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{{Short description|PUAHate, SlutHate, Lookism.net — the boards that minted the dialect}}
{{Infobox website
| name      = PSL forums
| type      = Forum lineage (defunct)
| launched  = 2009–2015
}}
The '''PSL forums''' are three consecutive English boards whose initials name the scene: '''[[PUAHate]]''', '''[[SlutHate]]''', and '''[[Lookism.net]]'''. Wikipedia’s looksmaxxing article treats them as the origin of the practice’s jargon and of the [[PSL scale]].<ref name="wp">{{cite web |url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looksmaxxing |title=Looksmaxxing |website=Wikipedia |access-date=10 September 2026}}</ref> A folk expansion “Perceived Sexual Levels” also circulates. Both are recorded here. The three sites are '''defunct'''. The living English forum is [[Looksmax.org]].

This wiki is not those boards. It is an encyclopedia of the words they left.

== Line ==
{| class="wikitable"
|-
! Site
! Years
! What happened
|-
| [[PUAHate]] (puahate.com)
| 2009 – 24 May 2014
| Anti-PUA board; “Shitty Advice” became looks theory. Closed the day after the Isla Vista killings.
|-
| [[SlutHate]] (sluthate.com → redpilltalk.com)
| 26 May 2014 – ~2015/16 as a hub
| Immediate successor; rate-me subforum. Users left for Lookism after downtime. Rebranded Redpilltalk.
|-
| [[Lookism.net]]
| June 2015 – ~December 2021
| Looksmaxxing / rate-me / moneymaxxing. Word “looksmaxxing” is archived here by 2015. Shut down after years of admin war.
|-
| [[Looksmax.org]] (ex-looksmax.me)
| 2018 – present
| Male-only XenForo successor. Same operators as [[Incels.is]] per ''New York Times'' / BBC / CCDH reporting.
|}

A 2021 paper in ''SN Social Sciences'' treats PUAHate → SlutHate → Lookism as one migration and still lists Lookism.net and Looksmax.org among the large English boards of that moment.<ref name="pelzer">{{cite journal |title=Toxic language in online incel communities |journal=SN Social Sciences |year=2021 |url=https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s43545-021-00220-8 |access-date=10 September 2026}}</ref>

== What they were for ==
PUAHate began as mockery of pickup gurus ([[seduction]] industry). The active core became men who had decided '''game does not work if the face does not'''. That is looks theory, later sold as [[blackpill]] plus a to-do list ([[looksmaxxing]]). Rate-me threads and a harsh numeric scale ([[PSL scale]]) are the house sport. Hunter-eyes talk, fWHR recycling, and “mog” as a verb are PSL-era.

== See also ==
* [[List of looksmaxxing websites]]
* [[PSL scale]]
* [[Looksmaxxing]]
* [[Incels.is]]
* [[Love-shy]]

== References ==
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[[Category:Websites]]
[[Category:History]]
[[Category:Looksmaxxing]]
[[Category:Lists]]