I am really starting to hate that the only thing that gives me #ASMR is soft female voices speaking a language other than English. Capitalism plus the Algorithm of the #YouTube hellsite means the robots just toss me into the softcore #porn hole or the #vtuber hole and call it a day. Or sometimes the porn vtuber hole, if they're feeling frisky. And then I just have to live with my YouTube front page being filled with a mix of techmoan and girlfriend roleplays for months because I fell asleep while listening, forgot to turn off autoplay, and didn't wake up when I got tossed into the pit of sexy pseudo-Japanese shark vtuber furries and booby clickbait thumbnails. And I just know AI Girlfriend apps are the only ads I'm going to see for a month.
@fastfinge So what you need is a channel of foreign neurodivergent female people, talking about their special interests in precise detail, with nice vernacular accents, and languages that aren't english.
@dodecahedron Yup. There are some audiobook channels that upload foreign selfhelp books that work pretty well. Also a couple Korean artists who produce what I'm looking for. Unfortunately, most European creators seem to whisper all the time. And I loathe whispering. The only situations where I whisper or hear whispering are stressful situations where something bad will happen if we get caught. So someone whispering in a video just spikes my heart rate.
@fastfinge soft speech is very different from whispering. Every damn aSMR artist, has terrible fucking mic technique. Every one I listen to, i could self produce my own ASMR recordings, and I have in fact done this, have since I was 12 years old, but it's not, the same!
@dodecahedron Yup. If you were female-sounding I'd offer some kind of ASMR exchange LOL. But if I recall correctly I don't think you are haha. And soft speaking male sounding voices don't work for me. I don't know why. Probably some sort of deeply instilled gender roles based trauma somewhere there.
@fastfinge I"m nonbinary, and my voice is just low enough to be male. I"m biologically male, so yep, I"m a he/they. But hey, sharing is caring, just having people, not judge me for my unique ass ASmR that IV"E never known any one else that has.
@dodecahedron Yeah, the actual gender someone identifies as doesn't matter to me. It's the sound of the voice. Soft spoken and higher pitched does it to me every single time. But if they're speaking English, I can't relax enough to get the ASMR because I'm too focused on what they're saying. Similarly, if it gets into my head that they wish I could understand them, it won't happen. Like if I land on a livestream where I suddenly realize I'm one of three viewers or something. I need to not understand, and...have permission to not try and understand? If that makes sense.
@fastfinge if I had to describe the languages I pull phonemes for my sung dialect? it'd be hmm, I don't even know how to describe it, it just happens lol.
