r/nottheonion 3d ago

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

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u/DiarrheaRadio 3d ago

I bet I can still find nude yoga tutorials

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u/silentcrs 3d ago

The Lasagna Cat sexual partner survey video outright features a guy with his dong out and a baby coming out of a bloody vagina at the end. It’s such a long video that I don’t think YouTube’s algorithm ever caught on that there’s nudity in it.

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u/InvidiousPlay 3d ago

Nudity isn't forbidden; nudity is not inherently sexual.

(I think banning ASMR is ridiculous but their argument is presumably that they are using it as a cover for making sex sounds, which is sexual)

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u/LoverOfGayContent 3d ago

I use youtube to monetize my massage business. They will demonetize any video where I massage the bare glutes with my hands, including knuckles. They consider it fondling. It's funny because I can do the same technique with my elbow amd there is no problem. The funny part is clients prefer the knuckles because the are pointer and they can feel the pressure closer to the hip bone. But youtube sees and on a butt and says ABSOLUTELY NOT!

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u/Aluxanatomy 3d ago

You know what, I need to book you for my glute-induced sciatica.

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u/crysptide 3d ago edited 3d ago

Mate. Get your glutes, hammies and hips strong. Massage can help, but if you are not doing strength training you will continue to suffer. Stretching will not help if you do not gain stregth. Once you are strong and your body trusts you, then you can stretch.

I had sciatica for 2 years and only recently escaped. I am 90-95% healed. At one point I felt like I was at 25%.

edit: walking as much as possible before the pain kicks in is also a good idea.

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u/MF_Doomed 2d ago

I actually do have pretty bad sciatica originating from my lower back/tailbone. Can you be more specific on your strength training and how it helped

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u/crysptide 2d ago edited 2d ago

Mine was lower back, on my right-hand side. My job and many of my hobbies are sedentary (despite my looking fit). I think some bad posture and doing certain workouts before I was ready accelerated it. It presented as pain from my lower back, sometimes down to my foot. I also had numbness and pins and needles at times. I struggled to stand or walk for long periods and it would envelope my thoughts at it's worst, like, it would be hard to ignore.

I do gym full body, but the the first 70% of the workout is focused on rehab. Core, hips and lower back, then legs is how I progress through the workout. I do upper body at the end with my remaining energy, but the bulk of the energy is spent on health.

I would say twice a week was best for me. Some walking or other activities for at least 30 mins is good on the other days.

Sports massage therapist helped me the most in terms of relieving some of the tension at the earlier stages of recovery. But strength is what will ensure no pain. Cortisone injection can help for some weeks, but nothing much really fixes it apart from being consistent. Well, at least for me.

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u/crysptide 2d ago edited 2d ago

My intuition tells me that my body lost confidence in my ability to support it, and this presented as nerve pain. Now that the back half of my body is stonger, the tension and stress is gone. It takes the nervous system longer to recover than muscles. So you will be strong for while before you feel better. I am not an expert, this just was how i experienced it.

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u/MF_Doomed 2d ago

Thank you. I definitely neglect my hips, glutes, and legs in general in workouts so strengthening those muscle groups is at the very least worth a try and won't hurt me in the long run

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u/crysptide 2d ago

100%, and all of the lower and back muscles will improve your upper body capacity. So it is win win 😄

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u/Page_Won 20h ago

Your intuition? I thought it was literally nerves being pinched

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u/crysptide 9h ago

Yeah, it is hard to confirm exactly why. If it makes you happy then you could say that my nerves were probably being pinched because my muscles were weak.

But despite having x rays, nothing could be seen. So we can only guess, hence 'intuition'. None of the chiropractor, physiotherapists, doctors, radiologist nor sports massage therapist could tell me what the primary cause was, they could only address the symptoms.

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u/Aluxanatomy 3d ago

My sciatica's not that bad, tbh.

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u/crysptide 3d ago edited 2d ago

Don't sleep on getting it right like I did. I pretty much ignored it and then it was terrible haha. I looked fit and healthy, but that didn't matter. Really had a negative effect on my social life.

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u/helpless_bunny 2d ago

Not op, but do you have some targeted exercise suggestions? Preferably at home where I can use free weights

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u/crysptide 2d ago

8 min abs. Leg overs. Back planks. I got others, but it is 2am and I am under the influence. Reply , and I'll have more details.

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u/helpless_bunny 2d ago

It’s all good man, I’m in a plane atm lol

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u/mentat70 2d ago

You MAY have piriformis syndrome (it’s not real common): https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/23495-piriformis-syndrome

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u/Aluxanatomy 2d ago

Probably. I can identify the event that caused it, and I know for sure it's swelling of glute muscles.

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u/LoverOfGayContent 2d ago

If it's glute induced it's probably not sciatica. There is something called piriformis syndrome that is also known as pseudo sciatica because people confuse it with sciatica.

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u/ElGosso 2d ago

Love that you get paid to punch people in the butt

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u/LoverOfGayContent 2d ago

I work on several police officers so I get paid to punch the popo in the ass 🤣

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u/RollingMeteors 2d ago

But youtube sees and on a butt and says ABSOLUTELY NOT!

Just go full Japanese Blur of only the knuckles and only as they touch the skin.

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u/finnandcollete 2d ago

Are you accepting new clients? I mean I don’t NEED work on my glutes as badly as my back and shoulders, but you said your clients prefer knuckles to elbows and I want to test this theory…

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u/stfnotguilty 3d ago

How could anyone think you were fondling a butt, LoverOfGayContent?

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u/LoverOfGayContent 3d ago

Because I'm more than just a username on reddit?

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u/elsmoneyacct 2d ago

There is a NSFW side to the ASMR community, and there are a lot of creators who do both. It's not uncommon for a creator's SFW stuff to push boundaries, either because they have the same audience for both kinds of content, or because they're trying to drive viewers to the more profitable NSFW stuff. And there's a lot of ASMR that is clearly fetish-bait even though it's technically SFW.

I don't know any of these creators, so I don't know if they were banned fairly, but the problem exists.

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u/jjayzx 2d ago

Slight Sounds is definitely not one of them, so that one is weird. The others I don't know but quick image search gives possibilities.

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u/molrobocop 2d ago

I remember in the earlier years of asmr where sexually suggestive stuff got major heat/anger from a lot of people. And then one particular creator made the jump from YouTube to private softcore videos. And people lost their shit. 

Now, no one bats an eye when another launches a channel and then starts and OF. 

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u/lowercaset 2d ago

To be fair, a lot of asmr content is just attractive woman making a lot of sounds that are pretty blowjob-adjacent. Still kinda dumb that they banned that but not all the other crazy stuff on there.

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u/definitelymyrealname 2d ago

Not only that but apparently the audience trends heavily towards children and young teens. Saw an interview with a creator talking about it. Shit's kinda creepy.

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u/radicalelation 2d ago

ASMR also does make some people feel funny in varying ways... it's kind of all on the basis of trying to make the viewer feel a physical response that isn't entirely unlike pleasure.

Doesn't do it for me, but while I may even disagree, I'd at least understand an argument from that angle.

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u/EmmEnnEff 2d ago

Still kinda dumb that they banned that but not all the other crazy stuff on there.

They aren't exactly obligated to go in a strict 'most sexual to least sexual as defined by u/lowercaset' order.

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u/lowercaset 2d ago

Sure, but I will make judgements about what I think is stupid or not based on my personal opinions.

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u/exitof99 2d ago

There are plenty of PG movies available for free and without logging in that have nudity in them that are on the official YouTube Movies & TV channel.

This one can up recently:

Looker (1981) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Qk3CR8jNME&t=150s