Mildly Infuriating

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.

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.

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.

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

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

It's just going trough puberty

what does it taste like

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.

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.

You Deal w ts for over a year???💀

We live in a corrosive atmosphere.

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

When using recycled plastics this is a real wild card. Levels can wary wildly from batch to batch, so even the manufacturers don't really have a clue. Only occasionally tested minimum levels.

Pristine stuff can be used more for planned obsolesce.

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

Thats the sin leaking out.

It's that xxx site youbkeep visiting

Whaa, a follow up on the pimple headphones!? Ouch, yeah that looks even worse now, crazy that you kept using them even after all this time, yeah, that looks like replacing time indeed.

If it didn't sound like a possibly very unsafe idea I'd say i wonder how much it would degrade and how would it look if you sealed it on some kind of bag and left it there for a very log time haha

It is the era of device

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

If it's anything like the Aliens movie, then it's a droid.

I would try two things.

1. heat gun the goo a little (get it up to like 150F or so) and see if it the sappy liquid runs and you can maybe clean it and drain it easier at temp

2. get some shrink wrap to seal up the ends. That might help for a while if you can get it tight.

I'm not familiar with those headphones but sometimes manufacturers will put grease or goo inside the cables to reduce straining and folding of the wires.

It looks kinda like rosin in the photo. I wonder if something inside the device was saturated in rosin and its just leaking down the cable?

The vital essence

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

I also had this once.

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