The Reason Gen Z Isn't Dating
At least incels cared about getting with the opposite sex.
The mostly male, mostly heterosexual looksmaxxers — those who have come to dominate social media with their brainrotted vernacular and impenetrably captioned video clips — seem to have dispensed with relationships entirely.
In the late 1990s, self-defined involuntary celibates cared enough about love to define themselves by their lack thereof. They bemoaned the fact that their looks, they felt, prevented them from entering into romantic and sexual relationships.
Earnestness doesn’t last long on the internet.
Today’s looksmaxxers — next-gen incels schooled in Trump-era nihilism, undersocialized because of Covid-19 lockdowns and radicalized by the manosphere — are obsessed with improving their physical appearance through any means necessary. They speak of aesthetics as destiny and attractiveness (ranked, codified and debated in extreme specificity) as the measure of human worth.
Braden Peters, the 20-year-old streamer known as Clavicular, has become the movement’s breakout star. He claims to have started injecting steroids at age 14 to improve his physique, has dabbled in crystal meth to suppress his appetite and promotes the technique of hitting oneself in the face with a hammer (it’s called bonesmashing in the looksmaxxer lexicon, and there’s video of him engaging in it) to heighten cheekbones and create a sharper jawline.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/opinion/gen-z-dating-clavicular.html?
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I...I....I'm at a loss for words....
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Walk through any grocery store, Walmart, airport, park...
Thousands and thousands of ordinary looking men, clearly coupled up with women, often kids in tow. All races, all ages. They don't have to shoot steroids and hit themselves in the head with hammers to attract female companions.
The trick seems to be not being an asshole
... they are not interested in relationships.
This looksmaxxing thing seems not to be about attracting partners. Rather, it's about attracting followers.
And the trick seems to be, being an asshole.
It's pure narcissm; loving yourself and not caring about others. 
I guess I was thinking of the First Wave of Idiotcels
Apparently these newbies just want to make themselves look good for....for, uh....other males to follow them on socials? No shame in their getting right to the homoerotic/homophobic aspect of it all
I'm serious! These guys think it's "gay" to touch your own backside, so they refuse to wash their cracks. 
Toilets, drains and sewer systems are increasingly being overwhelmed by people flushing supposedly flushable wet wipes, the most notorious of which is branded as...wait for it...Dude Wipes. 
https://www.classaction.org/flushable-wipes-lawsuit
sorry but 