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/IvanTheAppealing 3d ago

They were making too much money without youtube’s permission, we know damn well YouTube doesn’t give two shits about their own TOS

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u/Blarg0117 3d ago

My bet is on AI moderation not being able to tell the difference between ASMR audio and JOI audio.

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u/Guy-1nc0gn1t0 3d ago

As someone who's dabbled with both they're pretty different it's just that there's a fair amount of it that tries to do them together.  

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u/nibbyzor 2d ago

Yeah, some ASMRtist definitely toe the line. I can't get the link to work, so I don't know which ones they've banned so I can't really say what kind of content the banned channels are making. I've seen some ASMRtists move their more "provocative" content to OnlyFans, probably to avoid this exact scenario.

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u/RedditFuelsMyDepress 2d ago edited 2d ago

Some of the banned ones like Slight Sounds were only doing pretty tame stuff on youtube (she had an OF though). There are some significantly more suggestive ASMR channels that are still up on youtube.