Though Twitter’s community cotes have long been heralded as the fact-checking force of our time — and one of the few positive changes Elon Musk has enacted as the social platform’s overlord — it appears the function isn’t afraid to call a butthole a butthole.


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On Monday, author Deb JJ Lee decided to do her damnedest to teach her followers a lesson in marine biology, sharing what she claimed was a horrifying lesson about sea urchin anatomy.


“Learned that sea urchins have a single eye and now I’m physically ill,” she captioned her now-viral post depicting to images of the underwater critter.



Despite its nightmare-inducing graphics, it appears there was one thing wrong with Lee’s post — the circular hole wasn’t an eyeball.


“That is a butthole,” read the quickly-added community note, one that sent the post skyrocketing to viral infamy (which has since been edited to elaborate on sea urchin's anatomy).



“Incredible shot/chaser community note,” wrote one commenter.


“New eye of sauron just dropped,” added another.


But regardless of whether that hole is an a—hole or an eyeball, urchins are still f—king terrifying nonetheless.