Looksmaxxer Connor Murphy ‘injected himself with gold’ to connect to higher powers before death

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    1. Sometimes I read news like this one and ultimately wonder: how did these people survivor a pandemic?

      I tried to be as smart as I could and still wound up mentally and physically scarred lol

    2. PaperSackMan on

      I file this sort of news under “death by mental illness” and find it incredibly sad. This phenomenon (not looksmaxxing itself necessarily, but the broader extreme self “improvement” thing) predates the internet by eons, but whoo boy does streaming video turbocharge it.

    3. youshantnome on

      I’m so lost. Is this a real person or is this a satire post? I really cannot tell from that photo. Was this an actually real
      person? What is happening to humanity?

    4. ParaponeraBread on

      This guy, if he was who I think he was, had been *really* ill for quite some time. He predates the modern “looksmaxxing” thing by several years.

    5. Warm_Noodles3426 on

      All of this shit is just so incredibly sad and bleak. They’re breaking the bones in their faces and injecting themselves with gold, all the while someone is making mad money telling them it’s ‘the only way’. End stage capitalism truly is killing the world

    6. SamsaraIsALie on

      He was mentally unwell for some time. I blame Leo Gura for this – he influenced him into taking psychedelics and his videos led Connor to develop a god complex and go further of the rails.

    7. What’s really sad is that all this was done for the social media likes. Social media makes people do weird things.

    8. I thought Connor was more a YouTube “prankster” than looksmaxxer?I remember his mental state had a real downward spiral few years backs when he was doing DMT everyday before that culture was big.

    9. BookishHobbit on

      You know how in Doctor Who nearly every episode sees the Doctor & co meet a cool new alien species only to then discover they have some really weird/disturbing lifestyles that are somehow leading to their cruel but inevitable demise?

      We’ve officially become the aliens.

    10. This is severe body dysmorphia. I can see the features that are traditionally considered attractive, but they were pushed to the extreme.

    11. peachypapayas on

      I dont think calling him a looksmaxxer is accurate. I remember watching this guy on YouTube in the 2010s. He has appearance and gym focused content and silly little skits, but he didnt dabble in this blackpill ideology stuff. He changed due to being mentally unwell.