I’ve had the same thought about bath bombs. They’re so tempting to me for the idea of the moment when they go off and make the bath look pretty, but often the actual bath part doesn’t seem as appealing. Isn’t that what they’re supposed to be for- for having a bath? Why am I so drawn to it as if it’s a firecracker with no other use?
I feel like a "used up" slime would bum me out lol Like that part of me that gets really upset when I break something accidentally would trigger, even if the thing was meant for this
Same… I strangely feel like when I mix something into the slime it’s “ used up “ and I need to get another. It triggers me about the way I think but I just need a simple slime I guess?
Same. If I could get the gender feels of kneading slime *without* the "it's broken now" feels of mixing it into a homogenous goop, I'd probably buy some.
The slime scientists need to work out a way to make their product fully edible whilst retaining the same texture. Then I will need nothing else from the world and can retreat to my hole in the ground to play with my food forever.
I really like these shorter videos. Absolutely better than a snaky twitter thread, mostly cause because through your voice and your little rantsona its easy to tell how seriously you're taking this. Sometimes your twitter threads kinda read like angry rants so i much prefer this
the slime videos make me thing of the japanese mini food toys reviews that i used to watch. the appeal for me is watching someone play with something i dont own / cant buy / cant afford, and enjoying the process along the person recording the video. and also looking at tiny things.
i am also autistic but holy fuck, a product that arrives beautiful and can only be interacted with by irrevocably crushing that beauty into a hideous formless mush? that is HORRIFYING
This connects to ideas I've been thinking about what it means to relate to objects. Like, growing up neurodivergent and pre-fidget toys (toys feels like a viscerally incorrect word), there was a whole process of discovering objects around to briefly fascinate myself, only to have it lie around outwardly unchanged but nonetheless used. What does it mean to consider these "art pieces"; what and where is the art when you have an experience of briefly communing with an object in your hands? Mass production and commercialization of "fidget toys" changes the relationship of what for me was always recognizing the individuality of an object in a particular moment in time. There is a sense that you can know the beingness of something through tactility that isn't present for the other senses, and slime offers what you can naively believe to be pure beingness.
No hate on you or any of these slime review channels but I think that you've just perfectly described why gives me such a bad gut feeling; I mostly buy things only if I'm replacing something or if I'm really sure I'm gonna actually get use or enjoyment from it and try and reduce the stuff I have as much as possible; so just buying a thing, exclusively for the experience of reveling in its texture and feel for a short while before it eventually expires is just so alien and disconcerting to me. It simply feels wrong on such a fundamental level.
@@francegamer by drugs i include broadly anything you consume that temporarily alters the texture and feel of reality in a desired way. Caffeine, ibuprofen, loratadine, etc
as a kid, i never really liked slimes with stuff in them, but my school's OT insisted that i couldn't take them out, and if i didn't like the slime with the random plastic toys in it, i couldn't have the slime. the fact that the predominant industry surrounding slime seems to be "slime is a substance designed to hold together a rice krispie treat made of whale keychains and chunky glitter" suggests to me that perhaps the idea of slime as a sensory toy for autistic people has lost the plot
I enjoy the textural element of this sort of content but the entropic element of a beautiful thing immediately being destroyed in a way that can never be undone is honestly terrifying to me and is largely the reason i can't watch these videos
The way you describe it here, I would liken the purpose of slime to the purpose of Tabletop Role Playing Games. TTRPGs are this thing you buy, in the form of a written text, but the text itself isn't the experience, what TTRPGs are is an ephemereal, personal artform. In the same way that someone massaging and causing total enthropy in a container of slime doesn't encapsulate the fullness of the art, neither can watching an Actual Play podcast demonstrate the fullness of the art to a viewer. And in the same way that everyone's experience with an RPG is going to be different, but we still give critiques on the quality of the text, every persons experience with slime will be different, yet Talisa is still able to give a review on the quality of the slime, and the experience therin. Obviously these two things are dissimilar, messing with slime is usually a solo experience, while TTRPGs, especially those broadcasted via APs, are usually co-operative experiences. But I suppose I just wanted to gush about how the two can inform the other, and to thank you for giving me somewhat of an analogue to describe my thought process about RPGs, not just the text but the experience, as a relatively unique art-form. Most of my thoughts on this have been informed - or at least prompted- by Evey Lockhart. Find her on itch, she's a currently homeless trans mom, and my favourite poet, and I wouldn't feel good leaving this comment without recommending supporting her, and reading/listening to her stuff. Personal Recommendations would be Pretty Paleozic Pals: Permian Nations, How Does it Feel, and Call of Erosion. Although the latter two can get quite heavy with themes of otherization, self-harm, and dissociation, as a trigger warning.
The same thing happened to me with slime videos overwhelming my feed, but it came from me trying to fill a void missing my cats rather than autism. I love the level of over analyzing in this video, though I have wondered the same thing. I keep thinking, “maybe this is something I could ask for for Christmas” but I really dislike the impermanence of it. Like I think long term the cloud slimes with bright colors would be my favorite to play with after the initial stages, but the ones I’m always the most drawn to in the videos are ones with clay pieces that look liked baked goods. But those always turn brown by the end!
Slime allows us to indulge in our desire to endlessly destroy what will continually grow until our hands wither and our minds fade into memories of crushing more slime until all we remember is destruction and hate leaving no room for love and tenderness.
I love this perspective. I would also like to add that it's surprising how long you can keep your slime but it does have an element of impermanence still. Because when it does break down you can add things to fix it or change the colors so there's the second life of the Slime after you own it which is all up to you. But of course it doesn't last forever even then. And that's okay.
It looks nice, but touching it would be a sensory nightmare for me. I do like the impermanence aspect of it, like a glittery non-newtonian sand mandala
yeah it's always confused me. slime is supposed to be like, a sensory toy, and I've enjoyed homemade slime that way before (tho the smell of borax on my hands afterwards puts a damper on things). I've been curious about these professional made slimes, with fluffier or stretchier textures than can be made at home. but then I watch slime videos and I get confused by all the spinkles and charms and stuff, how does that not break up the texture and make it really uncomfortable to handle, some just confuse me, some evoke a full body sensory cringe
i think it speaks to the diversity in neurodivergent expression that i, as fellow autistic person, have only just now heard of these products and this genre of youtube video for the first time and i find them incredibly vile and deeply off putting and i would very much like to go wash my hands now.
damnit, i was avoiding this content knowing full well it would hook me out of some kind of idea of "integrity". i'm going to go give them a watch now, thank you...
I loved looking at my UA-cam ad recommendation report and watching it Try to figure out how to say furry. “Costume, cartoon, animal, drawing, art, ect.” Found every way to say furry without using the word.
i've never really looked into slime videos, the closest type of video i have is probably lego mechanical design stuff (tho i like the non-lego mechanical design too, the lego videos just seem closer to slime than without); like designing air pump engines [1] or a robotic swivel arm [2] or a big marble machine [3] with lego. i can't really explain it past there being an allure to the process of engineering using nothing but standardized plastic parts, but i love it [1] ua-cam.com/video/asynnXWJzxo/v-deo.html [2] ua-cam.com/video/fSMC4tfOqHM/v-deo.html [3] ua-cam.com/video/VCmwskpxyCg/v-deo.html
I feel like I would buy this stuff and then just never touch it. I'd feel so bad if I destroyed something so cool. (And also I feel I wouldn't enjoy the textures)
I love looking at these! I love them and want to touch them so badly, but It wouldn't be worth it because they only really last up to a month I've heard and I don't have the money to burn on monthy 18-24 dollar slimes. I like buying things that last a while. They’re beautiful and i want to touch it!!! -autDH woman going into college
not me finding you by accident, then fully falling down the hole of, "I like them, well, time to look through everything they've made and find their social media" Got way too distracted by the visuals and you talking....
I hate the two ginger plunge. Once I noticed I couldn't unnotice. I was hoping to hear if creators had more purpose and maybe what happens to them and if they're all that safe with the stuff exposed to slime between kids and adults. Is that jellyfish, seafoam or a discarded slime on the beach?
so the artistry angle is interesting, and valid, but from a communist critique, slimes are the perfect product: they are used up quickly and need to be bought new each time. Capitalists prefer to sell you shelf stable one use products, cause if you could keep using it forever you would stop buying it. The need to destroy commodities so they can sell you the same commodity over and over leads to capitalists co-opting ephemeral beauty into a sellable product
I’ve had the same thought about bath bombs. They’re so tempting to me for the idea of the moment when they go off and make the bath look pretty, but often the actual bath part doesn’t seem as appealing. Isn’t that what they’re supposed to be for- for having a bath? Why am I so drawn to it as if it’s a firecracker with no other use?
I feel like the appeal of slime is at least partially "food that you don't eat, but is nonetheless consumed".
The ultimate consumable. It was worthless in the first place but becomes even more worthless.
perhaps i too could be a slime fan, but i want a block of it large enough to fully walk into and i dont think they make those
OH GOD THEY MAKE MY @ APPEAR PUBLICLY
I feel like a "used up" slime would bum me out lol
Like that part of me that gets really upset when I break something accidentally would trigger, even if the thing was meant for this
Same… I strangely feel like when I mix something into the slime it’s “ used up “ and I need to get another. It triggers me about the way I think but I just need a simple slime I guess?
Same. If I could get the gender feels of kneading slime *without* the "it's broken now" feels of mixing it into a homogenous goop, I'd probably buy some.
The slime scientists need to work out a way to make their product fully edible whilst retaining the same texture. Then I will need nothing else from the world and can retreat to my hole in the ground to play with my food forever.
@@TatharNuarmaybe look into ones that start homogenous? Or maybe thinking putty?
slime is the same as food - meant to be consumed. not by your mouth but by your hands. destroyed, mixed together & deconstructed. tactile nourishment
The ultimate consumable. It was worthless in the first place but becomes even more worthless.
I really like these shorter videos. Absolutely better than a snaky twitter thread, mostly cause because through your voice and your little rantsona its easy to tell how seriously you're taking this. Sometimes your twitter threads kinda read like angry rants so i much prefer this
the slime videos make me thing of the japanese mini food toys reviews that i used to watch. the appeal for me is watching someone play with something i dont own / cant buy / cant afford, and enjoying the process along the person recording the video. and also looking at tiny things.
i am also autistic but holy fuck, a product that arrives beautiful and can only be interacted with by irrevocably crushing that beauty into a hideous formless mush? that is HORRIFYING
My late-night autism addiction is watching restoration videos of old mechanical tools and art, and more recently watching fountain pen ink swabs.
I'm so glad I found this channel, thanks for existing!
This connects to ideas I've been thinking about what it means to relate to objects. Like, growing up neurodivergent and pre-fidget toys (toys feels like a viscerally incorrect word), there was a whole process of discovering objects around to briefly fascinate myself, only to have it lie around outwardly unchanged but nonetheless used. What does it mean to consider these "art pieces"; what and where is the art when you have an experience of briefly communing with an object in your hands? Mass production and commercialization of "fidget toys" changes the relationship of what for me was always recognizing the individuality of an object in a particular moment in time. There is a sense that you can know the beingness of something through tactility that isn't present for the other senses, and slime offers what you can naively believe to be pure beingness.
I feel exactly the same way about fidgets and appreciating individual objects.
I agree with you about slime kinda being pure tangibility, thats cool
No hate on you or any of these slime review channels but I think that you've just perfectly described why gives me such a bad gut feeling; I mostly buy things only if I'm replacing something or if I'm really sure I'm gonna actually get use or enjoyment from it and try and reduce the stuff I have as much as possible; so just buying a thing, exclusively for the experience of reveling in its texture and feel for a short while before it eventually expires is just so alien and disconcerting to me. It simply feels wrong on such a fundamental level.
what about food (candy, drinks, drugs, etc)? (as opposed to nutrient paste)
@@iambad Hardline anti-drug. Not my cup of tea. Food and stuff? yeah sure, food is great! Tea? Tea is definitely my cup of tea.
@@francegamer by drugs i include broadly anything you consume that temporarily alters the texture and feel of reality in a desired way. Caffeine, ibuprofen, loratadine, etc
@@iambad Yeah? I'm against consuming drugs when not medically necessary, at least for myself. When I get a headache I shirimply endure it.
as a kid, i never really liked slimes with stuff in them, but my school's OT insisted that i couldn't take them out, and if i didn't like the slime with the random plastic toys in it, i couldn't have the slime. the fact that the predominant industry surrounding slime seems to be "slime is a substance designed to hold together a rice krispie treat made of whale keychains and chunky glitter" suggests to me that perhaps the idea of slime as a sensory toy for autistic people has lost the plot
I enjoy the textural element of this sort of content but the entropic element of a beautiful thing immediately being destroyed in a way that can never be undone is honestly terrifying to me and is largely the reason i can't watch these videos
The way you describe it here, I would liken the purpose of slime to the purpose of Tabletop Role Playing Games.
TTRPGs are this thing you buy, in the form of a written text, but the text itself isn't the experience, what TTRPGs are is an ephemereal, personal artform. In the same way that someone massaging and causing total enthropy in a container of slime doesn't encapsulate the fullness of the art, neither can watching an Actual Play podcast demonstrate the fullness of the art to a viewer. And in the same way that everyone's experience with an RPG is going to be different, but we still give critiques on the quality of the text, every persons experience with slime will be different, yet Talisa is still able to give a review on the quality of the slime, and the experience therin.
Obviously these two things are dissimilar, messing with slime is usually a solo experience, while TTRPGs, especially those broadcasted via APs, are usually co-operative experiences. But I suppose I just wanted to gush about how the two can inform the other, and to thank you for giving me somewhat of an analogue to describe my thought process about RPGs, not just the text but the experience, as a relatively unique art-form.
Most of my thoughts on this have been informed - or at least prompted- by Evey Lockhart. Find her on itch, she's a currently homeless trans mom, and my favourite poet, and I wouldn't feel good leaving this comment without recommending supporting her, and reading/listening to her stuff. Personal Recommendations would be Pretty Paleozic Pals: Permian Nations, How Does it Feel, and Call of Erosion. Although the latter two can get quite heavy with themes of otherization, self-harm, and dissociation, as a trigger warning.
sometimes i get ads and stuff for slime and i think it's a yummy dessert at first and then get really disappointed
I could never bear to have a toy that can only do something once, i get anxiety from the sticker sheets in my lego sets.
The same thing happened to me with slime videos overwhelming my feed, but it came from me trying to fill a void missing my cats rather than autism. I love the level of over analyzing in this video, though I have wondered the same thing. I keep thinking, “maybe this is something I could ask for for Christmas” but I really dislike the impermanence of it. Like I think long term the cloud slimes with bright colors would be my favorite to play with after the initial stages, but the ones I’m always the most drawn to in the videos are ones with clay pieces that look liked baked goods. But those always turn brown by the end!
this is torture, I want to eat the slime so bad but I know it's not edible
this doesn't feel like a 2:31 second video. How did you manage to make this sound so engrossing?!
also the slime makes my brain go "brrrrrrrrrrrr"
smae
Slime allows us to indulge in our desire to endlessly destroy what will continually grow until our hands wither and our minds fade into memories of crushing more slime until all we remember is destruction and hate leaving no room for love and tenderness.
I love this perspective. I would also like to add that it's surprising how long you can keep your slime but it does have an element of impermanence still. Because when it does break down you can add things to fix it or change the colors so there's the second life of the Slime after you own it which is all up to you. But of course it doesn't last forever even then. And that's okay.
it's like a whole flippin medium of art at this point
It looks nice, but touching it would be a sensory nightmare for me. I do like the impermanence aspect of it, like a glittery non-newtonian sand mandala
yeah it's always confused me. slime is supposed to be like, a sensory toy, and I've enjoyed homemade slime that way before (tho the smell of borax on my hands afterwards puts a damper on things). I've been curious about these professional made slimes, with fluffier or stretchier textures than can be made at home. but then I watch slime videos and I get confused by all the spinkles and charms and stuff, how does that not break up the texture and make it really uncomfortable to handle, some just confuse me, some evoke a full body sensory cringe
tactile consumable... eating with ur hands and eyes... much to think about
alright fair enough cant say slime praxis was really off the table after the furries and god buisness
Slime and putty were my sensory obsessions in elementary school. I enjoy ooey, gooey textures and squishing things.
Back in my day we had mud
slime is a food and a religious experience
i think it speaks to the diversity in neurodivergent expression that i, as fellow autistic person, have only just now heard of these products and this genre of youtube video for the first time and i find them incredibly vile and deeply off putting and i would very much like to go wash my hands now.
somehow slime videos have reached the exact opposite of what appeals to me, some even going so far as to claim that sticky slimes need to be "fixed"
puzzle boxes (& escape rooms) seem to be a similar experience based product i think
damnit, i was avoiding this content knowing full well it would hook me out of some kind of idea of "integrity". i'm going to go give them a watch now, thank you...
I loved looking at my UA-cam ad recommendation report and watching it Try to figure out how to say furry. “Costume, cartoon, animal, drawing, art, ect.” Found every way to say furry without using the word.
these videos actually frustrate me instead of satisfy me
it's the same reason i don't like fancy cakes or decorative meals
i've never really looked into slime videos, the closest type of video i have is probably lego mechanical design stuff (tho i like the non-lego mechanical design too, the lego videos just seem closer to slime than without); like designing air pump engines [1] or a robotic swivel arm [2] or a big marble machine [3] with lego. i can't really explain it past there being an allure to the process of engineering using nothing but standardized plastic parts, but i love it
[1] ua-cam.com/video/asynnXWJzxo/v-deo.html
[2] ua-cam.com/video/fSMC4tfOqHM/v-deo.html
[3] ua-cam.com/video/VCmwskpxyCg/v-deo.html
not gonna lie. these all look like really tasty looking cupcakes to me. i want to eat one
Please make an infinite number of Puppyhelic Triangle videos i am slurping this up yum yum
I feel like I would buy this stuff and then just never touch it. I'd feel so bad if I destroyed something so cool. (And also I feel I wouldn't enjoy the textures)
i like your music and i also like this video style. You're welcome for watching :)
1:45 Pause.
I don't know why, but the sight of this thing destroys me. Makes me super uncomfortable and wanting to wipe my hands.
ephemera
I wish i could eat slime
I love looking at these! I love them and want to touch them so badly, but It wouldn't be worth it because they only really last up to a month I've heard and I don't have the money to burn on monthy 18-24 dollar slimes.
I like buying things that last a while.
They’re beautiful and i want to touch it!!!
-autDH woman going into college
not me finding you by accident, then fully falling down the hole of, "I like them, well, time to look through everything they've made and find their social media"
Got way too distracted by the visuals and you talking....
I hate the two ginger plunge. Once I noticed I couldn't unnotice.
I was hoping to hear if creators had more purpose and maybe what happens to them and if they're all that safe with the stuff exposed to slime between kids and adults.
Is that jellyfish, seafoam or a discarded slime on the beach?
why not mention your 2nd channel on your music channel? you have quite a following on there that won't find this by chance
They all look so tasty
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Slime
so the artistry angle is interesting, and valid, but from a communist critique, slimes are the perfect product: they are used up quickly and need to be bought new each time. Capitalists prefer to sell you shelf stable one use products, cause if you could keep using it forever you would stop buying it. The need to destroy commodities so they can sell you the same commodity over and over leads to capitalists co-opting ephemeral beauty into a sellable product