"Open Wide" tells the history of the "mewing" TikTok trend, through a deep dive into the controversial practice of orthotropics and its evangelists, John and Mike Mew

Grant St. Clair recently shared news about the trend of “looksmaxxing,” an umbrella term for a variety of “purportedly appearance-enhancing strategies” that became wildly popular first on incel message boards and then on TikTok. One of the most popular looksmaxxing techniques is called “mewing” and involves closing your mouth, and placing your tongue on the roof of your mouth, which supposedly exercises the muscles under the jaw and tightens the skin under your chin. — Read the rest

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