With thousands of disturbing pictures circling online, disgust culture has been captivating netizens for quite some time. While it might seem like a strange behavior that the human species exhibits, scientists have found that this emotion has evolved to seize our attention. Some might even find it pleasant due to our tendency to seek out negative experiences without facing real danger.

Such enthusiasts might find the “Make Me Suffer” online community just the right place for them. From “minor” injuries to black widow bites, it contains posts that may disturb you for a while but won’t cause any physical harm. Scroll down to feel a little thrill; after all, the benefits of adrenaline can be surprisingly positive.

#1 Went 20 Years Without Brushing Teeth

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#2 I’ve Had Worse Dates

A friend of mine sent me this. This is her dates house.

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#3 Suddenly My Life Isn’t So Bad

A diagram of how John Jones was stuck for 27 hours in a cave before passing away

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Once we become aware of disgust, it suddenly becomes all around us. Like finding roadkill on your daily job commute or shivering at the sight of cockroaches running on subway tracks. At work, you may feel repulsed by the smell of fish someone heated up in the breakroom.

At home, you wash dishes that have been sitting in the sink for far too long and throw out moldy food that’s been in the fridge for weeks. It’s very unlikely that our days go by without experiencing even a smidge of this seemingly unpleasant feeling.

#4 Dislocated My Ankle At A Trampoline Park (18m)

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#5 Ten Years Ago Today I Got A Pencil Stuck In My Foot

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#6 My Brother’s Toe Nail He Refuses To Care For. Total Pork Rind

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Psychologists who study disgust explain that it’s one of the six basic emotions that define and explain humanity. It shapes our behavior, etiquette, new technology, and even relationships. The feeling is responsible for us wearing deodorant and perfume, inventing a knife and fork, and even starting a viral TikTok trend that points out our partner’s “icks.”

#7 About 8 Years Ago On Halloween I Went To Clean My Face And Grabbed What I Thought Was A Clump Of Makeup In My Eyelash And Pulled….. Yeah, It Was My Artificial Tear Duct

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#8 I Turned Away For Maybe Two Minutes And A Fly Laid Eggs On My Pizza

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#9 Black Widow Bite

Black widow got me on the back of my right knee while I was sleeping

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Darwin initiated disgust studies when he described an encounter in “The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals” with a “savage” who poked the cold, preserved meat he was eating, showing “utter disgust at its softness.” In return, he was repulsed by a stranger sticking his fingers in his food.

#10 I’m Not Kink Shaming But

Thought you guys might appreciate my tampon string collection

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#11 You Know How Women Just Back Up To The Toilet And Sit Down? I’m So Glad I Looked

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#12 Was Eating Fried Rice And I Bit Into A F*cking Cockroach

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Following this, one of the most important works on this paradox was Aurel Kolnai’s, who pointed out that it often holds “curious enticement.” He assigned smell, taste, sight, and touch as the senses through which this feeling enters our system and pointed out hearing as a weak transmitter of disgust.

#13 When They Move Out But Don’t Clean Their Fridge

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#14 My Buddy Has Trenchfoot

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#15 New Car Guys What You Think?

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Andras Angyal argued that it extends beyond the senses and includes the associations we attribute to them. He illustrated his statement by referring to a time he was walking through a field and smelt the pungent, decaying smell of an animal. The moment he realized it was only glue he found the odor “quite agreeable.”

#16 Just Had This Popped At The Hospital!

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#17 I Didn’t Know I Was Supposed To Take Apart My Foot Scrubber And Clean It. I Wondered Why It Smelled Like Death

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#18 My Ankles After Dancing A 12 Hour Shift At The Club

To add, after my shift was over and the club was closing, I fell down at the DJ booth when my ankle gave out and scraped my shin on the stairs. This was working from 2pm-2am. It was about 4am by the time I got home. Taking my boots off at the end of the night was so lovely

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Paul Rozin continued the studies and coined the term “benign masochism,” which describes “enjoying initially negative experiences that the body (brain) falsely interprets as threatening.” That’s why some people are captivated by horror movies, spicy food, bungee jumping, and cursed or disturbing photos online. They put themselves in situations that cause fear, pain, or disgust without posing any tangible threat.

#19 I Think I Removed Some Brain Matter When I Took Out My AirPods

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#20 Very Bad Inflammation After Tooth Extraction

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#21 Went Surf Fishing And Served Up A Giant Meal To The Mosquitos

I sprayed my arms, legs, and back of my neck. Apparently they were able to get through my shirt as I was leaving forward in a chair

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His famous tragedy “Titus Andronicus” contains, as some might say, as much gore as our current slasher movies. Professor of English and Art History, Clark Hulse, estimated “14 killings, 9 of them on stage, 6 severed members, 1 sexual abuse (or 2 or 3, depending on how you count), 1 live burial, 1 case of insanity, and 1 of cannibalism—an average of 5.2 atrocities per act, or one for every 97 lines.”

#22 I Went To A Spam Themed Birthday Party, Complete With A Spam Cake

Icing is garlic mashed potatoes, “cake” is spam slices with cranberry filling, all topped with a “spamera” for the birthday boy. 9/10 would recommend

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#23 Til Urethral Sounding Is A Thing People Do

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#24 Ball Of Dead Skin

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During that period, people were quite desensitized to such spectacles, gathering to view public executions where criminals were left to hang on chains so the public could see them for an extended amount of time. They would also watch doctors perform autopsies in open anatomy theaters, while pharmacists displayed human body parts before mixing them into medicine, a practice called “medicinal cannibalism.”

#25 My Daughter Deserved A Donut For Being A Good Listener And Received A Punishment Instead (A Bug Donut). Thanks Krispy Kreme!

My poor 3yr old daughter, finished her donut and didn’t tell me until after she was done eating almost all of it that there’s a fuckin bug in her donut on the last bite.. How disgusting, thanks krispy!

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#26 My Brother Pulled This Out Of His Belly Button

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#27 My Ear Just Pooped Out This Juicy Nugget

This one almost came out a week ago but decided to head back in to bake a little longer. Felt a sharp pain in my ear, scratched, and felt it rattling around right at the entrance. Got it the rest of the way with some tweezers

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Back then, as now, disgusting things kept our attention and could even provide us with enjoyment. The play “Titus Andronicus” is one example of how people living in the Elizabethan era were encouraged to view repulsing objects even though they might have wanted to look away. But the public watching Shakespeare’s plays voluntarily learned to embrace the disturbing nature of it, just like the modern individuals who view revolting images online or wait for the latest “Scream” movie to premiere.

#28 Accidentally Dropped A Fork And Stepped On It

Has since been removed, and recovered well. No serious damage was done (very luckily) despite being nearly 3cm deep in my foot

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#29 Psoriasis Sucks. ~97% In October Of 2022, Just Before Starting Humira

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#30 Play Bass They Said. It’s Cool

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#31 My Grandmother’s Fryer

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#32 My Broken Wrist(Needed Surgery)

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#33 My (Dishwasher) Coworkers Cup He Uses To Drink Water All Day Every Day

I don’t think he’s ever washed it once in his life

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#34 This Stuff Has Just Got Out Of The Box Of Juice I’ve Been Drinking Since Yesterday. Am I Screwed?

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#35 Just Pulled This Out Of My Patient’s Ear

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#36 Huge Ring Worm Infection

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#37 Tasty Cystic Flavor

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#38 My Xray After Breaking My Back

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#39 I’m Getting My Wife A New Comb For Christmas

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#40 I Have Moderate-Severe Scalp Psoriasis And Have To Scrape My Scalp Several Times A Week. This Is The Result Of A Single Session After Having Already Done It A Few Days Prior. (Penny For Scale)

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#41 Fridge At A Jobsite

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#42 My Sons Baby Tooth Won’t Fall Out. Dentist Won’t Remove It

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#43 This Was Stuck Up My Nose For 12 Hours Until I Blew It Out At 5am

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#44 Moth In Hair After Not Washing It For 3 Months

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#45 The Urinal Divider In My Work Bathroom Is Rusting Away From Decades Of Piss Splashing/Bad Aim

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#46 Everytime I Wear My Shoes This Happens (Pretty Sure It’s Dead Skin Cells)

It coats my shoes and smell

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#47 My Tooth Has Long Roots

I originally posted my #18 molar a year ago but the subreddit has been removed. Short story is every time I’ve ever went to the dentist they always tell me I have “long roots” so I asked the dentist if I could see have it after it was removed because of an abscess

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#48 Broke My Arm A Couple Of Years Ago And This Is How It Healed

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#49 This *used* To Be Water

I can’t remember the last time I even saw this bottle lmao

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#50 Found This On Twitter

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#51 My Toes After Running A 50k

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#52 Reusing Listerine

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#53 Severe Scalp Plaque Psoriasis

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#54 Delicious School Burger

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#55 Doesn’t Necessarily Hit Home As Some Other Posts But I Am Very Much Suffering

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#56 Kitchen Hell

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#57 Eye Really Need A Doctor

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#58 Got A Bug In My Eye.. Hours Ago

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#59 Got My Toe Amputated

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#60 My Sister Microwaves Bananas

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#61 Tower Made From Chewing Tobacco Spit And Cigarette Butts. Please Excuse Me While I Toss Myself From The Nearest Balcony

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#62 Let Me Introduce To You: My Wrist After Wearing Any Watch

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#63 Who Does This

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#64 Stink Jar

I’ve collected everything from poop to pieces of roadkill to expired food and put it in this jar I let sit for almost 7 years to see what would happen i call it my stink jar I need a science person to mail a sample to see if they’re is anything interesting going on out of curiosity

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#65 Spend 3h Killing 200+ Worms That Spawned In My Apartment Literally Out Of Nowhere, I Still Don’t Feel Safe Here

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#66 Found On Fb. I Can’t Stop Gagging

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#67 Check Your Shoes

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#68 My Garlic Powder Jar This Morning

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#69 Can Somebody Tell Me What Exactly Is Up With My Foot? How Can I Fix This?

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#70 Ate Part Of This Today And Didn’t Realize It Was Moldy

This is a tuna sandwich FYI… I bought it at my college. I threw up after this

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#71 Came From My Belly Button Send Help

Royal jelly. Lots more where this came from

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#72 Doctor Subreddit Didn’t Reply Lol, I Need Help For The Love Of God There Is Something Wrong With My Foot

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#73 At A Friends House

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#74 Intentional Or Idiocy?

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#75 My Finger Got Caught In An Hydraulic Press At Work. No Idea How I Still Have A Finger. Nothing Broken, Just Sh*tty To Look At And Hurts Like Hell

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#76 Foot After 4 Days Of Military Training

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#77 I Was Bitten By Something While I Was Sleeping Over A Month Ago

I live in the UK, I’m not sure what it could have been

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#78 My Acne Starts Breaking Out Again, Here’s Some Of The Whiteheads

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#79 A Friend Had A Molar Removed. This Was Stuck In His Gum For Nearly 3 Weeks

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#80 Tonsil Stone That’s Been Stuck For Weeks, Finally Got It Out

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#81 Less Than One Second Of Boiling Water – Felt Zero Pain Because It Happened So Fast

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#82 Dropped A Weight On My Fungus Toe At The Gym

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#83 Found The Fruit Fly Problem. In A Bottle Of Vinegar

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#84 I Get Dandruff On My Arms And This Is How It Decided To Form Today

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#85 My Dad Said His Back Was Hurting

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#86 Girlfriend Dug This Out From A Lump On Her Arm

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#87 My Face After God Knows What

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#88 This Thing My Sister Has On Her Sole. No Doctor Could Tell Her What This Is And Where It Came From. Still Waiting For Diagnosis

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#89 Bin Juice Stalactites

Lucky me gets to weld under this oil tank in a garbage truck, yay….

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#90 This Just Developed On My Back Anyone Know What It Is??

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#91 Needle Got Stuck In My Stomach, Nurse Said In All Her Years She Hasn’t Seen This Happen Before

Picture taken by my mom, who had to pull it out because I was hysterical

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#92 What The Hell Was In This Chicken Breast

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#93 There’s A Maggot Inside My Earphone. I Have No Ideia How It Ended Up There. I’m Afraid There Might Be More. Help

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#94 Grain Of Rice Lodged In My Fresh Wisdom Tooth Hole

Got it Removed two days ago, I wonder if the wound will close over the grain.

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