Pressure Flaking Tutorial Goes Viral After Viewers Mistake It for ASMR Content

A pressure flaking tutorial posted by veteran knapper Iris Notch has gone unexpectedly viral after viewers outside the flintknapping community discovered the video and categorized it as ASMR content, praising the 'deeply soothing' sounds of stone being systematically fractured. The video, a thirty-seven-minute tutorial on bifacial thinning techniques using an antler pressure flaker, was filmed in Notch's quiet backyard workshop and features no music, no narration, and no sound other than the rhythmic click of the antler tip against the stone edge followed by the soft 'tink' of each detaching flake. 'I posted it for the twelve people who follow my knapping channel,' Notch said. 'Within a week it had 2.3 million views. The comments are all from people saying it helps them sleep. Someone called it "the most relaxing thing on the internet." I'm removing material from a cryptocrystalline silica edge at a controlled angle to produce invasive thinning flakes. I don't know how that's relaxing.' The comment section has become a collision of two communities. Knapping enthusiasts post technical questions about platform angles and flake terminations. ASMR enthusiasts post requests for longer videos, preferably with 'more of the crunchy ones.' 'Someone asked me to do a "whispered knapping" video where I narrate in a soft voice,' Notch said. 'I tried it. I felt ridiculous. The knapping community was confused. The ASMR community loved it. It got another million views.' Notch has reluctantly embraced her dual audience, producing videos with titles like 'Relaxing Solutrean Point Replication for Sleep and Education' and 'Gentle Obsidian Core Reduction (No Talking, Rain Sounds).' 'I've sold more antler pressure flakers in the last month than in the previous five years,' Notch said. 'Most of the buyers, I suspect, are not going to use them for knapping. But at least they own one now.'