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Is there a name for this feeling of wanting to know more, even knowing that you will be horrified regardless of the answer? Morbid curiosity seems insufficient.
by 3eb7988a1663 2y ago
Is there a name for this feeling of wanting to know more, even knowing that you will be horrified regardless of the answer? Morbid curiosity seems insufficient.
Like, is there a subreddit dedicated to people drinking their own urine? Was that guy a one-off? I am choosing to remain ignorant, but it is taking some self-control to not dig deeper.
- ChrisMarshallNY 2y agoThere were worse, in the days of UseNet. It was bad. Don’t believe the old men that tell you it was gentler and kinder, “back when.” That’s where I cut my troll teeth, and miss it like I miss a boil on my behind.
- gosub100 2y agothere probably is such a subreddit (likely a fetish), but just like a lot of viral posts, there's no proof that the thing actually happened, but there is a market for making viral posts. It makes people feel popular, and high-karma accounts can be sold to advertisers and political groups who manipulate social media.
- mk12 2y agoYeah I think it's a copypasta. I've seen it elsewhere with the details slightly different.
- card_zero 2y agoIt is/was a health fad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine_therapy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine_therapy I thought it went out of fashion in the 90s when they figured out it damages your kidneys, but I may have misremembered that.