Chelsea Smith just discovered something that might make you feel a little silly. She realized that she’s been wearings earring wrong for 19 years- and you probably have been too!

All this time, she’s been plugging her studs with the disc-shaped plastic earring backs, like we all do.

Buzzfeed reports that Chelsea had a realization and popped out the golden plug from the plastic disc, the unnecessary plastic disc.

“After my nineteen years of living, I have now realized that you are supposed to take the plastic part off!” she tweeted this weekend.

Her tweet caused quite the debate and turns out, many didn’t know about this either!

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Some argued that the plastic disc shouldn’t be removed…. for scientific reasons:

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And some believed the plastic disc shouldn’t be removed…. for practical reasons:

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Glad to know I’m not the only one who didn’t know about this. Thanks Chelsea!

Have you been wearing earrings wrong this whole time too?

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