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Looksmaxxing has taken over the internet over the last 2 years, and the person at the center of all of it is Clavicular. Since I've filmed this video, there has been a lot of movement on his legal situation, so consider this your update before we get into it. On September 8, prosecutors in Massachusetts filed a criminal case accusing the 20-year-old of three crimes: felony grape, felony drugging a person for s@xual intercourse, and a misdemeanour for supplying alcohol to someone under 21. The charges stem from an alleged incident in 2025 at his parents' Cape Cod home, and if he's convicted, he faces up to 20 years in prison. If that sounds familiar, it's because the May 2025 incident first surfaced in Alorah Ziva's civil lawsuit before any criminal charges were filed. According to the complaint, she went to the Chatham Police Department with her attorney on June 4, 2026, to report the assault, and told officers that she and Peters had started texting on Instagram and that he offered to pay her to make looksmaxxing videos. His team says the initial report was overblown and that he wasn't 'physically served' with an arrest warrant, which is an interesting lead. Nothing has been proven in court yet, and his arraignment is on October 14, so I'll keep you updated. When the face of a movement focused on ranking and judging bodies faces these allegations, it raises questions about what this community was truly optimizing for.
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Samyra Miller has built a following of over two million people for being unapologetically plus-size, and for the last two years, almost every headline about her has been negative. This week on NK's Wrld, I'm going through the whole timeline, from New Orleans to Harvard to the Cardi B fallout, to figure out which of her fights actually deserved the backlash and which ones didn't. And with weight loss drugs everywhere and plus-size representation disappearing in real time, I'm asking what happens to a movement when its most visible voice keeps handing people a reason to tune out.

If this episode brings up difficult feelings around food or body image, the Alliance for Eating Disorders Awareness is available at 1-866-662-1235.
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Lizzo spent about six years being treated as proof that the body positivity movement worked. She was the example everyone pointed to, the one who made it look like the culture had actually changed. Then she lost weight, and the same people who used her as evidence decided she had betrayed them.

In this video, I go all the way back to Minneapolis, before the Grammys, before Truth Hurts, before anyone had decided what she was supposed to represent.

We get into how her body became her brand and who actually made that decision, where body positivity came from in the first place and what it looked like before brands got hold of it, and what happened when she stopped fitting the role she had been cast in. The lawsuits, the album, the Substack essay, all of it.

Because the thing nobody wants to say out loud is that loving your body was always conditional. It was fine right up until you could afford to change it.

So was body positivity ever a real movement, or was it just a holding pattern for women who had not yet reached the body everyone actually wanted?

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Nara Smith built one of the biggest food accounts on the internet, making cereal, boba and chewing gum from scratch in designer clothes. Somewhere along the way, the internet crowned her the face of the tradwives, and last month she went on Call Her Daddy, pulled out her phone, Googled the definition on air and went through it point by point, explaining why none of it describes her.

The reaction was crazyyyy. People said she was gaslighting, rewriting history and that she used to tag her own videos with the word.

I came into this video agreeing with that, and then the research changed my mind about most of it.

In this episode: how Nara actually got here, where the word tradwife comes from and the women who built it, why Ballerina Farm also rejects the label, and what the Call Her Daddy interview does and doesn't prove.

Plus the question underneath all of it. If nobody in the chain ever meant it politically, how did it get all the way here?
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Sabrina Carpenter has been on one of the biggest runs in pop music history. But underneath the bows, the vintage pin-up aesthetic, and the explicit content is a question nobody seems to want to answer directly. Is she performing for the girls or for the gaze? And does it even matter which one if the image delivers the same thing to the culture either way? This video goes all the way back. The Disney era. The aesthetic shift. The W Magazine photoshoot and the 1997 film I watched specifically for this video. The Man's Best Friend album cover. And the visual language that has been circulating in pop culture long before Sabrina Carpenter picked up a microphone.

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