trying to be a greek god with thier gold ichior blood.
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.
I think the copious amounts of drugs he was doing probably had a lot to do with it. Oh and the injecting gold part.
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.
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.
They drowned in a lake
Sounds like they were mentally ill beforehand, ayahuasca didn’t do that
And then he was found at the bottom of a lake, which would be unusual for serotonin syndrome
Ayahuasca can absolutely trigger latent psychosis, all psychedelics can do that.
Say that latent part again slowly
I’m aware of the meaning. I’m not sure what your point is though.
From an outside perspective it’s this:
- Person acting normal before Ayahuasca (latent psychosis)
- Insane behavior after Ayahuasca (acute psychosis)
I’m pretty sure that none of the Ayahuasca retreats test for latent psychosis or if there is even a reliable way to do that.
Ayahuasca retreats are a scam to relieve drug tourists of their money. I prefer my psychedelic experiences not to start with an hour of projectile vomiting into a bucket, but some people think they have to “earn” a trip by putting themselves through an ordeal. The reality is that botanicals can be dirty drugs with a high body load just like synthetics can be. Also MAOIs can be unpredictable in the magnitude of their effect, and can prolong trips much longer than you bargained for, based on small details of your body chemistry and recent diet.
As for the “latent” comment: using psychedelics can be a stress test, and (as they say of investments) past performance does not guarantee future results. I’ve had entirely positive experiences with psychedelics, but also know that they’re powerful substances that should be used sparingly. People who advocate “heroic doses” are doing so with no concern over the casualty rate. It will go bad for some people, you can’t always predict who, but the odds worsen with dosage and frequency of use. So to me, the “latent” pseudo-explanation is a bit too much like “and if it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.” Too self-fulfilling to be credible.
Maybe the lead weighed him down
Haha gold
gold too.
ayyyyyy
Auuuuuu
he had some before the ayushcha binged, the drug put him over the edge.
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.
well, looks maxxing is so last year, now we have ball maxxing
Surely this is satire.
who the fuck would want bigger balls, that just sounds uncomfortable for everyday life
Great way to move around.
Mine don’t need maxxing, but I do iron my sack to get the wrinkles out.
Eh… I wouldn’t be surprised if they did exactly this in the 60s, just with more LSD involved in the experiment.
i heard of people drilling holes in their skulls for spiritual reasons in roughly that period so this tracks
That’s afaik mostly an urban legend, originated from the “third eye” book by Lobsang Rampa.
I keep hearing the term looksmaxer and every time it’s a person that looks like they were hit with a snow shovel repeatedly.
its a hammer, actually. Bonesmashing.
bone smashing? I must have the manliest left thumb on earth.
Thumbs are for hitchhiking and being Fonzie.
There’s some money to be made in that. Try OnlyThumbs.
I see you out there thumbmaxxing
🤣🤣🤣 im ded
At least take some gold with you
I get the feeling that this is a joke for all but the most stupid people
Everytime i read about this i think of Hammer Smashed Face by Cannibal Corpse.
Same. Oddly prophetic
Osteoblast-maxxing
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…
They look like the YouTube thumbnail for a bad GMod edit
Coincidentally, they all remind me of handsome squidward from spongebob, who became handsome after multiple slams to the face from a metal door.
He looks like a shitty render out of a lousy Half-Life clone.
His artificial hairline looks worse than if he were bald. And wtf is going on with his jaw?
“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.
Looks like botched jaw implants.
“a Turkish sugar-free chewing gum that some looksmaxxing influencers use in the belief it can help strengthen the jawline.”
Oh shit I know this gum, it gives you jaw cramps.
I don’t know why these dudes want to look like they’re choking on a shovel.
Lol what a perfect description
Proof they can take the biggest dicks.
He’s going to be a strong contender for this year’s Darwin Award!
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.
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.
How the hell you’d inject gold?
This is what is known as a “bad idea”
As stupid as injecting random protein peptides.
Then claiming you are a victim of a rare autoimmune disorder.
Colloidal gold. Bullshit supplement. Gold is almost a Nobel metal, does really react with anything.
*does not really react with anything.
tetrachloroauric acid
That sounds like a fucking terrible idea good lord
TIL this 👆
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.
Did it work??
Yes, he’s with the Lord now doing superhuman stuff.
Can he talk to Mitch? We’re trying to hear from him
I heard he had a 20 minutes conversation with him
Woah
If no one else did it after him, then he is no influencer.
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.
Seems like a self correcting problem, honestly.
“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?
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.
For Nazis, it is.
Everyone else should get healthcare, but for Nazis I’m happy when it runs its course.
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)
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.
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”
Gold is famously inert and biocompatible. That wasn’t the cause.
Only as a metal. You generally can’t inject it, so it was probably in a chemical compound, after which it would no longer be inert.
Cardiac arrest from blockage seems like a real possibility if he put enough of it in or whatever he was using as a solution base wasn’t safe.
edit: Wholly Shit. Gold poisoning is a thing.
According to Androgenic, Murphy later began injecting gold into his body.
“A few weeks later he started the experiment, he was injecting gold…He was just crazy. He was covered in discoloration from gold poisoning,” he added.
https://www.dovemed.com/diseases-conditions/gold-toxicity
Gold Toxicity long-term effects may include liver inflammation, blue-grey skin color, and mouth ulcers. There can also be bone marrow suppression resulting in frequent infections
Stopping or discontinuing the use of gold therapy is the first line of treatment for Gold Toxicity. The treatment for arthritis using gold may be resumed, if the side effects improve and go away
Huh. I looked it up after reading this, and “gold salts” are used to treat rheumatoid arthritis (intramuscular injection or orally).
We don’t know how much he was injecting, the body’s not exactly designed to remove grams of solid metal from the blood.
Or for how long. Gold is famously inert except when it isn’t.
Some problems solve themselves.
