How one woman found an unlikely support network in the pimple popping community

Popular as they are, a pimple popping platform is probably the last place you’d expect to find a support network. But a shared love of the strange hobby brought a community of people together to support a fellow popper through her months-long wound recovery. 

r/popping, a subreddit for “pictures and videos about cysts and pimples,” has 144,000 faithful zit popping enthusiasts. And it’s where one Redditor — who asked to be referred to by her username, Slamhood, for this piece — found the community she needed while recovering from a horrible bone infection. Read more…

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