What’s wrong with these peppers?

Probably stayed on the bush too long

The only water rot google results I find refer to blossom end rot, which this is not. Is there a link you can post so I can read more about water rot?

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It's called Sun Scald and happens when it's as hot as it's been. It happens to some of my peppers each year at this time of summer.

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I don't think so. Sun scald usually presents as dry-firm dead spots, I've experienced plenty of that too. These are moist/soft. These peppers only get the first 8 hours of sun a day, they don't get the brutal afternoon sun. And the plant is plenty leafy.

At this point I'm thinking fungal or bacterial. But I doubt a fungus because the leaves are completely healthy.

One of my plants just did this. I ripped the plant out and pitched it in the trash

Doesn't look like blossom end rot but don't use the other plants as an indicator I have had some tomatoes do amazing and the plant right next to it had blossom end rot. Sometimes it's not the soil could be just a bad plant that has deficiencies at absorbing calcium appropriately.
Kinda looks a little like sun scald but the way you describe how it gets sun it shouldn't be. I think its bacterial too. Had two of my peppers do this last year. Rip that shite out of the ground to save the rest.

Where I live, brutality starts about 2pm.