[Ads-l] looksmaxxing (2016)

[dave@wilton.net]

Ben, Garson, 
 
Excellent! Thanks!
 
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In the Usenet newsgroup archive, you can find "amog" back to 2000 and
"amogging" back to 2005.

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https://groups.google.com/g/alt.seduction.fast/c/b5fvoydrRIM/m/Wue4FlgRdsIJ
Jake, alt.seduction.fast, Dec 10, 2000
I've certainly used LJBF women in my AFC past and briefed them honestly.
Yeah, I remember using two of them to distract an AMOG away from a target.
Not only did I score, the LJBF women had a great laugh fawning on the AMOG.
[LJBF = Let's Just Be Friends, AFC = Average Frustrated Chump]
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https://groups.google.com/g/uk.sport.football/c/YCnd5iQuI6o/m/EQSJmTuajS0J
Allen Parkes, uk.sport.football, Dec 19, 2005
They suggest you adopt some characteristics of the Alpha Male, e.g. being
the centre of your social group's attention (as a means of generating
social proof), or demonstrating confidence enough that you aren't fazed by
anything someone says to you; but in general I'd say the material refers to
Alpha Males as broadly being just as cunty as Joe's interpretation, hence
the AMOGging techniques designed to eliminate them from your immediate
surround.
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--bgz


On Sat, Jul 4, 2026 at 10:58 AM dave at wilton.net <dave at wilton.net> wrote:

>
> Some early uses of amogging and mogging from Reddit.
>
> This is the earliest use of "amogging" that I have found. It's also
> replete with other pick-up artist (PUA) slang.
>
> TrollyMcTrollFag. Reddit.com/r/seduction, 26 September 2010. [
> https://www.reddit.com/r/seduction/comments/dja5h/blew_an_fclose_because_i_negged_the_obstacle_too/
> ](
> https://www.reddit.com/r/seduction/comments/dja5h/blew_an_fclose_because_i_negged_the_obstacle_too/
> )
>
> "After I roll back on, target asks me to buy her a drink, and I pull the
> "you buy, I buy" line. She goes for it. Goes to the bar to buy a drink.
> Some skeezy 40y/o dude tries to move in on her, she starts talking to him,
> and I just leave the two of them at the bar. Target then goes to check on
> her friend, and skeezy 40y/o follows. Obstacle is still pretty down at this
> point (I feel fucking awful about doing that to her), skeez picks up on it,
> and locks onto her. I think skeez had some basic PU knowledge, because I
> overheard him talking shit about me and my game. He even tried amogging me
> to my target, but I think I'd built up so much social proof by that point,
> he just ended up looking like a jealous asshole or something. Target was
> still into me."
>
>
>
> And this one is the earliest use of the variant, and now more common,
> "mogging" (also includes an early use of "maxxing"):
>
> TotesTax. “You Think This Place Is Toxic?” Reddit.com/r/GGFreeForAll, 2
> September 2016. [
> https://www.reddit.com/r/GGFreeForAll/comments/50wypw/you_think_this_place_is_toxic/
> ](
> https://www.reddit.com/r/GGFreeForAll/comments/50wypw/you_think_this_place_is_toxic/
> )
>
> "You think this place is toxic?
>
> "Check out this place. [Link no longer active]
>
> "I do have some of the lingo down if you have questions on like what
> mogging is (not 100% sure). Maxxing and cel are pretty explainable.
>
> "They eat there own there. The drama is never ending."
>
> "Fun stuff."
>
>
> And the first response, from gent_the_2nd, to that post reads:
>
> "can you explain cope, i sort of get it but not fully
>
> "amogging comes from PUAs. it stands for Alpha Male Other Guy -ing. This
> is the practice of dominating the beta male friends of women you want to
> sleep with"
>
>
> And for those that don't know it, a superb tool for searching Reddit is
> PullPush Reddit Search [ https://search.pullpush.io/ ](
> https://search.pullpush.io/ )
>
> It enables limiting searches by date (and other fields), and includes
> results from subreddits that have been banned.
>
>
>

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