Never has the mental picture of a kiss been so revolting.
On Tuesday, a young man from Chicago named Veeresh Patil (who goes by @ClawedHumor on Twitter) took to the social media platform to post a photo of the inside of a toilet bowl.
What can be seen inside the toilet has left thousands of Twitter users both amused and disgusted — and it’s not anything anyone could have imagined.
How’d THAT get there? A Twitter user shared this picture of a toilet bowl with a lipstick mark in a surprising place
![She was upside down: The Twitter user, Veeresh Patil, captioned the post 'Stranger Things 2018'](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/01/10/20/47FE234900000578-5255935-image-a-36_1515616455479.jpg)
She was upside down: The Twitter user, Veeresh Patil, captioned the post ‘Stranger Things 2018’
![Huh? Even he seemed as a loss for how the mark got there, suggesting it was in a public toilet](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/01/10/20/47FE235500000578-5255935-image-a-34_1515616444152.jpg)
Huh? Even he seemed as a loss for how the mark got there, suggesting it was in a public toilet
![So strange: The tweet has gone viral, and many people are confused and disgusted](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/01/10/20/47FE235000000578-5255935-image-a-37_1515616462207.jpg)
So strange: The tweet has gone viral, and many people are confused and disgusted
‘Stranger Things 2018’ he wittily captioned the snap.
The close-up of the all-white bowl has a single mark, just above the water line: a pink lipstick print, quite clearly made by a pair of lips.
Naturally, many who’ve seen the image since then have expressed surprise and horror over how they image that mark came to be there.
Several left emojis — showing that they were confused, laughing, or retching — while other turned to GIFs.
‘I really want to hear this story…’ wrote one, though another countered: ‘I’ll be happy to spend the rest of my existence not knowing how this happened.’
‘Truly, a great mystery of our time,’ wrote a third.
![Once upon a time... Several were dying to hear the story of how the mark ended up in the bowl](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/01/10/20/47FE236100000578-5255935-image-a-32_1515616434613.jpg)
Once upon a time… Several were dying to hear the story of how the mark ended up in the bowl
![From MWAH to BLECH! This person, though, seems happy being out of the loop](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/01/10/20/47FE237000000578-5255935-image-a-31_1515616433997.jpg)
From MWAH to BLECH! This person, though, seems happy being out of the loop
![The caper of the porcelain kiss: It had a lot of other Twitter users wondering](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/01/10/20/47FE237900000578-5255935-image-a-30_1515616431663.jpg)
The caper of the porcelain kiss: It had a lot of other Twitter users wondering
![Unlikely: A swirly is a tactic of grade school bullies, who force a victim's head into the toilet and flush](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/01/10/20/47FE236900000578-5255935-image-a-29_1515616430951.jpg)
Unlikely: A swirly is a tactic of grade school bullies, who force a victim’s head into the toilet and flush
![Crazy nights: This woman joked that it was what her drunken nights look like](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/01/10/20/47FE235900000578-5255935-image-a-26_1515616426335.jpg)
Crazy nights: This woman joked that it was what her drunken nights look like
![Now bleach those lips! This man speculated that someone fell in love with a toilet cleaning product](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/01/10/20/47FE237500000578-5255935-image-a-27_1515616427657.jpg)
Now bleach those lips! This man speculated that someone fell in love with a toilet cleaning product
![Genius! Another suggested a character from the Nickelodeon show Aaahh!!! Real Monsters was behind it](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/01/10/20/47FE236500000578-5255935-image-a-28_1515616428680.jpg)
Genius! Another suggested a character from the Nickelodeon show Aaahh!!! Real Monsters was behind it
![Possibility: This woman suggested the most likely backstory — which, thankfully, involves no lip-to-bowl contact](https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2018/01/10/20/47FE235D00000578-5255935-image-a-33_1515616439334.jpg)
Possibility: This woman suggested the most likely backstory — which, thankfully, involves no lip-to-bowl contact
Several possible scenarios were suggested, including that a woman wearing lipstick was given a ‘swirly’ (with her head dunked by a bully), that a BDSM humiliation fantasy was at play, and that someone was particularly impressed with a toilet-cleaning product.
Many also figured alcohol was involved.
‘Me after 12 sangrias,’ joked one.
The most reasonable theory, however, was offered by a woman named Ryan, who wrote: ‘My theory: girl blotted her lipstick by kissing a square of toilet paper and threw it in the toilet instead of trash, and it got stuck to the bowl and lipstick mark stayed after flushing.’