bonesmashing

While less common than working out and facial optimization, some forums extoll the benefits of strategies like “bonesmashing,” hitting your face with a hammer or similar blunt object in order to traumatize and swell the underlying bone for a more sculpted look.

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Among the other popular influencers in this space, there’s also Braden Peters, better known as ‘Clavicular,’ the young man who claims to have used ‘bonesmashing’ (hitting one’s face with a hammer) to ‘looksmaxx’ (improve his appearance), and has experimented with crystal meth to stay thin (‘crystalmethmaxxing’?).

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