'Girlfriend Roleplay': The Weird New ASMR Trend Sweeping The Web
On YouTube, a new type of video has emerged: clips in which young women speak to their boyfriend... or rather to the many Internet users – who are lonely - who follow them. We’ll explain this strange phenomenon.
Forget dating apps to fall asleep at night! You should watch girlfriend roleplay videos on YouTube. This new trend is a variant of ASMR, a technique that consists of talking while whispering, to appease the people watching the video. The ‘girlfriend roleplay’ therefore features young women whispering (like the classic ASMR), but pretending to talk to their boyfriend as if this was their private life. Yes, it's quite strange, and even bordering on the creepy side...
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Most followers of this phenomenon are lying on their bed, phone in hand, filming themselves pretending to whisper sweet words to their imaginary boyfriend. In reality, they are watched by thousands of people behind their screen on YouTube. An original way to help their fans fall asleep at night, since, in addition to comforting messages, there are also more naughty whispers with sounds of caresses or massages. So it is actually more of an erotic ASMR... A new type of strange video that has become a trend - the contents are sometimes downright disturbing - but which seems to be very appreciated, since these videos are quickly spreading on the web.
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