Clavicular and the online culture that humiliates women

Clavicular and the online culture around him have turned rating, demeaning, and humiliating women into livestream entertainment. The Kick streamer, Braden Peters, now faces rape and related charges in Massachusetts that he denies through his lawyer, while critics say his content teaches young fans that putting women down is just another form of content.

That mix of spectacle and harm is not new. Misogyny has long treated women as status props. What has changed is the packaging: livestreams, clips, and manosphere slang that sell humiliation as entertainment for a new generation, a shift we track across eras in our Nostalgia: Then & Now coverage.

Key Takeaways

• Braden Peters, known as Clavicular, faces Massachusetts charges including rape; his lawyer says he is innocent.
• His Kick streams and clips often rate women, use dehumanizing slurs, and frame dating as conquest.
• YouTube banned his original channel in November 2025 and later removed replacement channels.
• Advocates warn young viewers may absorb humiliation and control as normal relationship lessons.
• Similar patterns appear among other streamers and in real-world harassment of women creators.

Who is Clavicular and what happened?

Viewers may first meet Clavicular in clips about his jawline or plastic surgery. Stay longer, and the feed often shifts to assessing women's looks, discussing sexual availability, and ranking people in an attractiveness hierarchy.

Peters is a 20-year-old influencer tied to "looksmaxxing," an online trend focused on maximizing physical attractiveness. On Kick livestreams he compares himself with other men and rates women. According to reporting from Mashable, he has become a recognizable face in a corner of the internet that treats appearance as status and worth.

He now faces criminal charges in Massachusetts tied to an alleged May 2025 assault involving a 17-year-old girl. The charges include rape, administering a substance for sexual intercourse, and procuring alcohol for someone under 21.

Arraignment is scheduled for Oct. 14. Lawyer Jeff Neiman says Peters is innocent. The court will decide the case; the streaming record already shows how he talks about women in public.

How does Clavicular and the online culture turn humiliation into content?

Before the charges drew headlines, Peters faced criticism for how he spoke about women to nearly 3 million followers across platforms. He often calls women "foids"—short for "femoid," or "female android"—and echoes "blackpill" ideas that women choose partners mainly by looks.

In his online academy he has referred to women as "targets" and "slayables," casting dating as a conquest game. Much of his streaming happens at parties and clubs, where interactions become entertainment. Clips show him taking young women's faces in his hands to analyze them; in one, as a girl tries to turn away, he says he is "not done looking."

On a summer trip to Israel, another clip drew backlash after he refused to speak to a girl unless she wanted sex, telling others he was looking to have sex in a bathroom.

"Face rating" also followed him onto other creators' shows. On a livestream with Adin Ross, he rated Adam22's wife a 5.5, called Sydney Sweeney "ugly," and argued she was attractive mainly because of her breasts.

Asked who counts as a "10," he said even a 9.5 was hard and put Victoria's Secret models at the "highest echelon."

Defending himself to Piers Morgan in February, Peters rejected the misogyny label and claimed women often refuse to see men under six feet as fully human, calling women "the most fucking brutal gender."

Safe Horizon CEO Liz Roberts told Mashable that Clavicular and many other streamers built audiences by demeaning and humiliating women, and that misogyny is finding new online audiences where old ideas about gender and power are repackaged as entertainment.

What else shows this pattern beyond one streamer?

Clavicular is not alone. Fresh & Fit co-host Myron Gaines has pushed the idea that men should be "dictators" in relationships and women their "subordinates."

Andrew Tate, who faces rape and human trafficking charges in the UK, has said a woman and intimate parts of her body "belong" to her male partner. After the 2024 election, far-right livestreamer Nick Fuentes posted, "Your body, my choice. Forever."

Concerns also reach Peters's circle. Footage circulated that appeared to show Kick streamer Drago, reportedly friends with Clavicular, grabbing and punching fellow streamer MiaMaxxed at the SeeEx event while others reportedly poured milk on her. Drago claimed self-defense, alleging she attacked first and damaged his property.

Women streamers have described boundary-crossing offline too. In October 2025, a TwitchCon attendee grabbed streamer Emiru and tried to kiss her at a meet-and-greet.

Emiru said she was shaken and that it was not the first time; she criticized Twitch after the attendee was allowed to walk away. Twitch CEO Dan Clancy later apologized and acknowledged failures in prevention and response.

What do young viewers learn when streamers become mentors?

For teens and young adults still forming ideas about relationships, these streams can feel like informal education. Fans may arrive for dating tips, workouts, or looks advice and leave hearing that women are shallow, that humiliation is fair game, or that dominance is normal.

Roberts told Mashable that young people are still forming what is healthy and acceptable, and that online consumption shapes how they understand violence, power, and control.

Ofcom's 2025 research found many participants dismissed manosphere content as entertainment, while those more invested in closed groups seemed less likely to challenge what others said. Fitting in can make questioning misogyny socially costly.

Roberts's advice is concrete: talk about early warning signs of power and control before harm becomes physical—dictating clothes or company, humiliating someone to make them feel small, or talking about women as objects.

Helping young people spot those red flags, she said, builds healthier relationships and the confidence to challenge harmful patterns when they see them.

The charges against Peters will be argued in court. The broader question for platforms, parents, and viewers is already public: when Clavicular and the online culture around looksmaxxing turn women's humiliation into clips, what norms stick with the next scroll?