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Explain like I’m 5, please. What is ASMR.

there's a lot tbqh but there's a lot I dont get about ppl my age and older too

(as long as it doesn't negatively impact me, I try not to get too worked about much. I feel like there used to be a lot more of "well I guess that's not for me" rather than "fucking kids are the death of society" among older generations before lead poisoning became so prevalent.)

Instagram. I was maybe the last person to get a smart phone. It was probably 2016. I'm just fully lazy to take photos of stuff.

I fucking hate instagram. Having a private personal instagram for friends/tinders I don't give a shit about and getting my horny spam link in bio instagram banned every 6 months probably because some asshole with bots wants me to pay them for "marketing services" (which actually means becoming one of their bot accounts or it means ripping my paid content for free) or some asshole was hanging out, fuck that place.

I think I'm too autistic to get any generation. I'm a millennial and I have a much easier time understanding and communicating with Autistic people from Gen Z than allistic people from my own generation.

Most asmr is psychological torture to me UNLESS its asmr specifically of typing on nice sounding mechanical keyboards then its glorious.

I don't understand why kids care about trainers. I don't think anyone gave a shit about shoes when i was a kid unless they were light up sketchers. Otherwise it was the cheapest reebok or puma trainers from JD sports cos we'd demolish them a lot playing football

Instagram. I was maybe the last person to get a smart phone. It was probably 2016. I'm just fully lazy to take photos of stuff. This is a real issue when I'm single and I need to start putting photos on dating sites, as all pics of me in my phone are me squeezing carrots in my nostrils and similarly goofy things.

The stories you might get from using those photos might be worth it.

When they skibbidi their rizz without being sus

I think the slang is funny but i feel bad that they have such a melted husk of the internet i knew growing up.

Also there was more space to do stuff outside and get into trouble without actually getting into trouble

I don't judge them because i was shit and a bad guy as a youth

idk, Gen Z seems alright. I guess the only thing I get lost in is the lingo from time to time, but everything else is whatever. They're really just way more online than I ever was.

I avoided the sock thread the other day but honestly what is the deal with the full length white socks. I like to keep up with fashion trends but this is one that has not clicked with me yet. Gonna stick with my ankle/no show socks

1. RE: ASMR, what most people think of as ASMR is only a small subset of what's out there. I also find those intentional trigger videos (where people are just tapping on or brushing various objects) uninteresting to actively offputting. My favorite types are unintentional ASMR (particularly people talking about technical things) as well as personal attention roleplay (not the relationship roleplay stuff, which squicks me out, but things like medical exams or customer service). Whether unintentional or not, verisimilitude is the key-- that's part of why disconnected triggers don't do it for me, but also I tend to be triggered by voices more than anything else

Here's a classic video which ticks all the boxes for me (unintentional, accented English, tasteful amount of tapping and rustling, and amusingly technical given the subject): table tennis racket inspection. Another unintentional classic which launched a million roleplay ASMRs is this cranial nerve examination; a big part of it is the soft speaking and high gain on the mic as well as the personal attention. Actually, I probably should have lead with this, but the modern ASMR phenomenon was born out of people discussing these various unintentional videos and then people deciding to have a go at making intentional videos that have similar effects.

Not everyone experiences the pleasant tingles, which is something to keep in mind. Personally, I experience misophonia to the point of feeling pain in my ear when people blow onto the microphone, so any videos involving that are right out, and other people will have similar non-negotioables. It's totally fine not to enjoy ASMR regardless of the reason, but I just wanted to share that there's more variety out there than you might think!

With the rest, I'm basically right there with you.

2. Never made an Instagram because I have absolutely no interest in posting or looking at people's photos, although 15 year old me would have been into it so I can't blame the kids for that.

3. What are the kids watching, out of curiosity? If it's the latest battle shonen stuff (e.g. Jujutsu Kaisen, Demon Slayer) then yeah, I have no interest because I don't enjoy that genre in general, but I wonder if there's any other series where we might have some overlap.

4. YouTube pushing vertical streams has been driving me nuts. I don't mind watching a YouTube short here and there, but it's just not a good format for 99% of what I want to watch even if I'm watching on my phone.

i hate the idea that my peers are some sort of communist generation

the majority of them are fuckin succdem ass libshits at best, in fact i think the kids are getting worse overall when it comes to politics. Had to explain to a fuckin college student what colonialism was and why it was bad. America has and will ruin every generation, do not put some blanket trust that they will do anything but get co-opted into war with china or some shit.