hey there holy homies trace here and I have been thinking about the new iPhone
because of course I have haven't you why haven't you I'm definitely getting the
new one I have a bunch of Apple gear and different products but this one is
different somehow because of trypophobia some are claiming that the triple camera
design is triggering their trip of phobia and I definitely have questions
before we kick into it today welcome hello I'm sorry for the hiatus I have
been working really hard on a couple of things one I'm going to announce soon
but firstly I relocated to LA for several weeks needless to say I missed
you all while I was doing that and I'm sorry I was gone but now I am back and I
am so excited to be here okay so trypophobia if you've been on
the internet over the last decade or so you've definitely heard of this
condition if you google it you'll see pictures that illustrate trippa phobia
but for the sake of everyone who actually gets triggered out there by
this stuff I am gonna show exactly two images in this whole video ready here's
one tres dos uno Oh God oh okay it's disgusting I feel that did you feel that
it wasn't fear it was disgust disgust is a super strong emotion it likely evolved
to protect us from pestilence disease death and food that would harm us the
cool thing about humans is that we do have some built-in firmware and
discussed as part of that no one has to teach a baby to feel disgust but around
three or four years old it just starts feeling it that little bit of their tiny
emotional experience gets activated disgust
doesn't just make us pull that face that we all recognize it's also paired with
involuntary physiological reactions it decreases our heart rate the opposite of
fear and anger and it can cause nausea and a few other physiological responses
as well which we'll come back to in just a second so this time I'm going to show
you another image and I want you to really drop in to yourself like what are
you feeling when you see this photo okay you ready
here it comes tres dos uno Mita yeah I'm not gonna do it again I promise
but what did you feel fear disgust you hungry
you're worried trip a phobia is a portmanteau or Wamba nation you know
word combination of two Greek words trip a meaning whole and phobia meaning fear
the phobia part doesn't really seem to work though does it you're not feeling
fear of holes but disgust at holes yeah cool right
note you might be afraid of the feeling of disgust but fear doesn't come with
nausea so when you think about it that kind of means that trip a phobia is a
fake phobia I mean at least the name is see in a 2018 study of trypophobia
researchers put people in front of an eye tracker and they measured their
pupil dilation they then showed people images of known triggers for the trip of
phobia condition as well as threatening animals like snakes and spiders fear
causes pupils to dilate but disgust causes them to constrict they're both
connected to a version but they have different purposes the open dilation in
fear is to suck in more information prep for running or fighting or freezing
whereas constricted pupils it's so the eye can focus on a specific thing
blocking out light and other extraneous information to indicate the exact thing
that is disgusting us if trippa phobia was a fear the pupils would dilate and
in the study they didn't trip a phobia isn't a phobia at all it's a phobia you
know you know phobia the Greek word for disgust is idea so it should be trip
idea disgust of holes except that's actually not even about holes either
everything you know about trip idea is a lie in another study of the images that
trigger trip a phobia slash trip idea they looked only at these shared
characteristics of images that definitely trigger the trip of phobia
reaction they found that holes don't actually trigger it but instead it's
small repetitive patterns with stark contrast or high contrast that means the
difference between white and black is a lot poppy seeds on bread could be a
trigger as noted in one study closely clustered polka dots and animal prints
cheese aerated chocolate and even honeycomb are all considered triggers
for some so it's neither holy or a phobia high contrast in Greek is Yip CI
ent and these-- so I guess this means trippy phobia
should really be called anti FA the idea sounds real enough to me the
prevailing hypothesis as to why these high contrast marks cause disgust is
because of their passing similarity to the marks of infectious diseases mold
and skin infections and that is supported by a 20-17 study in the
British Medical Journal they talked to over 1,500 people about their history
with skin diseases and those who had been affected experienced a higher
likelihood of the miss named trypophobia so in the end as it turns out once you
put some science into it trip a phobia isn't a fear of holes at all just
regular old disgust at skin infections and it wasn't named antitheses yeah
because trippa phobia wasn't discovered by the ancient Greeks or Victorian
scientists but instead has a prestigious beginning on Geocities an old build your
own website spot from the World Wide Web in the 90s sadly I can't show you the
actual post that started at all because Yahoo just straight-up deleted geo
cities in 2009 with no regard for historic preservation and I obviously
have feelings about this but that is for another video
ultimately trypophobia or antitheses yeah doesn't appear anywhere in the
diagnostics and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders version 5 put out by
the American Psychiatric Association and though it afflicts perhaps 16% of the
population more research is needed this discussed based explanation makes so
much more sense to me than a fear and animal seedpod based explanation what
about you and even if you're skeptical just Google Image Search trypophobia
because most of the images you're gonna find our Photoshop and almost all of
those that are photoshopped involves skin or human surfaces it's triggering
you because it's about us humans evolved to protect ourselves from infection and
yes some plants and animals mimic the patterns taken up by those infections
but if nothing else research shows yet again that we are a
work in progress evolution got us over the threshold to
notice an infection but not all the way to fully recognizing exactly what we're
seeing so now we're left with this half-formed disgust reaction that's
easily triggered by high contrast patterns it sucks to be human sometimes
I guess but at least now we know as someone who suffers from trip a phobia /
antitheses this video was super interesting to put together but there
are people who actually need real help out there and you can make a difference
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the tabs you've opened without getting a benefit from any of them seems crazy
right thanks for being a good human okay friends new video coming next week just
like always I am back I love y'all share this video with someone who has trip of
phobia or you know just tweet it because I'm sure there are a lot more people out
there than you think thanks for watching I hope you learned something I'm trace