- Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!
- Yep, yep, yep.
Yeah, that's penmanship.
- Yeah, mm-hmm, love it.
(video crunches)
- Oh my God, I love the crunch!
- Ahh, did something pop out?
♪ (industrial intro) ♪
- (FBE) So today, we are gonna be
showing you a series of videos,
all around what some would consider
to be oddly satisfying.
- (gasps) I love satisfying!
- Okay, I love these videos.
- Oh heck no, no way!
- You don't understand.
I watch those videos all the time!
Like sometimes, I binge watch.
- Yes, I am one of those people
who will sit and watch
those weird videos on Twitter
and Instagram for hours.
- (FBE) Since we have
all the different generations in today
we were curious to see
what the different generations
find satisfying, so after each video,
you're gonna rank it
on a scale from one to five,
based on how satisfying
you thought the video was.
- Ooh, okay, okay.
- Fine by me,
as long as there's no ASMR,
I think we're okay.
- (FBE) Before we get 
into these videos,
we have something for you
to play with while you are watching.
- Ooh! 
I like these!
- Oh is it like a stress ball?
- Oh, oh my gosh!
- Ahh, did something pop out?
Ooh, oh look, this is fun.
I am super ready.
I would like to be oddly satisfied.
- Mmm, ooh.
- I don't think this 
is satisfying at all.
That is so strange.
- What is that, soap suds?
- I love this because 
it reminds me of a pimple.
I love pimples.
- Oh, that is not satisfying.
No, that's like gross!
No, because she has socks on!
- That's gonna ruin your socks,
and I don't like that.
Then you're gonna have to 
clean out your Crocs.
Crocs and socks as well?
Okay, this is not satisfying.
- I wouldn't wanna stick my foot
in a Croc full of something,
but watching that was amazing.
- (FBE) Scale from one to five,
where do you put that?
- Five!
- Five.
- I'm gonna give him a three.
- One! Yeah, it's terrible!
- I'll give it a three.
- Soap came out of the holes.
One.
- I'll put it at a solid three.
- A one.
There's no means for it.
It's like why is that happening?
- Five, five, five for me, yes.
- That's a one.
Thinking about that, 
it's not satisfying,
it's getting me stressed out.
- I'm gonna give that one a one,
because the mother in me
is just anxious about the mess
that was created.
- Yes!
This is the content
that I came for!
- Don't get what it is.
Oh, it's sand?
- This is sick.
- These things get me.
- These are good!
- Wait, this is so good!
- Oh, ooh, oh my God.
A perfect scoop!
- Okay, yeah this a lot better.
I could see how this is satisfying.
- Wow!
- Oh, that was pretty!
- Yeah, that's a little,
something about that
is a little satisfying.
- I like that stuff.
That's a good one.
- One, it's a little better
than the last one.
- One.
- I would rate it a solid four.
That was really good.
- I would rank that a three.
- I'll say a four.
I just love those cutting things.
- That's a five, it's so nice.
Relaxing to watch.
- I'm gonna give that one a three.
Way better than
the shaving cream Croc hole one.
- Give that a five too.
That was really satisfying.
It wasn't so-so.
- Four!
- I'm also gonna give all these five,
'cause I like satisfying.
- I'd probably give it like a four.
It's not only visual,
but you can also like
hear the satisfying sound,
so that's kinda cool.
- Oh, window washing?
- Ooh, is he gonna clean that window
and make it really, 
really, beautifully clean?
- Oh, uh huh.
- Ooh! (laughs)
- Okay.
- Now that is, that's satisfying,
'cause that's very challenging.
- Oh, very nice.
That was a very nice technique.
- That is very satisfying.
I have dirty windows
in my apartment,
so it's very satisfying,
I wish that were
outside my apartment window.
- Oh that's good,
that's like mom porn.
Cleaned windows!
- I'm gonna have to rank that four.
- Five. (laughs)
Someone clean my windows.
- Two, it's not terrible,
but it's not like really satisfying.
- Five.
- A three.
It just wasn't uniform enough for me.
- A four.
That's what I like, the satisfying.
Watching someone else
do some cleaning.
- I'll give it a three.
Yeah, it was satisfying.
- Three, it's not all that bad,
but then again it looked nice.
- I'll give that one a four too,
because the string was 
a little distracting.
I know the string has to be there,
but that bothered 
my insides a little bit.
- One.
I like the noise,
like the crunching.
(toy crunches)
Like that.
- I'm gonna give that one 
a three also.
It's gonna have to be 
visually stimulating,
it's gonna have to have 
an auditory stimulation,
and it's gonna have to do
something I like to do.
♪ (upbeat rock music) ♪
- Ooh!
- Yeeessss!
Yes, I love calligraphy.
- Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes!
- Yep, yep, yep, yeah!
That's penmanship.
- Yeah, mm-hmm, love it.
- Ooh, and look at the ink.
The ink's almost like color changing.
- That is, that's talent.
- How does he draw everything
in straight lines and all of that?
Like, what?
- I mean, I think it's cool.
But like not really satisfying.
- I respect calligraphy, 
but call me a millennial.
It's the opposite to me,
I could just hear the pen,
feel the paper,
tss, tss, tss, ugh, no!
- That was good, I like calligraphy.
- I think also a three.
- A four.
- Maybe like a three.
- The C was a bit off,
so I'll make it like a three
instead of a four.
- (laughs) One!
It's not really satisfying,
but I do like the drawing.
It's really good.
- That's gonna get a four,
and the only reason 
it didn't get a five,
was 'cause I wasn't crazy
about the music choice.
- I give it a one.
Any time I think of paper,
it's the same feeling
that people talk about they get
when you scratch a chalkboard.
- Four.
- It's gotta be a five.
I'm tellin', the penmanship.
- That's awesome, I give that a five.
- Three.
Because like, it's cool 
that he can write that neatly,
but it's not something 
that just is like, ah,
that's just like relaxing or anything,
but it's just cool to watch.
(video crackles)
- What?
- I don't know what this is,
but I don't like it.
- My ears like this one.
- Ahhh! (laughs)
I hate that!
- Oh my God, I love the crunch!
It sounds so good!
- What?
(video crunches loudly)
Okay, so this is like slime,
but I like this noise way better.
- Wow, that was good.
That was good.
That got me in the mood.
I started squishing.
- This, I find satisfying.
Like that's satisfying.
Hearing all the stuff.
It's really close, but a four.
- Three.
- One.
That's a negative satisfy,
I do not like that sound.
- It's a one, it made me uncomfortable
I didn't like it.
- A five!
I like the crunch!
- I'm gonna give that one a four.
- It was good,
but it wasn't really really good,
I'll give it a four.
- That's like a five,
that's like really cool.
- A four.
- Uh, two.
- (angrily) A two?
- I would give that a four, I guess.
'Cause I feel like we could do better,
but still amazing, my ears loved it.
- Oh that's nice.
- Oh.
(plastic clicks)
My goodness.
- That's satisfying.
That is satisfying.
Do not lie to me right now.
- Dang, that's like the rebirth
of that 1,000 degree 
knife challenge or something.
- Oh no, ooh, this is the worst dude.
- Huh.
Doesn't do anything for me.
- That was a perfectly fine comb.
(laughs)
Why you gotta destroy it?
- You're ruining a comb,
and that thing at the end
kinda sucked.
But the journey there was nice.
That's a four.
- Four.
- A three.
- That would be a one.
- I'd rank that a four.
- A one, it's a waste of time.
Why you destroying things?
- That's a two.
I could just hear the plastic.
- I thought they were gonna go
across the bristles like,
(trills tongue)
and that I would have loved.
But that, nah, 
I'm gonna give that a two.
- Yeah, it's cool.
That's like a four.
- I give it a three though,
'cause like it wasn't enough.
But it was still good.
- Okay, that's definitely a five,
because I like how it was like
(clicks tongue)
It was really satisfying.
♪ (upbeat music) ♪
- (gasps) Oh, that's cool.
Why is this cool?
- Yeah, okay, I like this stuff.
- This just could not have been more perfect.
- Oh yeah!
- Oh that's satisfying.
- Yeah, this is great.
I'm lovin' this.
- Yes, right under there!
Perfect!
- That's cool.
- Okay, that's no, that's beautiful!
- It's like real life Tetris.
- Ooh, pizza!
- Okay, yeah, 
stuff like this is satisfying,
'cause like it's so perfect!
- You know when things fit,
it's satisfying.
We like when things fit.
- He didn't take the pizza
out of the box.
- I'm kinda like that,
I like things to fit.
I'm very organized in my apartment.
Everything has a place.
- A one.
Compared to all the other ones you saw
like this is not even.
- I just love the way that
when he slid the box
right under the ledge, like man.
- That one was good.
- You get a one
for the only one good clip
in the whole video.
- Yeah.
- I give that a five.
- I give that a five,
'cause it made me happy.
- If it was like a millimeter 
smaller or bigger,
just it wouldn't have worked,
but that's just, that's great.
I'd have to rank that a five.
- A three!
- That's like a four,
'cause it's actually like
when you try to close a door,
and you're so excited,
if it's like a busted door,
and you're trying to get it through,
so that's satisfying.
- I'd give that a four.
It's pretty nice, I like that.
- I'm gonna give it a five.
I like when things fit perfectly.
- Definitely a five plus.
All of those, they were so perfect!
Like the perfectionist, 
little OCD part of me
is just like yeessss!
- I'm gonna give that a five,
because it had me 
on the edge of my seat.
Like is it gonna fit?
And it, perfectly every time.
Perfectly!
(cards clicking)
- Ooh!
Shuffling!
- Yes, skills.
- Ooh, that's cool!
- Ooh, alright!
- I like it a lot!
- That is just...
- That's good, that's some good stuff.
- It's the (clicks tongue).
- I love that sound.
- Ooh, that whole fan it out
and bring it back thing.
(gasps) One handed!
- (whispers) Wow.
So much control, oh yeah!
- Whoa!
Whoa! (laughs)
That last one was sick.
- I'd go with a three.
- I give that a five.
- That's satisfying,
that's probably like a four.
- So i'm gonna go with four.
- That's a five.
I love cards.
They just look cool.
- I'd give that a five,
that was sick, I like that.
- Five.
There's something about formation,
and the sound of formation
that just sounds good.
- I'm gonna give that a four.
- That one's gonna be a four,
'cause it's just so nice to watch
and the noise is just light enough
to be like (whispers) ah.
- Five!
Like it's like really calming,
and cool to watch.
- Four, doing this at the same time 
I'm watching this is helping me
to process it,
I don't know why.
Maybe it's that I'm relieving stress
while I'm doing this.
- (FBE) Finally, all of these 
satisfying videos
are an actual genre
that generate millions of views
on various platforms.
So why do you think this type 
of content is so popular?
- Yeah, probably 
it's just like very fast.
You don't have to think
when you watch it,
it's not like you're digesting
a lot of information.
There's a lot of information
being thrown out nowadays,
and it's just something super simple.
- I don't know what it is,
what goes off in the brain
that's like ah, like oof!
- Talkin' endorphine release.
- If you just wanna 
mindlessly watch something,
it's so easy to fall 
into a hole of that.
If you watch one,
you're gonna watch three,
so that's how it generates 
so many more views.
It's 'cause you just fall into it,
and it's amazing.
- We live in such 
a high stress society,
that self-soothing 
is more important now than ever,
and watching this stuff 
can really just kind of (sighs)
give you that sensation of
I'm relaxed, I can decompress,
disconnect and everything
is gonna be okay.
- Thanks for watching this episode
of Generations React.
- If you were oddly satisfied,
then be sure to subscribe,
and shout out to Tall Sar.
(toy squishes)
- Goodbye!
- Hey everyone, Lauren,
producer here at FBE,
thank you so much 
for watching this episode
of Generations React.
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