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beejium ([info]beejium) wrote in [info]otf_wank,
@ 2008-11-24 01:07:00


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Entry tags:god people just stop typing!, no no no, otf can ruin anything, stop sharing your thoughts, tmi in comments, what no lotus boobie train?

The Lotus Boob! It does haunt my dreams!
Over at PostSecret, Frank posts a postcard from someone containing a photo of the "Lotus Boob." (For those who aren't in the know, it's a picture of a breast that was clearly photoshopped together with a lotus flower and passed around the 'net as some sort of new horrible disease. Denounced by Snopes in 19-diggity-2.)

Whingeing follows immediately. (See Frank's email picks near and around the offending secret.) Hilarious quote from front page:

"This picture has destroyed my day and will haunt me for months if not years. My hair is standing on end and I haven't been able to stop shivering. I can't concentrate on anything now, my mind always returns to that horrific image.

I am saddened that I can no longer view postsecret, but I am too worried about being assailed with another photo that will severely harm my psyche."


Hordes of young girls are scarred for life and "kept up half the night shivering!" A thread is started on PostSecret Chat to determine whether the secret should be taken down.

Some (read: most) dissenters claim that taking down secrets would completely ruin the spirit of PostSecret, and that there have been secrets that have been far more disturbing, like ones about rape and abuse. But it's a boob! With stuff in it! And now they'll never sleep again, and probably die and I HOPE YOU'RE HAPPY, POSTSECRET.

Ahem... 101 pages of flouncing and crying in less than a day, and all I really have to say is, if your constitution is too weak to handle a little lotus boob, you may want to reconsider this whole "internet" thing.

ETA: Bonus LOL: The random-lettered link to the secret includes the phrase "AAAAAAAAH."




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[info]mad_teacup
2008-11-24 07:40 pm UTC (link)
Oh goooood aksjdla after seeing that on 4chan months and months ago I was off for a whole handful of days arrgghhhh oh man, oh man need brain bleach...

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[info]hristaesir
2008-11-24 07:50 pm UTC (link)
I'm really good at avoiding stuff that squicks me on the internet, so having a squicky photo on postsecret was kind of AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH. And for some reason lotus boob is one of my squickiest squicks.

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[info]lykomancer
2008-11-24 08:17 pm UTC (link)
Amazingly, it took me several moments to even SEE a boob there. I kept seeing, like, a fat man's wobbly beer gut with lotus seeds in it. And the areole was a rash to me-- like, a PS'd rash to make the "disease" look worse.

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iwanttobeasleep
2008-11-24 09:41 pm UTC (link)
Now, this sounds like an awesome opportunity. Quick, guys, think of secrets to go with goatse and tubgirl!

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[info]keleri
2008-11-24 10:16 pm UTC (link)
Meatspin! You spin me right round baby, right round...

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(no subject) - [info]annabelle_lee, 2008-11-25 01:07 am UTC

[info]mcity
2008-11-24 10:26 pm UTC (link)
"This picture has destroyed my day and will haunt me for months if not years. My hair is standing on end and I haven't been able to stop shivering. I can't concentrate on anything now, my mind always returns to that horrific image.
They say the lotusboob ended when I closed the window, that it was over. It'll never be over, no matter how far I am from that jungle, that thick wetness, that smell. I've seen horrors...horrors you've never seen. Horror has a face. Horror and lotusboob are your friends. If they are not, then they are enemies to be feared.

Sadly, I'm only slightly exagerrating. Yes, I know it's Shooped. Doesn't help.

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[info]heartsalliance
2008-11-24 10:36 pm UTC (link)
Lotus Boob is pretty traumatizing, I had to look up videos of people removing Bot flies to make me feel better.

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[info]tachikoma01
2008-11-24 11:14 pm UTC (link)
Did you hear that radio lab program about the guy with the bot fly infection in his head who was like "I kind of like it, it's like part of me" and refused to get rid of it until it burst out.

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(no subject) - [info]heartsalliance, 2008-11-24 11:42 pm UTC
(no subject) - [info]singe, 2008-11-26 05:23 am UTC

[info]florence_craye
2008-11-24 10:51 pm UTC (link)
But lotus pods are so great for drawing in still life! Don't hate on the lotus.

This squicked me a bit, but in the end it is more funny than creepy.

That said, I hope I never see it again. lol

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[info]erinny
2008-11-24 10:57 pm UTC (link)
Oh man, I'm so relieved to know I'm not the only one who was totally squicked when I saw that picture on PostSecret yesterday. I felt nauseous for the rest of the day. Although not nauseous enough to gorge myself on curly fries with olive oil and salt later on, I suppose.

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(no subject) - [info]rachelmap, 2008-11-24 11:29 pm UTC

[info]manny_fish
2008-11-25 01:50 am UTC (link)
I'm too chicken to click the links, since everyone is squicked, but I'll just say: yes, phobias are srs, but these guys are just overreacting. A lot. And if you see something you don't like, just look at some porn for awhile until the evil image goes away.

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(no subject) - [info]aristaea, 2008-11-25 11:12 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]manny_fish, 2008-11-26 02:12 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]lots42, 2008-11-26 09:58 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]erototoxin, 2008-11-27 08:06 am UTC

[info]gaminette
2008-11-25 02:47 am UTC (link)
No joke - I was at the NY Botanical Garden a couple of weeks ago and there were end of the season lotuses (loti?) floating in this little koi pond. The empty lotuses reminded me of Lotus Boob and I had to look away. Har har!

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[info]pipssister
2008-11-25 03:15 am UTC (link)
When I first saw lotus boob, I was checking my boobs to see if they were still there for weeks and I've been occasionally clutching them out of fear while reading these comments. @_@

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(no subject) - [info]mad_teacup, 2008-11-25 05:09 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]wook77, 2008-11-25 07:51 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]imp, 2008-11-25 09:11 am UTC
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(no subject) - [info]mir8lle, 2008-11-25 10:10 pm UTC

[info]bienegold
2008-11-25 04:25 am UTC (link)
You know, I was expecting to be squicked, but I was underwhelmed. Yay, I guess?

I guess I just got into a goatse-level mindset.

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(no subject) - [info]ghostmaster, 2008-11-25 09:07 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]imp, 2008-11-25 09:12 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]manny_fish, 2008-11-26 02:16 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]cazrolime, 2008-11-26 03:29 am UTC
(no subject) - [info]singe, 2008-11-26 05:25 am UTC
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[info]thoms
2008-11-25 06:57 am UTC (link)
WHY do I always click?! WHY.

*cries*

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[info]insanityprelude
2008-11-25 08:34 am UTC (link)
That image seriously freaked me out the first time I saw it.

But now?

I'm just looking at it like "Okay, that's gross, but it's not going to haunt my dreams."

... I'm wondering when this changed.

Edit: And then I click the Snopes link and it becomes OHMYGODWHY all over again. I think it's having it in the context of "dude. They're bugs. In your boobies. And (according to the person passing this email on) IT COULD HAPPEN TO YOU!" that squicks me, more than the image itself.

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[info]metropolis22786
2008-11-25 10:18 am UTC (link)
Honestly?

I freaked the first time I saw it. That was during my formative teenage years when the Internet was still shiny and new and I was bisexual undecided.

I blame that picture for turning me gay =D

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[info]also_not_a_pipe
2008-11-25 10:34 am UTC (link)
Quick! Everyone round up your lotusses and older copies of Stephen King's "Night Shift" short story collection, and, and woodpeckers, and um, pomegranates or something, I don't know, so that we can have a cleansing bonfire to rid the world of the taint of Lotusboob! Weird arrangements of little holes must not be allowed to stand!

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(no subject) - [info]kookaburra, 2008-11-25 04:30 pm UTC

[info]also_not_a_pipe
2008-11-25 07:18 pm UTC (link)
*sporfle*

Has anyone else looked at the actual postcard in the link? It's lolarious! It's not just Lotusboob, it's Lotusboob on paper that almost looks like felt. In red accented with green leaves. It looks like a Christmas project a really, really demented little kid whose parents let it spend too much time on the Internets would make in kindergarten.

Or tropical, maybe. The Lotusboob fern in full bloom, very rare.

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[info]cazrolime
2008-11-26 03:26 am UTC (link)
Sorry, I'm going to be one of the people going EW EW EW EW EW EW EW EW at that picture. Because now I can imagine it and it huuuurts. D:

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[info]lamperouge
2008-11-26 03:42 am UTC (link)
EWWWWWWWW. DX GOD WHY.

Actual lotus pods don't bother me for some reason; their insides remind me of grapes. But ewww lotus boobs. I expected boobs in the shape of lotus petals.

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(no subject) - [info]wallflower, 2008-11-26 08:19 am UTC

[info]singe
2008-11-26 05:30 am UTC (link)
Not clicking but I now have psychosomatic pain in my ta-tas. Why did I read all this before bed?

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[info]lots42
2008-11-26 09:56 am UTC (link)
Postsecret-style communities do disturb me on many levels. So I read every post...I mean I stay away from them. Logic; I has it!

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[info]southerngaelic
2008-11-27 09:15 pm UTC (link)
Nope. Not gonna do it.

*sits on hands and doesn't click*

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[info]floriatosca
2008-12-01 09:32 am UTC (link)
For some reason, I was expecting some visual merger of breasts with lotus *flowers*, and wondering how that could possibly be squicky when it sounded rather pretty in a bizarre sort of way. Damn my curiosity!

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