{"id":81433,"date":"2026-03-16T07:58:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:58:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=81433"},"modified":"2026-03-16T07:58:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-16T11:58:43","slug":"warped-rise-of-looksmaxxing-where-men-smash-faces-with-hammers-break-legs-pay-for-hunter-eyes-to-get-girlfriend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/warped-rise-of-looksmaxxing-where-men-smash-faces-with-hammers-break-legs-pay-for-hunter-eyes-to-get-girlfriend\/","title":{"rendered":"Warped Rise Of \u2018Looksmaxxing\u2019 Where Men Smash Faces With Hammers, Break Legs &#038; Pay For \u2018Hunter Eyes\u2019 To \u2018Get Girlfriend\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The U. S. Sun (caution: tabloid):<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thesun.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/10f26418-bcf7-4f06-8f16-cb9396d01c87.jpg?w=692\" alt=\"A young man with light brown hair and a silver chain necklace wears a black puffer jacket and holds a hammer, looking at the camera with an intense expression.\" width=\"200\" height=\"277\" \/><br \/>\nFrom smashing their own faces with a hammer to chisel a better jawline to having leg extension surgery to be taller, experts fear the twisted craze of \u201clooksmaxxing\u201d could turn deadly \u2013 and also harm young women.<\/p>\n<p>First emerging in the early 2010s, \u201clooksmaxxing\u201d was a phrase used on disturbing misogynistic online forums. The term quickly spiralled from self-improvement to a desperate desire for teenage boys to fit in by undergoing life-altering and permanent surgery. Now thousands of young men consider themselves \u201clooksmaxxers\u201d and can be found across both TikTok and Instagram. These forums are also being blamed for a worrying number of suicides among young men who feel they don\u2019t look attractive enough, an expert told The Sun.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1773647923\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Warped Rise Of \u2018Looksmaxxing\u2019 Where Men Smash Faces With Hammers, Break Legs &#038; Pay For \u2018Hunter Eyes\u2019 To \u2018Get Girlfriend\u2019\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The U. S. Sun (caution: tabloid): From smashing their own faces with a hammer to chisel a better jawline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-81433","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}