FAMOUSLY HANDSOME RIGHT-WING LIVESTREAMER Clavicular has been on the rise. His business connection to an Israeli mafia associate has ended, his apparent drug overdose is five months in the past, and the connection with his powerful publicist has been rekindled.
Heck, Clavicular has virtually entered the mainstream: “Looksmaxxing,” the term he popularized for taking any measure to maximize your appearance, was added to the Merriam-Webster dictionary.
In just the past few weeks, he’s done the rounds on several prominent podcasts, positioning himself as a harmless, albeit unquestionably odd, media figure. On Friday, he appeared on comedian Howie Mandel’s podcast where he met Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan. He has also recently appeared on a Barstool Sports property, the conservative women’s show Red Scare, and All In, which is cohosted by Trump tech adviser David Sacks. Thanks to his relentless media tour (and desire for attention), the 20-year-old Clavicular’s platform as a voice for Gen Z masculinity is bigger than ever.
But Clavicular—whose real name is Braden Peters—appears to have a far darker side in new court documents, not previously reported, filed by prosecutors in
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