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Charlie Warzel

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
493 total appearances

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Today, Explained
The darkness behind looksmaxxing

And, you know, this language is very influenced by online message board communities and places like 4chan, etc.

Today, Explained
The darkness behind looksmaxxing

But part of it is, as it always is, right, is to make the older people have to say it and look like true losers.

Today, Explained
The darkness behind looksmaxxing

So that's yeah.

Today, Explained
The darkness behind looksmaxxing

OK, so there's there's stuff like I mean, looks maxing is its own right.

Today, Explained
The darkness behind looksmaxxing

Mogging is like, you know, looking better than someone looking looking hot.

Today, Explained
The darkness behind looksmaxxing

And it actually what I found is it comes from it's like a sort of an acronym, but it's it stands for like alpha male of the group.

Today, Explained
The darkness behind looksmaxxing

and then male of the group mog, mogging.

Today, Explained
The darkness behind looksmaxxing

So there's this like, you know, alpha, beta, dominance, go back to the jungle, you know, Darwinian kind of thing going on.

Today, Explained
The darkness behind looksmaxxing

There's all kinds of words that they're just making up on the spot too, right?

Today, Explained
The darkness behind looksmaxxing

Like jester maxing.

Today, Explained
The darkness behind looksmaxxing

It is social dominance, really, or just dominance in general, right?

Today, Explained
The darkness behind looksmaxxing

This idea of mogging coming from this alpha male of group acronym, the alpha part of that and the male part of that are both extremely important.

Today, Explained
The darkness behind looksmaxxing

And so going out in public as an extremely hot person is,

Today, Explained
The darkness behind looksmaxxing

Is not just to show how beautiful you are, but it's to be dominant over other people, right?

Today, Explained
The darkness behind looksmaxxing

You want to make other people look bad.

Today, Explained
The darkness behind looksmaxxing

You want them to feel bad about themselves based off of how unbelievably attractive you are.

Today, Explained
The darkness behind looksmaxxing

And you also want to basically conquer women, right?

Today, Explained
The darkness behind looksmaxxing

It is about, you know, how many quote unquote chicks can you pull, right?

Today, Explained
The darkness behind looksmaxxing

But all of it is in this sense of conquest, of domination, of making everyone else subordinate to you.

Today, Explained
The darkness behind looksmaxxing

Well, I think it's stupid on the content level, right?