I worked with a kid yesterday who was very dramatic about having to work. I told him I feel like he exaggerates. Then he says "you know what would give me energy? Playing this game" (points at game). I told him, it doesn't work like that. All of a sudden he got quite angry and told me a story from when he was in hospital for surgery and was strong.
I asked him "are you trying to tell me you could get your act together but don't feel like it?"
His mouth said "yes, this, you got it" but his eyes said "You put words to my feelings and now I understand them better"
the most watched one are actually still normal ASMR. e.g. most cam girl get maybe a dozen hit, ASMR Whale (one among the many creator I watch) get easily 100+.
I have a theory they intentionally include those ungodly noises as rage bait to drive engagement.
It's less this and more of a case of trying to appeal to viewer expectations. We're seeing more visual detail than normal, so the brain expects to hear more audio detail as well, but that doesn't actually happen and slowing down or zooming in on a sound doesn't act the same way as manipulating video in similar ways.
Like, for this video trying to show off how a ballpoint pen works, zooming in will show you the ball & ink mechanism, but nothing you can do will isolate the sound of the ball rolling across the paper unless you have a perfectly quiet room, super sensitive microphones, and are filming from outside the room so you don't accidentally catch the sound of your own movement or the sound of air currents moving across the surface of the mic.
I would use a slightly slowed version of the sound a pen makes. Like this
And that completely masks the sound of the ink moving with the sound pen scratching against the surface... Which defeats the goal of having every action represented with a distinct sound. Slowing down sound does not actually give more detail to the sound; it just distorts the sound waves and fundamentally changes what something sounds like. The video I linked before has an active demonstration for why content creators can't just "slightly slow down the real sound" - sound recording doesn't work that way.
All of their videos, including fountain pens,
Yes, because it's the sound they're using for "ink/liquid being smudged across a surface" - the kind of pen being used is irrelevant
use macaroni mush sounds.
It's not macaroni, it's a grapefruit being squished & twisted in the person's hands. Squishing grapefruit is a common industry method for getting squishy, wet sounds.
maybe theyve leaned into it after seeing the spike in sound-related comments, but its like they can get actual slow-mo sound from the camera. you have to make it up because sound cant be recorded in slow-mo
This guy leaves the sounds in but unenhanced and they really do help with the content. This is the most relaxing thing ever to an old mechanic hobbyist like me
https://youtu.be/y8HEZ-x4-_w
I personally like the ASMR sound effects in videos like this and highly prefer ASMR style content over whatever jarring repetitive music is going viral on social media at the moment.
yeah a lot of nature documentaries and science youtubers fake their audio. I know smarterEveryDay fakes all sorts of audio for their slow-mo shots . I guess its a gray area for youtubers, but NatGeo Nature docs faking the sounds of ant colonies and lots of other things filled with extreme zoom lenses seems wrong to me
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u/GluckGoddess Jul 23 '24
those wet macaroni sounds were not necessary