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’
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
‘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
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
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
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
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.’