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stermy4u@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago

Friends claim influencer injected himself with gold to gain “superhuman” powers before his death

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stermy4u@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 3 days ago
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Connor Murphy's friends claim the looksmaxxing influencer injected gold while seeking "superhuman" abilities before his death in Thailand.
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    friends

    X Doubt

  • eestileib@sh.itjust.works
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    I don’t know why these dudes want to look like they’re choking on a shovel.

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      Proof they can take the biggest dicks.

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      Lol what a perfect description

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    Guy read too much Sanderson. Was trying to steal hybrid feruchemical powers

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    How the hell you’d inject gold?

    • dai@lemmy.world
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      tetrachloroauric acid

      • eestileib@sh.itjust.works
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        That sounds like a fucking terrible idea good lord

      • lemmelemmy@feddit.org
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        TIL this 👆

    • MML@sh.itjust.works
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      This is what is known as a “bad idea”

      • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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        As stupid as injecting random protein peptides.

        Then claiming you are a victim of a rare autoimmune disorder.

        https://www.news18.com/lifestyle/health-and-fitness/bryan-johnsons-autoimmune-gastritis-diagnosis-is-raising-awareness-about-a-rare-digestive-disease-10207459.html

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      Colloidal gold. Bullshit supplement. Gold is almost a Nobel metal, doesn’t really react with anything.

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        *does not really react with anything.

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    Looksmaxxing is just a new name for body dysmorphia. The same shit that makes people puke their guts out after eating, or getting plastic surgery done over and over until they look like freaks.

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      Have you tried shitmaxxing?

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        I do it all the time. Currently on the shitter, maxing.

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          Currently vapemaxxing and shitpostontheshittermaxxing.

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            Shitmaxxing is the latest fad. Influencers are eating 6 meals a day rather than the regular 3. The rules also include in those meals at least 2 cans of beans, 20 grams of soluble fibre, and a kg of beef.

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      And that’s just the physical symptoms of social media. The mental damage from using it is much higher.

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    The problem with all of these other influencers backing the claim that he’d become “supernatural” before his death will only keep the door open for other followers to copy this lifestyle, just believing this idiot just did something wrong that they can correct. So dangerous.

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      That’s basically the entire history of magical and/or alchemical elixirs and potions. “Sure the previous emperor died after drinking the lead immortality elixir, but that’s just because he didn’t do it right”

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      Bryan Johnson took synthetic peptides, which triggered an autoimmune disease that will kill him. Now he’s claiming to be a random victim of a “rare disease”.

      https://www.news18.com/lifestyle/health-and-fitness/bryan-johnsons-autoimmune-gastritis-diagnosis-is-raising-awareness-about-a-rare-digestive-disease-10207459.html

      Lance Armstrong inspired the world fighting cancer…which he caused to himself with a massive cocktail of hormones. US Postal hid the fact that he wasn’t the only rider on the team to get testicular cancer.

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      Seems like a self correcting problem, honestly.

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        “Looksmaxxing” is garden variety body dysmorphic disorder, but it’s quite clearly treated vastly differently because the sufferer is male presenting.

        Your comment is akin to saying suicide makes depression a self correcting problem. That’s pretty fucking heartless, don’t you think?

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          but it’s quite clearly treated vastly differently because the sufferer is male presenting.

          This is so dumb, people are overwhelmingly cruel to women with eating disorders. Whether eating too much or too little. Not to mention, a woman with an eating disorder isn’t eating more/less because she hates men. Incels started looksmaxxing because of red pill manosphere brainrot like ‘you must be 6’13" and square jaw and straight white teeth and muscles in order to have a CHANCE with a 7.5/10, because all women are whores and driven by primordial urges’ . It’s an entirely incorrect interpretation of how human beings interact propogated by chronically online cave trolls.

          My comment is no where near saying suicide makes depression a self correcting problem. There are myriad circumstances that can lead someone to suicide. Looksmaxxing is at its core an overreaction to a problem that incels conjured up. Or more accurately misinterpreted, yes male loneliness is a problem but so is female loneliness; it’s an epidemic on both sides.

          If you’re too dumb to understand that maybe you shouldn’t pump random shit into your veins in an attempt to look younger or more attractive, so be it. You will become a lesson for anyone paying attention. (Proverbial you)

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          Treated differently only because the overwhelmingly male population that suffers from it is actively hating people who they deem different and taking a lot of online space doing so. That’s fucking heartless, indeed.

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          Looksmaxxing involves style and fashion too, not exactly like an eating disorder, its more like I want to look superior because of my insecurities. I’m sure there is some comorbidity.

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            It also involves bashing your skull with a vibrating hammer.

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          For Nazis, it is.

          Everyone else should get healthcare, but for Nazis I’m happy when it runs its course.

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    I keep hearing the term looksmaxer and every time it’s a person that looks like they were hit with a snow shovel repeatedly.

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      its a hammer, actually. Bonesmashing.

      https://knowyourmeme.com/editorials/guides/what-is-bonesmashing-and-does-it-work-the-controversial-incel-tiktok-trend-explained

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        bone smashing? I must have the manliest left thumb on earth.

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          I see you out there thumbmaxxing

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          Thumbs are for hitchhiking and being Fonzie.

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          There’s some money to be made in that. Try OnlyThumbs.

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        Osteoblast-maxxing

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        Everytime i read about this i think of Hammer Smashed Face by Cannibal Corpse.

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          Same. Oddly prophetic

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        🤣🤣🤣 im ded

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          At least take some gold with you

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        Ew, you mean that’s real? I thought it was an AI image. I thought there’s no way a real person could be that hideous. But if he literally smashed his own face with a hammer to achieve it, then perhaps a real person could truly be that hideous…

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        I get the feeling that this is a joke for all but the most stupid people

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      Coincidentally, they all remind me of handsome squidward from spongebob, who became handsome after multiple slams to the face from a metal door.

    • 𝕱𝖎𝖗𝖊𝖜𝖎𝖙𝖈𝖍@lemmy.world
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      They look like the YouTube thumbnail for a bad GMod edit

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      He looks like a shitty render out of a lousy Half-Life clone.

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    People are so worried about women and body dysmorphia, but we should remember that men need help with dysmorphia too.

    I didn’t know who this guy was before he died, but I read an article about things he was doing and saying. He was not okay. It seems like he was suffering from some kind of paranoia as much as dysmorphia.

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      Fight Club couldn’t have predicted how stupid this would get.

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      It’s not a competition. But looking at the numbers it’s justified to focus a little more on women for the time being.

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        But also focusing on it for women makes it a “women’s problem” and it makes it harder for men to get help.

        Look at sexual assault and rape. It happens to men too. Maybe less frequently but more often than anyone truly knows because it’s under reported.

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    Did it work??

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      Yes, he’s with the Lord now doing superhuman stuff.

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        Can he talk to Mitch? We’re trying to hear from him

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          I heard he had a 20 minutes conversation with him

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        Woah

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    Some problems solve themselves.

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    His artificial hairline looks worse than if he were bald. And wtf is going on with his jaw?

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      “Looksmaxxing has drawn criticism because some influencers promote dangerous techniques to change their appearance, including striking or damaging their jawbones and other risky practices.”-from the article.

      The looksmaxxing guys have a thing they call bonesmashing where they will hit their jaws with hammers or other implements in order to break it a little. This is done so they can reshape it as it heals. This is a repeated process. The jaw is broken and reshaped continually until they look a little more like the cartoonish over exagerated jawline of the chads from those chad memes. No I’m not kidding and no this is not done with any kind of medical supervision.

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      Looks like botched jaw implants.

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      Wanted to be Daniel Day Lewis, ended up dead instead.

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    Everyone is focused on body dysmorphia but after reading the article the entire thing sounds like a scam cooked up by the gold industry.

    About That Idris Elba Gold Documentary Folding Ideas.

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      Colloidal gold has been a bullshit supplement for joint pain for decades.

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    Conservatives have spent the last 50 years devaluing education. This is the result.

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    Definitely a Darwin Award winner.

    Article also reminds me of a Superman fanboy in my country going to huge costly lengths to look a lot like Christopher Reeve’s Superman.

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