Braden Peters, known online as Clavicular, has become one of the biggest voice in looksmaxxing, recently profiled by The New York Times and now earning a reported $100,000 monthly from his daily online sessions.
In a recent interview with Piers Morgan, the 20-year-old influencer defended his controversial approach to self-improvement, including his use of pharma interventions during his teenage years.
When pressed about his dramatic physical transformation from age 16 to 19, Clavicular openly discussed his methods. “It’s a lot of pharma intervention, especially during puberty,” he explained. “This is going to be the time where it’s most important for people to optimize their growth mechanisms and their growth pathways.”
He detailed using exogenous hormones like testosterone and human growth hormone, as well as blocking aromatase to prevent testosterone from converting into estrogen, specifically to increase his height and masculinize his features.
The young content creator defended these practices by arguing they fall under “hard maxxing,” which he described as using anabolic roids and other pharma methods to enhance appearance. While he acknowledged not pursuing surgical procedures like rhinoplasty, he emphasized that pharma interventions have been central to his transformation.
Clavicular positioned his controversial bone-smashing practice as scientifically grounded, despite its risks. “If done properly with the proper precautions, it can be a good thing,” he insisted, describing it as creating “very intentional localized micro traumas” rather than random injury.
When Morgan expressed concern about encouraging such practices, Clavicular countered by questioning what was mechanistically wrong with the technique, suggesting critics lacked understanding of its precision.
Throughout the interview, Clavicular maintained that his entire life trajectory validates his philosophy. “My life is kind of on a one-to-one linear timeline with my exact ideologies that improving your looks is going to have a direct correlation with improvement in your life,” he stated. “As soon as I started really ascending and really getting into those high percentile looks, look at what happened to my life. I became that millionaire. I became famous.”
He defended his focus on aesthetics by citing real-world data. “It’s based on objectivity. It’s based on real world data that shows looks are extremely important in the workplace. Looks are extremely important in dating,” Clavicular argued.
He rejected suggestions that his approach stemmed from insecurity, claiming his methods were rooted in measurable outcomes rather than personal inadequacy.
When Morgan challenged whether encouraging bone smashing and teenage hormone use was responsible, Clavicular maintained there was a barrier to entry based on intelligence. He suggested these techniques could be beneficial if people understood proper application.
The young influencer also defended his looksmaxxing philosophy against criticism that it promotes superficiality. He rejected the notion that focusing on appearance contradicts developing character, intelligence, or education.
“Why are you doing the same thing where you make it mutually exclusive? They’re not mutually exclusive at all,” he responded when Morgan raised concerns about prioritizing aesthetics.
