The most rude show on TV stars a dermatologist known as Dr. Pimple Popper | Local

Lee, a cosmetic and surgical dermatologist on Upland better known as "Dr. Pimple Popper," has attracted attention on social media, where she has published countless videos showing that She was removing poppable things from her patients' bodies. Now she has her own show on TLC of the same name – plunging deeper into her patients' lives and the personal and close procedures she's performing on them.

"It's fascinating to me why people like this stuff" Lee told the Washington Post earlier this week, explaining that people told him that watching videos relaxes and entertains them.

Since its premiere last week, which drew some 2.4 million viewers, TLC's "Pimple Popper" aired two of the episodes, showing several patients learning about their conditions and having various excrescences removed from their bodies.

"I think this will capture the interest of more than mere" popaholic ", that will convert people to" popaholicism "because I think she said that" it's not just a question of "pops" or surgery because it shows the travels of his patients – something that she does not do. typically come to see.

"It's so What I'm interested in is that it all starts with the grotesque, or something shocking or rude to so many people, but it ends up being a story happy, "she said about the series

.Heather Berlin, neuroscientist at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York, said that" from an evolutionary point of view, it is normal to want to eliminate bumps from the skin "because these bumps could be pests or other things.For some people, Berlin said that popping pimples or watching others stimulate the nucleus accumbens, the reward center in the brain that receives dopamine and gives people "a bit of pleasure." But, she said, to others, the behavior may seem disgusting; these cases, she says, another part of the brain called the insular cortex is activated

so why do some people Do they find this pleasing and others repugnant? That said, Berlin does not know.

Lee says that she realized that there was a market for pop-up videos a few years ago when she created an Instagram page as "a little window on my dermatologist world" . She said her page had not attracted significant attention until she posted a video of a blackhead extraction. People have gone crazy. "I thought it was very strange," she says, "so I did it again, and the same thing happened."

Lee discovered a subculture on the Internet, where tens of thousands of videos

Videos usually showed people "in their backyard or in their garage or living room and they had dirty nails – no gloves – and paper towels, and barking dogs and beer bottles half-open and people screaming anesthesia and things like that, "she said. So, she said, she saw an opportunity to provide similar videos, but in a safe and sterile environment, so she began to record more extractions and even surgeries

"I knew that everything the world does not like to burst. "I think you get the opposite ends of the spectrum – people who are obsessed with it and people who are disgusted with it, but that's how it grew too because that people were tagging their friends to show them and it's like that "

(Lee graciously advised this reporter to start with videos showing" soft pops "- bumps like black and white dots that do not require surgery – then make their way up to "hard pops.")

Lee has gained a massive social media audience – 4 million on YouTube, 2 million on Facebook, 91,000 on Twitter and 39,000 on Instagram

But the decision of all shows er on TV has not been so easy.

Howard Lee, President and CEO of TLC, told the Post that although the dermatologist has become an online phenomenon, network leaders have wondered how his world would be seen on television

. to try it on our air. "

" We had absolutely nothing to do. We did not know if what Dr. Lee was gaining in life would distract viewers, "he said, noting that in the TV series," we're actually inside like a fly on his desk . "[19659003"Nousregardonscequ'ellefaitetcertainssontpeut-êtretropgraphiquespourcertainsmembresdenotrepublicetnousétionstrèsconscientsdecela"didilajoutéajoutantque"ilyapeut-êtreunfacteuroùcertainsspectateurssontsimplementdécouragésetpourtantbizarrementl'autremoitiédel'auditoireestcontraintparelle"

Now that the show was broadcast, the president said:" Dr. Lee was kissed by his audience. "

Lee said that she's always surprised by how she became Dr. Pimple Popper – a brand that led to a skin care line, a TV show and, soon, a game. 19659003] "It's a madness," she says, "but she's also" special. "" I feel honored and humbled, "she said," I represent dermatology in general and I want to Dermatologists, it's been a turn, I sometimes have to sit down and remember to enjoy it. "