Tech, Media & Telecom Roundup: Market Talk  The Wall Street Journal

His gonzo argot of ‘mogging’ and ‘jestermaxxing’ masks a malign chauvinist philosophy, and his audience keeps growing How’s your “jestermaxxing” game? Have you been “brutally frame-mogged” lately? If you’ve been finding this kind of online discourse even more impenetrable than usual, a 20-year-old content creator calling himself Clavicular is probably to blame. Born Braden Peters, Clavicular is a manosphere-adjacent influencer who has recently broken containment for a string of high-profile controversies, including livestreaming himself apparently running over a pedestrian with his Tesla Cybertruck and being filmed chanting the lyrics to Kanye West’s Heil Hitler in a nightclub with the self-styled “misogynist influencer” Andrew Tate and the white nationalist commentator Nick Fuentes. Continue reading...

Clavicular's candid remarks about intimacy during a podcast appearance went viral, turning an awkward question into a widely shared clip that sparked both debate and laughter.

Braden Peters, known as Clavicular, brought his controversial looksmaxxing fame to New York City with a runway debut and major media coverage. Days after Arizona prosecutors dropped his arrest case, he walked for Elena Velez and livestreamed the chaos. From risky self-improvement methods to political comments, his rise shows how internet fame is moving into mainstream culture.