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stermy4u@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish · 6 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 · 6 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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  • stermy4u@lemmy.worldOP
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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

        • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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        • Leon@pawb.social
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          There’s some money to be made in that. Try OnlyThumbs.

        • jim_v@lemmy.world
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          Thumbs are for hitchhiking and being Fonzie.

      • qualia@lemmy.world
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        Osteoblast-maxxing

      • Entertainmeonly (she/her)
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        Everytime i read about this i think of Hammer Smashed Face by Cannibal Corpse.

        • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
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          Same. Oddly prophetic

      • BehindetheClouds@reddthat.com
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        🤣🤣🤣 im ded

        • crank0271@lemmy.world
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          At least take some gold with you

      • ∟⊔⊤∦∣≶@lemmy.nz
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        I get the feeling that this is a joke for all but the most stupid people

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

    • BranBucket@lemmy.world
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      He looks like a shitty render out of a lousy Half-Life clone.

    • BadlyTimedLuck@lemmy.world
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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.

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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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    I don’t know why these dudes want to look like they’re choking on a shovel.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      Proof they can take the biggest dicks.

    • Monte_Crisco@thelemmy.club
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      Lol what a perfect description

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  • HeyJoe@lemmy.world
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    So either he always had some mental health issues, or the lack of nutrition he did to keep the body he had lead himself to make very bad decisions because his brain couldnt process correctly anymore.

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      I’ve never read anything about the looksmaxxing subculture that made me think it was anything other than people with severe body dysmorphia egging each other on. The least ethical 60s psychological experiment conceived by the most coked up 60s psychologist couldn’t have come up with a more fucked up method of seeing how far people will go.

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        well, looks maxxing is so last year, now we have ball maxxing

        https://instinctmagazine.com/what-is-ballmaxxing

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          Mine don’t need maxxing, but I do iron my sack to get the wrinkles out.

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          who the fuck would want bigger balls, that just sounds uncomfortable for everyday life

          • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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            Great way to move around.

        • mig@lemmy.world
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          Surely this is satire.

          • kazerniel@lemmy.world
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            idk, it was covered by some large publications

            https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucelee/2026/05/08/ballmaxxing-trend-has-men-infusing-saline-into-their-genitals/

            https://www.healthline.com/health-news/ballmaxxing-more-dangerous-than-you-think

            https://www.msn.com/en-gb/health/other/men-warned-against-viral-ballmaxxing-trend-which-causes-irreversable-damages/ar-AA22UyvN

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      From what I heard he had a psychosis after an Ayahuasca ritual, then used gold from jewelry which might contain lead and other nasty stuff for consumption and injection and also used SSRIs before he died, so possibility serotonin syndrome.

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        Ahh ok, so drugs it is. I thought the cause of death was due to the gold injection, im actually shocked he survived that now.

        • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today
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          gold is relatively inert, its the ions and the other elements, like nickel, lead,etc that are in gold.

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      I think the copious amounts of drugs he was doing probably had a lot to do with it. Oh and the injecting gold part.

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      he had some before the ayushcha binged, the drug put him over the edge.

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    How the hell you’d inject gold?

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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

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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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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    “Up until his passing, he was discovering that he had achieved some superhuman abilities, and it’s no joke; he actually did achieve some superhuman abilities,” he said. “He had tapped into a level of consciousness that most people never will.”

    Another looksmaxxing influencer, Androgenic, offered additional claims during a livestream, saying Murphy became increasingly focused on gold.

    “He started to get this fixation on gold. He started to believe that gold was some gatekept mineral by the higher-ups that basically gives you special powers if you ingest it,” he said. According to Androgenic, Murphy later began injecting gold into his body.

    Just so we are all clear, the trans community super duper does not claim him. Wish the political right would focus more on this sort of self abuse instead of the verified science supporting medical transition.

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      Uhh, why would they target white men? You know what it is.

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      The only thing trans about this now ex-person is how transparently stupid he was (and, very likely, sadly in need of mental health help).

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    friends

    X Doubt

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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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    Deathmaxxing!

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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”

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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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    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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    Your browser does not support playing HTML5 video. You can download a copy of the video file instead.

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    He’s going to be a strong contender for this year’s Darwin Award!

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      It’s always the second half of the year that the nominations come in and then by October it’s like the where we’re you at the beginning of the year people.

      My favorite darwin is the guy who went alcohooool alcohooooool and drank a bottle of rubbing alcohol.

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    We’re in the “The Beautiful Ones” part of the collapse of our little mouse utopia.

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