Clavicular recently had an interview with 60 Minutes Australia. During the interview, he was asked whether he was an incel and about his link with Andrew Tate.
For those unaware, incel is a portmanteau of the words involuntary and celibate and as per the Plan UK website, the term primarily refers to heteros*xual men who feel unable to form romantic and s*xual relationships. The subculture is primarily online and is noted for its misogyny and dislike of feminism, as well as beliefs in theories such as female hypergamy and more.
The subculture is also known to be fatalistic in their views of dating as well as negative in their view of society in general, characterized by their belief in the ‘black pill. ‘
The movement was first started by a woman named Alana from Toronto, Canada, as a website for lonely people struggling to find love in the 1990s, before it morphed into a movement that primarily blames women. The 60 Minutes interviewer, Adam Hegarty, questioned Clavicular, pointing out that Lookxmaxxing was born out of the incel movement and asking whether he identified with the incel group.
Clavicular replied with a counter question, asking Hegarty would ask such a question when Clavicular had talked about his relationship with women on the interview before that. Hegarty then rephrased the question, asking:
“Let me rephrase then. Looksmaxxing was obviously a term created by the Incel community. How do you feel about being linked to that group.”
The influencer replied that he was not part of the incel community in response to this question, stating:
“I’m not linked to that group in any way. Looksmaxxing is self improvement, right? So it’s about potentially even ascending out of that category. So that would be kind of one of the goals is to disassociate from being an incel and overcome that. So that doesn’t make sense.”
Hegarty then pressed the influencer on his link to Andrew Tate, asking:
“You’ve been seen with certain people who are from all parts of that world. I mean, just as an example, you’ve obviously shared company with Andrew Tate and other, dare I say, rather controversial figures. Why do you spend time with people like that?”
This led to the influencer claiming that the interviewer was bent on making the interview political and questioning and saying that he didn’t have any time to look into if Hegarty’s wife was cheating on him. To this, Hegarty replied that he was not married. After that, Clavicular thanked Hegarty for the interview and stormed off the interview set.
Clavicular spokesperson released a statement on shutting down the 60 Minutes interview
A spokesperson for the influencer released a statement to the publication People after he stormed off the 60 Minutes interview. The statement by the publication said that the influencer had previously made it clear that he was an expert on Looksmaxxing and not politics and he shut down the interview because he was pressed on a matter he was not an expert in:
“Clavicular has made it clear he’s an expert on looksmaxing, not politics. When the journalist pressed him on a topic that isn’t of his expertise, Clavicular shut him down. Clavicular is young, but he understands the media, and he can spot a dishonest reporter when he sees one.”
The influencer was seen with Andrew Tate in numerous livestreams earlier this year. He was also seen singing along to Kanye West’s controversial song Heil Hitler alongside Andrew Tate in another video clip.
Edited by Amey Mirashi