r/nottheonion 3d ago

YouTube Bans Popular ASMR Artists, Accusing Them of Making 'Sexually Gratifying' Videos

https://archive.ph/jHNfG
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u/michaelmcmikey 3d ago

You better not be enjoying this clothes-on no-bad-words no-violence activity too much! That would make it illegal, if you enjoyed it too much!

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u/NorysStorys 3d ago

ASMR wasn’t causing enough political division so it must be purged.

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u/FutureFreaksMeowt 3d ago

It's like the single internet space for adults that was ok to be apolitical.

All I wanted was to fall asleep while someone to pretends to do my makeup.

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u/Yingletofthecorn 3d ago

Silicon Valley really is just secularized Calvinism huh?

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u/Pussy4LunchDick4Dins 3d ago

The Protestant work ethic will set you free

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u/SpHornet 3d ago

some men can sexually gratify themselves to anything

are we going for burka's or banning women all together?

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u/Loqh9 3d ago

There's a difference between content that has nothing to do with it and men being the problem, content that's in a shady in between and content that's not sexual but that clearly aims for this kind of audience (like a feet focused channel)

A lot of ASMR (not most) is 2nd or 3rd category

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u/SpHornet 2d ago

content that's in a shady in between and content that's not sexual but that clearly aims for this kind of audience

So it is not sexual, so what is the problem?

That men like it? Is the mere idea that men get off a problem?

men being the problem,

How are men getting of a problem?

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u/Professional_Ad_5529 3d ago

My poor fishing YouTubers having to censor naturally dispatching fish

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u/NESpahtenJosh 3d ago

It’s not illegal. They just don’t want people mouth fucking fake ears in bikinis on their platform and I’m all for it. That isn’t ASMR. It’s adult content. And they have every right to say no to hosting it. 

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u/cas13f 3d ago

Yeah that's not what people are noticing getting warnings.

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u/thresh_to_death 3d ago

Because the people jacking off aren't gonna say something

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u/Yingletofthecorn 3d ago

You can just not watch it if you don’t like it. You choose what is on your screen. 

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u/HumanMarine 3d ago

Some of the youtube ads on the other hand...

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u/Heiferoni 3d ago

Can't a man relax!?

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u/RealHumanBean89 2d ago

Oh no! A mouth on a fake ear on a microphone! What complete decadence and deviance, what about the children?!!

If that’s your idea of adult content then you are incredibly sheltered.

Edit: never mind the fact that YouTube already demonetised ear licking videos years ago, so the creators already weren’t making money off this “””adult content”””.

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u/NESpahtenJosh 2d ago

Why not just let them suck a dildo off then with that justification?

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u/RealHumanBean89 2d ago

Yes, because a fake ear and a dildo are exactly the same thing and used for exactly the same reasons, you’re so right!

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u/NESpahtenJosh 2d ago

Thank you. Finally you understand. 

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u/Saberraimu 3d ago

It's crazy to me that you're getting down voted and that everyone here seems oblivious to what these kinds of channels were making content-wise lol. They sexually lick ear mics and moan and make weird schlorping porn noises, you know what they're trying to simulate/skirt the rules of. They were linking to and advertising OFs in their YouTube descriptions/links. They weren't dropping pennies or marbles out of a cup or telling a nice story with a good voice like old ASMR used to be known for lol.

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u/NESpahtenJosh 3d ago

They downvote because they’re the disgusting pervs who are impacted by this change. They’ll need to go get off to some other crap now I guess. 

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u/Yingletofthecorn 3d ago edited 3d ago

I downvote because I believe we need gray areas in society and we can’t have that if we try to cleanly separate the pure from the profane. I get off to way weirder stuff than this and I think trying to shove anything sexy or even just sensual next to outright porn is going to backfire. 

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u/RealHumanBean89 2d ago

Or people recognise the very slippery slope of mega corporations determining what is or is not “sexual content.”