GET HUGE: Looksmaxxing to Death

What’s it about?

A three-part documentary following the "biohacking" looksmaxxer and manosphere influencer known as Tony Huge. A portrait of masculinity in the influencer age, where extreme biohacking, online performance, and a series of suspicious deaths converge.

The facts 

• Directed by Stacey Lee (OLIVIA RODRIGO: driving home 2 u)
• English language
• Runtime: Three episodes that are around 60 minutes each

Why did it get this rating? 

This documentary series was self-rated by Disney Plus. You can find out more about self-rating by streaming providers here.

The drug use and other dangerous behaviour shown in the show is shocking and viewers are likely to be disturbed by it, even as its followers talk about it positively. Viewers are unlikely to want to emulate the behaviour or views of the influencers after watching.

Drug use

The series covers detailed drug use linked to “biohacking”. Influencers and their followers discuss taking a lot of steroids and other restricted substances to improve their fitness, performance, longevity, and penis size. None of these people are trained medical professionals. The series also shows people injecting into their muscles and faces.

Some of the strongest elements throughout the series include:

• People talk about using crystal meth for hollow cheeks, about snorting insulin, injecting fertiliser. One person describes self-prescribing LSD to try to cure depression. We hear from looksmaxxer Clavicular that his "top drugs" are "meth, ketamine, adderall, steroids, peptides – I do it all".
• We see people injecting themselves in the torso, arm muscles, and face. At one point a voiceover says, "What else can I inject? How much can I inject before something bad happens?"
• People have "steroid parties" and we are shown footage of the aftermath, including empty vials and used syringes.
• There is one scene showing people taking what is understood to be party drug MDMA.
• There is brief footage of someone starting to make illicit pharmaceuticals, showing them measuring out powder with a spoon, liquids in beakers, and digital scales.

Despite the influencers talking and promoting the behaviour, the documentary does not glamorise it. Viewers are likely to be shocked by the drug content.

Dangerous behaviour and content that may disturb

Tony encourages his followers to take chemical supplements to become "enhanced", saying that if they don't they are wasting time being "natty" or "natural".

We hear from a looksmaxxing influencer about all the things he's done to change his looks. This includes bone-smashing, taking drugs including steriods, and exercising. He says his "status" changed due to these actions. 

There are a number of deaths described in the series:

• Tony's friend Leo Longevity is found dead in a bathroom after being missing for a few days. The circumstances are mysterious and potentially violent. We are shown footage of the wrecked, bloody, dirty bathroom, but not the body. We hear a number of detailed theories about what may have happened.
• Leo's friends Connor and Tony make videos recreating over-the-top, comic, and even pornographic versions of Leo's murder for their followers. Connor calls it "performance art" and deliberately baits his followers into thinking he was involved in the murder, which makes some of his friends start to question if he actually was. 
• We learn that a number of Tony's close friends – up to five others – had died or disappeared in mysterious circumstances a few years earlier, which causes some people, both friends and online followers, to become suspicious of him. Tony talks about these deaths as "data" for people to learn from.
• Connor is understood to have fragile mental health following a psychotic break after drug use, and numerous people voice that he shouldn't be taking drugs as it could happen again. At the end of the documentary, we learn that Connor drowned a few weeks after filming finished, following a manic episode that included injecting liquid gold.

In the final episode, the physical risks and impacts of the "biohacking" are admitted by the influencers. This includes infertility, risk of heart attack, and early death. We also see footage of an overdose and physical fights. Tony Huge is shown saying as long as people don't die, they are learning something. This is presented as callous. There is some admission from some of the figures in the documentary that their personas are a performance, because their followers won't want to see the "real" them, including their true emotions.

Domestic violence 

We are shown abusive messages sent from Leo to his wife, who took out a restraining order against him. We see evidence of physical threat as well as verbal abuse in their marriage, causing her to fear for her physical safety as well as that of their baby daughter.

We hear that Leo has choked a sex worker, causing her to scream and cry. She is paid by Tony in order to prevent her from complaining to the police.

Tony "biohacks" the members of his "harem" to change their looks and increase their sex drive by injecting them and getting them to snort substances. Footage implies he is giving supplements to his young children.

Sexual references

A voiceover mentions there is "sex in the air" in Thailand.

Tony Huge has a lot of paid girlfriends that he takes around with him in a group, and he calls them his "harem". He insists that when they are in his bedroom they are either naked or in "sexy" clothing, though we don't see this.

People talk about sleeping with sex workers in group sex situations, after taking drugs on the encouragement of Tony Huge.

Nudity

We see full rear non-sexual nudity. Briefly, we see a silhouette of Connor in the shower as he pumps his penis with a contraption and talks about trying to make it bigger.

Offensive language

There is frequent offensive language, including "f*ck", "f*cking", "sh*t", and "b*tch".

There are disturbing misogynistic clips shown throughout the documentary. Some examples include manosphere influencer Andrew Tate saying "females are barely sentient" and a clip of a young man on the street telling a young woman she looks "absolutely disgusting" and "k*ll yourself, you worthless f*cking piece of sh*t".

Helplines

The domestic violence and dangerous behaviour could be upsetting for some viewers, especially for those who have gone through similar experiences. If you are struggling with what you have seen on-screen, please reach out for help. If you or someone you know needs to talk:

• 1737
• Safe to talk
• Lifeline
• Youthline

Further information 

• Why are ratings and content warnings important for me and my whānau?
• An interview with the director – Vanity Fair 
• What is looksmaxxing? - Classification Office resource
• Mogging, maxxing, and what to do when we don’t know what new words mean – Classification Office blog
• Online Misogyny and Violent Extremism: Summary Report – Classification Office research
• Statistics on men’s mental health and wellbeing – Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand
• What being masculine really means for men’s mental health in New Zealand (2021) - Umbrella Wellbeing 
• Male loneliness and isolation: what the data shows (2025) – American Institute for Boys and Men