Explosive! Behind the internet's fascination with pimple popping, zit zapping and squeezing cysts

Millions are watching videos of cyst extractions, botfly removals and blackhead treatments. But what’s fuelling the explosive growth of the online community? • Warning: graphic content
Thirty four million views on YouTube; 30 million views; 23 million views. Not figures for music videos, or cats playing the piano, or even celebrities reading mean tweets, but clips of exploding cysts, unplugged blackheads and, reader – I’m sorry to have to tell you – botfly extractions. Welcome to the w