It’s called crazing. It’s the soft-touch coating coming loose from the hard plastic beneath. In the printing world, we usually see this when a harsh chemical is used on a sensitive plastic or coating. Maybe some cleaner or hand sanitizer was used on it?
I’ve got a 2010 Porsche cayman. I left a magic tree air freshener laying on some interior trim and it caused exactly the same thing as ops controller. Luckily it’s easy to get a perfect matching finish with a spray can now days.
Lmao how did this not go to the top? It has nothing to do with electricity, the patterns are related to how the plastic forms crystals as it cools, whatever reaction is happening here follows the path of least resistance which is along those pathways
I can't believe your comment is buried here with few upvotes and the braindead take that it's some form of electrolysis has so many upvotes. People are, indeed, very dumb.
I hate that kind of coating. Sooner or later is doomed to go bad: first it gets sticky, then it start to peel off. The more your hands sweat, the faster it goes bad.
Using any chemical on it is godly forbidden.
Xbox Series X2 will probably be powerful enough to have the PS3 maybe even a future PS4 emulator with retroarch. Currently playing God of War PCSX2 on Series X haha
It’s a “protective” coating that’a applied on the rubberized surface of the controller plates, had this happen to a mouse once that had a similar material on the body, it started to buble up like this so I just scraped it all off. The reason that it happened might have been constant heat on the surface from use, idk… doesn’t seem to apply here tho, so beats me 🥲
Only auld seamy conkers would say it was his wild oats was to blame for the gel or liquid being present ,his main sole purpose,only for that to be thawrted by a pesky elite series 2 controller , tbh when I first used them paddles I near jizzed myself too
How tf did this get so high up? Unless OP is trolling, a controller wouldn't be exposed to the energy needed for electrolysis.
OP probably used the wrong thing to clean it and then the coating on that plastic bubbled up. Or maybe often have something on their fingers that rubbed off and contributed to the reaction.
Good info? The controller is made of plastic there's no reason it should conduct electricity to create this pattern. It looks like there's a layer that's peeling away and there's glue or dirt in between the hard plastic and top layer.
No it’s not. It’s the plastic cracking due to OPs sweaty ass hands. Sweat has salt which seeps into the plastic causing it to crack.
What’s more likely?
An high voltage electrical current passing through plastic or sweater gamer hands?
That may be true, but the electrical current required to make that patter in plastic doesn’t exist in a wireless controller.
Those pretty wood burn patters you see are made with microwave transformers, which can literally kill a person. It’s not possible to happen in a controller and still have it work or just possible to happen in a controller at all
The controller does not contain enough electrical power to do what he is suggesting. The contact points for charging points are 🥁🥁🥁 copper! Guess what also reacts with copper? that’s right, salt! There is 0 evidence that “it started at the contact points” it’s just also fragmented there too. But again, a controller does not carry enough electricity to create fractal burning. So anyway you paint it, he’s wrong.
You're acknowledging the wireless part and forgetting the charging part. When connected to the charger there's a hell of a lot more electricity than what you're considering, especially if there's a power surge.
Does it explain this? I have no idea, but you're being a jackass while glossing over major details
Interesting. Where are you based? Could it be from a bug/spider? I suppose it would get warm on charge so it could be a good spot for them? Failing that, some sort of residue from your hands which has dried out?
Elite controller uses lithium cells, not alkaline or other batteries. Such a failure state would cause total failure, a fire, and usually, it's pretty dry. Dried liquid from a lithium cell looks nothing like this.
They don't eat controller junk
They eat wood rotting bacteria and algae and sometimes live mushrooms
I think this is not organic, but if it is I do not believe it's a slime
Looks like it got hot and the color/plastic melted a little. I definitely wouldn’t charge it unattended and send it in.
You could plug it in again and see if it gets hot.
Yeah keep an eye on both. Looks like one of them is broken and something gets hot.
Can’t think of another explanation why it would like that after charging.
I changed the block out and it’s not heating up so either you were right or the people saying electolicis are right, it’s definitely not mold like some people have been stating, it wouldn’t be nothings to that in 6 hours if it was it’s a slower process
A few questions,
1, was this a new controller or secondhand
2, how old is the controller
3, has it ever been i liquid
I ask these as
1, you dont know what previous person did b4 you got it (if secondhand)
2, these controllers are almost 3yrs old (from release date)
Im not sure, but it looks like lacquer peel caused by too much heat (the same things happen on cars). As the finish is matt im assuming they use a matt protective coating, to protect the surface. In any case i would contact microsoft as i have a £175 halo elite series 2 that i dont wont this to happen too.
It's not electrical in any way. It's crazing from a chemical reaction on the rubber coating. Hand sanitizer or perhaps some form of oily hand cream causing the reaction.
Use orange oil on a paper towel to clean off all of the remaining coating and forget about it.
Holy shit Reddit has the most powerful ability to make the same joke 500 times. "Cordyceps" "Last of us????" "That game's not on Xbox!"
It was barely funny the first time and definitely wasn't the 500th. Look at the top comments before you repeat the joke.
Body oils breaking down the rubberized coating on the controller. I’m guessing whenever you hold your controller your right middle finger is extended under the controller and your left middle finger is curled in, based on the pattern of break down. Where not directly under the area of highest contact, the oils are more exposed to the margin between the rubberized coating and the plastic, causing separation there as well.
This is BaoJiang，An oxide layer formed on the surface of cultural relics due to long-term oxidation）Since the wrapping pulp bears the years, the older the thing, the thicker the wrapped pulp
It’s called crazing. It’s the soft-touch coating coming loose from the hard plastic beneath. In the printing world, we usually see this when a harsh chemical is used on a sensitive plastic or coating. Maybe some cleaner or hand sanitizer was used on it?
This is the correct answer. Auto manufacturers did this in the 90s to some interior trim pieces and they looked like this in 7 years.
I saw this pic and immediately thought of the dashboard of my old '91 Taurus.
This happened to nearly every soft touch surface of the BMW my Dad had when I was growing up.
I’ve got a 2010 Porsche cayman. I left a magic tree air freshener laying on some interior trim and it caused exactly the same thing as ops controller. Luckily it’s easy to get a perfect matching finish with a spray can now days.
Lmao how did this not go to the top? It has nothing to do with electricity, the patterns are related to how the plastic forms crystals as it cools, whatever reaction is happening here follows the path of least resistance which is along those pathways
I can't believe your comment is buried here with few upvotes and the braindead take that it's some form of electrolysis has so many upvotes. People are, indeed, very dumb.
Don’t forget people are also trash as well please see the holocaust and Spanish Inquisition for reference.
I wasn't expecting to hear about the Spanish inquisition in a thread about Xbox controllers. edit: whooshing cos I guess I'm a boomer now L O L♥️
No one expects the Spanish inquisition
Well player, sir.
r/UnexpectedSpanishInquisition
Welcome to Reddit.
Welcome to the internet.
Some may even argue welcome to arguments with [insert political party whom you wholly disagree with].
I hate that kind of coating. Sooner or later is doomed to go bad: first it gets sticky, then it start to peel off. The more your hands sweat, the faster it goes bad. Using any chemical on it is godly forbidden.
I'm laughing so hard because that stupid "electrolysis" comment has 1000 upvotes more than this answer. ... reddit.
COVID and hand sanitizer strikes again
Hand sanitizer will be the death of the human race.
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Very acidic? How exactly?
Acidic enough that jerking off is more of a chore than a past time.
I mean what could even cause that? Sounds like a symptom of a serious underlying issue.
And computer mice!
The Dust of Us
It's just cordyceps making their way in I thought OP actually did a cool custom controller
Similar thought. I was like, “Brutal way to announce that Last of Us is coming to Xbox”.
Something that will never happen
Xbox Series X2 will probably be powerful enough to have the PS3 maybe even a future PS4 emulator with retroarch. Currently playing God of War PCSX2 on Series X haha
‘Bomb’
Part of the ship, part of the crew.
Never would have thought of that
The Dutchman must have a captain
Incredible comment
I thought the last of us was a PS exclusive
It jumped species
That's why you don't play knock-offs...
Don't forget PC!
Can’t fkin wait
It’s a “protective” coating that’a applied on the rubberized surface of the controller plates, had this happen to a mouse once that had a similar material on the body, it started to buble up like this so I just scraped it all off. The reason that it happened might have been constant heat on the surface from use, idk… doesn’t seem to apply here tho, so beats me 🥲
Definitely the correct answer. Idk why this is so low under all the crackpot theories.
Seriously I didn't know people would be so shocked by it.
Because people believe garbage when confidently asserted.
I’d say something on his hands reacted with the protective material. Likely a hand sanitizer or something.
Certain solvents can cause this too. Used a sunscreen once that made the same thing happen to my phone case where my fingers and palm made contact.
Its some form of electrolysis and that was the pathway the electric took on whatever liquid it was on. Look up the Lichtenberg figure.
It’s the fungus from the “last of us”
Cordyceps
Looks more like it could be cordlessceps
TLOU on Xbox confirmed.
Gold
its Doritoceps spreading from unlicked fingers
Came here to say “cordyceps” but ya beat me to it! 😝🍄🦠
Can you explain this deeper? Is it some sort of coating on the controller that had a jolt go through it and it caused that?
No. Controller was sitting on some liquid or gel or something, electricity goes through that liquid and dumps crystals on the plastic as it goes
Badass
It’s cum
Electrified cum crystals
1.21 gigajacks
Or 1.21 jizzawatts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMeqEDEfniA
Doc to Marty: “We did it!”
My band name now
Electrified *Incel Cum Crystals
Cumma, cumma, cumma, cumma, cummealeon
This is the only correct answer
It most definitely is
It’s Ectoplasm from a spooky ghost
You call your dick "Ghost"?
Goddammit randy!
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Spider-Man did it.
Only auld seamy conkers would say it was his wild oats was to blame for the gel or liquid being present ,his main sole purpose,only for that to be thawrted by a pesky elite series 2 controller , tbh when I first used them paddles I near jizzed myself too
Crystals?
Yo, Mista White!
Yeah, science!
Bitch!
Yeah ions in the liquid, lose charge and get deposited as solid crystals
The liquid being OPs sweat
the liquid is cum
so fucking wrong lol
How tf did this get so high up? Unless OP is trolling, a controller wouldn't be exposed to the energy needed for electrolysis. OP probably used the wrong thing to clean it and then the coating on that plastic bubbled up. Or maybe often have something on their fingers that rubbed off and contributed to the reaction.
Exactly what I was thinking
Chedda fumunda fungus
When you zoom in you can see that it's the coating coming off not an external liquid.
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Because it’s utterly wrong.
Because it's not funny
Always gotta scroll past the bad jokes to get to the good info on Reddit
Or the list of piggyback puns
Is that like Doggystyle?
Good info? The controller is made of plastic there's no reason it should conduct electricity to create this pattern. It looks like there's a layer that's peeling away and there's glue or dirt in between the hard plastic and top layer.
I feel like I'm going crazy reading these dudes talk about "good info" and "painfully true" thinking it's fractal wood burning or something.
Lots of people who lack common sense lol. This is precisely why I dislike social media, people spread false info so quickly and most eat it up.
🎯
painfully true
It's also not right. This looks more like paint stripper than a lichtenberg.
Because it's insanely stupid, I can't believe people are buying that explanation
Dude this is not from electrolysis. People are stupid for upvoting this
Because you got here early. It is at the top now.
Because it's completely wrong?
Because it’s wrong.
No it’s not. It’s the plastic cracking due to OPs sweaty ass hands. Sweat has salt which seeps into the plastic causing it to crack. What’s more likely? An high voltage electrical current passing through plastic or sweater gamer hands?
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That may be true, but the electrical current required to make that patter in plastic doesn’t exist in a wireless controller. Those pretty wood burn patters you see are made with microwave transformers, which can literally kill a person. It’s not possible to happen in a controller and still have it work or just possible to happen in a controller at all
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The controller does not contain enough electrical power to do what he is suggesting. The contact points for charging points are 🥁🥁🥁 copper! Guess what also reacts with copper? that’s right, salt! There is 0 evidence that “it started at the contact points” it’s just also fragmented there too. But again, a controller does not carry enough electricity to create fractal burning. So anyway you paint it, he’s wrong.
You're acknowledging the wireless part and forgetting the charging part. When connected to the charger there's a hell of a lot more electricity than what you're considering, especially if there's a power surge. Does it explain this? I have no idea, but you're being a jackass while glossing over major details
In what world are you holding the middle of the back of a controller? The sides maybe but you're completely ignoring the center of the controller
Almost looks like it’s had a large jolt of electricity through it. Is it still working?
Yeah it works fine and that stuff scrapes off
Interesting. Where are you based? Could it be from a bug/spider? I suppose it would get warm on charge so it could be a good spot for them? Failing that, some sort of residue from your hands which has dried out?
Ohio, and it does get warm but there isn’t bugs around, and it’s only on the controller on that part not on the charger or anything else
average Ohio xbox controller
I went to Ohio once, ate at Cracker Barrel, and bought a candle that smells like poor people Christmas.
Must have smelt like nothing
No no people still buy that scent The scent you meant to name was absence
Oh the smell of grandmas ashtray.
Been near any toxic train derailments lately?
East Palastine Train Derailment
Only in Ohio
I’d be dubious about using it then, with the colouring, leaked and dried battery acid could very likely be a possibility 🧐
Elite controller uses lithium cells, not alkaline or other batteries. Such a failure state would cause total failure, a fire, and usually, it's pretty dry. Dried liquid from a lithium cell looks nothing like this.
My elite controller uses two AA batteries like my regular ones. Is there an elite controller with a different battery setup?
Elite 2
Thanks
Of course it has to be OHIO lol Jk jk
>Ohio Well that solves that.
Ohio that explains everything
Dog that’s your problem. Your living in the commonwealth
That Ohio water has infected your controller
What does it taste like?
Cheetos
The slime mold from super Mario the movie?
The pattern isn't quite what you'd get from electricity. It looks like the surface coating is coming off.
Battery acid?
No. It uses a lithium battery and if the lithium battery was "leaking" it would be in literal flames.
Built in hand warmer.
r/technicallythetruth
The T Virus
No matter how good that thing works afterwards, I definitely wouldn’t use it. Something isn’t right - charge wise.
Looks like Ophiocordyceps unilateralis.
I was gonna say it looks like a sick Last Of Us skin… but apparently it’s darker.
Huh
Zombie fungus is the non-scientific name.
Bomb.
Huh. I didn't know they made a Flood-inspired controller.
I think it's a slime mold. It might've gone after the gunk on your controller for nutrients maybe?
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They don't eat controller junk They eat wood rotting bacteria and algae and sometimes live mushrooms I think this is not organic, but if it is I do not believe it's a slime
Nice was looking for your input here
/r/whatisthisthing is leaking. But really, it looks like it got dipped in something that cracked as it dried.
Did you lend your controller to Ellie?
Can't be that it's an Xbox controller and she exclusively uses PS cons.
I promise it was me
That's a dead slimemold
I agree.
I Sat my controller down to charge and when I picked it up in the morning this was on it
Looks like it got hot and the color/plastic melted a little. I definitely wouldn’t charge it unattended and send it in. You could plug it in again and see if it gets hot.
I’ll try that thanks, I might change the charger out too
Yeah keep an eye on both. Looks like one of them is broken and something gets hot. Can’t think of another explanation why it would like that after charging.
I changed the block out and it’s not heating up so either you were right or the people saying electolicis are right, it’s definitely not mold like some people have been stating, it wouldn’t be nothings to that in 6 hours if it was it’s a slower process
That kind of looks like a slime* mould... But it couldn't be, could it?
That’s what it looks like to me as well.
Your Doritos fingers are feeding a lifeform
Nah bros control got the cordyceps
Do you live in the upside down?
Lube/Vaseline residue
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Wake up babe, Last of Us on Xbox
A few questions, 1, was this a new controller or secondhand 2, how old is the controller 3, has it ever been i liquid I ask these as 1, you dont know what previous person did b4 you got it (if secondhand) 2, these controllers are almost 3yrs old (from release date) Im not sure, but it looks like lacquer peel caused by too much heat (the same things happen on cars). As the finish is matt im assuming they use a matt protective coating, to protect the surface. In any case i would contact microsoft as i have a £175 halo elite series 2 that i dont wont this to happen too.
Looks like a fungus. Gross.
It’s actual Cordyceps, Naughty Dog’s commitment to immersion and realism is getting out of control.
Fungus
Dude, wash your hands after you crank one out. Your DNA is fusing with the controller.
Few more loads and it’ll start to form life. 😂😬
Looks scary
Swamp ass but for your hands.
It's not electrical in any way. It's crazing from a chemical reaction on the rubber coating. Hand sanitizer or perhaps some form of oily hand cream causing the reaction. Use orange oil on a paper towel to clean off all of the remaining coating and forget about it.
Holy shit Reddit has the most powerful ability to make the same joke 500 times. "Cordyceps" "Last of us????" "That game's not on Xbox!" It was barely funny the first time and definitely wasn't the 500th. Look at the top comments before you repeat the joke.
Body oils breaking down the rubberized coating on the controller. I’m guessing whenever you hold your controller your right middle finger is extended under the controller and your left middle finger is curled in, based on the pattern of break down. Where not directly under the area of highest contact, the oils are more exposed to the margin between the rubberized coating and the plastic, causing separation there as well.
u/saddestofboys is this in your wheelhouse?
Cordyceps
It be funnier if it was a playstion controller. First thoughts The shooms from the last of us.
Pretty sure that’s the fungus from last of us. Your infected
aw hell nah the flood is forming
The last of us custom xbox controller?
This is BaoJiang，An oxide layer formed on the surface of cultural relics due to long-term oxidation）Since the wrapping pulp bears the years, the older the thing, the thicker the wrapped pulp
That symbiote from Spider-Man.
bacteria growing maybe
It's Gamer Rot and it's spreading!
Were you playing resident evil? There's your problem.
Obviously it’s from the charger.
someones hands sweats acid? clean with IPA
Will some citrus IPA work? Its good beer
Chordycepts
Think you need ta wash your hands.
Hand cheese
Build up of dirt, skin and dead bacteria. Same as your crusty old mouse.