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Young Men Embrace Looksmaxxing To Optimize Appearance
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Scholars report that young men and teenage boys increasingly practice "looksmaxxing" on social platforms like Reddit, Instagram and TikTok, using techniques from mewing to dangerous bone-smashing to quantify and optimize facial and body features. They link this trend to eroding traditional masculine status, economic precarity and delayed adulthood, while warning industry monetization and grooming markets—projected at over $5 billion by 2027—amplify harms.
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Identifies a timely cultural trend and industry impact but offers limited novel evidence and focuses on social analysis.
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