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homophyte · 1 year ago

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not to complain about something nobody cares about but why are so many asmrtists so far away from the camera now. a few years ago they were all up on it right in your face how it should be and now they’re like a full two feet away. how are you trying to do a personal attention asmr when your makeup brushes are visibly nowhere near my person. it’s so odd like where did the intimacy go. also why are peoples sets so fucking bright its a legit effort to find a nice dark video with a stranger acting like they’re close to me. actually it’s not even that they’re far it’s also having no sense that the camera is a ‘person’ in the fantasy of it. doing “hair brushing” where i can see the comb will take me out of it. if you say it’s on my body but you’re putting your props on my ‘face’ that’s not real. where did the sense of interpersonal care go. i’m blaming iphones

#instead of using a camera camera it’s a phone camera where it harder to tell the space and also they shoot distance strangely #plus it’s hard to achieve a touching the camera effect without it being really fucked up #it’s certainly a more accessible way to shoot but it loses a lot #and don’t get me wrong i actually LOVE the one minuter tiktok style vertical video asmrs #that single trigger in short bursts stuff MUAH really do #but it has such a distinct visual style from other asmr and some of those choices of that style are kinda baffling #when you think about what asmr is ‘for’#couple this with like #’putting you to sleep’ videos that now require you to have your eyes open the whole time (why)#and yes shit being SO fcuking bright AND that one channel totally dominating all other no talking stuff #so that it’s actively hard to find more of itOH AND THE LONG SPEAKINH INTROS #it’s somewhat frustrating to find asmr i actually like the style of it has become very youtube #there’s like a circle of korean creators that still do the ‘older’ style which i like but i don’t speak. korean #so even that’s difficukt when i don’t want my eyes open for subtitles though granted that’s not really necessary #idk it’s weird cause there’s like already an establish ‘old’ or ‘classic’ asmr style which is ALSO distinct and older than what i mean #it’s like another new style of the genre distinct from the last which is itself distinct from the original #can an internet historian get on thsi #who’s responsible #myposts

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