Here are the best Dr. Pimple Popper videos of the year – so far, Business Insider

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Dr. Pimple Popper.

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• Dr. Pimple Popper (real name: Dr. Sandra Lee) has published a book of pimple popping videos in 2018.
• INSIDER rounded up some of the best below.
• Warning: This post contains graphic videos and images.

It was a big year dermatologist Dr. Pimple Popper (also known by her real name, Dr. Sandra Lee). She appeared in her own TV show on TLC, appeared on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!", And partnered with a toy company on a pimple-popping board game.

All the while, she continued to update her YouTube channel with pimple popping videos for her ever-growing base of subscribers. (Current count: More than 4 million.)

Lee has already released some truly memorable videos featuring cysts, blackheads and other poppable skin growths that appear in the body's largest organ.

Here, in no particular order, are some of the best Dr. Pimple Popper videos of 2018. Stay tuned as the year progresses – INSIDER will update this list as new and worthy pops pop up.

The dilated pore of Winer

What's better than a blackhead extraction? AT giant blackhead extraction.

This post was posted in 2018, and it's still more than 8 million views to date. It features a dilated pore of Winer – what is essentially a giant blackhead clogging a single, super-stretched-out pore. Skip ahead to the one-minute mark for the first big squeeze.

The inflamed cyst

In a video from February, Lee deals with a skin issue, a cyst that's angry, red, and inflamed.

Rather than outright removing the cyst, Lee instead opts for an "incision and drainage" procedure, in which she cuts the skin and drains what's inside the bump. This guide explains why YouTube is so fascinating. When the cyst contents really start flowing, they come out in a long, almost square-shaped tube, thanks to the shape of Lee's cut in the skin. It's almost surreal.

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This is a pop that unfolds slowly, the kind of saga you can curl up and watch with some popcorn (if you're into that sort of thing). Now, if you're impatient, skip ahead to the 4:50 mark.

The 'never-ending blackhead surprise'

This video from June starts with Lee popping some ordinary blackheads on a patient's nose. Then, the patient reveals that she has another blackhead – a giant one – hiding behind her ear. No wonder Lee titled this video "never-ending blackhead surprises."

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The blackhead itself is everything fans dream of: It's way bigger than it seems from the surface and it comes out in one solid clump. In fact, when Lee posted a snippet of the video on Instagram, one commented on the blackhead as "next-level." Watch it starting at the four-minute mark below:

The cheek full of oatmeal

In this video from February, the results of an epidermoid cyst – a typical harmless growth of dead skin cells in the skin. Often, this cyst's happy look has a lot like cottage cheese. This one happens to resemble oatmeal.

The 'juicy' steatocystoma squeeze

Every once in a while, Lee treats a patient who's also a pimple popping fan. In this video from June, she treats one such patient – and even lets him do a good job of squeeze his own steatocystoma. (That's a cyst that contains mostly skin oil, or sebum.)

During the procedure, the patient is also able to react to real time. Turn the volume up for the full effect.

The extremely brave patient with bumps on his privates

With more than 5 million views of this paper, this video is among the most popular of 2018. It features calcinosis cutis – the scientific name for calcium deposits in the skin. The patient in this video happens to have hundreds of them, all located on his scrotum.

The bumps are painless and benign, according to a paper published in 2017 in the Journal of Medical Case Reports. But Lee's video reminds viewers that even technically harmless growths can have very real, very negative impacts on a patient's life. Lee recently told INSIDER that she is doing this.

See you here, and you'll see exactly why this patient "extremely brave."

The 'lasagna noodle'

The food metaphors continues 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.

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This post has been updated.