Your low-brow youtube habits

I watch tons of animal videos, and personal productivity tips - and then never try a single one.

ASMR

Which ASMR specifically?

I love this show! Who needs horror when you've got shit like this?

I watch lots and lots of reaction videos to TV shows and songs/albums I like. Sometimes movies as well. I don't really have any other company, so that keeps my mirror neurons fed. Highbrow stuff I mostly cover with podcasts, though I occasionally watch lectures on YouTube as well.

I go to Reddit for even more low-brow video content. Like public freakouts and street brawls and so on.

Rich of you to assume we're all mouth-breathing Americans, cunt OP.

I watch videos about dogs

Watching stupid cat videos and I’m not a cat person.

Apologies, R6—great AUSTRALIAN novel.

Nostalgia binge-watching, often--cheap basic kids' or teen shows I saw back in the 90s/2000s on an actual TV. I know I should be keeping up with sophisticated adult shows that are on currently, but I can't be bothered and lack the emotional energy and get depressed by them, so I don't.

E.g. right now I'm sporadically rewatching the Nickelodeon adaptation of 'Animorphs', and am even considering buying some of the OG books (Scholastic Book Fair light novels for gradeschoolers) to read and enjoy again in secret at home, because lately I have really fallen out of love with reading and am not in the habit of picking up books or literature, instead I listen to eclectic or classical music and culture podcasts most of the time I'm not on Youtube/DL.

'Animorphs' as a text is at the same level my 6 and 10 year old cousins/nephews are expected to tackle, and back in the day at their same age I was already reading middle-highschool level books (and went on to a literature degree), so I feel as if I'm intellectually and emotionally regressing, sometimes. Really, I'm just having a hard time coping with adulthood. And am feeling too angsty and vulnerable for someone my age.

😻 I love the little kitten videos, especially the newborn rescues that are lovingly cared for and you can watch them grow into happy, healthy kittens

Music videos and concerts from the 70's and 80's.

New Eastenders episodes.

I'm hooked on various channels that read Reddit posts mostly from AITA and r/relationshipadvice.

The stories are obviously fake, but entertaining to hear the people offering advice.

R12 Ooh, what are some examples??

I feed the neighborhood raccoons. My hero is the raccoon whisperer in Canada.

Las Vegas restaurant reviews, especially the buffets. Trash people stuffing their faces and offering inane critiques.

Dunno if it's lowbrow, but I've watched all Diane Morgan's Mandy shows. Hysterical.

R14 James Blackwood!? LOVE him!

Possum Pearl <3

Give yourself the grace to dick around way too much every once in a while. And then set boundaries (loose) that you can spend certain amounts of time only. Then get up, leave your device and go to another room.

I've been dividing my time between Jamie Tracey's "Cooking with Julia" videos (AntiChef) and the so-called CD revival. Plus music videos and the occasional dog or cat video.

R20 There's a CD revival? I've been casually fucking this guy who still buys DVDs and is always going on about his DVD collection and how streaming movies can't compare in terms of quality, and I'm always internally rolling my eyes at him. Is he actually right??

The horrid Appleton, Wisconsin ur-Karen’s candle return saga at Bath and Bodyworks. At first I used to hate watch it but now I strongly identify with her.

[quote]I love to watch basic bitches cleaning their basic bitch houses

It's not hard to pick out the responses by the straight women.

That Salmon Twink song.

I have fallen into the REAL COURT broadcasts....They're like Peoples Court but with insanity, evictions, and child support thrown in. And the trials are very slow. People in small claims so crazy they could never make it near Judge Judy. Also find the REAL evictions interesting. Watching people have their stuff put on the curb. Avoid the videos of the landlords whining about deadbeats--those are infomercials.

LezzbyJudge trying to figure out a love triangle where everybody is stalking everybody on social media.

[quote]And the trials are very slow.

😂

R27 this is amazing.

R3 I love a good library role-play. Before I knew what ASMR was, the library always made me feel very relaxed, and the sound of the books being checked out was always pure bliss. Interestingly, I'm not a huge fan of male artists. I think it's because all my early real life experiences of ASMR were predominantly with women. I enjoy the work of Gentle Whispering, Be Brave Be You, MinxLaura123, Gibi. I'll always have a soft spot for Dmitri from Massage ASMR though, and his crispy, ruffled shirts.

I watch a lot of cooking videos. I don’t cook

I have to say...I'm addicted to reaction videos lol idk why but I love having my feelings of good music/movies validated by random people. It's embarassing but I cant help myself.

On my favorites list:

-The last few innings of the 2016 World Series that the Chicago Cubs won (when some cathartic happy sobbing is needed)

- The All-Plinko episode of The Price is Right.

- Silly TV montages like the "Every Willona Entrance; All 6 Seasons of 'Good Times'." Or the 45 minute long "Love Boat" intro featuring every guest star. Or any primetime soap "every main cast member ever" opening credit montages.

R32 I do that with reddit. These days, it seems like the second I develop an opinion on just about anything I have an almost impulsive drive to find out if strangers on the internet share it.

Also idk if I'd consider it low brow but kind of weird, I watch marathons of old commercials....some ftom the 90s for nostalgic reasons and to revive my childhood/teen years but mostly stuff from the 70s or 80s, I have no idea but they make me feel comfy and safe. I even look for entire broadcasts of shows/movies/newscasts that include the old commercials. I'm weird.

Ugh, we all like what we like, but I hate the reaction videos.

I watch cooking videos a lot. I do cook, but not the kind of stuff in the videos.

Those "ambience" videos (Pretend you're in a Victorian library and there's a storm outside!)

I find them really relaxing

Also watching old music videos for cheesy 80s singers (Paula Abdul! Taylor Dayne!)

Watching fraus massage their dogs.

Videos of pugs

I go to YouTube and click “Shorts.” Lots of kittens and fail videos show up and if I want to stick around and engage at least one brain cell, I can expect some standup comedians to do remarkably good routines. I don’t confess this anywhere but here.

Pet bird videos and air crash black box recordings. I find them soothing.

Einstein the Parrot

Passive Aggressive gay massages.

I am a licensed massage therapist. Believe me. Clients rarely look like this.

I like this guys channel it’s interesting to see neighbourhoods I’ll never see even if I visit every city.

I watch eviction vids too, as well aso the unstopping city street drains series.

I like this guys reactions to gross stuff it’s funny

Old radio shows like Suspense and The Whistler

I wasted a good hour watching this guy's videos the other day. He's a one trick pony but a damn hot one.

Bromwell High

R35, count me as weird, too—I binge old commercials for at least a few minutes almost daily. I play commercials from the 70s at bedtime on most nights, and they lull me to sleep.

It’s such a comfort to see the old ads, hear the classic jingles, and return briefly to childhood. Reminds me of better days when my parents were alive.

One of my favorites—Heinz ketchup commercial from 1976.

The Betamax King constantly posts retro commercials.

I used to love this guys interviews with Detroit sex workers and street people

The hard luck stories on Soft White Underbelly make me feel lucky for what I have (which is nothing).

Virtual thrift shopping.

Unboxing videos. I guess it's a vicarious "shopping" thrill

River

A break from the modern rat race with 1800s cooking.

The shoplifting videos from Gas Station Encounters are fun.

I watch Dakota Mays and his yoga routines but that’s not lowbrow! Yoga is highbrow!

I also watch old commercials compilations, mostly from the 50s/60s.

I also watch compilations of promos/previews of tv shows up through the 70s.

Eldergay British academic racists.

This cutie shoplifting. It's amazing how normal some of these people seem.

I like when people do emotional reaction videos.

Lately, I've been enjoying A&E's offerings involving true crime and BILL KURTIS. I like the dramatic background music but still wonder why BILL KURTIS sometimes wore that ill-fitting leather coat.

Right now watching a brit docu series about "Hidden killers in the household" ...things and customs of different eras that people used/did that were super harmful/dangerpus, it's sort of fascinating on a historical/sociological basis...they cover the Tudor household, the Victorian household, the Edwardian household and the post war (WW2) household...strangely fascinating, highly recomend

I watch Griffin Frenchie which is a Korean couple that films their adorable two French bulldogs and their baby/toddler.

The one where the woman keeps starting to have a baby but keep pushing it back in. It's been on every day for the last two weeks.

It's very funny and the sound effects are hilarious.

But that baby is looking less rambunctious the last four days.

Weightlifting how-to videos. I’m just trying to master perfect technique you see.

People randomly farting.

I watch fragrance channels and I like the really gritty ones. Its fun to figure out their approach and get a peak at their lives from the mis-en-scene. I posted Lavish V earlier this week.

R72 Not my thing. But I almost feel sorry for her. Her latest video has 40 views in 9 days? I was prepared to mock her/him but what would be the point?

I'm addicted to what's become "The Honeymooners" of Asian small-clawed otter YouTube channel - not the first to feature these adorable critters, but certainly the best-produced. It even has an establishing shot of the leads trundling down their owners' apartment stairs.

The (rescued, presumably neutered) male & female otter couple, Kotaro and Hana, have distinct, frequently clashing personalities. The channel focuses most on Kotaro's outgoing hijinks, but Hana's "juggling" play and struggles with overeating are relatable.

Otters are so stinkin' cute

r21, I'm not a collector of DVDs, but I prefer watching a movie that way. I usually like the picture more, and there's no buffering. I am not aware of there being a "DVD revival" in any case.

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I like funny game show moments compilations. Some of them make me cry I laugh so hard.

My favorite answer of all-time? September from the Richard Dawson hosted Family Feud. Hilarious.

I can understand wanting to go back to CDs. iTunes and the streaming services now sell / play different versions of the songs that people know and love. It's a way to get a new "master" and new stream of royalties. I prefer the original versions, usually.

DVDs sometimes had extra stuff on them. Like the Sopranos DVDs had running commentary by the actors or directors on a few episodes. (In addition to the episode without commentary.)

Interrogation videos.

My burning bush

R34

I read movie reviews only after I watch the movie.

Watch various choreography to the most ratchet music imaginable while swearing to myself that I'm going to get back into dance, while simultaneously making zero efforts to get off my ass and actually do so.

[quote] "Which ASMR specifically?"

I like this one, R3. Anything nature-related, honestly.

R73 Well I don't stick around for too long on any of them. And there are thousands it seems. I've moved on from Lavish already to a flaming twink in Chicago.

I wouldn’t call those English history/social history videos with Dr. Susannah Lipscomb “low brow.”

You’re all relatively classy. I’m the only watches Karens in the Wild, dashcams of car wrecks, people exploring abandoned buildings and house fires?

It's so unfair I don't have the ASMR superpower.

Where's MY brain orgasm?!!

As for me, there's this Texas couple, a spunky and sardonic wife and her goofy bad joke spinning husband, that do reaction videos watching the kinda pop culture films I like... so I watch them watching movies, which is such a goofy concept to me, but I really like them, their marriage dynamic, their banter and the occasional young child that walks in and interrupts the movie because she's a really good mom and it's all kinda heartwarming. It's an ersatz movie family experience

It's not lowbrow, but Sarper Duman and his many cats always make me smile.

I love those Sarper Duman videos

Don't know if other could consider it "low brow", but I like to watch ASMR vids of people flipping through vintage magazines.

Telenovela slapping compilations

R67 If you love domestic history and haven't already watched it, search "BBC Historical Farm Series" on youtube. You will LOVE it.

I always crack up watching celebrities reading mean tweets. I'll go back yearly and rewatch when I need a good laugh.

Love River, R58! How could I forget him 🤦🏼‍♂️

I consume a lot of sports news and talk on YouTube. It's basically one big shitty stupid soap opera, but I need to know what everyone says about everything every day. The funniest personality to me is Colin Cowherd - he actually should be an antagonist in a soap opera. He does this thing where he pads time with these drawn out metaaphors or similes. Like he'll slowly tell this dramatic story and say in the story there's a dog and there's a cat involved. Then at the end of the story he goes "Aaron Rodgers is the dog..............Josh Allen.........is the cat." And then he gets to add fifteen minutes to whatever 40 second obvious thing he has to say about the actual game. It's really excruciating. And he's just generally an arrogant pig who takes every opportunity he can to belittle poor people and mock those who don't have high status professions.

I like my Code Blue Cam.

I miss Bart Baker.

r97 He released a bizarre video on his channel after 3 years of a hiatus where he started promoting China's version of TikTok, crypto, and all while using a very obvious filter that, for a moment, made me question if was even really him or an ai deepfake of his face and voice.

Car crash/idiot driver videos.

Cop/Police cams. There are some good ones. It’s basically like everyone is doing their own little COPS show unfiltered.

R96 - Yes! Code Blue Cam!

I loved the dumb cunt that insisted she goes to jail because that’s her BEST FRIEND OF 10 YEARS!

r98 Oh shit, it's worse than I thought. I'm pretty sure Bart Baker sold himself to China.

R100 YES. That shit was so stupid.

R81 watch My Burning Bush

I like Korean bakery and street-food videos; Simply Sara; little animals eating grapes; failed DIY haircuts; and flying-fox rescues (particularly when they're assholes, like the one below).

There are two channels that I need to track down again: one was an ASMR queen who used to pretend he was a shop-bottom waiting on the viewer, and the other was an old woman who did “sexy” dances in clothing that last saw the light of day in 1991.

Most everything here would depress me, if I could bear to watch it.

YouTube seems lowbrow on whole. Even if I find some film that isn't available elsewhere, it's usually a poor quality video, wrapped in the poster's desperate self-branding attempts and entreaties to "follow me."

I'll watch some documentary films on architecture, a recipe or food/cooking video, and recently I started watching Dark Shadows. I'm through 1966 and almost if of 1967 of the 1225 episodes that ended in 1971; I expect my interest/patience to flag before the end.

One down...

Tico and the Man

I like to see clips of national anthems at National Hockey League arenas from years ago.

I'm a hockey fan, so not only enjoy the singer but the organ used in some arenas...the old pipe organ at the old Chicago Stadium arena was fabulous, but sadly they couldn't transport it to the new United Center in the mid 1990s. Now it's just an ordinary organ. Wayne Messmer did great anthems at Chicago Blackhawks games back then.

And it's fun to notice the attire and hairstyles in the crowd.

For those who like "Oh, Canada," there are some good renditions at hockey games.

I don't know how to link, but the NHL All-Star game in 1991 or 1992 had Celine Dion singing the U.S anthem, before she became a superstar. She obviously looked so different.

Chiropractor vids. Something very satisfying about them - like popping bubble wrap.

Courtroom procedures.

I am fascinated by tours of Japanese 7-Eleven stores and their vast and supposedly high quality prepared food selection.

Actually, I waste copious amounts of time watching anything regarding Japanese food, travel, life. The cafes, restaurants, apartments, department stores, trains, onsens (hot springs), ryokans (traditional hotels/inns) and workplace environments.

I also like the TabiEats channel, gay Japanese couple. They visit a lot of onsens.

R87 do you mean "You, me & the movies"? I love them, especially because they are one of the few exceptions in the reaction universe where the reactions are understated and zero forced or click baity.

R105 I dont think its low brow, you have to know where to look and what to look for...just a couple of days ago I watched a documentary shot in 1971 NYC about an emergency ward for drug overdoses, it was gritty and pulled no punches....lots of old historical documentaries, lots of decent noir films...lots of interesting but obscure stuff....honestly youtube is my favorite thing to come from modern internet.

I don't have time for low-brow "youtube" (Oh, dear.) habits.

I'm still deep in the DL trap trying to get out by digging down.

Late night wig snatching brawls at Popeyes.

Old news stories from the 70s from WFAA in Dallas. Archivists are converting the news footage into digital and uploading them a few at a time. The clips are just a minute or two long and it’s an interesting window into America at that time, like seeing a mall decked out for Christmas in 1975, etc. I’m not even from Texas.

I watch:

CCTV of attempted carjackings in South Africa, Brazil etc; highlights of 80s women's tennis matches; air crash reconstructions; and defendants in courtrooms being sentenced.

R116 they have a similar channel from Chicago, called "The Museum of Classic Chicago Television" where they upload full broadcasts, including commercials, of shows (news, after school specials, tv movies), including this fascinating (if somewhat depressing) Donahue episode discussing Aids with in its infancy in 1982

R106 Mon dieu, divoone!

My juicy knot

"Karen" videos.

Leon the Lobster— a soft-spoken guy buys a lobster at the grocery store and, rather than cooking him alive, makes him a friend. It’s more riveting than it sounds.

I’ll never eat lobster again.

Well honestly I was only able to eat it once, but still.

For a while I was fascinated by people who lived in their vans or RVs. But it was exhausting to watch them trying to function in such cramped quarters, and all I could think of is the stink. The smell of food and trash, and the toilet. Ugh. And what if some serial killer broke in and slaughtered them? So I stopped. Then I started watching fights. Fights at Walmart and Macdonald's and stuff like that. I still enjoy those. Yeah, I like the "Karen" videos too. And I like a some of the cooking videos. Back in the old days when You Tube was independent and new, they used to feature spontaneous fucking on public beaches. I don't think those videos exist anymore.

Been enjoying Nelson's videos, which feature late 80s/early 90s NYC Village lifestyle (many include a young RuPaul). Thanks to the thread about NYC creatives, I'm now in this hole, and I love it.

I've also fallen for this YT'er that goes to spas all over the world and gets massages (most of them feature him sporting wood underneath the sheets).

Not sure why he calls himself the "Massage King", because he ain't giving anyone massages, but he's nice to look at.

I like the 'tour my home' series from Architectural Digest.

R124 LOVE those videos...though my absolute favorites were when Nelson went down south to his home town..his interactions with his family, especially his dear aunt were my favorite...he was a good soul but it shined the most there.

But I wouldnt say that's low brow...low brow is watching subway/train fights....which I embarasingly do.

R127, I guess I'm interpreting Low Brow here to mean Betamax quality videos of yesteryear.

For me, I thought DL lowbrow meant average-looking people over thirty going about their lives in towns you've never heard of.

I was obsessed with the TV soap "Santa Barbara" in the mid-80s, and I stopped watching when I went to college in 1988.

YT started hosting a lot of the episodes, and I started re-watching, and actually made it from 1984 to 1989 (over a ten year period), only to find that Sony (current content owner) had them pulled down. They have occasionally popped back up again, only to be pulled down again. This is one Russian channel that features some (not all) English episodes in a disorganized playlist, and that's the best I can find on YT, but it was fun while it lasted!

I love YouTube! I watch gardening videos, house tours (Homeworthy, Home & Garden, Quintessence), NYC apartment rentals and home sales (Cash Jordan...even the lowest rent is higher than my mortgage payment), nature and animals, some financial advice, and some other random videos. I also watch movies. It's a great resource of tutorials, entertainment and learning. There's the crappy stuff, too. You can find just about anything.

During the pandemic lockdown in spring 2020, I was so bored that I resorted to watching a high school production of EVITA. I wasn't expecting much, but those kids blew me away! I then looked to see if they had done anything else, which evolved into looking for other school productions of various Broadway musicals/plays.

And now it has become a habit. I don't know. I find it charming somehow. A lot of the kids are talented and are giving it their all. Makes me wish I had done drama in high school. I definitely had the interest in theater, but I was much too shy and a quiet kid. Also, I was a loner so never did extracurricular activities after school nor saw the school productions.

I can't get my other link upthread to open, so I am linking this one just in case no one else can get the other link to work, either.

Does 'low-brow' need a hyphen like that? Is that the smart way to write it? I've always put 'lowbrow' as one word.

I just looked it up, R134, and it be one word or hyphenated. But more interestingly, I read that the terms highbrow and lowbrow came from when phrenologists believed that the size of a person's forehead indicated their intelligence, or lack thereof!

From Wikipedia, regarding middlebrow. I figured some here can relate.

According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word middlebrow first appeared in print in 1925, in Punch: "The BBC claims to have discovered a new type—'the middlebrow'. It consists of people who are hoping that some day they will get used to the stuff that they ought to like".

R123 watch this - related to vanlife - one of the most chilling and scary videos I've ever seen. I'm positive the guy in this video is a killer.

R132 post one of your favourite productions please.

R132 There's this great film podcast that I love called 'You Are Good' with Sarah Marshall and Alex Steed (she also does the fantastic 'You're Wrong About' podcast), and they just recently reviewed 'Waiting for Guffman' and talked all about falling in love with community and high school theater in older age and just the joy and charm of it all. I think you would really dig it!

R134 Yes, it can be one word or hyphenated, but I was under the impression that the one-worded version was just meant to describe the art movement? I could be wrong.

"Cats being weird" compilations

An ASMR youtube video with bear-ish man with sexy voice. I listen to his ‘go to sleep’ videos to combat my insomnia. Very soothing

[quote][R132] post one of your favourite productions please.

R138 What to pick? I'll share two. The very first one I mentioned in my original post.

And the latest one I've watched.

A you tube channel devoted to Barber shop shaving videos- I am totally hypnotized by them. I want one, desperately.

I’ve found the second missing channel and it’s even more horrific than I remembered. Those lips! That whispering! Those arm movements!

^^^^Tony Bomboni!

[quote] I consume a lot of sports news and talk on YouTube. It's basically one big shitty stupid soap opera, but I need to know what everyone says about everything every day.

R95 if I don't have inane sport content from my stupid special sport lads then I don't have anything

Omg R146 he reminds of a dear friend - we used to get super stoned and role play stupid stuff- like him selling makeup. ( he was a makeup artist and had tons of products)

We used to act like this and laugh our asses off.

Soap Operas. I love revisiting Another World and Guiding Light.

Clips of performances from Stairway to Stardom. DL got me hooked on it!

Another favorite youtube past time is reviving my childhood trauma of scary/creepy psa's. God that shit scared me silly....this one used to terrify me

Opening credits for crappy, forgotten shows

It’s shameful but I keep watching his videos.

Celebrities with terrible plastic surgery (via Lorry Hill, Dr. Gary Linkov) is another incessant youtube habit along with True Crime.

I love Lorry Hill

R154 wins the thread ....Nikocado Avocado is so low brow it's on the chin.

Compilations of famous fit rich people I fancy laughing.

Good vibe-cleanse after rancid depressing bathetic videos like the ones at R154.

^^^^

God bless Lorry Hill.

Pebble, the foul mouth Cockatoo

r148's Evita was pretty good for a high school production.

The girl who sang Another Suitcase in Another Hall was good.

Search “destroys store” and order the filters newest to oldest.

Tonetta

Creepy stuff

R161 I have tears streaming down my face I am laughing so goddamn hard at this video 😂😂😂😂

I love watching parrots laugh

No one’s yet asked what a high or middlebrow YouTube habit looks like.

Presumably, middle brow is TED talks and audiobook excerpts of popular ‘classic’ novels read by ASMR uni students.

I'm gamely trying to wean myself from the very low-brow habit of watching videos of "sovereign citizens" recorded during their courtroom appearances and/or traffic stops (oddly, often recorded by the "sov cits" themselves). Their earnest attempts to school police officers and judges in their quirky interpretations of constitutional law can keep me entertained for an embarrassingly long time. It might have been one of you bitches who first misled me into this dark corner of the internet.

This guy who has one channel where among other things he opens 40 year old cans of food and tries what’s inside. He has a second channel where he obsesses over culverts where he clears blockages and beaver dams (when the beavers have abandoned them, not while they’re inhabiting them). I think he’s on the spectrum to a degree. I find the culvert videos are nice to have on in the background, since they’re basically all the same and it doesn’t take a lot of attention to follow the action.

I like exploring youtube. They put cameras in different places to watch wildlife like grizzly bears and all kinds of birds and other animals. One camera is trained on a sloth. I also love the videos that are walking or driving around with a camera. I have watched videos from all over the world.

Years ago, some kind soul posted all of the Mama's Family episodes. This was before I had an iPad and I didn't have the technology to hook up YouTube to my TV. So ... I actually watched all of those episodes on my phone. Frankly, it helped me through some hard times. Just to have something light, stupid, and hilarious to take my mind off of my troubles for a while.

"Frankly, it helped me through some hard times. Just to have something light, stupid, and hilarious to take my mind off of my troubles for a while."

That was me and The Golden Girls during 2020.

This channel reminds me of datalounge, he discussed defunct brands and products.

I like his speaking voice and production

R173 That was me and The Golden Girls since 1996.

I watch a lot of videos of people of people in the UK reacting to videos about America. It’s interesting to hear their respectful comments.

I like to watch this guy with his spiders

There are a couple of good West Side Story high school musicals.

This guy posts a lot. He's a former closet case drug addict who sobered-up and found a $ugar daddy. I think he'll eventually murder him. Stay tuned.

Watching Chris Crocker/Cara Cunningham eat and rate fast food.

R146 HORRIFYING

Trixie & Katya

Binge-watch episodes of extremely messy people.

tbh the fact that I use yt most days and leave comments is lowbrow enough without getting into what i watch. have been a user from the jump though, I used to watch grainy music uploads back in 2005

I still don't understand what "ASMR" means. I thought it was a label to mean that "this video will relax you or give you a physical sensation of the chills". It's now added to many videos that are actually disturbing and chilling on their own. Am I misunderstanding what ASMR means?

I agree on the Golden Girls, and TV soaps, there is a relaxation to watching nostalgic simple dumb and funny things. I went on a Dallas binge a few years ago, and it not only helped me through some rough times, it also taught me a lot about business practices (which I would later see and deal with in my own career).

Mukbangs.....but not Nikado Avocado....not that low.

There are even some compilation videos about cringy weird mukbangs which are kind of fun...its like the exact opposite of ASMR.

[quote]I still don't understand what "ASMR" means. I thought it was a label to mean that "this video will relax you or give you a physical sensation of the chills". It's now added to many videos that are actually disturbing and chilling on their own. Am I misunderstanding what ASMR means?

Because it takes less time to type on DL than using the Google.

ASMR stands for autonomous sensory meridian response; a term used to describe a tingling, static-like, or goosebumps sensation in response to specific triggering audio or visual stimuli. These sensations are said to spread across the skull or down the back of the neck and, for some, down the spine or limbs.

I’m not r185, but I found that definition too when I Googled ASMR and I still don’t know what it means in terms of YouTube videos. Can an example be provided? Thanks much.

My favorite true crime youtube channel!

I like watching old Candid Camera pranks, especially from the 1950s and ‘60s.

Love episodes of old game shows like To Tell the Truth, Password, and What's My Line

I like watching vintage British Transport Films of any type and steel mill films of electric arc, blast furnace, basic oxygen shop, Bessemer Converter and even rolling mill, tandem mill and finishing mill films.

As opposed to highbrow YouTube content?

As opposed to highbrow YouTube content, OP?

ASMR is something made up. It means nothing.

Steam trains, subway trains, any vintage train

Mira Sorvino, reduced to Mukbanging!

R195 I would describe low-brow media content as anything you employ to turn your brain off (or at least turn it down to the very lowest simmer).

There is a channel for nearly everything under the sun on YT, and that also includes plenty of intellectually stimulating and culturally rich content. My raccoon rescue marathons ain't that.

I love the Found Footage Fest / EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE compilations of VHS tapes from the 80s/90s.

Finn the Twink. Lived on a boat for 7 years. Does he know about OF because he could buy a yacht someday if he plays his cards right.

I watch classic cat videos.

I'm totally in love with this guy's creativity.

These kah-weens…

1980’s mini series & 1970’s made for tv movie of the week.

R204 can I see those two kah-weens fucking?

This Youtuber follows-up on viral video stars.

This Youtuber posts very long, themed videos with vintage music playing. Have 6 hours to spare?

R3 I like all types of ASMR videos but lately I've been falling asleep to massages in the streets of Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam. Don't ask me why or even how I found them but it's relaxing.

Last week, I wasted about 45 minutes watching people pretend that they're Clem Burke in Blondie, doing covers of his drum parts. "Dreaming" is a popular one.

I watch videos like this

Watching videos to remind myself to stay the hell out of Australia.

German guy first time visiting American Wal-Mart.

I am going to a really stressful period of my life so what helps me sleep are channels that help me not to think about my own stuff. Favourites are Rarran (a semi-professional hearthstone player located in Canada) and Medlife Crisis, a British cardiologist whose channel I highly recommend.

OP lives in an outdated studio apartment in a very not up and coming neighborhood.

Not sure if it's lowbrow but lately I've become addicted to bee/ bee nest removal videos. There is something so damn satisfying in seeing those little clueless cunts get vacuumed up and destroyed. My favorite one takes all the dead bees and larvaes and gives them to his chickens to eat. Very circle of life-y.

This North Carolina man regularly documents a black bear that he named Simone and her cubs outside his home. 🥺

Oh, I love that guy, R217! I watch him regularly.

I love watching a man getting a massage.

[quote] I like this guys channel it’s interesting to see neighbourhoods I’ll never see even if I visit every city.

R45, nice to see an image of a high-end neighborhood in Cleveland.

R220 Cleveland rocks!

Incidentally, Ian Hunter, an Englishman, wrote that song in tribute to Cleveland, because he did not agree with New Yorkers and Angelenos that the city was a shithole.

*that the Midwest city was a shithole.

I love watching the free lawnmowing videos. They look for overgrown yards and offer to deal with them for free. The people are usually Elderly or just cannot keep up with their yard. Very heartwarming!

All you can eat Las Vegas casino buffets

Russian car crashes. Dashcams were widely used there way before they became popular in the US because the roads there are like the wild west and the drivers are idiots.

Love this couple roughing it in Alaska. I don't know why, but their vids are so interesting!

Soviet Russia videos. Both during the Soviet Union and people visiting those countries today. It fascinates me.

I don't respond to ASMR triggers, but I do like to go to sleep to the ones who whisper pleasant things to you. Some of my faves are Cap Bailey, Tyson, and Whispering Gentleman.

I've been watching movie, TV, and music reactions obsessively for over a year. It's fun to see someone experience a classic movie for the first time. But I'm starting to sour on them lately as it's getting harder to find intelligent, thoughtful reactors who haven't already plowed through most of the popular choices. Just yesterday I watched two Gen Y girls give opinions on Gone With the Wind so ignorant a comic could have written them.

I can't get enough of old industrial and educational films, like they used to parody on MST3K. Periscope Films and Old TV Time are great channels for these.

Luxury travel videos give me the vicarious thrill of all the first class vacations I will never take. Seeing all the first class flight and cruise amenities and the opulent hotels and resorts is a nice escapist time. The Luxury Travel Expert is head and shoulders above all the other travel channels if interested. I also like to watch the real estate tours of multi-million dollar properties sometimes.

My newest and most lowbrow obsession is police bodycam videos. I can't tell you what draws me to them as I don't think I've figured it out yet myself. It's sort of fun to see dumb people get their comeuppance, I guess. For whatever reason I've been watching them for hours at a time lately.

YardBrah, Jeb the Gardener, itsblitzzz

R227, I like that channel, too. They grow a ton of their own food. Just watching them harvest & process (can) some of the food makes me feel tired.

R7, I am addicted to those cat videos too. Have you seen the little cat family that is in love? They are shown embracing each other, in bed with each other, always doing some dorky love scene. It's so darn sweet!

Mr. PopZit aka Dr. Lynch. That’s right. I watch zit popping videos with a side of abscesses and exploding cysts. Mr. PopZit’s videos have no commercials except for a 5 second intro at the very beginning. It can be very zen watching him do extractions on a teenager’s face covered in blackheads.

R228 do you follow "The Ushanka show" on yt? It's a guy who grew up in the USSR but moved to the US in the mid 90s, and he always posts videos about life in the USSR, it's really interesting. Look it up if you didn't already know it.

This is the video game equivalent of "try before you buy." Gotta say I'm dangerously close to making EA $70 richer after watching gameplay of Jedi Survivor.

I eat vicariously through this guy, who eats food I have no access to and couldn't afford anyway.

Car detailing vids.

R237 I like to watch Ammo NYC detailing videos. You?

Haha, love you OP.

I like to watch this channel, Tuberides, that features water slides around the world. It's strangely compelling. No annoying commentary, either.

Yard sale finds.

Progressives and their obsession with skin color.

Sure, they're not racist.

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Dammit. Wrong thread. Sorry everybody.

I like those metal shop videos where some guy with a lathe makes a toothpick out of a 50lb iron bar.

My YouTube video algorithm is a curious one that suits my interests to a tee:

Physics

Young people reacting to 90s music

Houseplants

Religious history/mythology

Tori Amos reaction videos

Young people watching classic movies for the first time

AI forecasting

Art history & painting tutorials

Anthropology

I am very boring.

There is a whole world of these sad videos of Pakistani men swimming in irrigation canals wearing see through when wet white pants. It's a rabbit hole I wish I never fell down.

I like a site called Happy Ass Farm that shows videos of cute li'l donkeys running around, kicking up their heels, farting, etc. The downside is the woman narrator's constant babytalk, describing what the little nudniks are doing, or what they would be saying if they could talk. It's her and her husbear on a working farm in Indiana. It's a really nice place and the videography is pretty good, considering how active the donkeys are. The couple has a house full of animals. I wonder about people like that, sometimes.

Thank you for this, r248!

IMarkKeyz remixes are hilarious; I love how he manages to work Beyonce into every one of his videos.

Storm chasers

I think if you were constantly around baby donkeys it would be impossible to not use baby talk.

I don't know how "low-brow" this is, but the amount of time I spend binging the channel's content, alone, may qualify.