Is Looksmaxxing Just ‘Jackass’ for the Algorithm?
The bees are dying. That’s an objective fact, for which we can blame commercial pesticides, climate change , and, more recently, a content creator who goes by the handle @green_king365 . In February, he took to Instagram with a video of him grabbing a bee and pressing it against his temple. When it stings and injects its “bee venom” it acts as a “natural hairline steroid,” he explains. He then eats the bee. That part isn’t necessary for results, though it is perhaps the logical next step in what can only be described as anti-slaphead slapstick. There’ll be no trip to Istanbul for this lad. For what it’s worth, @green_king365 already has decent hair. He may style it a bit like Sid from Toy Story , but it has good volume and luster. Things certainly aren’t dire enough for him to be committing small-scale bee genocide. That’s not the point, though. Because @green_king365 is a looksmaxxer, and like most other broadcasts from that world, his thing with the bees forces us to broach...