The act of attempting to maximise one's looks and sexual market value, or SMV. This can be achieved through softmaxxing, for instance taking care of one's skin and hair, or through hardmaxxing, which typically involves getting dangerous facial surgery such as bimaxillary osteotomy, canthoplasty, orbital box osteotomy and jaw implants. Softmaxxing is an almost guaranteed to improve one's looks and is cheap, hardmaxxing tends to produce uncanny results and can make one look worse, and are more dangerous and expensive.
Looksmaxxing was created by involuntary celibates on now defunct forums and the still operational site,
4chan back in the late 2000's and early 2010's. It has recently received global mainstream attention on the
internet due to its sudden rise in popularity on
TikTok and
YouTube from
2022-current.
Person 1: nigga you look musty and crusty asf you need to do some looksmaxxing ASAP
Person 2: i know i am gonna get OBO 10 inch LL surgery lefort 4 BSSO jaw implants rhinoplasty cheek implants autism removal surgery white skin transplant and
penis implants and become turbo
chad i am so high iq
Person 1: you are
retarded you are just going to look uncanny and be 250000 dollars in debt. just rope honestly its so over