Hulu Doc ‘Get Huge’ Premieres Nov. 10 on Looksmaxxing Deaths
Get Huge: Looksmaxxing to Death, a Hulu documentary series premiering November 10, follows biohacker Tony Huge and the deaths around him, starting with influencer Laith Abdallah Algaz in Thailand in January 2023. Director Stacey Lee says young viewers struggle to separate what is real.
The Hulu doc Get Huge: Looksmaxxing to Death, a documentary series about the deadly side of online self-optimization, premieres on the streaming service on November 10. It centers on Tony Huge, a 44-year-old former model, lawyer and bodybuilder turned supplement businessman.
Who Tony Huge is
Huge left the United States for Thailand to escape legal pressure on his company from the Food and Drug Administration, according to the series' account. He also set out to build what he calls a "harem" of young Thai women.
His motto was "a day natty [natural] is a day wasted." He gathered a large following of lonely young men, and some moved to Thailand to live with him. Then, some of them started dying.
The death that opens the series
Get Huge opens with Laith Abdallah Algaz, known online as "Leo and Longevity." He was a biohacker and penis enlargement influencer. He was found dead in Huge's home in January 2023.
Thai police ultimately concluded that Algaz died of blunt force head trauma. The case is still open.
The series is not a standard true-crime documentary. It follows a world where men inject themselves with pig's brains and liquified gold, alliances shift quickly, and status depends on the last high-performing Instagram Reel.
The people behind it
Stacey Lee directed the series. Journalist and podcast producer Jennings Brown is an executive producer. Brown began looking into Huge's world in 2023, before the influencer Clavicular became a household name.
Brown said he and producing partner Brett Neitchin were drawn to the manosphere and the extreme views of masculinity the internet has encouraged. He said he grew up in Kansas, felt insecure about being short, and once thought he would save up for leg extensions. "So I've always had a horrified fascination with this world," he said.
Lee joined a year later, as the manosphere became a talking point in the 2024 election. The pull of Thailand interested her as much as the death itself. "Why are men going to Thailand, and why is this kind of masculinity becoming more and more prevalent in online spaces?" she said.
Looksmaxxing on screen
Looksmaxxing is a popular and dangerous online self-optimization movement. Influencers such as Clavicular and Androgenic have helped spread it. The filmmakers say Clavicular took part in early talks but declined to join. Androgenic plays a small but key role.
Since 2023, Huge has opened his home in Pattaya, Thailand, to the production team. Lee describes the result as "full transparency" into "this 24/7 performance of being a man." As filming went on, she said, the turmoil in Huge's inner circle and the hangers-on dying around him became the more interesting story.
Lee worries about who is watching. "Therein lies the problem for the young kid watching at home who is watching this as a blueprint for their life," she said. "They can't discern what's real and what's not." She added that even she had trouble telling at times.
