The “looksmaxxing” streamer Clavicular is recovering at home in Miami after being hospitalized for a suspected overdose. Braden Peters, 20, was streaming on the platform Kick while at a bar in the city when his friends grew concerned about his condition in the moment. The stream was abruptly cut short.
“Just got home, that was brutal,” Peters wrote on X in the early hours of April 15. “All of the substances are just a cope trying to feel neurotypical while being in public, but obviously that isn’t a real solution. The worst part of tonight was my face descending from the life support mask.” The caption accompanied a photo of Peters with blood smeared across his face.
A representative for Peters declined to comment when reached by Rolling Stone.
Androgenic, another creator in the looksmaxxing niche, who was sitting next to Peters at the time of the incident, shared updates on X. “I hadn’t seen him in this state before and he went from speaking to being fairly unresponsive in mere seconds,” he wrote. “Within a minute we all realised the situation, turned the stream off, picked him up and rushed him to the hospital.”
In clips from the livestream, Androgenic can be heard offering Adderall to Peters, which he later explained was because “stimulants can attenuate respiratory depression in some cases, but I didn’t push for it once I realised he was unresponsive.”
As part of the looksmaxxing subculture, Peters goes to extreme lengths to maximize how attractive he appears. The New York Times previously reported that Peters has “injected and ingested dozens of controlled substances” since the age of 14. Last year, he appeared on a stream with the influencer Cheesur, where he admitted to using methamphetamine to curb his appetite. He also noted that he is infertile as a result of his steroid intake.
Since he was first spotted dancing with Andrew Tate and Nick Fuentes to Kanye West’s “Heil Hitler” earlier this year, Peters has been making headlines. In February, he was arrested in Arizona and charged with possession/use of a dangerous drug, including an Adderall pill and an oral steroid. (Prosecutors later declined to press charges.) In March, he was arrested in Florida, after allegedly instigating a fight between two women to post on social media. Peters posted bail and was released, but the charges appear to still be pending.
Last week, Peters appeared in an interview with 60 Minutes Australia, which came to an abrupt end. The streamer walked away from the conversation after being asked if he identifies as an incel, or “involuntary celibate.” “I’m not linked to that group in any way,” Peters said, pointing out that the previous question had been about his romantic relationships. “Looksmaxxing is self-improvement, right? So it’s about potentially even ascending out of that category. So that would be kind of one of the goals is to disassociate from being an incel and overcome that. So that doesn’t make sense.”
Prior to the end of the interview, Peters was asked about whether he advocates for the consumption of drugs in order to maximize physical appearance. “I feel like the the taking drugs thing, that question, I would just prefer you clarify individual things like testosterone, because you just say drugs, people automatically associate recreational normie drugs, and I always am very clear that those are terrible,” he said. “I advocate fully against them. But if you’re talking about certain pharmaceuticals like testosterone, like human-growth hormone, GLP1s, yeah, I do advocate for those.”
