Navel stones to ingrown toenails: Can you handle YouTube's grossest videos?

Do you dare?
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Brian Koerber
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Disclaimer: Nothing in this post should be interpreted as medical advice, or should inspire you to pull anything out of your body. Go to a doctor, OK? Also, this post is graphic, and some readers may find these images disturbing.

YouTube trends continue to gross us out while simultaneously satisfying our oddest urges.

Pimple popping videos went from a deep, dark corner of YouTube to a widely accepted guilty pleasure thanks to the popularity of Dr. Pimple Popper. And while we secretly love watching a big, old blackhead finally see the light of day, the human body has so many other disgusting excretions and growths to offer.

Ingrown hairs

Let's start slow. If you're accustomed to pimple popping videos, ingrown hairs are pretty similar -- and something most people have probably experienced.

While hairs typically grow up and out of your body, sometimes they can curl around and grow back into the skin. But just because it's under the skin, the follicle does not stop growing, which can create a painful infection.

However, extracting these bad boys can be incredibly satisfying, and the bigger, thicker, and longer the hair, the better.

While there are plenty of these extraction videos, this one from 2012 with over 39 million views is the holy grail:

And here's another for good measure:

Naval stones

Let's move on to bellybuttons! Turns out, if you don't practice good hygiene and have a very deep naval, oil, dirt, and dead skin cells can form omphaloliths inside your bellybutton, but usually they're just referred to as naval stones.

As you probably guessed, removing naval stones is well, just watch:

Salivary stones

Looking for something even weirder? Let me introduce you to salivary stones. They are hardened calcified masses that develop inside a salivary gland or duct and can block the flow of saliva into the mouth.

They're also super cool (and by cool I mean holy WTF is that!) when they're removed.

Ingrown toenails

Now that we've seen some of the horrors our heads can produce, let's venture down to everyone's favorite body part: toes.

While most people use nail clippers or rip those suckers off with our fingers, toenails do keep growing if you don't cut them, and oh my good lord does it get nasty down there. Unfortunately, sometimes people who aren't able to cut their own nails let things go way too far, and when that happens the nail can actually grow into the flesh of the toe. As you can imagine, it's pretty painful, and can lead to infection.

Among the many toenail cutting videos on YouTube, the Toe Bro's channel is by far one of best, in terms of nasty overgrown toes and quality videos. He also seems like a genuinely nice dude, so enjoy.

Callus peeling

While we're here, we may as well see what else our feet have to offer, like calluses. Mmmmm.

Calluses, which are portions of thickened skin on our hands and feet, are pretty common and occur when the area is exposed to excessive friction. While we've probably all had some calluses, extreme cases can be pretty painful.

While there are plenty of safe ways to remove calluses, some of the methods below are not recommended, especially on your own. Again, go see a doctor, dude.

Earwax

While it's pleasing (though definitely not recommended) to twirl a Q-tip around inside your ear after a shower, the earwax that you remove actually serves an important purpose in keeping your ears canals protected and clean. Too much, however, can obstruct our hearing, and in some cases it may need to be professionally removed by a doctor.

Boogers

I don't need to inform you of the horrors that can eject themselves from your nasal cavity, so just enjoy the fact that these cases are (hopefully) way worse than anything you've ever had to experience.

Congrats, you survived. And if you enjoyed these, you're a truly disgusting and vile creature -- just like me.

Topics YouTube

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Brian Koerber

Brian was the Culture Editor and has been working at Mashable on the web culture desk since 2014.

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