Electric Arc Worship Warning

In the unlikely event you are ever in a public space and you see a blacklight display with glowing fluorescent colors, but the lights illuminating those colors are electric blue instead of deep purple, DO NOT LOOK AT THE TUBES, close your eyes immediately, turn around, shield your skin as much as possible, and get away from it. Blacklight tubes are made of filter glass, which blocks everything except harmless UV-A (which, in a regular fluorescent tube, is blocked by the phosphor coating) and a small amount of purple visible light. Germicidal tubes are made of quartz. Quartz is transparent to all wavelengths of light from UV-A through UV-C. The electric blue is the color of the bare mercury arc inside. You can see it. You can see the electric arc. You can stare into the electric arc. You can worship the electric arc. You can give yourself to the electric arc. Remove your clothes and bathe in the forbidden actinic light of the electric arc. Free yourself. Give yourself to the electric arc. Show the electric arc your self. Give to the electric arc your eyes, your skin. Lie beneath the electric arc and show it you are worthy. Allow the electric arc to bathe your corneas and dermis in its glory. Let the electric arc change you. Let the electric arc change your DNA. Let the electric arc change you. Let the electric arc make you its own. Embrace the tubes and give your body to the electric arc. #psa #safety #safety first #radiation #ultraviolet #eye injury #the forbidden light #the electric arc #electric arc #electric arc light #electric arcs #look at the electric arc #electric arc worship #electric arc devotion #give yourself to the electric arc

A screenshot shows a warning about the danger of mistaking a blue-lit germicidal tube for an ordinary purple blacklight. The serious safety advice gradually turns into ecstatic, quasi-religious worship of the electric arc, making the punchline absurd and unsettling. It is used as a reaction to something dangerously mesmerizing or to mock overdramatic internet warnings.

• @rzeczyzabawne / 13571 2023-11-18