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Multiple Major ASMR Accounts Suddenly Removed From YouTube Over ‘Explicit Content’ (kotaku.com)

submitted 14 hours ago by squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/ghazi@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Intimacy and erotica become conflated as YouTube’s crude sweep raises obvious double standards on the massive video platform

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[–] A_be_seedy@beehaw.org 2 points 8 hours ago

I truthfully thought ASMR was a weird section of tiktok where glass bottles got rolled down stairs till they crashed and other things to make weird sounds. I think I'm wrong. I kinda can understand how the breaths in the mics might sound erotic but I just dont see it being as bad as that one porn video on youtube, "legends of chopsticks and sex 2" or whatever the fuck that 1.5 hour long video was where there woman was naked and on a swing in a garden and the guy was eating grapes then decided to throw the grape at her, and she caught the grape in between her legs and it had a weird shloop sound and then after they established that premise, she shot the grapes out. Like this video put the lemon stealing whore to shame, and there was way more nudity and sex than that video. And its not like that video wasn't just some bootleg thing, it was decent quality and up for years. But if it just somehow escaped the filters, surely the entire nude yoga section wouldn't?

Idk, YouTube's porn selection is weird and this seems arbitrary

[–] GalacticSushi@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 13 hours ago

Don't worry, I'm sure our friendly, fascist techno-overlords at Google will apply their new, arbitrary evaluation of what is and isn't "explicit" in an unbiased manner that will only protect our children and certainly won't be used as an excuse to target women, people of color, and queer folks.

/s in case the dripping sarcasm was not palpable enough

[–] alapakala@quokk.au 4 points 11 hours ago

It's not even that, it's about forcing people that make Google money to dox themselves.

[+] yardratianSoma@lemmy.ca 1 points 14 hours ago (2 children)

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[–] squirrel@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 13 hours ago

Your submission in "Multiple Major ASMR Accounts Suddenly Removed From YouTube Over ‘Explicit Content’" was removed for The myth that poor, innocent men are the victims of vile women has always been a justification to discriminate against women and ban them from public life. With the current purge of erotic and queer content from all kinds of platforms such rhetoric will not be tolerate on Ghazi. .

[–] guillem@aussie.zone 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Seems like the content industry in general is evolving towards cashing in on thirst, even if it's not ASMR. The most banal tutorial about any craft or activity suddenly has some not-so-accidental innuendo, or the creator chooses the most not-so-innocently-revealing attire, or acts weird-but-it's-all-in-your-mind towards the tools or materials...

Nothing against whatever someone wants to put out there, but if you are after the tutorial and the algorithm feeds you the plausibly deniable softcore it's a bit exhausting.

[–] shads@leminal.space 3 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Ah you've seen Hands On Katie. My wife's first reaction was "Why is her channel logo a boob?" and ten seconds later: "Right"

[–] guillem@aussie.zone 3 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Hadn't seen that one specifically, but yeah, looks like a good example to me.

[–] shads@leminal.space 1 points 11 hours ago

She has also embraced the slop, so no great loss that I can't watch it.