Jordan Barrett Looksmaxxing
Published August 31, 2026
Jordan Barrett Looksmaxxing is a TikTok trend that turned Australian male supermodel Jordan Barrett into the poster boy for Lookism slang like mogging and mewing starting in June 20231. Young men posted phonk-scored edits of Barrett with self-mocking captions about how badly he mogs them, and the format quickly ballooned into one of the defining Literally Me video templates of 2023.
Overview
The joke sits at the intersection of the earlier Mike O'Hearn Baby Don't Hurt Me Literally Me Guy videos and the wider looksmaxxing subculture, where teenage boys trade tips on canthal tilt, jawlines and mewing4. Barrett clips get cut to sped-up or slowed phonk tracks, most famously 'ecstacy' by SUICIDAL-IDOL, then paired with captions where the poster either casts themselves as the guy being mogged or as the mogger himself5.
By late 2023 the format widened to include Brazilian male model Francisco Lachowski, nicknamed Chico, who often shows up alongside Barrett as a second avatar of aesthetic dominance6. The recognizable ingredients are the model footage, the phonk drop, and captions borrowing terms straight from Lookism forums, which is what separates a Barrett edit from a generic model highlight reel.
Origin & Background
The earliest known Jordan Barrett looksmaxxing edit was posted by TikTok user @oxydreamyy on June 26, 2023, set to a Lil Peep song with a caption about listening to a girl while acting 'mysterious and hot,' joking that she thinks he is autistic1. Over the following five months the clip pulled in roughly 424,500 plays and 50,400 likes4.
How It Spread
How to Use This Meme
A typical Barrett edit uses short clips of the model walking, posing or being interviewed, cuts them to a sped-up phonk track, and layers a self-mocking or bragging caption that borrows Lookism terms like mogging, mewing or canthal tilt3. Creators often swap in Francisco Lachowski to double up the visual and lean into the Literally Me framing that treats both models as personal avatars rather than distant celebrities6.
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