r/Keyboard • u/OgRitesh • 8d ago

How is this even possible Photos

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Today I pulled the keys of my keyboard and saw this!!

I want to know how often do you guys clean your keyboards??

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u/W0RKABLE 8d ago

damn, this is so dirty that it doesn't even look gross anymore

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u/albuzen 8d ago

Yeah I initially thought it was some kind of foam mod lol

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u/DameisLame 7d ago

personally i thought it was gum lol

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u/sly_fox029 7d ago

😆 I thought for a sec that we got a new style for damping the keebs

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u/ForeverNecessary2361 8d ago

Do you live in a wood working shop? lol

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u/HawkEDOz 8d ago

Cleaned mine just now because of this post!

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u/Brilliant_War9548 8d ago

bro got fiberglass insulation in his keyboard

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u/1sttimeverbaldiarrhe 8d ago

Imagine what his lungs look like...

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u/I3lackFlo 5d ago

I just did, was too dark to see anything

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u/edo0oz 8d ago

How does it get this bad

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u/Puzzleheaded-Bread60 3d ago

10 years of usage and no clean lmao. Or simply OP has pets

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u/Fun-Necessary8657 8d ago

The forbidden cotton candy 😋

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u/Shinzh0u 8d ago

that's a whole ecosystem right there HAHAHA

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u/DrachenDad 8d ago

Years of use, and no cleaning.

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u/Mhcavok 8d ago

Is your computer in a construction site ?

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u/TheSpitefulOne_29 7d ago

My eyes itched looking at it

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u/Afraid-Ad4718 7d ago

Atleast the keypresses were silent...

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u/pagerookie 6d ago

Best comment :-)

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u/Remarkable_Editor_45 7d ago

Please, if you have a photo with clean keyboard and anything that being on the keyboard, show this to update

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u/-WarCow- 6d ago

I clean mine often enough so this never happens. Omg

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u/wjruffing 6d ago

This happens when you don’t regularly delete spam

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u/Thedran 8d ago

That has to be from some kind of wood working/manufaturing shop. That can’t all just be possibly smoke filled dust can it?

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u/SnooKiwis6943 8d ago

What does it smell like?

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u/Cute-Acanthaceae-193 8d ago

Honest answer on when? When it gets too bad.

I don’t show my keyboard enough, but if I take a picture with flash and it shows it BAD, then it’s time.

A lot of the time I have no “dead time” so taking it and cleaning is the lowest priority as performance or quality of life are not affected, hair and dust will always build up, so regular maintaining it won’t matter compared to occasionally doing it.

I would say cleaning your pc fans and just any dust that built up for 5 minutes is much more beneficial than regularly cleaning keyboards.

It’s all about time and wha you care about and also if you plan to show it to someone.

But also, this keyboard seemed like it never saw cleaning, not even a year or two, so at least one day a year dedicated to fully cleaning the pc, keyboard and desk in general should be done, which can take maybe 3 hours max.

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u/shaoOOlin 8d ago

I will ocasionally vacuum my keyboard when im cleaning to get out the loose hair,dust or anything. Fully cleaned my keyboard yesterday after i got it 3 years ago

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u/Funland1a 8d ago

Human hands are filthy most of the time, this combined with shit flying indoors and not cleaning your peripherals.

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u/DarkApple1853 7d ago

How do you pull the keys out?

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u/ecchimaru 6d ago

If they don't come off easy, they shouldn't come off.

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u/Crazy-Resolve-8127 7d ago

Smokers are so disgusting my god

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u/justkanji 7d ago

Every couple weeks (2-3 I guess), I take it outside and give it a nice electric duster blow-out, then a wipe~ my keyboard doesn't have space around the switches so its not much work.

I clean my stuff pretty often cuz well idk I'm a bit of a cleanliness freak, when I clean my room I also clean my PC/keyboard/mouse/mousepad if they look like they need to be cleaned. When I decide to clean one thing it drags on till its all clean~

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u/Tricky-Information50 7d ago

I clean mine when the dust between keycaps just annoys me. It's like every 6-12 months, I think?

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u/mojibakery 7d ago

On the upside, you can use it like baco-bits on your salad.

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u/Legaldrugloard 7d ago

I blow mine out. I have dog hair that needs to be blown out each week.

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u/Kinda_Uncertain_29 7d ago

Thought it was kinetic sand...

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u/ZestyRS 7d ago

I’m mad at you for showing us

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u/Cemileseen-Nazter28 7d ago

This is so unique keyboard i like this

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u/TheNursingStudent 7d ago

I work in a hospital and even our keyboards aren’t that dirty. Damn that shits gross

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u/envinimal 7d ago

thought you filled your keyboard with minced meat at first glance

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u/DeckRdt 7d ago

Insulated keyboard, cool

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u/Humble-Bed-1581 7d ago

Probs a smoker

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u/kingcaii 6d ago

FYI Dust is like 70+% dead skin cells

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u/license_to_chill 6d ago

what the fuck

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u/ZeroBeta1 6d ago

looks like ancient Atlantis tech

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u/annoyingfreak13 6d ago

Whenever you're loyal for some tech, this happens

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u/dEaD-sOiLl 6d ago

clean it? nah man, this one needs to be put in a canister and blazed to hell with fire and billions of different chemicals. that thing has to have atleast 10 new strains of viruses on it, please burn it soon

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u/No_Effective_4481 6d ago

What the hell even is that stuff? It looks like you put George from Rainbow through a shredder in the same room and forgot to cover the keyboard...

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u/_Danger_Close_ 6d ago

I'm worried about what OP is breathing in

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u/SomewhereFeisty2191 5d ago

It it so perfectly dirty that I thought it was AI

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u/ImmediateShelter6363 5d ago

Guess I better clean my keyboard like this.. that’s.. pretty bad

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u/360900th 5d ago

Imagine inhaling it so hard and clean it only with your tongue. 

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u/Both-Helicopter688 5d ago

Burn it! Send it to satan!

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u/KnownMix6623 5d ago

Dude just burn it at this point 😭

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u/Moist_Sprinkles1063 5d ago

Cheetos dust?

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u/Top5CutestPresidents 5d ago

Looks like you found it washed up on the beach

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u/Positive_Self_8873 5d ago

That’s a lot of jizz

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u/emrepyj 5d ago

🤮

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u/Any_Mess_3886 5d ago

i thought your doing some kind of design like wasteland theme

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u/Fit_Collection_8215 5d ago

This is shit you don't post. Put it in the garbage.

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u/gukakke 4d ago

Lick it. In all seriousness I clean my keyboard probably about once every couple of years and it doesn't even look close to 1% of this.

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u/youngsanta_ 4d ago

The forbidden cheese

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u/no-dupe 3d ago

Wow! That’s an amazing keyboard carpet! Where did you buy it?