My condolences to the staff who had to put up with those pics
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Sagittarii
Grand Fox-Overlord
As I said, it's very poorly understood, with only a few studies looking into the causes. Passing it off as 'people just grossed out' is very disingenuous.
Yakamaru
Woof? Woof
I get grossed out and disgusted by spoiled milk. Does it make it a phobia?
Cerbrus
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There's nothing "Poorly understood" about it. Being grossed out by those images is perfectly normal. It's not a condition, it doesn't need a label.
Sagittarii
Grand Fox-Overlord
Well, no, because it's not innocuous. It has a smell that is unpleasantly overpowering. Trypophobia isn't to do with explicitly gory images, though. That's the point. It can be with innocuous things with neutral connotations.
Sagittarii
Grand Fox-Overlord
Ignorance at its finest. Maybe try learning more about it. Or better yet; learn what it actually is.
Cerbrus
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So tell me, what do you feel when looking at this plant?
Excessive / persistent fear? Significant distress or impairment?
Also, please don't call me ignorant for having a different opinion. That, in turn, is ignorant and rather impolite.
So tell me, what do you feel when looking at this plant?
Excessive / persistent fear? Significant distress or impairment?
What would that prove aside from simply two people (me included) not feeling any of this?
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I have a fear of people fearing other people fearing things.
SarcasticSpook
Local ghost
I find the whole debate on trypophobia a little.. odd
Literally anyone can have a fear of anything and a fear of clusters of holes is certainly not something off the wall to consider. I actually knew a girl in my high school who would actually get really bad anxiety attacks whenever she saw things like honeycombs and stuff like that. There's even reports of people having said fear when they were a child and dating back before the whole 'online assumption'. I think it's just because there wasn't much notice of it that it hasn't been recorded nor any sort of research done properly on it.
Saying trypophobia is an absurd and irrational fear/doesn't exist is like saying people who have hylophobia or turophobia isn't a fear at all either.
but that's just my two cents
Literally anyone can have a fear of anything and a fear of clusters of holes is certainly not something off the wall to consider. I actually knew a girl in my high school who would actually get really bad anxiety attacks whenever she saw things like honeycombs and stuff like that. There's even reports of people having said fear when they were a child and dating back before the whole 'online assumption'. I think it's just because there wasn't much notice of it that it hasn't been recorded nor any sort of research done properly on it.
Saying trypophobia is an absurd and irrational fear/doesn't exist is like saying people who have hylophobia or turophobia isn't a fear at all either.
but that's just my two cents
Cerbrus
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My point is that the proposed phobia means that people experience actual physical distress from seeing images like that.
And that's the phobia that isn't officially recognized. That's the whole point. It's just a silly hype.
I'm not saying people can't feel uncomfortable seeing certain things. It's just not a phobia.
Crimcyan
Chum bucket with the u
Can I eat it tho?So tell me, what do you feel when looking at this plant?
Excessive / persistent fear? Significant distress or impairment
...What I'm hungry
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Amiir
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Soooo basically this whole thing is over nothing? Like holy shit I was expecting IRL pedo stuff or gore seeing the way people were talking about it, but nah it was just a bunch of fake photoshopped images instead lol. Doesn't sound like something breaking site rules either
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Unless that stuff was uploaded in a ''spamful'' manner, ofc
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Unless that stuff was uploaded in a ''spamful'' manner, ofc
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Sagittarii
Grand Fox-Overlord
Not sure where you got that from; some of the images were fake, yes. Quite a few were real. Pictures of maggot infested wounds, and pictures of a dead fox with its entrails open to the air on the ground. All spammed over an hour period.
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Amiir
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midnightsparky
/̵͇̿̿/’̿̿ ̿ ̿̿ Protect your nutz
Learn something new every day... never heard that term before. Clusters of holes don't bother me (such as that plant, honeycombs, rotten fruits w/insects... stuff like that). Holes/seriously infection sites on animals caused by parasitic insects do though. When I first saw those on the main page I was like WTF lol. PS or not, the images I saw I deffo couldn't care less to never see again.
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BahgDaddy
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Glad I missed that.
Kit H. Ruppell
Exterminieren! Exterminieren!
It’s a lotus pod. What about it? You want something to freak out about, research the botfly and chigoe flea.So tell me, what do you feel when looking at this plant?
Excessive / persistent fear? Significant distress or impairment?
Also, please don't call me ignorant for having a different opinion. That, in turn, is ignorant and rather impolite.
Cerbrus
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It's perfectly normal to find images of that disgusting. That's my point. Not a phobia.
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Amiir
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This incident in a nutshell:
quoting_mungo
Well-Known Member
Not all staff members can halt uploads.
Not really, no. While there will always be edge cases requiring some discretion, those cases are a tiny minority of removals. A staff member who removes content because they have personal objections to it would not last long.
PerrMea
I'm most likely sleeping somewhere soft.
Thank God I didn't have to see that that is the only phobia I have I am so sorry for you guys!
PerrMea
I'm most likely sleeping somewhere soft.
Why oh god why! * hides head under wings*
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