Our Gross Guilty Pleasure
Waking up to find an angry red pimple on our face that makes us look like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer isn’t our favorite way to start the day. Even worse are the fleshy comedones that don’t go away, the deep-rooted blackheads, and painful cysts. Skin problems suck…unless they’re someone else’s!
It’s not that we wish terrible skin on other people; there’s just something satisfying about watching an unnaturally long blackhead snake out of a plugged pore. Psychologists say the gross-out videos can induce a dopamine rush when we see someone else’s pimples pop because we’re always warned against poking at our own.