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TemporaryPosition · 2025-02-02T20:04:25+00:00

And find it really off-putting when otherwise interesting and entertaining youtube videos are tagged with this. Makes me not want to watch/listen to them.

Christ0nABike · 02/02/2025 20:51

Why don’t I know what this is? I watch videos all the time. Am I ASMR immune or something? Am I dead inside?

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TemporaryPosition · 02/02/2025 20:51

WarmthAndDepth · 02/02/2025 20:50

Meh. It's one of those things that, if you don't like it, you will literally never need to come across it.

I don't think you understood my post

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WarmthAndDepth · 02/02/2025 20:50

Meh. It's one of those things that, if you don't like it, you will literally never need to come across it.

DonaldJohnTrump · 02/02/2025 20:50

You know, there are some people who knock ASMR? I don't know why. It's just four letters.

FOUR LETTERS arranged rather beautifully. In fact, do you know, it's an angramma amagramp, humpagram, just the word MARS rearranged.

And let me tell you, my friend that my other friend, ELON, is going there! To ASMR! In his own rocket car.

MrsCapGarland · 02/02/2025 20:50

It is pure emotion. There is no physical input whatsoever.

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TemporaryPosition · 02/02/2025 20:49

WarmTiger · 02/02/2025 20:31

Well that's because you don't understand what asmr is if you describe it as a weird thrill. Unfortunately some people do not experience the same sensations from ASMR so can't understand that's its simply a relaxation tool. And a very effective one too if you experience it. Please don't attempt to shame people who enjoy it.

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I can't help finding it icky that people listen to certain things, not for the content but for the physical sensations it induces.

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TheTurn0fTheScrew · 02/02/2025 20:49

I do love a bit of ASMR, but the deliberate whispery-tappy-mouth noisy ones are a bit grim. I tend to get it from Radio4 mostly - Poetry Please and In Our Time often work for me. Although nothing is as good as my undergrad East European politics lecturer - I learned nothing in that class as I was in a hypnotic state throughout!

iamnotalemon · 02/02/2025 20:47

I didn't realise AMSR is the feeling/response. I thought it was the sound.

Squirrelsnut · 02/02/2025 20:47

I like a lot of it. Some sounds are annoying. I like the quiet talking ones, like Moonlight Cottage, who mixes teas or discusses her antiques very gently and carefully. I haven't seen any sexual ones, unless I'm being naive..

SleepToad · 02/02/2025 20:46

Redtrainyellowcarriage · 02/02/2025 20:10

Agree, I don't understand why it's so popular it makes me feel itchy !
I'm also baffled by unboxing videos.

So me. Radio 4 did a programme about it (and has had several presenters try to use it) clearly looking at YouTube some men find it sexual. I'm a man and fucking hate it, sets my teeth on edge. It's a bit grim and creepy

MrsCapGarland · 02/02/2025 20:43

The genuine sensation is a joy. One to be searched for as often as possible.

PistachioPickle · 02/02/2025 20:42

The nail tapping 😩😫😩😫

bellsend · 02/02/2025 20:40

It actually makes me feel ill. Physically sick. God knows why. But I really hate it.

AllProperTeaIsTheft · 02/02/2025 20:39

I just find it baffling and rather annoying.

DeffoNeedANameChange · 02/02/2025 20:38

MermaidEyes · 02/02/2025 20:31

I'm happy to send you a video of my cat slurping up her food like an 80 year old with no teeth 😆

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D'you know - I'd still take that over a human!

slidingsideways · 02/02/2025 20:38

MrsCapGarland · 02/02/2025 20:25

I heard a program on radio 4 several years ago about ASMR and thought at last - I have an explanation for an experience I’ve never been able to describe to anyone who doesn’t have it. Most of the whispering YouTube stuff does nothing for me. I get pleasurable waves spreading up my skull from watching, live or on video, people very gently doing something incredibly detailed or skilful. I wish I could be more clear but it’s very real, trust me.

Completely agree, I first heard the term ASMR a few years ago and was like wait, does everyone not feel those tingles?? It was a bit weird putting a name to something I assumed everyone experienced. Having said that, the specific ASMR videos generally don't do anything except make me chuckle, but each to their own. Like you @MrsCapGarland watching something very detailed and calm by someone who is clearly a master of their craft, or lying very comfortably and feeling very safe with the sun on my skin, or certain people talking in the very calm way about a very simple, safe topic is what triggers mine. It's definitely not a sexual thing.

I wonder if those who get annoyed by ASMR videos in general, or in this case about videos that are not ASMR but are tagged as such, are those who experience ASMR, or not?

MrsCapGarland · 02/02/2025 20:37

I don’t think you can make it happen on purpose. You are emotionally or intellectually moved in a way you can’t control but that has a physical effect. You recognise the triggers and can therefore increase the likelihood of the sensation. It’s so warm and genuinely lovely. All headache stress is resolved.

DeffoNeedANameChange · 02/02/2025 20:37

TheYearOfSmallThings · 02/02/2025 20:19

I like some ASMR, I find it pleasantly hypnotic.

Unfortunately a lot of it seems to be attractive and scantily dressed young women being mildly suggestive. I don't know why so much of it is aimed at a pervy male audience, because I feel like that isn't really the main ASMR market 🤷🏻.

The ASMR is entirely coincidental in those videos - it provides an incredibly thin veil for everyone involved to pretend not to understand what it's actually about.

MrBatesWalkingStick · 02/02/2025 20:33

MermaidEyes · 02/02/2025 20:31

I'm happy to send you a video of my cat slurping up her food like an 80 year old with no teeth 😆

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Guinea pigs crunching bell peppers! The best sound

MermaidEyes · 02/02/2025 20:31

DeffoNeedANameChange · 02/02/2025 20:29

Some people have gorgeous whisper voices - I can listen to that no problem. But anything to do with nails or eating - bleurgh.

That said, I can listen to animals eating for hours. Do you think there's much of a market for videos of horses munching hay? Maybe mine could finally start paying their own vet bills......

I'm happy to send you a video of my cat slurping up her food like an 80 year old with no teeth 😆

WarmTiger · 02/02/2025 20:31

TemporaryPosition · 02/02/2025 20:18

But the purpose of the video is not ASMR, it might be about historical needlework techniques. And I want to know about that but then the video is broken into chapters some entitled ASMR, and then I just find it so distracting, I become hyperspace of very little saliva sound that I otherwise wouldn't notice and can't help but think of the people that might just be watching it for some weird thrill 🤢

Well that's because you don't understand what asmr is if you describe it as a weird thrill. Unfortunately some people do not experience the same sensations from ASMR so can't understand that's its simply a relaxation tool. And a very effective one too if you experience it. Please don't attempt to shame people who enjoy it.

BarbaraHoward · 02/02/2025 20:30

I love the ones where they make candies. Or mix colours of paint.

DeffoNeedANameChange · 02/02/2025 20:29

Some people have gorgeous whisper voices - I can listen to that no problem. But anything to do with nails or eating - bleurgh.

That said, I can listen to animals eating for hours. Do you think there's much of a market for videos of horses munching hay? Maybe mine could finally start paying their own vet bills......

MrsJHernandez · 02/02/2025 20:27

Its so creepy. Like, what the fuck are you doing, you utter weirdo?!

It's more likely to anger me than calm me!

MrsCapGarland · 02/02/2025 20:25

I heard a program on radio 4 several years ago about ASMR and thought at last - I have an explanation for an experience I’ve never been able to describe to anyone who doesn’t have it. Most of the whispering YouTube stuff does nothing for me. I get pleasurable waves spreading up my skull from watching, live or on video, people very gently doing something incredibly detailed or skilful. I wish I could be more clear but it’s very real, trust me.