Summary

Young adults increasingly seek refuge in autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) videos when feeling overwhelmed by in-person interaction, according to a new report from Revealing Reality.

The study found younger generations (18-44) are significantly more likely to feel overstimulated by social situations and noisy environments compared to older adults.

While ASMR content—videos triggering calming “tingles” through whispers, tapping sounds, and gentle movements—provides immediate comfort, experts worry this “digital soma” may prevent developing real-world resilience skills.

  • @[email protected]
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    218 hours ago

    Okay, I’ll bite.

    Well, then, you’re categorically wrong. These younger humans are not simply stupid. They see that the world is completely destitute and don’t want to engage with them. That doesn’t make them less resilient, they’re trying to limit their impact and their time around other humans because they see all of the chaos being brought about by that interaction. Asmr is an easy way of getting stimulation without impacting anyone else, other than the byproduct of electricity usage. And that’s not really their fault. We have also been vastly cornered into social isolation ever since COVID hit. This is the dissevered reality that Republicans have wanted for a very long time. All of our systems are being gutted, and no one wants to confront the people who are taking them away, including you. So everyone else who gives two shits would rather keep their sanity by finding salvation in isolation than work together with a bunch of people actively destroying the world, through greed, ignorance, or sheer stupidity. Or out of some perceived social necessity as it seems you believe. There is no place in the world for a good majority of the chronically online. We used to have a place when people could work overnight and afford to rent, when they didn’t have to live in their parent’s basements just to survive, when college graduates didn’t have to live paycheck to paycheck. The only people making enough money to dream of a pension or retirement are those who knew someone, or those who had the money to get to know someone and there is increasingly less and less middle ground. The bottom has fallen out for a multitude of reasons over the last several decades, and we’re all caught in the crossfire of a generation past whose entire goal was conquest in a world that increasingly just wants to be left alone. We’re at odds with the past and the future and were just trying to survive. This is how we cope with having our only option being survival.

    • @YamahaRevstar
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      017 hours ago

      I never said they were stupid, you assumed that.

      We have also been vastly cornered into social isolation ever since COVID hit

      I agree with you. That’s what I’m saying. That human eyes are a commodity and we are being taken advantage of. I’m not blaming people who are addicted to screens, but that doesn’t change that they are. I believe it’s not their fault, because these apps are addicting and meant to distract you. Screen addiction is real, and I don’t think rising authoritarianism is to blame. Unchecked capitalism, for sure though. However, as of last month, the two are now hand in hand.

      I understand that it’s not easy for a lot of people, but at this point it’s up to us to put the phones down and stop supporting the ones responsible for the issue in the first place.