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That last image is really something. I will remember it.

There is at least one MMA fighter who practices that therapy: https://www.mixedmartialarts.com/ufc/machida-explains-the-be...

Wow those interview responses are just… utterly inane. “I drink it because i drink it, it’s good for you because it’s healthy, i started drinking it because my dad said it was good for me, it helps me by being healthy and by being good for me” - like it’s all a completely pointless circular recitation of beliefs, no reasoning at all.

Yup. It is worthy of a meme, all by itself.

Is there a name for this feeling of wanting to know more, even knowing that you will be horrified regardless of the answer? Morbid curiosity seems insufficient.

Like, is there a subreddit dedicated to people drinking their own urine? Was that guy a one-off? I am choosing to remain ignorant, but it is taking some self-control to not dig deeper.

There were worse, in the days of UseNet.

It was bad. Don’t believe the old men that tell you it was gentler and kinder, “back when.” That’s where I cut my troll teeth, and miss it like I miss a boil on my behind.

You know there's a reddit dedicated to your last sentences last clause, with movies, right? As in, people probably monetise this with patreon.

Truth

there probably is such a subreddit (likely a fetish), but just like a lot of viral posts, there's no proof that the thing actually happened, but there is a market for making viral posts. It makes people feel popular, and high-karma accounts can be sold to advertisers and political groups who manipulate social media.

Yeah I think it's a copypasta. I've seen it elsewhere with the details slightly different.

It is/was a health fad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urine_therapy

I thought it went out of fashion in the 90s when they figured out it damages your kidneys, but I may have misremembered that.

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