In a recent appearance on The Adam Friedland Show, controversial Kick personality and looksmaxxing influencer Clavicular offered advice that young people should take out college loans and redirect the funds toward cosmetic surgery instead of education.
The 20-year-old content creator, who has experienced a rapid rise to internet fame over the past six months, made the suggestion during a recent interview.
“If you’re going to take out hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of loans, you might as well invest it into surgery rather than going to school,” Clavicular stated matter-of-factly.
When pressed on the legality and ethics of such an approach, he doubled down. “You can actually get college loans and use it for surgery. I’ve been telling people, yeah, you can literally do that. So just misappropriating the funds, it’s really not going to get you in that much trouble and you’ll mog. So you’ll be able to sort of get out of it.”
The term “mog” stems from “AMOG,” meaning “alpha male of the group,” and refers to outperforming others in appearance or other attributes.
According to Clavicular, the return on investment from improving one’s physical appearance far exceeds the value of a college degree, particularly in major cities where he claims the economy has made traditional markers of success less valuable.
“Let’s say you ascend to making even seven figures a year. Sounds like an incredible number and it is,” he explained. “People get to these incredibly good milestones and then they’re expecting these results and they’re not coming. The fact of the matter is looks are valued a lot greater in these big cities with how difficult the economy is that that’s really not getting you as far as you think.”
The influencer, who grew up in Hoboken, New Jersey, argues that society’s preference for attractive people is an unavoidable reality that deserves more honest discussion.
“You could try your hardest not to acknowledge someone being ugly or good-looking, but at the end of the day, it’s a subconscious bias that everyone’s going to have, and it’s unavoidable,” he said. He points to research showing disparities in areas like prison sentencing between attractive and less attractive defendants as evidence for his claims.
Clavicular’s approach to looksmaxxing goes beyond conventional self-improvement. His daily routine involves what he calls pharma-focused optimization, including testosterone injections, GLP-1 agonists similar to Ozempic for appetite suppression, and treatment to prevent hair loss.
“Being lean is about 70 percent of what you could accomplish in terms of looksmaxxing,” he noted.
Cavicular describes himself as filling a gap in the so-called manosphere by emphasizing physical appearance as a crucial factor that other self-improvement advocates have downplayed. “I think young men feel kind of understood by my messaging,” he said. “I was right there in the struggle. I was still working a normal job less than a year ago.”
However, his rapid ascent has not been without controversy. Multiple incidents have gone viral, though Clavicular maintains that negative interactions represent a tiny fraction of his public encounters.
Clavicular claims his in-person interactions are markedly different. “Pretty much every chick I’ve met in person was like, ‘Wow, you’re actually a lot nicer,'” he said.
