I think it's infected. You better take them to Dr. Dre.

You clearly left out the main thing anyone would need to troubleshoot this issue... what kind of music are you listening to. Obviously low quality music will wreck headphones no matter how good they are.

Bro just clean your ears bro

I think cancer treatment will be more costly than a new pair of earbuds or whatever your next cheap accessory that is leaking unknown chemicals.

what does it taste like

Try isopropyl alcohol 70%. The stuff you use for disinfectant in the first aid aisle. Soft rubbery plastics do this over time. The alcohol will strip the soft material that is disintegrating and leave the smooth plastic behind.

This happened to the outer rubbery (soft plastic) housing on my bike U lock. For like 10 years it was great, then one first-ride-of-spring I grab it, and it's like the entire thing was dunked in a pot of honey.

It's just going trough puberty

Oh boy!!! Just what I was looking for. How much for a pint of certified organic cable syrup? Can you guarantee it's less than 1% earwax by weight? If so I can go as high as tree fiddy.

My usual source on FB marketplace is playing hard to get. They said 'I know what I've got and I won't take less than a dub'. What a scammer LOL. Unless that syrup is gold plated I ain't paying 20 bucks for a pint, smh.

I'll give you a nickel if you lick it

pffffftttt i dont buy it... no way youve had a pair of earphones for a year

Ok, so, A. Buy new earbuds. And B. Don't throw them away, give their "body" to science, I want a full autopsy of these.

Send them to their resting place, they've done all they can

Are your headphones sucking out your ear wax or something? What the heck even is that gunk? 😮

We live is corrosive atmosphere.

When rubber and plastic run out of antioxidants they will disintegrate or turn in to a slime.

When using recycled plastics, this a real wild card. The levels can wary wildly from batch to batch, so even the manufacturer doesn't really have clue. Only occasionally tested minimum level.

Pristine shit can be used more for planned obsolesce.

Given that:

1. The statue of Mother Mary cries;
2. These earphones are weeping;

You are witnessing divine signals from heaven above, and can charge people money to make the holy trek to witness your hallowed earphones.

Thats the sin leaking out.

You Deal w ts for over a year???💀

Why would you still use them after the first day you knew this was happening?

That's a Spotify Leak /s

This reminds me of the old Apple Macbook chargers where the cable was permanently attached to the charger itself. These cables became brittle and discolored from white to yelloy (they looked like they have been in a heavy smokers' household when exposed to UV light, which is always). When I tried to fix the brittle cables with tape, it got worse and probably due to a chemical reaction between the material of the cable and the sticky glue of the tape they completely disintegrated.

Your headphones are beyond repair. It looks like they have been exposed to some chemicals. Did you at one point in time clean them with perhaps an aggressive cleaner (toilet/ household cleaner)? It could be possible that some cleaner got inside the cable through a micro-crack in the cables' insulation and reacted with the copper inside.

You should replace them. The ooze is probably not healthy.

If it’s leaking from the inside, it may be that the polymer never properly cured and is still liquid on the interior. You could try returning it as defective, or just shell out for a new cable

It is the era of device

Get something newer as overtime the older rubber like materials tend to break down.

I also had this once.

This might be the answer: https://integraudio.com/why-headphones-cable-sticky/

It's that xxx site youbkeep visiting

It's lived past is expected use case a set of headphones should be, this is reality bleading though your headphones.

The vital essence

I've had cables so this after ten (five of I left em in the car) so maybe they're a touch old?

The door paint in my last flat did this if you hung damp clothes over them. But you could wipe it off at least.