Gia Tolentino
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 22 Jul
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And that, too, is part of the larger sense that, you know, we're decoupling from the physical entirely, which is so strange because we're talking about the face and the body.
Well, increasingly, it seems to be for the disembodied collective, right?
It seems to be for the virtual audience.
Like there's this, I feel, you know, I feel that I sense a kind of an eroticization of
of disembodied collective attention, like maximal likes, maximal viewers.
And again, for young people, that does kind of convert into maximal profit.
I mean, Clavicular only became Clavicular because he's doing this all so ostentatiously that people will watch and he can make tapping himself on the jaw with a hammer on a Twitch stream his full-time job and actually get quite rich because of it.
And so there's kind of an eroticization through that almost of capital itself, right?
which is, again, probably the most anti-human thing you could ever eroticize.
Yeah, if you go on the big looks maxer forums, you know, they have these message boards with all of these ways that you can improve your
Your faces and bodies and, you know, they get really arcane.
And, you know, yeah, it harkens back.
Yeah, and looks maxing is overtly racist.
The way that, you know, Instagram faced that was kind of tacitly racist.
Looks maxers are pretty overtly white supremacists.
They pretty overtly see the kind of white male, quote unquote, Chad as kind of the alpha human thing.
And non-white males as inferior and the same with women.
You know, it's a reactionary retreat against last decade's idea that what if everyone was worthy?
It's a really clear reaction against that and a repudiation of that.
I don't think anything has replaced it.
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