Alex Burke

@whitepeacock696119 · Jan 10, 2026 at 8:13 pm

19F Posting myself on looksmaxxing communities ruined my life

I've always been insecure in my apperance since I was a kid, I was always chubbier than other children my age. I struggled with binge eating/disordered eating for a while and once I graduated high school and started college, end of 2024, I was finally feeling confident and felt happy about myself. I had gained a bit of weight since I went through a breakup and spent a lot of it binge eating, but It was also when I felt the most confident in myself and I finally felt like I was worth people being nice to me or even just being out in public.
That all changed, I was talking to me friend about those looksmaxxing communties or other subreddits where they objectivily rate you. I was in a bit of a depressive episode at the time and I wasn't as happy about myself as I usually were and I posted myself, I didn't tell anybody around me. I just got too curious and I wondered what they would say.
In a matter of minutes my comments were flood with people saying how I was a "3/10, 4/10 if you lost the weight", that my only bet was to "reincarnate", or that I was subhuman. I knew I shouldn't let it get to me, but I couldn't stop thinking about it. My insecurity really hurt me because one of the on