Do You Even Maxx, Bro?
I WAS IN NEW YORK having breakfast with a good friend from high school and her kids, previously this year. It was the basic middle-age catch-up--How are you? Who's ill?--when I examined at one of her kids, who was looking at his own reflection in an iPhone. The kid had actually absorbed his cheeks and was running a hand along his face. He appeared like Ben Stiller in Zoolander providing Blue Steel over silver dollar pancakes. Other than he 'd never ever seen Zoolander and (I'm thinking) had no concept who Ben Stiller was"He's doing his jawline," my good friend sighed, as if "doing his jawline" was in some way a description, before including, "He's mewing." The kid was 10. He didn't have his own phone. And yet a TikTok pattern called looksmaxxing had actually in some way permeated into his ...