Has YouTube #ASMR content become a gateway for sexual exploitation?

Now don’t get me wrong. Not all ASMR content is sexual in nature. Most ASMR content revolves around the artist whispering into the microphone, scratching the microphone, and using their hands to provide other background noises such as crunching a plastic bag.

To many who listen to such videos, the aural atmosphere creates a soothing listening experience akin to a lullaby that a mother sings to her baby in order to make her baby fall asleep. Many people – myself included – have used ASMR to fall into a relaxing sleep.

However, there are some ASMR artists who provide sexual suggestive content which triggers another human response – arousal.

Most of the ASMR artists who provide sexually suggestive content also appear to be barely of legal age. One such ASMR artist goes by the name “Libra ASMR”. With her full lips and braces, her youthful looks could be seen as a pedophiles dream come true.

One of Libra’s sexually suggestive ASMR videos on YouTube involves her eating yogurt and deliberately making a mess all over her lips to give the impression that her mouth was full of semen. Many viewers were keen on this observation with comments such as “she knows what she’s doing” and “plot twist: that’s not yogurt”.

Libra also uses her videos to promote her Patreon and OnlyFans pages. Apparently, her OnlyFans videos show her performing fellatio on dildos as well as masturbating with sex toys. And her Patreom Apparently has similar sexual content such as sensually licking whipped cream from a pane of glass and moaning sensually as the whipped cream drips onto her breasts.

Another ASMR artist – named Pinky Malik – is an Indian housewife who does foot fetish and mouth/tongue fetish videos. Her original channel was terminated for sexual content. (Yet Libra ASMR goes unpunished.) What was Pinky’s crime? Simulating fellatio on a banana covered in chocolate syrup as well as an ice cream popsicle.

After Pinky’s original channel was terminated, she has since created multiple other channels in violation of YouTube ban evasion policies. So it’s okay for Pinky Malik to ban evade on YouTube, but not okay for Alex Jones to do the same? Very hypocritical, YouTube.

I originally planned on creating a YouTube channel exposing the seedy side of ASMR by showing clips of Pinky’s banana and ice cream work alongside Libra’s expertise with yogurt, but YouTube removed my video for violating their “sexual content” policy, despite having the video unlisted and personally age-restricting the video.

So what gives, YouTube? Why punish me while giving Libra a free pass?

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