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Trypophobia. I won't link to Wikipedia, if such a thing bothers you I'm not going to try to trigger it.

OGWhales 4y ago
There is also a subreddit dedicated to that phobia, I don’t believe I have it but some of the pictures there definitely give me the willies.
- abricot 4y ago
  Fair warning: The subreddit is focused on _triggering_ the phobia.
  - sph 4y ago
    It takes a particular type of masochist to have tropophobic tendencies and being subscribed to that subreddit.
    - vanattab 4y ago
      No more then when people get kicks from horror movies no?
    - kroltan 4y ago
      Exposure therapy?
weird-eye-issue 4y ago
I didn't have trypophobia but after looking at Google Images I think I do now I'll be looking at lotus seeds differently now
aesyondu 4y ago
I'm not sure if I have it, but when I searched for image examples it looked extremely gross to me. EDIT: I seriously regret searching it now. Please don't while you still can. It is absolutely grotesque.
- jointpdf 4y ago
  > Please don’t while you still can. Counterpoint: you (reader) should give in to that gnawing feeling of curiosity. One little peek never hurt anyone. (Really, it’s not that bad.)
- makach 4y ago
  I searched it, and, for me it was interesting and I became curious. Some pictures were obviously doctored and made to make you feel something, others, were just.. interesting.
- iSnow 4y ago
  Not everyone is triggered by those pictures, to me they don't look gross at all. I can scroll through pics of lotus seed pods all day.
  - bamboozled 4y ago
    What’s weird is the images in the article freaked me out. The Google search images did nothing for me. Maybe I was just primed / warned ?
    - JackGreyhat 4y ago
      It's the hands...it's all you get to see with duckduckgo. The hands are nasty...
  - steve_adams_86 4y ago
    I can put myself in the headspace of finding it creepy, but by default it just looks like stuff to me. Regular objects. In the case of honeycomb it can actually look beautiful, though.
- nkrisc 4y ago
  I don’t get what the big deal is. Most of it was just some fake images of holes in hands and stuff? And the seed pod is scary for some reason?
spaceman_2020 4y ago
Okay, the lotus seed pictures did nothing to me, but Google Images is filled with far more disgusting images. Stay away!
- jsjohnst 4y ago
  > Okay, the lotus seed pictures did nothing to me, but Google Images is filled with far more disgusting images. Same! Why does body mutilation imagery like that rank so high for that search term? Ugh!
noduerme 4y ago
Fascinating. I'd never heard of trypophobia before reading this post this morning... right after which I walked into an art exhibit and saw this amazing painting by Alfredo Arreguín... https://ibb.co/GQrrxNY https://ibb.co/GQrrxNY

There is also a subreddit dedicated to that phobia, I don’t believe I have it but some of the pictures there definitely give me the willies.

abricot 4y ago
Fair warning: The subreddit is focused on _triggering_ the phobia.
- sph 4y ago
  It takes a particular type of masochist to have tropophobic tendencies and being subscribed to that subreddit.
  - vanattab 4y ago
    No more then when people get kicks from horror movies no?
  - kroltan 4y ago
    Exposure therapy?

weird-eye-issue 4y ago

I didn't have trypophobia but after looking at Google Images I think I do now I'll be looking at lotus seeds differently now

aesyondu 4y ago

I'm not sure if I have it, but when I searched for image examples it looked extremely gross to me. EDIT: I seriously regret searching it now. Please don't while you still can. It is absolutely grotesque.

jointpdf 4y ago
> Please don’t while you still can. Counterpoint: you (reader) should give in to that gnawing feeling of curiosity. One little peek never hurt anyone. (Really, it’s not that bad.)
makach 4y ago
I searched it, and, for me it was interesting and I became curious. Some pictures were obviously doctored and made to make you feel something, others, were just.. interesting.
iSnow 4y ago
Not everyone is triggered by those pictures, to me they don't look gross at all. I can scroll through pics of lotus seed pods all day.
- bamboozled 4y ago
  What’s weird is the images in the article freaked me out. The Google search images did nothing for me. Maybe I was just primed / warned ?
  - JackGreyhat 4y ago
    It's the hands...it's all you get to see with duckduckgo. The hands are nasty...
- steve_adams_86 4y ago
  I can put myself in the headspace of finding it creepy, but by default it just looks like stuff to me. Regular objects. In the case of honeycomb it can actually look beautiful, though.
nkrisc 4y ago
I don’t get what the big deal is. Most of it was just some fake images of holes in hands and stuff? And the seed pod is scary for some reason?

spaceman_2020 4y ago

Okay, the lotus seed pictures did nothing to me, but Google Images is filled with far more disgusting images. Stay away!

jsjohnst 4y ago
> Okay, the lotus seed pictures did nothing to me, but Google Images is filled with far more disgusting images. Same! Why does body mutilation imagery like that rank so high for that search term? Ugh!

noduerme 4y ago

Fascinating. I'd never heard of trypophobia before reading this post this morning... right after which I walked into an art exhibit and saw this amazing painting by Alfredo Arreguín... https://ibb.co/GQrrxNY https://ibb.co/GQrrxNY