This is called, “looksmaxxing,” it’s something the incel community picked up from a discredited orthodontist. The guys on the QAA podcast covered it on one of their premium episodes.
Bonemaxxing
Now I’m interested in a mobid sociologist way. Is this related to mewing?
I don’t know, what’s mewing?
It’s this trend from a rogue orthodontists about tongue position and pressure on the teeth that is supposed to chisel the jawline and is complete bonkers. But has sprout a cult following of kids mewing, specially with the incel.
Yes, I think this is a sub-category of looksmaxxing.
As a dad?l, this new world terrifies me. The craziest trends that caught on for me were Pokémon cards, tamagotchi, and Uno.
I’ll argue that jnco jeans were a safety hazard. Maybe fire hazard
Can confirm. Fell asleep at a friend’s house and he lit my jncos on fire.
I think these kinds of things wouldn’t appeal to most kids. But I do worry a lot about those with body dysmorphia feeling desperate and irrational trying to find a solution.
Those were wild times. I wasn’t even allowed to play pogs. Not even sure why really
They were banned in a lot of schools because it was considered gambling.
He’s back! And in pog form!
This can’t be real.
…is this real?
The idea, yes. Did people in OP-pic actually do that? No.
“Retrophrenology: It works like this. Phrenology, as everyone knows, is a way of reading someone’s character, aptitude and abilities by examining the bumps and hollows on their head. Therefore - according to the kind of logical thinking that characterizes the Ankh-Morpork mind - it should be possible to mould someone’s character by giving them carefully graded bumps in all the right places. You can go into a shop and order an artistic temperament with a tendency to introspection and a side order of hysteria. What you actually get is hit on the head with a selection of different size mallets, but it creates employment and keeps the money in circulation, and that’s the main thing.” ~ Terry Pratchett
It is inevitable.
GNU TPratchett
On the one hand, yes, it seems like trolling.
On the other hand, there are a lot of really fucking stupid people who are also incredibly vain. A lady recently got arrested for giving people botox injections out of a van in a mall parking lot. People were paying her up to $200 to do it.
people will do ANYTHING rather than follow a doctor’s health advice
True. Although in the U.S., they may not be able to afford a doctor’s advice.
well not after blowing 200 bucks on parking lot botox, no
Second pic def seems satire
Maybe I’m just an old curmudgeon, but I can’t feel sorry for anyone dumb enough to try this.
I have kids, and I’m confident that if I asked my 10 year old about this, even she’d know that it’s a terrible idea.
I’d hope so too, but I worry that even the smartest kids could fall for something that perfectly targets the specific thing they’re really insecure about.
That’s how I started dicksmashing.
Wow, this brought back a weird memory.
There was a very old internet ‘trend’ that had folks basically stretching and helicoptering their dicks on a regime with the idea that over time, it would make them bigger.
Basically dicksmashing.
Don’t tell me you’ve stopped jelqing?!
Jelqing and jenkem made me the man I am today.
I’d worry about things they don’t understand. If there was a “bleach and ammonia” challenge, I’d be concerned.
I don’t think many kids know what happens when you mix those, and some would die figuring it out.
It’s going to be much more difficult to find a kid that doesn’t know that a hammer to the face is a bad idea.
Trump already tried to get people to drink bleach during COVID, silly
No no, you have to inject it into the bloodstream, you goofball!
You have no idea what constant peer pressure, gas lighting, and unobtainable beauty standards can do to a young person. I do hope your kid will be able to resist that, but chances are once she is a teenager the situation might be different.
No idea? I was a socially awkward fat kid. I have an idea.
I can see getting weird piercings and regrettable tattoos, growing a mullet or wearing your pants around your knees to fit in. I understand hiding your true self to blend in, or even bullying others to climb the social ladder.
As kids, we did some dumb dangerous things, kids always will, but hitting yourself in the face with a hammer with the intention of breaking your own jaw? If you’re dumb enough to think that’s a good idea and try it, then maybe it’s a lesson you need to learn.
You have no idea
Chances are he’s old enough to have been young and knows all about this. At least I do and I was not that dumb. And if you reply that it’s worse nowadays, let me teach you about what happened since the 60s…
If you’d elaborate on what you are alluding to in the last sentence, I’d be happy to read it because I have no clue what you are referring to. You mean this kind of stuff was worse in the 60s? Sorry, English isn’t my first language and your sentence makes no sense to me.
Flashing and lots and lots of drugs
It’s not the 10 year Olds that are doing it, it’s the disaffected, terminally online 20-somethings who have grown up in a hyperficial world with very little opportunity to form real, natural relationships. Ask your daughter in ten years if she’d do something harmful for the chance of increasing her attractiveness.
Those who are willing to hit themselves in the face with a hammer because of a TikTok trend, deserve to be hit in the face with a hammer.
People are influenced by the world and people around them. And for young people today, TikTok is a very powerful influence. It tells people what is important in life, and how to get it.
You and I believe that hitting yourself in the hammer is unlikely to bring anything good; and highly likely to bring pain and problems; but we only know that because of things we’ve already learned. Different people learn different things at different points in their lives. And so there are a lot of young people who, when they are told that hitting yourself in the face with a hammer is going to make your more attractive - they might believe it and decide it is worth it.
Back when I was a young teenager, people were being told they could quickly charge their iPhones in the microwave. You can only feel so bad for people.
And again, if they’re stupid enough to believe that. then again they deserve to get hit in the face with a hammer.
TicTok
hammer smashed face, the album taken literally
Brought to you by the same sort of people dumb enough to eat Tide Pods®
Reminds me of handsome squidward
Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/2071/
Not directed at you, OP, but rather the poster in the image. What insane Internet circles are they in that this is the content they’re seeing?
The original OP is a doctor so he’s probably getting these kids showing up in his service and went on tik tok to see what it was about.
It’s because those darn kids on the Tic Tacs with their marijuana drug cigarettes.
