Intimacy and erotica become conflated as YouTube’s crude sweep raises obvious double standards on the massive video platform

  • guillem@aussie.zone
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    24 days ago

    Seems like the content industry in general is evolving towards cashing in on thirst, even if it’s not ASMR. The most banal tutorial about any craft or activity suddenly has some not-so-accidental innuendo, or the creator chooses the most not-so-innocently-revealing attire, or acts weird-but-it’s-all-in-your-mind towards the tools or materials…

    Nothing against whatever someone wants to put out there, but if you are after the tutorial and the algorithm feeds you the plausibly deniable softcore it’s a bit exhausting.

    • shads@leminal.space
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      24 days ago

      Ah you’ve seen Hands On Katie. My wife’s first reaction was “Why is her channel logo a boob?” and ten seconds later: “Right”