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EXCERPTS (to show the "boring dystopia" bits):

"It’s around 12:30 a.m. on a Wednesday, and the doors have just opened at Bacara, a new “streamer-first” nightclub on 23rd Street, west of Collins Avenue in Miami Beach. Livestreamers and their assorted entourages trickle into the venue’s dimly lit outdoor courtyard, where a Gunna track drifts from hidden speakers and mint vape smoke hangs in the muggy air. 

On the red carpet, an influencer known as Cuban Tarzan poses for photos alongside an older blonde woman with a dramatically augmented bust and a small, fluffy dog wearing a blue cowboy hat cradled in her arms. Near the entrance, a short woman in a denim jacket holds a selfie stick above her head, broadcasting live to her followers as she scans the crowd for celebrities.

On this balmy night in May, the polarizing livestreamer (who nowadays mostly goes by “Clav”) is several hours into another Kick.com livestream that has already taken him across Miami with rappers 6ix9ine and Waka Flocka Flame, former pro basketball players LiAngelo Ball and Lonzo Ball, and YouTuber Jake Paul. Around 9:30 p.m., Peters played an impromptu game of basketball with fellow streamers and former athletes at a court somewhere in Miami.

Later in the evening, he popped into manosphere influencer Myron Gaines’ Fresh & Fit podcast studio in downtown Miami, where he and Gaines — in line with the show’s premise — mostly attempted to humiliate the handful of young women seated around the studio, including Peters’ girlfriend, Lily Snyder. There, Peters explained how earlier in the evening he’d asked Snyder to wear something “representable” to Bacara, given there would be celebrities in attendance. He directed her to stand up and show off her outfit: a semi-transparent black lace top and mini skirt. “Are you kidding me? You’re changing,” Peters told her, shaking his head. “Disgusting.”

Guiding me through the gathering is Hai Waknine, an older nightclub operator who recently partnered with Peters on Bacara. Wearing transparent-framed glasses and a diamond chain strung with a Chai pendant (the Hebrew word for “life”), the Israeli-born Waknine introduces me to a man he describes as Peters’ manager — “a nice Jewish boy,” he says, patting him on the back. The young man, who introduces himself as Nate [Nathaniel Kest], is wearing a kippah, the small skullcap worn by observant Jewish men. A young, pretty brunette is hanging on his arm. Minutes later, Peters emerges through the thin crowd. A cameraman trails not too far behind, broadcasting his every move live to thousands of Kick viewers. Comments like “MOGGING” and “CORTISOL SPIKE INCOMING” stream across the feed. Waknine escorts him toward me. [...]

Then a confession: Peters says that he’s only eaten 300 calories all day. “Dude, I was about to eat a burger, but then I went to the bathroom and looked in the mirror at my face and said, ‘Not a chance,” Peters muses aloud. 

[What Clavicular is famous for:]

Over the past year, Peters transformed from an obscure online presence into one of the internet’s most inescapable figures by promoting “looksmaxxing,” a once-niche internet subculture focused on radical physical self-transformation. Coined on incel (involuntary celibate) messaging boards in the 2010s, the term can refer to anything from the benign — like improving one’s skincare routine — to extreme glow-up practices like facial bonesmashing (taking a hammer to one’s face), using methamphetamines to stay lean, and performing “dick-ups” by placing weights on one’s penis to maximize girth and erection strength. Peters derives his Clavicular moniker from the clavicle, or collarbone, a focal point in the subculture. 

He has transformed chaos into content, drawing national headlines for

1. allegedly hitting someone with his Tesla Cybertruck,
2. partying in a Miami Beach nightclub to Kanye West’s antisemitic track “Heil Hitler”, and
3. appearing in a video that showed him shooting an (apparently dead) alligator in the Everglades
4. In April, he overdosed on a livestream in full view of his audience.
5. Days later, a female looksmaxxing influencer sued him, alleging he sexually assaulted her at his parents’ Cape Cod home and
6. later injected her with a fat-dissolving substance unapproved by the FDA during a livestream in Miami. [...]

[OnlyFans "management" and plastic surgery:]

Livestreams bled into cosmetic surgery, his apartment turned into a content house, and a growing cast of OnlyFans creators soon became part of the spectacle." [...] In one image he [Clavicular's manager Nathaniel Kest] was tagged in last year, by artist Louis Carreon, Kest is described as a “young new art collector” in the Hollywood Hills; the post shows a painting Carreon says Kest purchased, depicting what appears to be a religious figure penetrating a naked woman, with the words “OnlyFans” and “hustle” scrawled across it.

CC Waknine [the wife of Hai Waknine, co-proprietor of Clavicular's "nightclub for streaming"] recalls meeting Kest over lunch at her rooftop bar, CC Rooftop Social Club, in Wynwood, during which her husband noted that Kest “manages a lot of OnlyFans girls. [...] livestream footage, social media posts, and accounts from people involved with his projects indicate his business has become increasingly tied to adult content creators. In a clip from a March livestream, a young woman with platinum-blonde hair sits inside a Sprinter van with Peters’ team when she begins arguing with one of his cameramen. “You’re 28 years old, on a 20-year-old’s livestream, trying to sell your OnlyFans subs,” the man tells her. [...] [She replies:] “I’m literally signed with Clav. Are you retarded and a half?” She was not the only person to suggest that Peters was exploring an OnlyFans management business.

In mid-April, OnlyFans content creator and Kick.com livestreamer Livy Alex claimed on a stream that someone from Peters’ management offered her a contract to work for his OnlyFans agency — an offer she says she declined. Weeks later, WIRED published an article about Peters’ relationship with OnlyFans creators, citing a “source close to Clavicular” who confirmed that “he has explored starting an OnlyFans agency but has concerns about publicly promoting it due to his audience’s dislike of sex workers.”

Meanwhile, the growing presence of OnlyFans creators on Peters’ streams became difficult to ignore. [...] he streamed IRL (in real-life) dates with OnlyFans creator Alice Rosenblum. In May, he brought 18-year-old OnlyFans model Piper Rockelle to Bacara. By June, Peters had even managed to collaborate with Sophie Rain, one of OnlyFans’ biggest stars, who had publicly called him “weird” just months earlier.

There were other signs, too. In early June, Peters added a highlight to his Instagram profile titled “Be on Clav Live,” featuring a photo of him with Piper Rockelle and a link that takes users to an application form. While the form initially presents itself as a casting opportunity for future livestreams — greeting applicants with, “Would you like to be considered for future casting opportunities with Clavicular Streams?” — applicants are asked for their location, to submit photographs, and whether they have an OnlyFans account. [...]

[After Clavicular had rhinoplasty] Wearing a beige Alo sweatshirt and a gold Star of David necklace around her neck, she [Clavicular's girlfriend Lily Snyder] presses her hands against the pane and stares at the streamer’s limp body. The 18-year-old from Ohio, who now lives in Miami with Peters and does OnlyFans work, is visibly unsettled. She says he doesn’t need the surgery. “He’s literally perfect,” she sighs. [...] On the evening of June 10, Peters underwent yet another procedure as part of a series of surgeries he had scheduled ahead of a planned trip to Europe for Paris Fashion Week.”

source: https://youtube.com/shorts/Z-0e0vXH0i0

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