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YouTube ASMR Videos Are Under Attack

Elena Cresci
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7 min readNov 15, 2018

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At first, Lucy assumed she was getting one of those spam PayPal emails from someone trying to gain access to her account. It said her funds had been blocked for 180 days.

“I thought at the time, this is insane. Surely a company cannot do this,” she said.

When Lucy called PayPal, they said the decision was final and there was nothing they could do. Panicked, she did a quick Google search and found forums full of people who were permanently locked out of their PayPal accounts for various reasons. Lucy wondered if she would ever see the money in that account again.

Getting nowhere with customer support, she tweeted about it. And it turned out Lucy wasn’t alone. At least three other women had the same thing happen at around the same time, and they all had one thing in common: They all make ASMR videos.

What was going on?

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Elena Cresci
Elena Cresci

Written by Elena Cresci

Journalist who sews and punches things in her spare time. Not at the same time, though.

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