Looksmaxxing: The Extreme Social Media Trend Endangering Youth

Looksmaxxing has seen a boom in popularity over the last few years. The trend promotes the idea that the way to succeeding in life is predominantly through how you look, aimed almost entirley and teenaged boys it promotes the unorthodox alteration of someone's physical appearance. Centred around controversial and frightening methods from the use of illicit drugs to taking a hammer to one's face, this podcast unpacks the brutal and dangerous lifestyle cultivated by looksmaxxers, who the figureheads are, and why they believe and preach these things.By Frankie Dickson, Felix Little, and Jake Stewart