“I would get some bimax so you can get hooded eyes. Maybe some lip fillers. I would also cut weight to get hollow cheeks. You are htn rn, but all that would ascend you to giga chad.”
The body image forum runs ads on its website powered by marketing agencies including Clever Advertising and Infolinks. Looksmax.org offers various “VIP” upgrade packages to its members ranging from $8.99 to $49.99. The most expensive package offers members features such as “no ads”, username changes and access to an “exclusive subforum”.
The site maintains a Discord server with 736 members and a Twitter profile with 196 followers.
Average monthly visits: 4.4 million
Founded by Galante and Small in August 2018, the body image forum is popular in the wider incelopshere community for “men that wish to improve their looks” and interested in “becoming the best version” of themselves.
Members exchange so-called “looksmax” techniques in order to improve their appearances. One such technique the community frequently discusses is “mewing”, which requires the flattening of the tongue against the roof of the mouth and allegedly sharpens the jawline.
Whilst some incels turn to looksmaxing as a coping mechanism or method to help them “ascend” (that is, to escape inceldom by having sexual relations with someone), the concept is not exclusive to the incels community, extending the forum’s influence to those who do not explicitly identify as incel.
Discussions about incels on the body image forum are generally critical, partly due to the perceived defeatism of the incel community. Despite this, we found that 5% of usernames that we collected in a small scale scrape of the forum were also in use on the incels forum.
The site’s “Ratings” subforum allows members rate each other’s appearances based on uploaded images and videos and exchange “advice” on how to “improve”. Whilst members have a “4-hour window to edit/delete posts”, this does not apply to the Ratings posts and threads, which cannot be deleted unless members “upgrade to a VIP rank”.
Whilst survey results released on the forum in 2022 reports that 83% of members are ages 18 and above, many threads in the section are posted by minors. One thread identified was created by an alleged 14-year-old. In response, users suggested that the minor should get “lip fillers” and “cut weight” to “ascend…to giga chad”.
“I would get some bimax so you can get hooded eyes. Maybe some lip fillers. I would also cut weight to get hollow cheeks. You are htn rn, but all that would ascend you to giga chad.”
The body image forum runs ads on its website powered by marketing agencies including Clever Advertising and Infolinks. Looksmax.org offers various “VIP” upgrade packages to its members ranging from $8.99 to $49.99. The most expensive package offers members features such as “no ads”, username changes and access to an “exclusive subforum”.
The site maintains a Discord server with 736 members and a Twitter profile with 196 followers.
