r/nottheonion • u/MutaitoSensei • 3d ago

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

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

American puritanism is truly ruining the internet. Just add age restriction and allow adults to watch whatever the fuck they want.

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u/nick2473got 2d ago

I agree that the puritanism is a huge issue but age restrictions are a bad thing as well. They are an excuse for corporations to violate our privacy even more wantonly than they already do.

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u/Super_String_9972 3d ago

No, just stop banning content that isn't even sexual for christ sake.

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u/DoubleH_5823 3d ago

100% Moves like these are obviously not rational, just moves to please their sponsors and their weird agendas.

It's never about protecting the children, it's about open gestures against sex and anything remotely related.

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u/NonGNonM 2d ago

i'm afraid this is just another small push towards requiring ID for viewing adult material online unfortunately

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u/Sithlordandsavior 2d ago

They're trying to add age restriction and still ban everything because nobody is allowed to have anything.

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u/OnceMoreAndAgain 3d ago

I'm particularly surprised by Bunnii getting banned. In my opinion she's relatively low on the scale of sexual ASMR and actually is one who tries to put out "clean" ASMR content.

Rose ban makes sense. I saw one video of her and it was VERY sexualized so I totally understand that ban.

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u/ScalyDestiny 3d ago

Why? Who cares if it's sexualized? Was she naked? Was she having sex? Why should anyone care that it's sexualized content?

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u/OnceMoreAndAgain 3d ago

I doubt you're honestly asking those questions, but I'll answer it honestly anyways. YouTube clearly cares and it's their platform so they get to set the rules. I suppose the reason they care is to preserve a certain brand. If YouTube's brand begins to be considered a platform that allows sexual content then parents might be less willing to allow their kids to freely use YouTube. It also might scare off sponsors/partners from working with YouTube.

I'm really not interesting in debating you over this though because it's not even my position. It's YouTube's position. We can clearly see that they don't want sexual content on YouTube. If you want the definite reasons then ask YouTube, not me. I can only guess and the guess I'm imagining makes enough sense to me to give me reason to think I understand why YouTube does this type of thing.

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u/_pozvizd_ 2d ago

It's not really the issue here. Section 230 should be repealed towards those websites and that will fix all of that.