When I was about 8 years old (2016) I woke up early while my parents were still asleep and turned on the TV to see what to watch. Superjail was on and I cried due to so much gore being on the TV, even if it was cartoon gore. I was 8.

  • Captain Aggravated@sh.itjust.works
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    15 hours ago

    It wasn’t a TV show, it was a commercial. For acrylic nails.

    So I was like 5, this would have been in 1991 or so, there was a commercial on daytime television among the blue star ointment and dirt devil vacuums for some brand of acrylic nails that were easy to put on and take off, and they contrasted this against the “other brand” that showed a woman peeling it off and it had this stringy yellow goo underneath. I didn’t understand what fake nails were, so I thought it was just a woman casually tearing her fingernail off.

    To this day I compulsively trim my nails very short, I cannot stand the thought of bending my fingernails back.