Braden Peters, the social media personality known as Clavicular, faces arraignment Thursday in Massachusetts on rape charges.
Peters, 20, stands accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl at his family’s Cape Cod home in Chatham in May 2025. The accuser told police he plied her with vodka until she was intoxicated, then attacked her as she slept. She also said Peters had been paying her to appear in his “looksmaxxing” content, a genre of male-beauty extremism that has drawn millions of followers to his accounts.
The accuser described waking to find Peters raping her after a night of drinking, according to police reports. She said he gave her two or three shots of vodka, then livestreamed himself kissing her while she was visibly drunk. Her allegations surfaced in both the Massachusetts criminal case and a civil lawsuit filed in Florida in April, where she also claimed Peters injected her with a fat-dissolving substance during a broadcast without her consent.
Peters’ attorneys have pushed back hard against the accusations. They called the Florida lawsuit a “publicity grab,” and maintained through legal representatives that the sexual encounter was consensual. The influencer, who commands roughly one million Instagram followers, has built his brand around marathon livestreams rating strangers’ appearances and discussing increasingly extreme methods of physical enhancement, including cosmetic surgery and drug use.
The Massachusetts case adds to a string of legal entanglements that have trailed Peters across state lines. Earlier this year, Florida authorities charged him with misdemeanor battery after alleging he instigated a physical fight between two women and then broadcast the violence. That charge was subsequently dropped. In a separate Florida matter this year, Peters received probation after pleading no contest to firing a gun in public.
His arraignment is scheduled for Orleans, Massachusetts, a small town on the outer Cape where the case has drawn outsized attention due to Peters’ online footprint. The “looksmaxxing” subculture he promotes has surged in visibility on platforms like TikTok and Instagram, where young men document obsessive regimens of bone-smashing, steroid cycles, and surgical procedures in pursuit of facial symmetry and perceived attractiveness.
The accuser’s decision to pursue parallel civil and criminal actions has complicated Peters’ defense strategy, with proceedings now unfolding in two jurisdictions. The Florida lawsuit predates the Massachusetts rape charge by weeks, suggesting she had already begun seeking legal recourse when police became involved. Peters’ legal team has sought to frame both cases as coordinated attacks on his public persona rather than legitimate grievances.
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Peters’ next court appearance will take place in Orleans.