​This week in shocking discoveries: Twitter user @Chelsea_Smithh shared with her followers that she has been using her earring backs wrong her entire life.


According to Chelsea, the clear bit you see that comes secured around a regular earring back can and should be popped off.

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However, many Twitter users are tweeting back at Chelsea to argue that the clear backings are actually there to provide extra support for wearing super-heavy earrings.

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Is this the most controversial earring theory of our time?

(By Brooke Sunatona for (Cosmopolitan US).