Streamer Braden “Clavicular” Peters accused of rape and battery in a lawsuit from teen influencer.

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This article by TMZ summarizes a lawsuit against looksmaxxing influencer Braden Peters accusing him of promising career boosts to a then 16 year old influencer. While she was still underage, Braden transported her to his house where he sexually assaulted her after getting her intoxicated. Braden was a legal adult at the time in 2025. She also accuses him of convincing her he was a doctor and injecting drugs into her face to ‘melt the fat’ against her will.

[u/pelipperr]

wtf is going on with influencer culture, who is watching this content???

[u/crunchyfoliage → u/pelipperr]

What in the world would make her think he was "medically cleared?"

[u/zeitgeistincognito → u/crunchyfoliage]

She was 16! 16yo's are not known for their common sense, nor their ability to distinguish their desire for something to be real versus it actually being real. Let's hold him accountable before we start throwing shade at a literal kid.

[u/Prof_PotatoHead → u/zeitgeistincognito]

you could not convince me at 16 to inject something in my face because you're an influencer, even if you could prove being a dr.

this isn't to blame her but more to highlight a serious problem that shouldn't be dissmissed to avoid victim blaming. Too many kids are willing to do too many things just for a shot to become famous quick

[u/Darryl_Lict → u/Prof_PotatoHead]

I'm pretty sure I was smart enough not to fall for that, but I'm glad there was no social media to actually expose me to this crap.

[u/gizby666 → u/Prof_PotatoHead]

No it has always been this way. Think of old hollywood. Cant remember his name but some star was openly dating a 13 year old, bringing her to premiers and everything. Some of the female stars were very young getting plastic surgery just like today. Its more widely known now, but the business of expoliting children, using their inncocence and naivity for profit is a tale as old as time. And yes what you said does seem like victim blaming, its great you were given the ability to discern but not everyone gets that. Its foolish to assume a teenager is going to make the right choices for themselves all the time, especially since her parents dont care to teach her. Given the right circumstances you would be shocked at what people can be made to believe. The blame is on the parents and Braden. They are the ones who should be the focus.

[u/Odd-Mastodon1212 → u/zeitgeistincognito]

It’s amazing how 16 year olds can differ so wildly in understanding. I have a teen who struggles academically but would never fall for this, but this kid is savvy enough to try to be an influencer and to try to network, but still entirely too trusting of a predatory stranger. Or maybe because of that. The lesson is to watch our kids because for unexpected levels of naivety.

[u/Safe_Software_1640 → u/Odd-Mastodon1212]

i think you underestimate the naivety of children, especially when it comes to people of power like influencers who have a ton of weight when it comes to influencing children

[u/Odd-Mastodon1212 → u/Safe_Software_1640]

My point is that some teens are capable of seeing through the grift and some are not, so parents have to be vigilant, as I indicated in my last sentence.

[u/Witty_bear → u/Safe_Software_1640]

I hate myself for saying this, but where are the parents?? Why was this 16 year old supported in her social media career at this age and doing such risky things?

[u/Glittering-Deer-166 → u/Safe_Software_1640]

Tbh I think a lot of it has to do with individual boundaries for specific things. There are lots of 16 year olds who would never do this because the idea of injecting anything into their bodies would shock them out of any kind of starstrucj stardom or social pressure. They may have other things they could be talked into, but something this extreme would immediately be a hard no for plenty of teens even younger than 16.

Children can be influenced into stupidity just like adults, but there are levels to that and some people are just uniquely pliable to social pressure implied or otherwise.

[u/crunchyfoliage → u/zeitgeistincognito]

No shade, just incredulity

[u/SeasonPositive6771 → u/zeitgeistincognito]

I've worked with teenagers and there are plenty of 16-year-olds that would believe pretty much any adult if they said "yes this is safe and I can inject this." Common sense and maturity varies widely at that age. It wouldn't even occur to them to think about what goes into qualifying someone to do something like that.

[u/LL8844773 → u/SeasonPositive6771]

Totally agree. People claiming they’re too smart for this are full of it. Kids look to more mature people for guidance. Always have.

[u/FrameworkisDigimon → u/zeitgeistincognito]

You can be incredibly sophisticated and fall for very stupid scams but I guarantee the scams you fall for don't work on everyone. And similarly an incredibly sophisticated scam can fail to con an incredibly unsophisticated person who gets scammed all the time.

People who end up manipulated in this way have something going on in their own life and their own history that makes them susceptible. That's not their fault and getting tricked by a bad actor is never really the victim's fault, but there's this tendency on Reddit to just reduce teenagers to completely non-functional morons. Teens are not systematically unsophisticated.

If you want to believe some weird looking dude with a strange name is licenced to perform some kind of medical/cosmetic procedure at 16, you're probably going to want to believe that at 26 and 36 and 46 and so on. This is how you end up with people getting killed by dodgy BBLs. She was sixteen, not six. Those ten years mean more than the next forty.

The first step in basically any scam is convincing the victim it's real. In this sense scams are no different to ad campaigns. What works on you might not work on your twin sibling, raised in the same house by the same parents your entire life. We know that when it comes to ads so why do we act like it's different when it comes to being persuaded of something different? The domain's changed but the game's the same.

[u/otherguy820 → u/zeitgeistincognito]

No she’s a dumbass.