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There's certain content -- certain types of gore, certain furry content, etc -- that gives me "the ick".
Sometimes I remember that many people get the same "ick" feeling from anime art in general, particularly the type of anime art that gets criticized as "overly-sexualized".
What are some times when you were reminded of the unbridgeable gap between different modes of perception?
ASMR. My wife watches cooking shorts on Facebook and they feature both TikTok editing (which is simply annoying) and ASMR sound, with all the slicing, scraping, sizzling, slurping sounding like it's happening right next to your ear.
She doesn't notice the difference, but I can't stand them. And some people are paying for recordings where they can hear a woman's tongue unstick from her hard palate.
I think it's like petting a cat or dog behind the ears. There's a correct cadence/pressure/technique for every animal, and if you hit the sweet spot, they'll slip into a blissful trance and love you forever. Some pets are easy to please. They're happy with any scritch behind the ears. Others are distrustful or tricky, and they don't like it except in very specific circumstances.
Same with humans and ASMR. Some people can fall into ASMR easily and have lots of triggers that work, maybe the whole gamut of YouTube vids. Others maybe only click with very specific voices, or can only do it when they're fully relaxed, or maybe even not at all. Personally, I find it hard to trigger with audio or video alone, but adding a little touch reliably opens that pathway.
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