Woman Looks Into Eclipse With Knockoff Eclipse Glasses: Has Crescent Shaped Blind Spot

As Nia Payne waited outside her boyfriend’s Staten Island office to watch the solar eclipse together this past August, she spotted a woman nearby with a pair of eclipse glasses. Payne asked to borrow the woman's glasses to look up at the rare phenomenon in the sky — not knowing it would change her life forever.

"The glasses seemed normal and I looked at the sky. I looked like everyone else,” Payne, 26, told TODAY.

Payne estimates she glanced at the sun for a total of 30 seconds. About six hours later, she noticed a black spot had formed in the middle of her left eye.

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I mean, this sucks any way you look at it. It’s hard to make fun of this woman because every single fucking person in the world basically did the same thing that she did. Everybody warned us, “don’t look at the eclipse, it will make you go blind”, and of now, of course, we learn about Nia Payne, who looked at the eclipse and now has an eclipse-shaped blind spot in her vision. That’s fucked up.

And it sucks because, to be fair to Nia Payne, she did her best to find eclipse glasses. Who the fuck is this old woman who duped Nia into looking directly into the sun with a pair of knock-off sunglasses? If you’ve got fake eclipse glasses, that’s fine by me. But you’ve made your own fucking bed. Don’t go handing them out to anyone who asks, you’ve got to let people know!

All in all, this eclipse thing was just a mean twist of fate by the powers that be. You can’t have something cool happen and then tell people they can’t look at it. It’s inevitable that people are going to go blind, because, newsflash, everybody’s going to fucking look at it. It was dumb, dumb, dumb, and fucking dumber to think that anything else was going to happen.

I legitimately feel bad for Nia Payne because it could have been anybody! I looked up at the eclipse with no glasses before I was like “fuck that’s bright I’m looking into the sun” and stopped. But then I walked into a coffee shop and since they had a “communal” set of eclipse glasses, I took a gander- THOSE COULD HAVE JUST BEEN GLASSES. Scary stuff. I guess you can’t trust us humans with anything. Show us something bright and we’ll look at it until we go blind. Thoughts to Nia Payne, and everybody else in the world who’s starting to notice some weird shapes in their vision.

"“I still want to see a full eclipse,” she said. “It was an amazing experience looking at it, even if it cost me my sight.”"

Case in point.