Watch Dr. Pimple Popper Squeeze ‘Wet Newspaper’ Out of a Massive, Gray Cyst

• In a new Instagram video, Dr. Pimple Popper squeezes a cyst filled with lumpy whiteish-dark gray contents.
• Dr. Pimple Popper tells the patient the massive cyst looks like it’s filled with wet newspaper.
• The “wet newspaper” in the cyst is actually a collection of wet dead skin cells and keratin, which often fill epidermoid cysts.

What’s white and black and wet all over? The answer is this massive cyst. In a new Instagram video, Dr. Pimple Popper—aka, dermatologist and TLC host Dr. Sandra Lee, MD—pops a cyst that looks like it’s filled with wet, torn newspaper. The trash-filled city streets got nothing on this one.

In the quick clip, Dr. Lee squeezes a massive epidermoid cyst out of a particularly small incision. The cyst contents has a unique whiteish-dark gray coloring, and is quite lumpy in appearance.

“It’s like you’ve got wet newspaper under there,” Dr. Lee tells the patient, leading off the comparison game. Several fans wrote in the comments that the contents looks like everything from cement to mud to gray ground beef. Delicious.

The “wet newspaper” in the cyst is actually a collection of wet dead skin cells and keratin. Depending on the melanin content in a person’s skin, these cyst contents can be grayish in appearance. Epidermoid cysts like this often occur on the face, neck and body.

Watch the wadded-up newspaper break free in the cyst pop clip below: