Though the internet has its flaws, it’s excellent at bringing together like-minded people, whether they’re stanning one true pairing, trading cat GIFs, or planning protests. One group of individuals ...

Does the lotus fruit image above make your skin crawl? Up to 15% of people (18% of females and 11% of males) become viscerally upset after looking at images of clustered holes or bumps, according to ...

Editor’s Note: There are no triggering images embedded in this story. There is a slideshow at the bottom with a warning slate as the first image. However, to explain to those without trypophobia what ...

A glimpse of the new iPhone 11 and the three circles highlighting the phone's camera set up is reportedly triggering trypophobia in some people. Apple refreshed its iPhone line-up and announced the ...

Apple just revealed its new iPhone models, and there’s a change in design to several of the phones’ photography features. The Pro and Pro Max phones actually feature three camera lenses, which is ...

Since the advent of the internet, people have been able to discuss their symptoms with others globally. Sometimes people with very unusual symptoms discover others with similar experiences, which they ...

Trypophobia may be moving out of the urban dictionary and into the scientific literature. A recent study in the peer-review journal Psychological Science takes a first crack at explaining why some ...

People with a fear of small holes are complaining that the new iPhone 11 Pro design — with its three cameras, torch and microphone hole — is triggering their phobia. This fear, dubbed 'trypophobia', ...

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That might explain the intense reactions of many sufferers to the "American Horror Story" advertisements, which tend to focus on faces with photo-edited holes. There are also a number of trypophobia ...