Kotaku writer is scared by the Xbox One X’s holes
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My trypophobia is used heavily in my work because it's the most unsettling shit I have ever seen. Really gets that eldritch horror vibe across quite well.
Calling it a "mental disorder" is stupid, though, when in reality it's just your mind having a bit of a moan about something that looks completely unnatural.
I don't think that it looks "unnatural", in that it looks "insect-made". Like a honeycomb, that might be full of small, angry, biting/stinging things.
It's perfectly natural, like a cat mistaking a bit of hose or something for a snake; the difference is in learning how to control such a reaction when you learn the difference between "something to actually be wary of" and "something actually harmless".
The problem is that the humans are becoming more animal-like in their lack of self-control re: stimulus, while the non-humans are becoming more techno-stimulus savvy.
Things I'd read on it is perhaps it's a natural reaction built in to avoid skin diseases that used to all too common. Speculation of course but it makes sense.
You really get to the lack of self control thing. I'm pretty sure if I was a kid today under average modern parents I'd have been labeled with all kinds of disorders or "on the spectrum" and filled full of drugs and coddled into a useless ball of nothing. When I was a kid (particularly elementary school age), I was really bad in crowds and really shy in social situations. To the point that I'd freak out and want away from them. It would have been even worse but I tended to freak out more internally and not like throw a big noisy tantrum. I also have spells where I can't focus on anything and others where I'm essentially hyperfocused on things.
The thing is while if you look there's some things that still linger, today as a mid-30s adult I've had a solid job pretty much since I was 16, am totally independent and actually contribute in some ways to financially support my parents, can and have traveled to many places world and thrown myself into odd and uncomfortable situations, I have friends I do (or did, virus wimps) things with, but am still totally fine doing things on my own too. I really think people that knew me as a little kid are surprised by it all. I put it all the actual progress on not being babied as a kid. I'm not saying my parents were brutish about it, but never was I given the option of "Oh your poor baby, here we will do anything for you let's get you to your safe space. Be sure you take your medicine today."