The life-saving video in question featured newly married Alex Griswold and his wife.
The 23-year-old was so stoked about being married that he put together a quick supercut of his favorite aspects of married life.
The video highlights some prime domestic minutiae.
"You have a built in best friend that you get to have sleepovers with."
"You compliment each other's farts."
But it's Griswold's mention of his wife's EXTREMELY selfless grooming approach that features that diabolical mole.
"Back scratches always become pimple popping sessions."
As that goofy caption rolls across the top of the screen, an intimate shot of Griswold's pale, evidently defiled back looms below.
In the post's caption, Griswold even called attention to the back footage, though his mind is far from concerned for his own safety.
It wasn't until a concerned user reached out to Griswold via email that Mr. Newlywed decided to book an appointment with a dermatologist and take a look see at that mole.
Alex Griswold
Griswold told Buzzfeed just how far off his radar checking that mole would have been without the email.
"I had never been to the dermatologist before. I probably wouldn't have gone for years and years."
The dermatologist even told him that whoever the stranger was who reached out after seeing his TikTok "probably saved his life."
After the appointment, Griswold checked back in on TikTok to give the entire play by play from that initial 'Just Married' post to major back wound without any more Melanoma danger on it.
He tells followers that during his appointment the dermatologist said the mole "might be skin cancer."
So the dermatologist removed the mole and sent it off to a lab.
The lab's results? In Griswold's words: "Dude, that IS turning into skin cancer."
So he went back to the doctor and the whole 'moley' area was excavated of any trace of the cancerous tissue.
And the dude had a HUGE wound. Because Griswold is apparently very open about posting, he gives us some excellent wound content.
Shine on, Mr. Griswold.
As the end of his TikTok follow up video suggests, the internet really can be a tool for positive community-building and social connection.
What began as a simple video of an attractive woman putting her makeup on for the day quickly turned into a negative commentary on the lack of diversity that still exists in the makeup industry.
The woman in the video, TikTok user "imnotbijou," began her video with some typical steps: applying eyebrows and priming her face.
But when everyone saw what she chose to contour with, that's when the conversation exploded.
You can watch the video here:
Her make up came out so fucking bomb 😫but she HAD to used eyeliner to contour her face!!& ik makeup has no rules or… https://t.co/FYwQEkjDsW— lay (@lay) 1579540371.0
In the video, the woman contours with a black liquid eyeliner to create a deep enough color to actually contour against her skin tone.
After receiving confused and critical comments about her use of the eyeliner, the TikTok user also posted a photo of her completed look.
In the caption, she wrote:
"I wouldn't use eyeliner for contour if I didn't have to."
@makeupiztherapy / Twitter and @imnotbijou / TikTok
The video has been shared nearly sixty-thousand times on Twitter and has more than 350-thousand likes. Even the follow-up photo from the TikTok user has nearly nine-thousand likes, which is modest in comparison, but still viral-worthy.
What makes this so eye-opening is the number of people who are personally identifying with the less-than-forty second video.
People of color from all across the globe are sharing their own stories of woe and frustration, as they attempt to express themselves in what is a highly-beige-exclusive industry.
@makeupiztherapy / Twitter
@makeupiztherapy / Twitter
@makeupiztherapy / Twitter
Some have been extremely helpful and shared some products they've discovered that worked for them or they believe might work for the TikTok user.
@makeupiztherapy / Twitter
@makeupiztherapy / Twitter
@makeupiztherapy / Twitter
But the problem remains that these solutions are only a small handful of products.
They barely touch on the wide array of brands out there who have done little to challenge the diversity standard. Not to mention the fact that many of the current product options are only available online or are extremely expensive, making them inaccessible to most consumers.
@makeupiztherapy / Twitter
Though some brands are beginning to step forward and create more colors in other products, beyond concealers and contouring products, for a wider array of people of color, there is still an extensive road ahead.
Yellows are still few and far between and either translate to orange or a bright banana on the skin and darker shades are still far too rare of a find and often lack pigmentation or lasting power.
It's important to have conversations like this, to continue to push beauty product companies to look beyond a beige palette.
