When you’re a teenager, your parents like taking stuff away from you: videogames, sleepover privileges, the car keys. When Braden Peters, who you know as Clavicular, was a teenager, his mom took away his hammer. She wanted young Clav to stop bonesmashing—that is, tapping his face repeatedly with a hammer to change his face shape.
Now 20, Clavicular, the most famous looksmaxxer in the world, continues to bonesmash. And as looksmaxxing goes from edgelord forum fodder to dinner table conversation, its most notorious face-shaping technique has found the spotlight too.
Bonesmashing was invented by looksmaxxers, a mostly-male Internet subculture of extreme aesthetic self-improvement….