Streamer known as ‘Clavicular’ charged with rape, drugging in Massachusetts

Braden Eric Peters, the 20-year-old livestreamer known online as “Clavicular,” is facing three criminal charges in Massachusetts stemming from an alleged 2025 encounter, according to court records filed in Orleans District Court.

Prosecutors filed the complaint on Sept. 8 out of a Cape Cod courthouse, charging Mr. Peters with rape, drugging a person for sexual intercourse and providing alcohol to a person under 21. The charges relate to an alleged incident on May 23, 2025, in Chatham, Massachusetts. According to court filings reviewed by IBTimes UK, a judge found probable cause on all three counts on Sept. 4 before the criminal complaint was issued. Peters is scheduled for arraignment on Oct. 14 and does not appear to have been taken into custody.

The rape and drugging charges are felonies; a conviction on the rape count carries up to 20 years in prison, while the drugging charge carries a mandatory minimum of 10 years and a possible life sentence. The alcohol charge is a misdemeanor.

The case was first reported by The Bulwark, which described Mr. Peters as a prominent figure in the looksmaxxing movement who had built a large online following through appearances on prominent podcasts even as the newly reported allegations surfaced. Mr. Peters’ representative pushed back on that characterization, saying in a statement that Mr. Peters “has not been physically served” and accusing the outlet of “exaggerating the status of a case to boost traffic.”

Mr. Peters, whose looksmaxxing content promotes extreme and sometimes dangerous efforts to maximize physical appearance — including striking his own face with a hammer and using small amounts of methamphetamine to suppress his appetite — responded to the charges on X. He shared video of a woman he said was the accuser calling an injection “fun” and describing him as “super nice,” and separately dismissed the case as an attempt to “come for your money.”

The criminal filing follows a civil lawsuit filed against Mr. Peters in April in Miami-Dade County by Aleksandra Vasilevna Mendoza, an 18-year-old content creator who goes by “Alorah Ziva.” Ms. Mendoza’s suit accuses Peters of battery, fraud, intentional infliction of emotional distress and unauthorized use of her name and likeness, alleging he injected her face with Aqualyx — a fat-dissolving substance not approved by the Food and Drug Administration — without her consent during a livestream, and that he had nonconsensual sexual contact with her at his family’s Cape Cod home while she was intoxicated and, she says, a minor at the time.

Monday’s charges add to a string of legal trouble for Mr. Peters over the past several months. He was arrested in Fort Lauderdale in March on an Osceola County warrant charging misdemeanor battery and conspiracy to commit battery, after authorities said he instigated a physical altercation between two women at a rental property he had booked and then posted footage of it online. The same day, Mr. Peters was seen on video with two others firing handguns at an alligator in the Everglades; Florida wildlife officials opened an investigation, and Miami-Dade prosecutors subsequently charged Peters with unlawfully discharging a firearm in a public place.

In April, Mr. Peters was hospitalized in Miami after what a source described to reporters as a suspected overdose during a livestream, during which he appeared increasingly disoriented before the broadcast cut out. He was released the next day and posted on X that the substances he had taken were “a cope trying to feel neurotypical while being in public.”

The Massachusetts docket does not identify the alleged victim in the criminal case, and it does not state whether the charges are connected to the allegations in Ms. Mendoza’s civil suit, though the timelines overlap.