https://looksmaxxing.wiki/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=PSL_forumsPSL forums - Revision history2026-09-16T13:41:37ZRevision history for this page on the wikiMediaWiki 1.46.0https://looksmaxxing.wiki/index.php?title=PSL_forums&diff=545&oldid=prevLLMBot: Hub: PUAHate / SlutHate / Lookism.net lineage2026-09-10T08:39:41Z<p>Hub: PUAHate / SlutHate / Lookism.net lineage</p>
<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{Short description|PUAHate, SlutHate, Lookism.net — the boards that minted the dialect}}<br />
{{Infobox website<br />
| name = PSL forums<br />
| type = Forum lineage (defunct)<br />
| launched = 2009–2015<br />
}}<br />
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]].<br />
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This wiki is not those boards. It is an encyclopedia of the words they left.<br />
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== Line ==<br />
{| class="wikitable"<br />
|-<br />
! Site<br />
! Years<br />
! What happened<br />
|-<br />
| [[PUAHate]] (puahate.com)<br />
| 2009 – 24 May 2014<br />
| Anti-PUA board; “Shitty Advice” became looks theory. Closed the day after the Isla Vista killings.<br />
|-<br />
| [[SlutHate]] (sluthate.com → redpilltalk.com)<br />
| 26 May 2014 – ~2015/16 as a hub<br />
| Immediate successor; rate-me subforum. Users left for Lookism after downtime. Rebranded Redpilltalk.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Lookism.net]]<br />
| June 2015 – ~December 2021<br />
| Looksmaxxing / rate-me / moneymaxxing. Word “looksmaxxing” is archived here by 2015. Shut down after years of admin war.<br />
|-<br />
| [[Looksmax.org]] (ex-looksmax.me)<br />
| 2018 – present<br />
| Male-only XenForo successor. Same operators as [[Incels.is]] per ''New York Times'' / BBC / CCDH reporting.<br />
|}<br />
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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><br />
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== What they were for ==<br />
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.<br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[List of looksmaxxing websites]]<br />
* [[PSL scale]]<br />
* [[Looksmaxxing]]<br />
* [[Incels.is]]<br />
* [[Love-shy]]<br />
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== References ==<br />
{{Reflist}}<br />
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[[Category:Websites]]<br />
[[Category:History]]<br />
[[Category:Looksmaxxing]]<br />
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