The best pimple popping videos of 2018, from a 50-year-old blackhead to a cottage cheese leg cyst

All year long, we here at INSIDER are combing through this ongoing influx of new popping content, looking for the very best cyst , blackhead , and lipoma videos.

And even though the year's not over, we've already encountered some true gems. Here's a list (in no particular order) of 2018's best, grossest, most breathtaking pimple pops so far. Stay tuned as the months progress INSIDER will keep updating this post as new and worthy pops pop up.

1. The perfect Dr. Pimple Popper DPOW

No list of pimple popping videos would be complete without some content from the genre's reigning queen: California dermatologist, YouTuber, and TV star Dr. Sandra Lee, a.k.a. Dr. Pimple Popper. And what better way to start this list than to highlight one of Lee's most-beloved videos of 2018?

2. The "50-year-old blackheads" around the eyes

There's something about advanced pimple age that makes a pop ultra-compelling. To know that a clogged pore hasn't been touched in years, or even decades, makes the removal of the gunk inside it all the more satisfying.

3. The pore strip saga

It shows a woman peeling a total of 16 pore strips off of her boyfriend's back, dredging up hundreds of blackheads in the process . INSIDER interviewed Kevin Andrew, the man pictured in the video, who said his doctor blamed the clogged pores on sun exposure. Dermatologists call those types of blackheads solar comedones .

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4. The ear blackhead thats worth the wait

This year'sSPA videos haven't disappointed, either. The most recent, posted in July, shows yet another ear blackhead that spans two separate pores . It's excruciatingly slow going at first as the technician prods the skin with a pair of tweezers, but the payoff at the three-minute mark is worth the wait.

5. The extremely brave patient with bumps on his privates

With 5.2 million views as of this writing, this video is from January is among Dr. Pimple Popper's most-watched of the year. But it's not about pimples at all.

6. The soothing extraction session

If you love relaxing popping sessions, you'll love following aesthetician Enilsa Brown . You won't find gushing blood or flying pus on her YouTube channel. But you will find dozens of lengthy videos in which Brown ever-so-gently cleans out clogged pores, explaining each step of the process in her soothing voice.

This acne-extraction video from January has drawn 7.5 million views, making it Brown's second-most popular video ever. The pimple she pops at the five-minute mark is one to remember.

7. The cottage cheese leg cyst

In the episode, a patient named Ronen seeks out Lee's help with a painful cyst on his leg that's been growing for decades. As soon as Lee slices into it, a waterfall of dead, wet skin cells bursts forth. The cyst's volume is simply astonishing.

8. The cyst that looks like an eyeball

This Dr. Pimple Popper video from November is titled "A Pilar Cyst for the Books." That's not an overstatement.

The featured patient has massive pilar cyst a type of benign growth that almost always occurs on the scalp .

Skip ahead to 1:53 and you'll see the cyst's wall peeking through Lee's incision in the skin. In that moment, it looks like a creepy, cloudy, zombie-esque eyeball. (On her Instagram page, Lee compared the growth to the one-eyed character Mike Wazowski from the movie "Monsters, Inc.") The rest of the pop is just as captivating. Don't miss the minor explosion of cyst gunk near the 4:03 mark.

9. The "never-ending blackhead surprise"

This video from June starts with Lee popping some tiny blackheads on a patient's nose. Then, the patient reveals that she has another blackhead hiding behind her ear.

That surprise blackhead does not disappoint: It comes out in one piece and is far larger than it seems at first glance. Watch it starting at the four-minute mark below:

10. The exploding cyst

This video was discovered by a few members of Reddit's /r/popping subreddit a community of roughly 150,000 pimple popping fanatics. It's technically from 2017, but it was re-shared on /r/popping in February and August of 2018, and it's among the subreddit's most-upvoted cyst videos of the year.

11. The lasagna noodle

The food metaphors continue with this stellar cyst-pop, first posted to YouTube in July. Fair warning: There's a lot of blood before the big payoff, when Lee squeezes the growth and the contents come out in one flat, long ribbon. ("It's almost like a lasagna noodle," Lee remarks during the video.)

Watch the whole thing if you can stomach the bleeding, or skip to 8:19 for the actual pop.

12. The cyst that erupted on Dr. Pimple Poppers scrubs

This video, also uploaded in November, shows a cyst that's so pressurized it squirts some of its contents onto Lee's scrubs as soon as she gives it a gentle squeeze. The eruption itself happens at the 1:48 mark. Don't worry if you blink and miss it: There's a slow-motion replay afterward.

Then, skip ahead to the 3:25 mark to watch Lee gently tug out the surprisingly massive cyst sac. You'll see why one YouTube commenter called the entire saga "gleefully repulsive."

13. The double-pore ear blackhead

14. The pearls trapped under the skin

Pops don't need to be explosive and dramatic to be good. In fact, aesthetician Josefa Reina has amassed more than 400,000 YouTube subscribers by sharing popping videos that are just the opposite of dramatic. Her channel is a treasure trove of long, soothing popping sessions set to classical music. In this 12-minute video, uploaded in May, Reina gently extracts several milia (or, as she describes them, "pearls...those little gems under your skin.')

That description is apt. Milia are small cysts containing keratin that manifest as "pearly white" bumps under the skin, according to DermNet NZ.

They're harmless and don't need to be treated, but patients may opt to have them removed anyway. Lucky for popping fans, this patient did.

15. A whitehead and blackhead mashup

This 8-and-a-half minute video from dermatologist Dr.Lalit Kasana shows the juicy removal of whiteheads and blackheads all over a patients face. Though tiny, these pops are still satisfying. Fair warning: things geta little bloody around the 3:50 mark, but Kasana cleans it up fast.

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Update: 2024-08-19

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