The internet is weird, we all know that. But sometimes, social media gets even weirder than usual—like way weirder. For example, Tumblr user "cummy-eyelids" (seriously) just received a severed toe from another Tumblr user, "royallyoily," and is planning to make a necklace out of the toe. So, yeah, there's that.
In a Tumblr post, cummy-eyelids explained the situation:
Cummy-eyelids, whose Tumblr says her name is "Lana (it's anal backwards)," is 23, according to BuzzFeed. She got the toe from 26-year-old royallyoily, whose real name is Hayley.
In response to cummy-eyelids post, royallyoily added:
Of course, people had a lot of questions...
...and luckily for us, royallyoily answered them for us in a separate post. She explained that she didn't just randomly chop her toe off for a necklace. It was amputated years ago during surgery. "A doctor recommended the surgery and the toe removal was just a small portion of the process," she wrote. "I had a condition known as brachymetatarsia. I actually wish I had done the toe lengthening surgery instead, but was told at the time it was experimental."
For those wondering, brachymetatarsia (also known as brachymetatarsal) is a condition where a growth disturbance on a bone in the foot causes a short toe. The post even includes before and after photos from the surgery.
The artist, cummy-eyelids, told BuzzFeed that she usually works with "wet specimens, bones, and skulls" for her art and also "makes jewelry out of copper and silver." So for cummy-eyelids, "This project is just a nice way for me to combine my skills." Now that she's got the toe, she plans to re-preserve the toe and put it in a pendant-sized jar.
Perhaps the weirdest part is that the two weren't even friends before this whole thing. "We literally met over discussion of her wanting her toe made into art/jewelry," cummy-eyelids explained on Tumblr.
In a comment to Select All, a Tumblr spokesperson said, "We’re happy to see how these two have connected over their shared passion."
I guess that's one way to describe it. The internet, man. Weird shit.
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