<h4>The Science Behind Oddly Satisfying Videos</h4><p>First off: Why do we even find these types of videos so satisfying? Many researchers have attempted to understand the popularity of these "oddly satisfying" videos. Psychologists have identified something called a <a href="https://www.wired.co.uk/article/oddly-satisfying-videos-explained-psychology-youtube" target="_blank">"Goldilocks feeling"</a>—AKA the sense of satisfaction you get when everything is "just right." </p><p>Interestingly, people with OCD often never experience the "Goldilocks feeling," which tends to lead them to repeat tasks over and over while never experiencing the rush of the payoff. These "oddly satisfying" videos can provide a sense of completion and satisfaction for people who never or rarely experience these feelings in real life, but they can also be pleasing to anyone, OCD-diagnosed or not.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-632"> </div>
<!-- End Ezoic - In-Content 3 - under_second_paragraph --></p><p>At the very least, all these videos offer sensations many of us rarely experience. In real life, things are constantly breaking, fraying, spilling, or combusting—that's just life. But these videos show an alternate reality where everything is done perfectly. Colors mix together into beautiful new shades. Cucumbers unfold into perfect slices. Everything aligns and fits together.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-633"> </div>
<!-- End Ezoic - In-Content 4 - mid_content --></p><p>Yet not all these videos feature acts carried to completion. Many end with sand crumbling, things falling apart, or huge messes being made. In light of this, there really is no one clear conclusion as to why we find these videos so satisfying. In that, they're like any form of great art: made magical by some inexplicable X factor, but undeniably, inexplicably great.</p><p>Still, the art of watching slime drip may seem freaky at first glance, but not so much when you consider the fact that people have been pursuing brief bursts of relaxation through art for thousands of years—<a href="https://www.ancient.eu/article/1052/tibetan-sand-mandalas/" target="_blank">Tibetan Buddhist monks often spend hours or days creating colorful mandalas out of sand</a>, only to immediately destroy them. We are all seeking peace and relief from suffering, and if watching someone remove a blackhead gets you there, by all means, enjoy it.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-634"> </div>
<!-- End Ezoic - In-Content 5 - mid_content --></p><p>From oozing slime to hot knives to glorious paint-mixing, here are some of the most entertaining and relaxing "oddly satisfying" videos out there.</p><p><script async="" src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
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</script></p><h4>1. Paint</h4><p>Humans have been painting on cave walls since the dawn of mankind. Perhaps the greatest modern relaxation-inducing painter is Bob Ross, whose videos have developed a cult following.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-635"> </div>
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</p><p>Today, though, many other people have discovered ways to make paint itself into a soothing, satisfying visual experience. </p><p>Recently, a TikTok user named <a href="https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tanyachen/college-student-behind-a-massively-popular-paint-mixing" target="_blank">Tony Piloseno</a> became a topic of conversation when it was revealed that he was fired from his job at Sherwin-Williams when they discovered he was using their products on the app.<br></p><p>Miloseno began posting paint-mixing videos while working at the paint store, and soon enough his TikTok racked up millions of followers. But then, Piloseno made a video that involved mixing blueberries with paint, which led to thousands of customer inquiries; and then someone accused him of spending his work hours on personal pursuits, and he was fired. </p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-636"> </div>
<!-- End Ezoic - incontent22 - long_content --></p><p>Still, he's continuing to create videos, and clearly the folks at Sherwin-Williams lost out in a big way because they don't understand how marketing works.</p><p><br></p><div class="rm-embed embed-media"><blockquote cite="https://www.tiktok.com/@tonesterpaints/video/6897232520203504901" class="tiktok-embed" data-video-id="6897232520203504901" style="max-width: 605px;min-width: 325px;"> <section> <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/@tonesterpaints" target="_blank" title="@tonesterpaints">@tonesterpaints</a> Reply to @peterpan020 i got you <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/glowintbedark" target="_blank" title="glowintbedark">##glowintbedark</a> <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/paintmixing" target="_blank" title="paintmixing">##paintmixing</a> <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/colorwheel" target="_blank" title="colorwheel">##colorwheel</a> <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/tag/satisfying" target="_blank" title="satisfying">##satisfying</a><br> <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/music/Weeeeee-6870926785878493958" target="_blank" title="♬ Weeeeee - Trippie Redd">♬ Weeeeee - Trippie Redd</a> </section> </blockquote> <script async="" src="https://www.tiktok.com/embed.js"></script></div><p><br></p><p>Piloseno is far from the only person to take advantage of paint's gooey, hypnotic beauty. </p><div id="1e731" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="5a6d5a62a960c5ab95fbbb7ba5f89608"><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-version="4" style=" background:#FFF; border:0;
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</p><p><br></p><h4>2. Slime</h4><p>With millions of videos dedicated to it and more emerging every day, slime may be the most popular of all of these trends. Psychedelic, shimmering, oozy, and magnificent, the world of slime is rich and vibrant and even healing. Today, some <a href="https://buddymantra.com/the-science-behind-slime-plus-oddly-satisfying-videos-to-make-your-day/" target="_blank">psychologists have even started</a> prescribing slime videos to patients who need relief from anxiety. </p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-637"> </div>
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</div></blockquote></div><p>Slime videos often feature glitter, a magnificent subsection of the "oddly satisfying" world in its own right.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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</p><p><br></p><h4>3. Hot Knives<br></h4><p>Ever wanted to stop the world and melt with someone? Now you can stop the world and watch things melt anytime—with the Internet's help. Welcome to the world of hot knife videos. The premise is simple, if potentially dangerous: You heat up a knife until it's glowing—then slice up any kind of object and watch the magical, colorful chaos ensue. </p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-638"> </div>
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</p><p>In general, slicing, dicing, crushing, shredding, and other forms of beautiful destruction are also frequent subjects of "oddly satisfying" videos.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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</p><p><br></p><h4>4. Baking</h4><p>Anyone who watches baking shows understands the deep satisfaction that comes from watching a chef spin some sugar, flour, and frosting into a thing of beauty. </p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-639"> </div>
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</div></blockquote></div><p>But you can find aesthetically pleasing high-speed videos of any sort of cooking or baking. Ever wanted to see someone create a giant pancake? </p><div id="c842b" class="rm-shortcode" data-rm-shortcode-id="2cf8b1d4cb040189ed2a1b146d252548"><blockquote class="instagram-media" data-instgrm-captioned="" data-instgrm-version="4" style=" background:#FFF; border:0;
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</div></blockquote></div><h4><br></h4><h4>5. Soap-Cutting<br></h4><p>Soap-cutting is often used as a form of auditory ASMR because of the satisfying sounds created by a knife slicing through a bar of soap, but we're including it here because of the visual beauty of what can only be called an art form.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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<small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">Satisfying Soap Cutting and Soap Cubes | Oddly Satisfying Soap Carving ASMR #5</small>
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</p><p>YouTube is bursting with videos of bars of soap being sliced and carved into magnificent shapes. The way that soap fractures into a thousand little pixel-like fragments is genuinely mystifying to behold—watch and weep.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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<small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">Blue set 💙 Cutting soap cubes💙 crushing soap 💙 clay crackling 💙</small>
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</p><p>This classic has 21 million views:</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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<small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">ASMR Soap carving</small>
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</p><p><strong><br></strong></p><h4>6. Zit-Popping</h4><p>Zit-popping and other kinds of body-related videos are explosively popular online. These videos, which should technically be revolting and disgusting, do offer many viewers a sense of deep satisfaction. </p><p>There are many reasons for this. Disgust, especially when experienced in a controlled, safe setting, can provide us with feelings of relief and can even help our minds prepare to identify and face genuine disgust in the real world. It can also thrill us.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-640"> </div>
<!-- End Ezoic - incontent44 - longest_content --></p><p>"It's the same kind of thrill people get from, say, riding a roller coaster or bungee jumping — it activates the experience the typically comes with a real kind of danger while actually being protected from the harmful effects typically associated with those situations," says Daniel Kelly in <em><a href="https://go.redirectingat.com/?id=74968X1525071&xs=1&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.barnesandnoble.com%2Fw%2Fyuck-daniel-kelly%2F1100739295%3Fean%3D9780262015585%26itm%3D3%26usri%3Dyuck&sref=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.cosmopolitan.com%2Fsex-love%2Fnews%2Fa35048%2Fthis-is-why-you-cant-stop-watching-gross-zit-popping-videos%2F&xcust=%5Butm_source%7C%5Butm_campaign%7C%5Butm_medium%7C%5Bgclid%7C%5Bmsclkid%7C%5Bfbclid%7C%5Brefdomain%7Cecosia.org%5Bcontent_id%7C8d0057a0-bbae-4a22-bb09-2a934dfdd989%5Bcontent_product_id%7C%5Bproduct_retailer_id%7C" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Yuck!: The Nature and Moral Significance of Disgust</a>.</em></p><p>Not everyone loves roller coasters, and in the same way, not everyone loves watching ingrown hairs being painstakingly removed from someone's flesh in high-definition. But there are a lot of people out there who do love these kinds of videos, many of which have racked up tens of millions of views. </p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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<small class="image-media media-caption" placeholder="Add Photo Caption...">Dr. Lee Removes A Massive 55 Year Old Blackhead! | Dr. Pimple Popper</small>
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</p><p>You might be nauseated by these videos or they might help ease you into sleep. Either way, there's nothing wrong with you—some people like watching horror movies and others don't. Just be careful before you share one of these as not everyone can stomach them.</p><p><div id="ezoic-pub-ad-placeholder-641"> </div>
<!-- End Ezoic - bottomofpage - bottom_of_page --></p><p><br></p><h4>7. Miscellaneous </h4><p>In case you're having trouble choosing between all these options, or want to be surprised, the Internet offers literally countless compilations of random yet extremely satisfying happenings.</p><p class="shortcode-media shortcode-media-youtube">
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</p><p><br></p><p>Many of these videos claim that they will "induce sleep and relax your nerves," as the above videos promise. At the very least, these compilations are invitations into a world where every cap opens, every cut is clean, and there is no such thing as 2020. Who needs therapy, right?</p><h4>What's your favorite type of oddly satisfying video? Let us know on <a href="https://twitter.com/Popdust?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor" target="_blank">Twitter</a> or in the comments!</h4><h2></h2><p><script async="" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
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