I am breaking my tradition of only posting one article on the weekends……. but this one is too disgusting to pass up….
As usual the weekend brings my granddaughter to the house where we talk, discuss and play games…..she is a sharp 12 year old….she is working on a game and is always surfing the ‘net looking for ideas…..
I have a reader of IST that truly hates anything internet……I can understand some of the disgust…like the cinnamon challenge from a year ago….it is where you try to eat a tablespoon of cinnamon and film the results….or there are some places where you can watch others play video games…..but she found on that even I went….WTF?
Warning: This story is not for the squeamish. We mean it. New York Magazine has a fascinating—if occasionally far too descriptive—profile on Dr. Sandra Lee, better known among so-called “popaholics” on the Internet as Dr. Pimple Popper. Lee, an otherwise typical Southern California dermatologist, accidentally stumbled upon a culture of people who enjoy watching pimples, blackheads, and other fluid-filled things pop when she started an Instagram account two years ago. Now, thanks to her dedicated popaholics, she’s topping 900,000 followers on Instagram and 850,000 subscribers on YouTube. Lee says her viewers get satisfaction out of the unpredictable payoff of a good pop. “It’s like gambling,” she says. “You never know when you’re going to hit a big one.”
So what compels nearly 7 million people to watch Lee remove a whole mess of blackheads from an 80-year-old man’s nose? “Some fans reported that their mouths inexplicably watered when they saw a particularly juicy pop; others claimed that they found the videos so soothing that they used them as a sleep aid,” New York Magazine explains. Whatever the reasons, it’s become a lucrative side gig for Lee. She’s selling Dr. Pimple Popper merchandise and could potentially make hundreds of thousands off her YouTube page this year. Lee is even starting to cater to the “hardcore” popaholics, moving beyond pimples to “cysts, abscesses, and fatty tumors.” Though there is one part of the extraction experience she’ll never be able to replicate for them: the “pungent cheese” smell. Read the full story here, if your stomach can handle it.
Okay I see where my reader gets his disdain…..and just how damn pathetic is it that it is something people want to view…..
Even my 12 year old granddaughter thinks is beyond the pale……
While not one of those who find popping pimples exciting, I have known several people who do, so, it isn’t surprising to me, statistically. If I know two or three people like that, then multiply it times the seven billion folks hanging onto the surface here, nearly a hundred thousand on Instagram isn’t too hard to visualize. What’s hard for me to visualize is the degree of aberration SOMEWHERE in the human psyche that causes such weird shit to pop up in our behavior; we are some vicious, weird buggers, that is for sure and for certain…. Homo Schizoidus, that’s us….
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gigoid, the dubious
All I could say along with my granddaughter was…EEEEwwwwwww! chuq
It’s a real thing. A person can get a feeling of relief to be rid of a pimple — it’s something I got over as a kid, but it was real. Having that feeling of relief transferred to a third party is weird though. I had a friend, a veterinary dermatologist, who claimed to enjoy popping pimples on animals. Was one of the most “normal” people you’d meet. We’re a crazy species.
Crazy? That is being polite….lol chuq
Once again, Interwebs shows it’s true colours! Millions of people have nothing better to do with their “lives” than watch other people pop their zits? Not only that…these wastes of human flesh are buying merchandise????
To whoever becomes President in 2016, point the missiles straight up and press the Red Button.
I sure they have have more disgusting stuff…but I cannot think of what it would be….and I will never try to find out either….
The Wep-pipes are a bottomless pit from which there is no escape..
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O my Gawd….takes me back to puberty. I did feel relief when I popped one on me but yikes to watch seems very creepy! Tell your G.daughter that beyond the pale hardly covers it. xxx ooo
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She thanx you for that….creepy is polite…LOL chuq
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