If You Thought The Hot Tub Meta Was Bad, Wait Till You See The New ASMR Trend
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I can't explain to you how speechless I was doing "research" for this video. What even is this? Forget about the people watching this, which is a whole 'nother story, but who in their right mind would actually do this? Think about it from the individual's perspective, they are alone in a room with a bird mask, pecking, sucking and licking a double sided earlobe microphone.
The research I did Thursday night was of Amouranth during a 10 hour stream. 10 HOURS!? OF THIS CONTENT!! Her tongue must've been raw after that sesh. I've eaten enough Sour Skittles to know when to call it quits, but this is next level. Almost admirable in a way.
Money talks for sure and Amouranth's sub total on the left side of the screen = (at least) $100,000. Oh by the way, that's per month and off subscriptions ALONE. Not including ad revenue, donations, sponsors, etc.
I'm not saying I'd be down to do this for a cool $1.2M/year, but I'd consider it.
Btw, any volunteers willing to do field work!? I need researchers reporting back to me every hour on the hour. If you're brave enough, please let me know. This is hard, hard work.
This type of content was found in Twitch's ASMR category. ASMR is very popular on YouTube as well, but this is what you'd expect to find on the hub.
Wanna talk about a wild timing coincidence? On Friday night, Amouranth was banned onTwitch for this content (our video dropped Friday around noon).
My Solution
Twitch simply isn't the platform for this style of content. The platform has done a great job of branching away from solely gaming and become more of a live streaming platform of all different content forms. Previously, I thought we hit the peak of similar Twitch content.
To respond to the Hot Tub Meta, Twitch made a Pools, Hot Tubs and Beaches Category to segregate the content, which was a great move from Twitch. This form of ear-sucking content crosses a fine line of being acceptable. It's extremely bizarre to watch live and if this content has any chance to survive on the platform, then Twitch needs a NSFW platform. There's no way around it.
For now, the immediate response by Twitch was to ban this content, which is a massive revenue loss for the platform. So I'm very curious how they'll adjust for the long-term. Is an NSFW category on the horizon or will Twitch put their foot down and say enough is enough?
Lastly, if you catch me doing research, please don't put me on blast…
The Twitch Saga (as documented by MRags)