>>29830486This is probably a lost cause if y'all seriously believe this, but for what it's worth I've experienced ASMR (yes, the tingles) for my entire life. I got it being tucked in at night by my parents, doctor's visits (especially the stethoscope), watching Joy of Painting on PBS, etc.
I was a part of the online subculture since nearly the beginning with this Danish nurse whispering and asking the internet if she was the only on in the world who got a weird sensation when hearing soft voices. From there came the "Whispering" community and then we all agreed on the stupid acronym to refer to the tingles we all felt.
https://youtu.be/IHtgPbfTgKcIt is absolutely real, and the fact that it's devolved to the point that people who don't experience it genuinely think it's a sex thing is genuinely sad to me. It's like if people started to think all massage was sexual because of how easily it can be perverted into that.
I have no reason to lie to you.
And I was a fan of Fauna before she became a Vtuber precisely because she knew how to induce the sensation well. One of my favorites of her old work -
https://youtu.be/PLUxDrrMX64