India, April 24 -- Clavicular, the influencer, has had his YouTube channels taken down and reacted to the news via a X post.

The social media phenomenon, whose real name is Braden Eric Peters, shot to fame by the age of 20 for popularizing concepts like 'looksmaxxing' and 'bonesmashing'. The former refers to a male-dominated, self-improvement online trend that focuses on maximizing physical attractiveness through grooming, fitness, and sometimes extreme procedures. 'Bonesmashing', meanwhile, is the trend where people strike their facial bones (jaw, cheekbones) with hard objects to get microfractures. They believe it will force bones to remodel and form a more attractive and defined structure.

The YouTube ban is the latest blow after an ...