Braden Peters (born 2005 or 2006), known online as Clavicular, is an American online streamer and influencer. He became known in the mid-2020s on Kick and TikTok for his looksmaxxing–focused content, which commentators have described as extreme and controversial, particularly for his endorsement of practices such as facial "bone smashing" and using crystal meth to stay lean. == Early and personal life == Peters has stated that he became interested in looksmaxxing, a term originating among incels online that describes the process of making oneself as physically attractive as possible, in high school, which he has attributed to wanting to influence others politically by becoming more attractive. Peters scored a 1570 on the SAT and went to Seton Hall Preparatory School, taking advanced coursework in science and mathematics. Clavicular began injecting himself with testosterone supplements at age 14 and was later expelled from college for hiding testosterone in his dorm room three weeks after matriculating. He has stated that he is on the autism spectrum. == Career == === Looksmaxxing content === Clavicular became popular online by 2025 for his content focused on looksmaxxing on both Kick and TikTok. He has described himself as a "gigachad"—a looksmaxxing term describing a man who has reached peak masculinity and attractiveness—and often instructs fans on how to "ascend", or to become more attractive and ostensibly gain social power and sexual prospects as a result, and to "hardmaxx", a looksmaxxing term for undergoing intense and painful physical alterations. He has participated in and advocated for looksmaxxing practices such as "bone smashing", a pseudoscientific practice involving hitting one's bones with a hammer or one's fist in order to have them grow back stronger, and taking crystal meth to suppress his appetite and remain thin. He has spoken about taking anabolic steroids over several years to become more muscular, which, according to him, made him infertile by 2025 due to his body no longer naturally producing testosterone. For Wired, Jason Parham wrote in September 2025 that Clavicular was one of looksmaxxing's "most popular influencers", while UnHerd's Poppy Sowerby called him "one of the best-known streamers on the platform Kick" by December of that year. A November 2025 video of him injecting his then (17-year-old) girlfriend with fat-dissolving peptides also gained attention online. === Tesla Cybertruck video === On December 24, 2025, a video from Clavicular's live stream of him hitting a man with a Tesla Cybertruck in Miami quickly circulated online. In the video, the man, who had purportedly been stalking the streamer and had previously thrown red liquid on him, climbs onto the hood of the car, and someone off-camera encourages him to start driving. He accelerates and appears to run over the man before asking if he is dead. A girl sitting next to him says, "I don't know," to which he responds, "Hopefully." Later in the live stream, he speaks to a man in a reflective vest and states that he hit the man in self-defense and alleges that there were multiple people, one of whom looked like they "had a pistol" underneath their clothing, surrounding his car. A call between him and fellow live streamer Adin Ross, in which Ross advised him to keep live streaming and refrain from speaking on the situation, also circulated online. Following the incident, he was banned from Kick. According to AllHipHop, he was later questioned by police, who released him without charges. Clavicular soon posted an AI-generated photo of himself running over a tattooed Black man in a Cybertruck with the caption, "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes." James Fishback, a candidate for the Republican nomination in the 2026 Florida gubernatorial election, tweeted that Clavicular had done "nothing wrong" by hitting the man with his car. === Michael Knowles interview === On December 27, 2025, Clavicular appeared in an interview with conservative political commentator Michael Knowles for The Daily Wire, which Nikos Mohammadi of UnHerd described as "the first collision between Clavicular and mainstream conservatism". In it, Clavicular described Vice President JD Vance as "subhuman" for his "recessed side profile" and for being "obese", asked "How are you fat and expected to lead a country?", and stated that, in a potential 2028 United States presidential election in which he ran against California Governor Gavin Newsom, he would vote for Newsom for "mogging", or being more attractive than, Vance. The segment soon went viral online. Other clips of him from the interview, in which he described transgender people, to whom he referred using the slur trannies, as "one more person to mog" and described actress Sydney Sweeney as "malformed", respectively, also went viral online. === Affiliations with right-wing figures === Clavicular was endorsed as a "total Chad" by far-right political commentator Nick Fuentes for his comments on Vance; the two also appeared in an hours-long video together, wherein Clavicular stated that he had based his social media strategy on that of Fuentes and advocated for "saving European culture" by looksmaxxing and taking anabolic steroids. A video of Fuentes, Clavicular, and right-wing influencers Sneako and Andrew Tate singing along to Kanye West's 2025 song "Heil Hitler" at the Miami Beach nightclub Vendôme also circulated online in January 2026. == Public image == Will Lavin wrote for Complex in late 2025 that Clavicular was "often deemed controversial" online. For UnHerd, Sowerby criticized Clavicular as a "snake oil salesman" who "believes his snake-oil works" due to his endorsement of bone smashing and other looksmaxxing techniques. Mohammadi wrote for UnHerd that Clavicular embodied a kind of right-wing "hyper-individualism" that was "deeply intoxicating to young minds". The Forward's Mira Fox included him on the newspaper's list of "right-wing extremists to watch out for in 2026" due to his affiliation with Fuentes and "the subtext of looksmaxxing [being] white supremacy", but described his politics as "confused". For the Miami New Times, Alex DeLuca wrote that he was "associated with [the] 'manosphere' and far-right extremism". Clavicular also became known for his frequent use of the word "nigger" online. == References ==