Get Huge: A Hulu Docuseries on Tony Huge's Looksmaxxing Empire

Get Huge: Looksmaxxing To Death, Hulu's three-part docuseries on biohacking influencer Tony Huge, opens on a death in a bathroom in Thailand. In January 2023, Leo Longevity, born Laith Abdallah Algaz, was found dead at 34 in the Pattaya home he shared with Hughes. People reported that an autopsy ruled the cause of death blunt force trauma. The mystery of how he died took the internet hostage.

What does the series document?

Directed by Stacey Lee, of The Secrets of Hillsong, and executive produced by Jennings Brown and Brett Neitchin, Get Huge began filming in 2024. The crew spent months close to Hughes and his inner circle, among them the fitness and looksmaxxing influencers Elon Muscular, Androgenic and Connor Murphy.

The series takes a fast-paced, borderline-psychedelic approach to Hughes' life and career, filming him at home, in the gym, at pharmacies, and at hours-long parties, orgies and streaming sessions.

Tony Huge, born Anthony Hughes, was a bankruptcy attorney before he began posting on YouTube to promote his supplement company. He now lives in Pattaya, Thailand, where he films nearly nonstop and cycles through a constantly rotating regimen of steroids, recreational drugs and weightlifting. He abandoned the United States on the heels of an active F.D.A. investigation, and he fights constant bans from YouTube and TikTok.

"A day natty is a day wasted," he says in the series, repeating his catchphrase into the camera beside what he calls his "harem" of Thai women.

Where did the project come from?

The documentary began as the direct result of one of Hughes' Thailand invitations. In 2022, Hughes convinced Longevity to move to Pattaya. The two lived together and collaborated often, posting hundreds of videos about biohacking techniques. Clavicular, the viral looksmaxxing star, has publicly praised the "protocols" for penis enhancement and stretching that Longevity popularized.

At first, Get Huge looked like a true-crime series. Then the crew found something else. Hughes denies any involvement in Longevity's death, and the cameras catch him trying to shut down rumors while using the conspiracy theories to pull in more viewers.

The substance of the documentary lies in what the crew uncovers about Hughes' appeal. His popularity has less to do with the size of his muscles or the hours of content he posts than with his ability to give young men purpose and a community.

"Overnight, all of these YouTubers, influencers, these manosphere alpha-male-Joe-Rogan-wannabes turned into true crime girlies; these internet sleuths trying to solve this murder," Brown tells Rolling Stone. "As a journalist, how could I not look into that?"

What was the pattern behind the deaths?

• January 2023: Longevity, 34, found dead in the bathroom of the apartment he shared with Hughes; an autopsy reportedly ruled blunt force trauma.
• July 2026: Murphy, 32, drowned in Thailand weeks after the docuseries crew left; authorities found his home trashed.
• The link, according to Brown: Hughes pushed the men to experiment on their bodies and brought in young men who needed a father figure.

Longevity was not the only person in Hughes' orbit who died. Connor Murphy, a fitness YouTuber who turned to biohacking content after failing to break out as an actor, moved from L.A. to Thailand and became a constant presence in Hughes' videos, adopting the influencer's routine of exercise and injections. In July 2026, weeks after the docuseries crew left Thailand, Murphy drowned at 32. When authorities searched his home, they found it trashed, and witnesses reported the fitness influencer acting erratically before his death.

Throughout the docuseries, Murphy brushes off his struggles with mental health, often using them to inspire more extreme content while ignoring warning signs, problems Hughes often suggested treating with more substances.

"The more we investigated, we found this string of deaths connected to Tony. He'd been pushing these men to experiment on their bodies. He actively was bringing in these lost boys who clearly needed a father figure and found it in Tony," Brown says. "They're on this quest of self optimization to become superhuman, but it ultimately leads to self destruction."

What does Lee say about masculinity?

"Within this influencer space, it's about the performance of masculinity. They control this one dimensional viewpoint that's very over the top because that's what drives traffic," Lee tells Rolling Stone. "What was important to us was to see if we could puncture that and better understand the difference between the performance of masculinity versus the reality behind the scenes."

Lee links the men drawn to looksmaxxing with those struggling with their mental health, and says the biggest biohackers use the pursuit of physical supremacy to cover other feelings of inadequacy.

"When you have these deeper emotional issues, they aren't going to be solved by a hit of testosterone or making [your] jawline bigger," she says. "Looksmaxxing is a direct lineage from what Tony started all those years ago. Except it's more nihilistic, because it's [saying] the consequences of the future do not matter if you can make it, be successful, be a Chad, be Alpha right now. And I think that's taken things to an even darker place than Tony would go."

What does this change for the next generation?

When Brown and Lee started the project in 2024, looksmaxxing was a niche internet subculture. In two years it became mainstream, carried by the virality of the 20-year-old looksmaxxing star Clavicular and by men like Hughes, whose teachings reached a reported 250,000 YouTube subscribers and spread well beyond them.

"Tony came up 10 years ago with this philosophy of radical transparency. He got insanely popular because he was doing things that no one else was willing to do and that formula worked," Lee says. "Connor comes up in this era and other influencers come up in this era, and they're all pushing the envelope further and further. And who's watching but the next generation?"

The practical question is what a young man does with that invitation now. The series answers the question of mechanism rather than remedy: it names the father figure, the routine and the traffic incentives, and it puts a bathroom death and a drowning on record. Whether that record slows the pipeline or becomes another piece of content Hughes sells is the question Lee and Brown leave with viewers.