Inside Clavicular’s Thirsty Tour of New York City | GQ

Rolling with the lord of online “looksmaxxing” as he meets the press, hits the runway, and tangles with his haters during a chaotic weekend in Manhattan.

Save this story Save this story Braden Peters was a normal kid once. For the most part, his childhood was “probably the same as anyone else,” he tells me. “There’s not a lot of deviation between five-year-olds, you know?” He grew up in Hoboken, New Jersey, with a businessman father and a mother who used to be a bodybuilder. He had a little sister. There was a dog. His family would often go skiing, and every summer, they’d visit Cape Cod in Massachusetts and hang around the beach. But Peters was a hyperfixator. When he got hooked on something, he committed. He liked Nerf guns, so he bought tons

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