Skip to content
Search

Clavicular’s YouTube Channels Terminated (Again)

The 20-year-old “looksmaxxing” streamer was hospitalized for a suspected overdose last week

Clavicular’s YouTube Channels Terminated (Again)

Braden "Clavicular" Peters walks the runway during the Elena Velez Ready to Wear Fall/Winter 2026-2027 fashion show on Feb. 12, 2026 in NY.

Victor VIRGILE/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

YouTube has taken down two channels by the controversial “looksmaxxing” influencer Clavicular. The streamer, whose real name is Braden Peters, took to social media on Thursday seeking help to recover his accounts.

“Very sad news this morning,” Peters wrote on X. “My YouTube channels @ LiveWithClav & @ ClavLooksmax were terminated this morning with no warning or explanation. The channels consisted of livestream VODs and free courses created by me to help empower young men to be the best versions of themselves. Me and my team worked hard to ensure we followed YouTube’s TOS very strictly, blurring out all inapproriate language and sensitive topics.” Before ending his message, he tagged YouTube’s X accounts and asked, “Could you please help in recovering my accounts?”


Despite Peters’s claims that the video platform did not give him an explanation for pulling his channels offline, he shared what appeared to be screenshots of emails from YouTube. “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,” the emails read.

A YouTube spokesperson told The Hollywood Reporter that after terminating Peters’ original channel back in November 2025 for “facilitating access to websites that violate our Illegal or regulated goods or services policies,” the platform “removed these additional channels under our terms of service, which prohibit creating new channels after a termination.”

Last week, Peters was hospitalized for a suspected overdose. “Just got home, that was brutal,” Peters wrote on X the next day. “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.”

More Stories

How Ibogaine Became the Darling of the Psychedelic Right
Illustration by DEBORA CAMPORESI

How Ibogaine Became the Darling of the Psychedelic Right

On a crisp November day in Aspen, Colorado, Rick Perry is stumping for iboga, a psychedelic shrub native to the Congo Basin rainforest in Central Africa known for producing powerful waking dreams. It is the heart of Bwiti, a centuries-old spiritual discipline primarily practiced in Gabon, and recently, the darling of the American psychedelic right. “ Take on the mantle of being the Johnny Appleseed of iboga, every one of you,” the former governor of Texas tells the audience while a delegation from Gabon watches impassively. “The medicine clearly showed me things that I’d never seen before,” Perry later tells me. “In the presence of God, I knew it — he loves me with great intensity. Pure white light.”

Keep ReadingShow less
Clavicular Says He’s Quitting ‘Substances’ ‘Hopefully Forever’ After Suspected Overdose
Victor VIRGILE/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images

Clavicular Says He’s Quitting ‘Substances’ ‘Hopefully Forever’ After Suspected Overdose

Controversial “looksmaxxing” influencer Clavicular says he’s quitting drugs, maybe permanently, after being hospitalized for a suspected overdose earlier this week.

The 20-year-old, whose real name is Braden Peters, cut a Kick stream short on Tuesday after he appeared to be out of it while at a bar with friends. His friends appeared visibly concerned before the stream was eventually turned off, and Peters was taken to a hospital.

Keep ReadingShow less
Clavicular Stable Following Suspected Overdose: ‘That Was Brutal’
Victor VIRGILE/Gamma-Rapho/Getty Images

Clavicular Stable Following Suspected Overdose: ‘That Was Brutal’

The “looksmaxxing” streamer Clavicular is recovering at home in Miami, Florida after being hospitalized for a suspected overdose. Braden Peters, 20, was streaming on the platform Kick while at a bar in the city when his friends grew concerned about his condition in the moment. The stream was abruptly cut short.

“Just got home, that was brutal,” Peters wrote on X in the early hours of April 15. “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.” The caption accompanied a photo of Peters with blood smeared across his face.

Keep ReadingShow less
J. Cole’s Basketball Career in China Cut Short After Running Into Visa Issues

J. Cole playing with the Rwanda Patriots

Nicole Sweet/BAL/Basketball Africa League/Getty Images

J. Cole’s Basketball Career in China Cut Short After Running Into Visa Issues

J. Cole’s time as a professional basketball player in China was cut short after only one game, due to visa issues.

The six-foot-three rapper, who previously had stints with leagues in Rwanda and Toronto, was scheduled to play at least three games with the Nanjing Monkey Kings this spring, but work obligations delayed him from obtaining the necessary work visa.

Keep ReadingShow less
Inside the Multibillion-Dollar Business of Child Influencers
Seventyfour - stock.adobe.com

Inside the Multibillion-Dollar Business of Child Influencers

What is it like to live your entire life in front of an audience of millions — from your birth to potty-training to puberty to adolescence? For many child influencers, this is their reality. They are public figures before they are even born; both the milestones and the mundane moments of their lives are captured by their parents and sold as content. Though child influencers — and the mom influencers and family vloggers who prop them up — are part of the multibillion dollar influencing industry, until now, we haven’t known much about what it was like to be one. That’s what I’m changing with my book Like, Follow, Subscribe: Influencer Kids and the Cost of a Childhood Online. To answer these questions, I talked to kid influencers themselves, family vloggers, experts in the industry, digital ethicists, psychologists, and more.

Keep ReadingShow less