To find ASMR really disgusting

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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.

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?

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

I just find it baffling and rather annoying.

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

The nail tapping 😩😫😩😫

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

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

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..

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

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!

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

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

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.

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

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

I absolutely hate it. Yes it does have a very physical effect on me, but one of intense rage. It makes me want to hit or smash things. This is entirely out of character for me. I am genuinely a very calm person.

And I don’t mean just that I find them annoying and the annoyance makes me angry. It’s a Hulk-like switch.

I have no idea what this is? Can someone give a brief synopsis?

I think it's some kind of inverse ASMR

I only like unintentional ASMR videos, like the kind of stuff you're talking about - the V&A have a whole series on fashion that's ASMR-y that I love, and I'm a big fan of craftspeople in general carving things or making things and talking about it quietly! A lot of them have clocked onto the fact that ASMR is popular and tag their stuff with it now - sorry for those of you who hate it... (I hate anything too whispery or intentional so I understand the ick of it).

Yes it's over done and I hate the ways it's spilled into all videos. Fashion types wiggling their 'pieces' before putting them on, beauty bloggers tapping packaging. Just stop.

I like some of the videos. Not the tapping or whispering or eating but just the simple things like cleaning or people doing massages on others with certain noises.

When I was a kid there were lots of things like teachers writing on the blackboard that made me feel really relaxed and sleepy. There was no name for it then but it was just something that I noticed about myself. There was certainly never anything sexual in it! Just sounds that made my brain feel calm. There was a certain feeling like a tingling in the scalp to that calmness - the ASMR lot on social media use this 'tingling' as something to focus on and I think that makes people think it sounds a bit sexual?

Either way I like it as I watch videos to help me sleep if I am struggling or if I am anxious. It certainly helps a lot of people in that respect.

I'd never heard of it till just now. Watched a couple of youtube videos. I still have no idea what it is.

I watch ASMR. Have done for years. Thing is you either experience tingles/relaxation or you don't. There is nothing sexual or icky about the brains response. It actually helps put me to sleep and is effective on anxiety.

Yes I do agree it can be sexualised and filters into everything these days which is annoying.

I've just had to google it and the whispering thing is bloody creepy.

Folks are weird