Clavicular | |
|---|---|
| Born | Braden Peters |
| Other names | Clav [1] |
| Occupation | Online streamer |
| Years active | 2025–present |
| Kick information | |
| Channel | |
| Genre | In-real-life |
| Followers | 153.3 thousand |
| TikTok information | |
| Page | |
| Followers | 723.1 thousand |
| Last updated: January 27, 2026 | |
Braden Peters, 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" content, which commentators have described as extreme and controversial, particularly for practices such as facial "bone smashing" and using crystal meth to stay lean. [1]
In December 2025, a livestream clip of Clavicular hitting a man with a Tesla Cybertruck went viral online and brought him to wider attention, as did his interview with right-wing political commentator Michael Knowles in which he described United States vice president JD Vance as "subhuman", contrasting him with Gavin Newsom, whom he labelled a "chad". According to The Forward, he has "yet to openly espouse much political ideology", [2] but has been associated with far-right streamers.
Peters attended Seton Hall Preparatory School in West Orange, New Jersey. [3] He 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. [2] 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. [4] He has stated that he is on the autism spectrum. [5]
Clavicular became popular online by 2025 for his content focused on looksmaxxing on both Kick and TikTok. [1] [6] His alias is based on the emphasis placed on clavicle width within the looksmaxxing community. [7] 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. [8]
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 allegedly taking crystal meth to suppress his appetite and remain thin. [9] 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. [5] By late 2025, he also began selling access to a self-improvement and looksmaxxing course called the "Clavicular System" for 50 dollars. [8] [10]
For Wired , Jason Parham wrote in September 2025 that Clavicular was one of looksmaxxing's "most popular influencers", while Thomas Chatterton Williams of The Atlantic referred to him as the "newest star" and "most recognizable member" of the looksmaxxing movement in January 2026. [7] UnHerd 's Poppy Sowerby called him "one of the best-known streamers on the platform Kick" by December 2025. [11] A November 2025 video of him injecting his then 17-year-old girlfriend with fat-dissolving peptides to reshape her jaw also gained attention online. [12] [13]
On December 24, 2025, a video from Clavicular's live stream of him hitting a man with a Tesla Cybertruck at Amelia Earhart Park in Miami-Dade County, Florida, quickly circulated online. In the video, the man, who had purportedly been stalking the streamer and had previously thrown red liquid on him, [6] 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." [4]
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. [6] 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. [13]
Williams, writing for The Atlantic, called the live stream "perhaps [Clavicular's] most viral moment". [7] Following the incident, he was banned from Kick. [14] According to AllHipHop , he was later questioned by police, who released him without charges. [6] Clavicular soon posted an AI-generated photo of himself running over a man in a Cybertruck with the caption, "Play stupid games, win stupid prizes." [15] 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. [4]
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", asking, "How are you fat and expected to lead a country?" He agreed with Knowles's criticism of California governor Gavin Newsom as both a "degenerate" and a "liar" but said that, in a potential 2028 United States presidential election in which Newsom ran against Vance, he would vote for "chad" Newsom for "mogging", or being more attractive than, Vance. [9] [4] [7]
The segment soon went viral online. [1] 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. [4] [16]
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. [1] [2]
A video of Fuentes, Clavicular, and right-wing influencers Sneako, Tristan Tate, Andrew Tate, Myron Gaines, and Justin Waller singing along to Kanye West's antisemitic [17] 2025 song "Heil Hitler" at the Miami Beach nightclub Vendôme also circulated online in January 2026. [18] After the clip went viral on social media, Clavicular defended the group singing along, writing that it was "just a song" and calling it "funny" that the group had had "enough status and influence" to get the song played; [19] Nolan Strong of AllHipHop criticized him as having a "smug satisfaction" about the situation. [20] [21] [22]
Will Lavin wrote for Complex in late 2025 that Clavicular was "often deemed controversial" online. [13] 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. [8] Williams of The Atlantic wrote that Clavicular's "brand of nihilism" was enticing to young men and likened Clavicular to Oscar Wilde's character Dorian Gray for having "exchange[d] his soul for eternal youth and beauty". [7]
Mohammadi wrote for UnHerd that Clavicular embodied a kind of right-wing "hyper-individualism" that was "deeply intoxicating to young minds". [4] 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" and added that he had "yet to openly espouse much political ideology". [2] For the Miami New Times , Alex DeLuca wrote that he was "associated with [the] 'manosphere' and far-right extremism". [18]