Trypophobia on Tumblr - "h-holes? Now imm triggrdd u shitlord!"

Gentleburd dijo:
Aww, don't be hating on parasites. They're pretty cool once you get to know them. And they are able to make some pretty crazy stories. Like the guy who had bot flies in his head, and he could hear them scraping their teeth against his skull at night. Or the worms that live inside people's eyes, and you have to slice the eye open to get them out. Or the tapeworms that get lost and end up in your brain where they make a giant cyst and kill you.
I like creepy nature stuff like parasites.
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So you're the person that show "Monsters Inside Me" on Animal Planet is made for.
 
I can understand being scared of big holes and falling into them and shit but this is just...weird.

I mean, I'm going to assume these people claim this as a way of getting out of having to wash the dishes (or themselves) because sponges trigger them.
 
It's not exactly a real thing as in it's not a diagnosis and the name was made up by someone online. I'm sure there are people who have a genuine fear or revulsion for things like lotus pods but the moment you're asking someone to tag pizza as a trigger, you've gone into tumblr territory. I remember these try-hards screaming over Queen Chrysalis from My Little Pony
 
Count groudon dijo:
Well, technically trypophobia is defined as "the irrational fear of holes in skin" but most people use it to describe the gross feeling of seeing clusters of small holes.
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It's just an idiotic may may and nobody had this "fear" before being exposed to tumblr.

PetalPinkPuppy dijo:
It's not exactly a real thing as in it's not a diagnosis and the name was made up by someone online. I'm sure there are people who have a genuine fear or revulsion for things like lotus pods but the moment you're asking someone to tag pizza as a trigger, you've gone into tumblr territory. I remember these try-hards screaming over Queen Chrysalis from My Little Pony
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The lotus boob pic was what created this nonsense. Okay. It's kind of gross. But it's no big deal. And then pearl-clutching tumblrinas exaggerated it from there.
 
Phobias

Whoa, there are some weird-ass phobias out there. Like fear of flowers, colors, numbers, buttons, etc. (

I'm guessing at some of these are probably based on certain negative experiences -- like say, choking on a certain food might make you fear it. When I was a kid, I was phobic about vomiting after a really severe case of stomach flu.
 
Mrs Paul dijo:
Phobias

Whoa, there are some weird-ass phobias out there. Like fear of flowers, colors, numbers, buttons, etc. (

I'm guessing at some of these are probably based on certain negative experiences -- like say, choking on a certain food might make you fear it. When I was a kid, I was phobic about vomiting after a really severe case of stomach flu.
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Yeah, anything can legitimately be a phobia, just tumblr either expects everyone to cater to their every whim, says they have a phobia of something that really isn't (such as feeling uncomfortable looking at gorey images), or just flat out lie (like people saying they have a fear of being stalked or something but will happily provide information about themselves and their location online).
 
I refuse to believe this is real until I see an actual human being suffer an actual panic attack at a slice of watermelon or a picture of a fuckin' honeycomb. Even then if this person is fat/hair dyed/is wearing at-shirt with a femenist slogan I will call it pretend panic.

Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trypophobia The whole wikipedia article is best summed up as "Meh not real" Even wikipedia thinks it's fake.
 
grilledcheesesandwich dijo:
i wanna shove this kid into a locker
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Me too; I'm laughing mainly for the that that apparently the weird blank background of photoshop, visible in the parts cut out, is more triggering than the very real gross-ass skin infections on a (probably) creepy baby.
 
I like this thread, because this is something that I've tried to figure out with friends in the past. I don't think anyone I know, including myself, "have" this fear, but some of us react to "triggering" photos of it with discomfort. But not the same discomfort as a real fear like heights where your adrenaline goes ape shit and you start breathing sharply. I don't like looking at pictures of lotuses and honeycombs, but I can't tell you why. I just don't like it.

I'm eager to see what kinds of stuff you all dig up. :) Trypophobia predates Tumblr, but I'm not surprised that they've incorporated it into their garbage dump. Paging @Warden to this thread in case they have any input.
 
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I may be powerleveling here (or at least admitting to some autistic interest) but I frequent the pet site Flight Rising. Part of the mechanic of the game is introduction of patterns for the site's subject - dragons. Not too long ago a pattern set was released and the site's resident tumblrites screamed trypophobia and were collectively triggered over giraffe dragons.
 

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Kurosaki Ichigo dijo:
I may be powerleveling here (or at least admitting to some autistic interest) but I frequent the pet site Flight Rising. Part of the mechanic of the game is introduction of patterns for the site's subject - dragons. Not too long ago a pattern set was released and the site's resident tumblrites screamed trypophobia and were collectively triggered over giraffe dragons.
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This wasn't my favorite gene but now it is.

Rascal Hawk dijo:
Yeah, basically. Most sources I can find of people actually trying to figure out this thing keep going back to basic, near-instinctual aversions to this kind of thing on the basis of avoiding rot, insect or parasitic infestation, or disease.

I half-way remember some article or something about the memetic spread of trypophobia among people but damned if I can even remember where to find it. I'm half worried I imagined it.
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I think I posted it a while back on this very sub-forum. I can't find the exact one I used, but yes, a large part of it seems to come from suggestion.

Also, perhaps an aversion to poisonous and venomous animals?
 
While I can see holes in objects and foods being a ridiculous thing to be 'triggered' by, I can somewhat sympathize with, say, unnatural holes in the flesh (Like arms, legs, chest). I'd say that would possibly relate more with a skin disease fear...

I do know at least one girl in my psychology class claimed to have trypophobia, but she hardly talks about it much. I'd ask, but I'm not particularly bothered to do so.
 
Not so long ago, some purple-haired mass of poor life choices and post-adolescent acne spent 500 words chewing me out for reblogging a photo of a starry night sky without attaching a trigger warning. When I told her that maybe she ought to try her hand at some aversion therapy and go the fuck outside for once, she went ballistic and crytyped about how my inadvertently showing her a picture of stars was just as bad as tying down a rape survivor and forcing them to watch that one scene from Irreversible. Then she deleted her blog. She was 29.

And that was how I was introduced to the wonderful world of trypophobia. Don't do tumblr, kids. *sigh*
 
Super Collie dijo:
Paging @Warden to this thread in case they have any input.
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Thanks for the call!

I'm quite surprised nobody has compared the holes to WASP NESTS. With WASPS INSIDE. HELLO. Shit makes my stomach turn. I wouldn't say it's a phobia though... Might be for some people. Not fucking tumblrinas though.
 
I think a lot of these idiots are confusing being just squicked out about something with an actual phobia. I thought lotus boob was gross, but I can see it without freaking out. Heights, on the other hand -- I can't even go onto the choir loft of a church. And when we were kids, my cousin used to chase me with pictures of snakes. I remember not being able to sleep if I heard of someone I knew had the stomach flu. But just "eeew, that was gross"? That's not a phobia.
 
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