i spent $485 on looksmaxxing courses so u dont have to

Overview (what the video is about)

Zeke reviews multiple “looksmaxxing” courses he bought (and some people he consulted) and assigns them tier ratings. The ratings mostly depend on whether the advice is:

• Effective
• Realistic / natural
• Effortful
• Supported by context (e.g., age, genetics, orthodontics, puberty timing)

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Key wellness / self-care / productivity themes mentioned

Although the video focuses on appearance optimization, several wellness-adjacent ideas come up repeatedly:

• Natural-focused approach

  • Zeke says he only cares about natural methods and is skeptical of steroid/hormone advice.

• Avoiding unrealistic claims

  • He criticizes courses that:
    • claim “basic” fixes without explaining underlying factors (e.g., orthodontics)
    • produce results only for a narrow age window
    • charge high costs with little real change

• Consistency + time investment (including mental demand)

  • For his top method (STRAM), he emphasizes:
    • it’s complicated
    • it takes months to learn correctly
    • it requires hours per day once you’re doing it properly
    • it can be mentally demanding, with an “unlearning/relearning” phase

• Sun exposure as a daily habit (general wellness)

  • In Bojack’s advice, he highlights a routine:
    • ~5 hours of sun in summer
    • ~2–3 hours of sun in winter
  • It’s framed as improving everyday life/health, not only appearance.

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Looksmaxxing / facial-optimization strategies highlighted (as discussed)

Methods he treats as commonly “basic / water”

Across several courses, Zeke describes the core content as repetitive and low-value:

• Mewing
• Neck exercises
• “Water” tier: advice that is broadly the same across creators

STRAM (his recommended method)

Zeke claims STRAM is the best course/method, crediting it with jaw/mandible and maxilla-related changes.

He also notes:

• STRAM works, but:

  • results can be slow to learn and implement
  • it may be faster with very high daily practice (he mentions examples up to ~8 hours/day)
  • it’s positioned as appropriate for people seeking results beyond what “basic” approaches can do

• It’s especially relevant if you have structural patterns like:

  • recessed maxilla / down-grown maxilla

• Learning process

  • involves heavy “unlearning/relearning”
  • requires ongoing clarification (he says he texted the instructor daily for months)

Skepticism about hormonal / unsafe strategies

Zeke strongly warns against:

• Exogenous hormones (described as non-natural)
• Extreme sugar loading to manipulate insulin/growth hormones (specifically attributed to one creator)

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Course tiers and judgments (high level)

Lower-quality / “water” courses (C/D and below)

• Meowzer’s base

  • Largely “basic” (mewing/neck exercises), but Zeke argues outcomes may be explained more by orthodontics than mewing alone.

• Hollow

  • Copy-paste, “water,” minimal value
  • Includes some hormone talk that Zeke doesn’t follow

• Bojack

  • Some useful additions and good personal coaching
  • Still argued to be heavily genetics-driven
  • One-on-one support rated higher than the base course

• Zyzz

  • Zeke likes the person and the calls
  • Rates the course as low-effort “water” and genetics-driven
  • Mentions puberty timing and confounders (e.g., surgery for gyno)

• Nocturnal Can

  • D/F tier
  • Recommends 500g sugar/day for insulin/GH/IGF-1 related bone growth, which Zeke condemns as unsafe

Higher-quality

• Soludon / Solodone

  • Praised as highly in-depth and “highest quality”
  • Not quite S tier because (in Zeke’s opinion):
    • it’s mostly text-based
    • it doesn’t explain things as well as it should
    • language/grammar issues reduce clarity

• Zeke’s own coached STRAM approach

  • Zeke claims it’s S tier (best results + real coaching support by his logic)
  • Still stresses complexity and mental load

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Specific self-care / productivity “operating principles” he implies

• Verify the mechanism behind results

  • If someone looks different, it may be due to orthodontics/surgery/genetics, not the course method alone.

• Don’t rely on a one-size-fits-all course

  • Age and puberty stage matter (he claims most methods only work effectively before ~18 and often only under ~15–16 for some creators).

• Practice + learning curve

  • High performance comes from:
    • learning correctly
    • sustaining hours of daily practice
    • managing mental fatigue and complexity

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Presenters / sources mentioned

• Zeke (video narrator/reviewer)
• Meowzer
• Hollow
• Bojack
• Soludon / Solodone
• Zyzz (referred to as “Zeta” in context)
• Oscar (Oscar “Patel” / Oscar Wootton; referred to by name later)
• Baby Stickly (Baby Stigley in subtitles)
• Nocturnal Can
• Mike Mew (mentioned regarding collaboration/valid methods)
• Giorgio Armani (mentioned as modeling/brand-contact examples)
• Zeke’s mentor/coaches, named as Soludon/Solodone (Zeke says he was coached by him)

If you want, I can also convert the tier list into a clean table (name → tier → main reasons).