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My earphones' cable has grown a pimple. It popped today. (i.imgur.com)

submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by [email protected] to c/mildlyinteresting

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Image on left is from 4 days ago, but the pimple was slowly forming over around 2 weeks.

The goop was sticky, not oily. Earphones are Panasonic RP-TCM130.

I was not able to find an explanation.
Something to increase cable lifespan, lubrication, rubber disintegrating, sweat and earwax that somehow got into the cable, dielectric grease, SCP-1407, no clear answer.

At first I thought the wires just somehow twisted. Nope.

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[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds 30 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Secure Contain Protect

SCP is a collaborative wiki fiction edited and written by lots of people for years now. It started as kind of a novelty, a fake wiki of heavily redacted files relating to an organization's attempts to contain cryptids and various weird things. Its evolved over time and has numerous narrative arcs etc now.

[–] Lost_My_Mind 30 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Is......is this what you guys were doing during covid quarantine? I just....played animal crossing.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 4 months ago (1 children)

The SCP Wiki is over 16 years old now!

[–] Dkarma 5 points 4 months ago

I made shit up 16 years ago too! Everyone did

[–] [email protected] 16 points 4 months ago

It’s actually a pretty old Internet Internet project!