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Oh god. I hate autoplay videos on YT channels. I hate this "too close to the microphone" sound (is it what people call ASMR?) even more, it's like biting on wool. I will never know what this girl has to say about Japan.
I would be the first to claim ASMR is bullshit, except I understand the purported sensation. The earliest I remember feeling it was when Katherine Drew crinkled the paper bag in which she had brought whatever the hell she had brought for show-and-tell in Mrs. Rice's first grade class, many many years ago. Later, certain quiet rooms and voices could bring on the feeling --like a tingling fizziness in the spine, and not at all sexual. Very peaceful even. But I have not had the same sensation in years, and never once to any of the supposed ASMR-inducing videos that our porn-obsessed culture (s) have produced. The subreddit is another case of reddit-fueled pathological fantasizing.
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