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Lookism.net is mostly known as a trolling board, one famous troll being a 'virgin' below named 'Orb' (below), who was from bodybuilding.com's misc board liked to fuck with the forum. | Lookism.net is mostly known as a trolling board, one famous troll being a 'virgin' below named 'Orb' (below), who was from bodybuilding.com's misc board liked to fuck with the forum. | ||
===The 'dimez' Hack=== | |||
In mid July 2019, a user known simply as 'dimez' obtained root access to the server via a SQL injection. With root access, he was able to view every user's IP address, email address, and password. His malicious activities included: | |||
*Doxxing notable users | |||
*Sending infected PMs that would pull the recipient's IP address if they opened them | |||
*Permanently banning notable members and moderators | |||
*Taking the site offline entirely | |||
The site was inoperative for a little longer than a week before the admin performed a rollback, but the damage was already done, with user participation declining dramatically. Online user count typically peaked around 1000 (including guests) before the hack, but almost never exceeded 500 afterwards. Blame for the attack was initially directed at the subreddit inceltears, but it was later revealed by inceltears moderators that they were not responsible and dimez was acting alone. | |||
===Zesto's Coup and the Deletion of Lookism.net=== | |||
In early October 2019, the forum was vandalized by [[Zesto]]/ZestoHot/Mafia/Mafia LT using Josh's super moderator account (which Josh voluntarily gave him, though Josh later expressed regret about this), and every thread on the board was slowly deleted over the course of a couple days. This event coincided with the deletion of many incel subreddits on Reddit, although Zesto did this independently in an attempt to hijack lookism's userbase and migrate them to a website under his control. This event shattered the PSL community, and many lookism users likened it to the burning of the Library of Alexandria or the fall of Rome, as years of useful looksmaxing information had been permanently lost. | |||
During the remainder of October 2019, the forum was still operative, though effectively dead, as Zesto permanently banned all accounts that had been created before his coup. Anyone who wanted to continue posting had to create a new account, but online user count rarely exceeded 20 as most users had already migrated to different forums such as [[looksmax.me]], Zesto's forum, or stopped posting altogether. Zesto continued posting on lookism sporadically during this time, and was also known to publish users' dox there if they angered him in some way. | |||
In November 2019, the site was shut down and has never been available since then. Google's 'cached view' feature has preserved some threads, though these are slowly being automatically purged as well. After these events most Lookism users migrated to [[Looksmax.me]], making it become the largest forum concerning [[Looks theory]] and [[Looksmaxxing]], therefore Looksmax.me is considered the point of reference of the '''PSL''' community and the successor of Lookism.net | |||
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