Braden Peters, better known by his online alias Clavicular, abruptly ended a 60 Minutes Australia interview after a reporter asked him about his association with notorious misogynist and accused human trafficker Andrew Tate.
The confrontation came after Clavicular had already shown discomfort when questioned about the incel community’s role in creating the looksmaxxing movement. But it was the mention of Tate that caused the 20-year-old to unravel on camera.
The reporter had asked, “You’ve obviously shared company with Andrew Tate and other, dare I say, rather controversial figures. Why do you spend time with people like that?”
Clavicular’s response was immediate and hostile. “All right, have a nice day,” he said, before launching into a personal attack. “I see you want to make this political. Too bad I didn’t have time to look into, you know, anything about potentially who your wife ch*ated with. But don’t try to go down that line of questioning with me.”
When the reporter clarified he was not married, Clavicular deflected with a looksmaxxing jab: “Maybe you got to looksmaxx then. So I could teach you about looksmaxxing and then maybe you could switch that up. But thanks for the time. Appreciate the interview.”
What Clavicular did not know was that his own cameras, which had been rolling throughout the interview as part of his near-constant content output for paying subscribers, captured his unfiltered reaction once the 60 Minutes crew was no longer in the room.
“What a slimy b**tard. F**k that guy. Piece of s**t. I didn’t like him,” he said off camera.
Yet despite the fallout, Clavicular made no attempt to distance himself from Tate. In footage captured after the interview, he told his audience plainly: “Yeah, of course. No, Tate’s my boy. And we’re going to be doing a collab soon. I’ve got no problem associating with Andrew Tate.”
Clavicular reportedly earns around $100,000 a month from internet subscribers, broadcasting his looksmaxxing content to a global audience nearly 24 hours a day. His reach extends to young men in Australia and around the world, where clinical psychologist Dr Zac Seidler says the movement taps into a troubling undercurrent of nihilism.
“There is a real dark undercurrent of nihilism fundamentally which is telling young guys that life is hopeless, that there is this rank and file, there is a hierarchy,” Dr. Sidler said. “It’s all about winning and competitiveness and really, sadly, what it leads to is self-destruction.”
Just days after the 60 Minutes interview aired, Clavicular was arrested, accused of instigating two women in order to film it and share it online.
