Highlights
- YouTube pulled two Clavicular channels for violating its ban on creating new accounts post-termination
- The looksmaxxing streamer’s original channel was first removed in November 2025
- The second ban comes just nine days after Peters was hospitalized for a suspected overdose
YouTube has pulled the plug on Clavicular — again.
The platform terminated two channels belonging to Braden Peters, the controversial 20-year-old “looksmaxxing” influencer better known online as Clavicular, on Thursday. The channels — @LiveWithClav and @ClavLooksmax — went dark without any advance notice, at least according to Peters himself.
“Very sad news this morning. My YouTube channels @LiveWithClav & @ClavLooksmax were terminated this morning with no warning or explanation,” Peters wrote in an X post. “The channels consisted of livestream VODs and free courses created by me to help empower young men to be the best versions of themselves.”
Except YouTube did give him an explanation — it just came via email, and Peters accidentally shared it in the same post where he claimed there wasn’t one.
The notice from YouTube read: “We have reviewed your content and found severe or repeated violations of our Community Guidelines. Because of this, we have removed your channel from YouTube.”
So, yeah. Not exactly “no explanation.”
The real reason YouTube kicked Peters off this time isn’t new content violations — it’s simpler than that. YouTube’s terms of service prohibit creators from creating or owning new channels after termination. Peters’ original channel was already toast.
“We terminated the creator’s original channel back in November 2025,” a YouTube rep told Variety. “We removed these additional channels under our terms of service, which prohibit creating new channels after a termination.”
That initial ban, back in November, was no small thing either. The streamer’s original channel was pulled for “facilitating access to websites that violate the platform’s illegal or regulated goods or services policies.”
Peters, of course, pushed back hard. “Me and my team worked hard to ensure we followed YouTube’s TOS very strictly, blurring out all inappropriate language and sensitive topics,” he wrote, before tagging YouTube’s official accounts and asking for his channels back.
The timing of all this couldn’t be rougher. The second YouTube ban lands just nine days after Peters was hospitalized for a suspected overdose during a livestream in Miami. After returning home, he shared an update on X: “Just got home, that was brutal. All of the substances are just a cope trying to feel neurotypical while being in public, but obviously that isn’t a real solution. The worst part of tonight was my face descending from the life support mask.”
After recovering, Peters addressed the incident on a YouTube livestream: “I ain’t going to be doing any more substances for a little while, hopefully forever. That means I can’t really IRL stream anymore, so that’s the thing. I really can’t IRL stream ’cause as you guys know I’m quite brutal without that. So I think I have to figure something else out. I have to figure out a new method. Either practice mogging sober or just find a new form of content. I don’t know. It’s f–king done for.”
And then, days later — no YouTube to figure it out on, anyway.
For those who’ve somehow missed the Clavicular wave, Peters has scored profiles in the New York Times and GQ, walked the runway during New York Fashion Week, inspired waves of thinkpieces, and even got lampooned by Saturday Night Live. Not bad for a 20-year-old whose lane is telling young men how to optimize their jawlines.
He also notably walked off a 60 Minutes Australia interview after fielding questions about his ties to the incel community. The clip went everywhere.
Clavicular became one of the most recognizable faces of looksmaxxing, the online subculture that treats male attractiveness like a spreadsheet. Jawlines, eye angles, facial ratios, rankings, genetic winners and losers.
Peters still has a presence on Kick — the streaming platform that’s become the go-to home for creators who’ve worn out their welcome elsewhere — and remains active on X. But losing two YouTube channels in under six months is a significant blow to reach and revenue, and it’s not like the past few weeks have exactly been smooth sailing.
What’s next for Clavicular is anyone’s guess, but whatever it is, it probably won’t be on YouTube.
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