Below is a video that will bore the hell out of some, creep the hell out of others, and baffle the hell out of nearly all.
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"OK... what the hell was that?"
Simple, my friends. You have glimpsed the world of ASMR.
ASMR, or "Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response", is a recently-documented condition that many people experience. Essentially, upon finding a "trigger" while in a relaxed state, one may suddenly have chills shoot down their spine, causing a pleasant buzz. A natural high, if you will.
There has been virtually no research done for ASMR, and it never was thought to be a thing until the internet came along, when people began to realize that other people had the same reactions to ASMR stimuli as them. Research on the phenomena is underway, but it's still so new that we don't have real results yet.
Common triggers are whispering, soft talking, tapping, stroking, seeing people concentrating on tasks, or grooming.
Naturally, as with all things slightly odd yet pleasurable, there's a huge batch of people on YouTube who obsess with it.
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That's Maria, the queen of YouTube ASMR. She has over 60,000 subscribers and 21,000,000 video views.
"Oh, lacktheknack, I went for all this time thinking you WEREN'T a perv," you say. But that's just it. You see, the community insists, as a whole, that there's nothing sexual about it. Erotic ASMR role-plays exist, yes, but then so does erotic fanart of everything. I've never seen an entire internet community collectively denounce accusations of "You're getting off to this" before. They seem to need to, as the videos are regularly flagged for being inappropriate, even though they aren't.
It's a very odd stigma. As one person said, "If caught, it's easier to explain why you were watching porn compared to explaining why you're watching ASMR videos."
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Case in point.
So I ask you, Escapist. What do you think of this phenomena? Is it creepy and disturbing? Relaxing? Or do you feel a rush of ASMR yourself?
Discuss.
<youtube=4fDMSLLMk4Q>
"OK... what the hell was that?"
Simple, my friends. You have glimpsed the world of ASMR.
ASMR, or "Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response", is a recently-documented condition that many people experience. Essentially, upon finding a "trigger" while in a relaxed state, one may suddenly have chills shoot down their spine, causing a pleasant buzz. A natural high, if you will.
There has been virtually no research done for ASMR, and it never was thought to be a thing until the internet came along, when people began to realize that other people had the same reactions to ASMR stimuli as them. Research on the phenomena is underway, but it's still so new that we don't have real results yet.
Common triggers are whispering, soft talking, tapping, stroking, seeing people concentrating on tasks, or grooming.
Naturally, as with all things slightly odd yet pleasurable, there's a huge batch of people on YouTube who obsess with it.
<youtube=24VtH7pZWWE>
That's Maria, the queen of YouTube ASMR. She has over 60,000 subscribers and 21,000,000 video views.
"Oh, lacktheknack, I went for all this time thinking you WEREN'T a perv," you say. But that's just it. You see, the community insists, as a whole, that there's nothing sexual about it. Erotic ASMR role-plays exist, yes, but then so does erotic fanart of everything. I've never seen an entire internet community collectively denounce accusations of "You're getting off to this" before. They seem to need to, as the videos are regularly flagged for being inappropriate, even though they aren't.
It's a very odd stigma. As one person said, "If caught, it's easier to explain why you were watching porn compared to explaining why you're watching ASMR videos."
<youtube=PgJQSetoalk>
Case in point.
So I ask you, Escapist. What do you think of this phenomena? Is it creepy and disturbing? Relaxing? Or do you feel a rush of ASMR yourself?
Discuss.
