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Original poster

To find ASMR really disgusting

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TemporaryPosition · 02/02/2025 20:04

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.

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ruethewhirl · 02/02/2025 20:22

YANBU, ASMR is very subjective. Personally I love certain types of ASMR and find them helpful for relaxation, but some of the more popular triggers creep me out - tapping drives me mad, and whispering creeps me out. Ditto those saliva sounds you mentioned.

Comedycook · 02/02/2025 20:22

The make up and skin care ones...why do they tap the bottles and jars...then the annoying hands under the chin once it's done...arrrggghhhh

Mehmeh22 · 02/02/2025 20:19

I've found my people.

It makes me rage.

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 🤷🏻.

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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 🤢

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Pinkissmart · 02/02/2025 20:17

Thirteenblackcat · 02/02/2025 20:14

I am not sure if it’s the same thing but I hate the nail tapping and finger waggling. Makes me want to throw my phone

Me too. God, the nail tapping

Chroniclesofstress · 02/02/2025 20:17

I don’t quite get it🫠

DinaofCloud9 · 02/02/2025 20:16

I love the nail scratching on the mic ones but hate the way it's become so sexualised now.

Ones with only a few followers tend to be better imo.

Leilanii · 02/02/2025 20:15

If you don't like it, you don't have to watch it. I quite like soft spoken or whisper ASMR. What I don't like are those sexualised ones <shudder>

Thirteenblackcat · 02/02/2025 20:14

I am not sure if it’s the same thing but I hate the nail tapping and finger waggling. Makes me want to throw my phone

Comedycook · 02/02/2025 20:13

It's repulsive....and why do so many of the people who make these videos feel the need to pull their sleeves so far down over their knuckles...?

TMGM · 02/02/2025 20:12

YANBU it makes my eardrums feel itchy, the whispering ones make me want to smack whoever is doing it 😂but obviously some people must like it or they wouldn't make them

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TemporaryPosition · 02/02/2025 20:12

JasperTheDoll · 02/02/2025 20:11

YABU! ASMR is amazing.

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🤮 it isn't. But, to each their own.

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Eenameenadeeka · 02/02/2025 20:11

I hate it too

JasperTheDoll · 02/02/2025 20:11

TemporaryPosition · 02/02/2025 20:04

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.

YABU! ASMR is amazing.

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.

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