- Ah! Ahh! Yes!
- It's not as satisfying as I anticipated it to be.
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- What is th-- Is this ASMR?
- Why do you have a bedazzled potato?
- (gasps) Soap cutting!
- I hate to admit it, but I [bleep] love this [bleep], bro!
- These are awesome. (chuckles)
- Yes, I love these soap cutting videos.
Oh my gosh.
- I know this is weird, but I have definitely seen
my fair share of soap cutting videos on Instagram. (chuckles)
- Why?
- That's actually very amazing, 'cause, you know,
I'm so done with the slime. So, this is so new.
- For me, the satisfying ones are the little cube ones
just for the noise it makes. I'm sure it's just the noise,
because if I did that by myself, it probably wouldn't be as satisfying.
- At first, I was like, all right, this is weird.
I don't get it. And then I started getting into it,
and I was like... Next thing you know,
I'm on it for 30 minutes.
- This is, like, soap cutting ASMR?
- So, this is a thing. This is a thing
where you just cut soap.
- Ooh. Ooh, I like that. (chuckles)
- Ahh, that's gross!
- Something about it is just so nice to watch.
- It's so flaky. Ooh! (laughs)
- That's not satisfying at all. I'm just thinking
about how she might cut her fingers.
- That was great. I love that.
- I'ma buy soap one day and just start cutting it.
- It takes a lot to see a bar of soap and think,
"You know what I'm gonna do today? Record myself cutting into this soap
and post it for millions of people to turn on their headphones
and listen to."
- Ooh. - Oh, that one's all smooth.
- I love when they're jelly.
- Ahh.
- (whispers) I love it. I love it so much.
- How do people find all these different soaps anyways?
- Whoa. - The first one had some glitter,
but this one was just, you know... It was just there.
- I usually do this on my own time, but now people will see
my reactions to it. It's a private thing.
Like, I watch my soap carvings, you feel?
(soap fragments clattering) - AHHH! Never mind!
I don't like the sound!
(soap fragments clattering) - Oh, these are so nice!
- Ah! Ahh! Yes!
- It looks awesome, and it sounds amazing.
- I don't know what it is about it. It just seems perfect.
- All day. I could watch this literally all day.
- You would think that my friends and I send funny videos
or memes to each other. We send slime videos and soap cutting.
That's all we send to each other.
- Oh, that's so pretty.
- This is so cool! They're carving it.
- Wow. Wow, wow, wow, wow.
- I like that it's turning into something productive.
- I can't do this. I would cut my finger off probably.
- Oh. - I don't know how people do it.
That's talent right there.
- It's like... I don't even know, hypnotizing to me.
I just wanna watch more and more and more.
- I find it so funny that all these ladies,
they always have their nails done.
You're not seeing anything else but their hands,
so they have to look nice.
- Is that soap? - The heck are these things now?!
- (gasps) Oh, ooh. Where they crunch it.
- Oh, that's weird. Ugh!
- (laughs) I don't want to anymore.
- Yeah! (laughs) Ah!
- Wow. - That's just amazing. (chuckles)
My mind is kinda blown.
- Who discovered this? Like, who just sat there
and just like...
Bingo! I have a new trend.
- Okay, just show the next one.
- This one definitely feels like it would feel nice in your hand.
- That one seems fun.
- Please tell me you have soap for me today.
I need to try this.
(loud crunch) - Ooh! I got chillies.
(loud crunch) - Ooh! Okay.
- What's the point? 'Cause if you're using soap
to wash your hands or something,
you're just destroying any usefulness that might have.
- After a while, it's just kinda the same thing,
just crush, crush, crush.
- This also reminds me of those hydraulic press videos.
Watching it get crushed and listening to it get crushed
is just so oddly satisfying.
(crunching)
- I feel like I can feel it.
- "ASMR Soap Queen." Yeah, you are the soap queen, girl.
(crunching)
- This just sounds like potato chips.
Just eat a bag of Lay's instead of watching this video.
- Oh. (gasps) Ohh my gosh!
- Now, we're making some soap guacamole
or something. (laughs)
- Why only one? Do a lot. Do a lot.
- Not for me. This one's not doing it for me.
(soft crunching) - Eww, that sounds horrible.
- What does this do?! What does it mean?! (laughs)
- For me, you gotta have a lot, and you gotta do it fast.
Now I'm getting mad, 'cause I'm not the one doing it.
- Objectively, this is stupid. Really, just getting into it
and having an open mind about it, it's pretty cool. I love this.
- If you go on the Explore page on Instagram,
it's the first thing you see. And I just feel like people
are going crazy for these videos. But low-key, I am too.
- (FBE) So, that is a trend all around satisfying soap cutting videos.
- Unsatisfying soap videos.
- I'm a big fan. I stan. I stan the soap.
- (FBE) Many have been considering it part of the ASMR trend.
- Yeah. Some of it is enjoyable to me, but it begins to--
it's too much when it's the people making these weird voices.
- (FBE) Satisfying videos seem to be a big part
of the online community, with oddly satisfying compilations
and satisfying slime being other trends
that we've covered before. So, for soap specifically,
how does that compare to other satisfying trends
that you've seen out there? - I like the soap cutting ones a lot,
'cause there are so many different ways you can cut it.
- I guess this one can be grouped with them.
Most of them are just... it's-- they cut it
or they crush it pretty much.
- You have soft soap. You have crunchy soap.
You have flaky soap. You have the one
that you cut up and do in little pieces.
It's very diverse.
- The slime thing, I hate the sound. It sounds like mouth noises.
With this, all the soap things, they feel satisfying.
- Maybe you can't procure slime, but everyone in their house
has a soap bar. Just cut it yourself
if that's what you're into.
- The slime is so old school now. That soap was so new
and almost innovative that I was like, "Wow!
This is so satisfying!"
- (FBE) Well, as you saw, these videos are very simple
yet receive massive views online.
And they seem to be extremely popular with your generation.
- Dude, you know why? 'Cause my generation's super effed up.
- (FBE) So, why do you think that your generation
enjoys these kind of videos so much?
- Well, I mean, it's such a bizarre concept
that it just makes me think that teens have nothing else to do.
- Maybe it's 'cause we're stressed a lot
and it helps people de-stress to watch someone cut soap?
- Young people have short attention spans,
so a quick 30-second video is just, you know,
gets straight to the point: we're cutting soap.
It sounds nice. It looks nice.
- When we see something that we don't like
or something that we do like, we share it.
And especially if it's something that you don't like,
you're like, "Damn, if I saw this and I have to hear this,
then I want my friends to hear and see this."
- I feel like social media played a big role
with this popular trend of soap carvings.
I would've never thought in a million years,
like, let me go to the store, I'ma get soap
and just start carving it. Like, I wouldn't think that.
But I see it on social media, and I'm like, yo,
now I wanna try it, ya feel?
- (FBE) So, you may have guessed, but we wanted to see
what you liked more: watching some soap cutting videos
or... - (squeals softly)
- (FBE) ...doing your very own... - Oh my god!
- (FBE) ...soap cutting. - No way.
- Ooh, that's nice and pretty.
- (whispers) Hey, it's me, Jayka.
Today, we're doing some soap cutting.
(loud thud) - (snickers)
That did not seem satisfying.
- I'm gonna test the strength of this soap.
It's not very strong. It's soap.
It was better watching it, to be honest.
- (laughs) Oh my god. That's so pretty.
That's so much better than watching it.
- It's not as satisfying as I anticipated it to be.
Do you know when your mom makes you skin the carrots
and potatoes? - (FBE) Oh yeah.
- That's what I feel like I'm doing right now.
- Okay, that was pretty cool.
I'm not changing my opinion, though, but it was really cool.
- Yup, that's not gonna work. Not everything is (chuckles)
as easy as it looks. Yup.
- Ooh! Dang, girl.
This is so much fun. You have no idea.
- Personally, I just cannot emotionally deal with the fact
that this sort of thing-- You know what?
It's fun to cut it, actually.
(laughs) It's bad to watch, but it's fun to cut.
- (FBE) So finally, you've now seen some satisfying soap videos
and you've made a satisfying soap video of your own.
So, between the two, which did you find more satisfying?
- Making a video. That just seemed much better.
- Most things are more fun to watch. This is definitely one of them.
- Watching the videos mostly, just because, again,
I like the cube ones. And I do not have the skill
to make a cube soap right now.
- Participating in the action is a little bit more different
than talking about. I can see how people like this.
- Oh, watching it. Oh my god.
I think I'm done with the whole carving thing.
- Watching it, I think, is better. You can go through the editing
and make the audio sound just much more better
than what it actually probably is when you're doing it.
- Making my own was far more enjoyable.
- I think watching them.
But it was still super satisfying. But I have to put effort into it.
- I like doing it myself, 'cause you can smell it.
Mm, it's so stress relieving. 10/10, would recommend.
I don't wanna stop, you guys.
- Thanks for watching this satisfying episode
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- What trends do you find satisfying? Let us know in the comments.
Shoutout to Tara 13. - Bye, guys!
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