If you've ever wandered into that weird part of YouTube, you've seen those videos that make your skin tingle and give you some unexplained sense of happiness and satisfaction. They've been on your feed before: the glass spiral, the can crusher, the assembly line of basically any mass-produced food ever. They all essentially turn the chaos of this world into something simple, uniform, and fucking mesmerising.
Well, Untangled just come out with four minutes of this kind of mind-orgasm. Who knew vaporising grime with lasers could relieve stress so well?
Why do we love it so much? As the clip says, "This is how we transform the world around us to satisfy our cravings for level edges and straight lines. By way of cleaning, scraping, cutting, organising, and reshaping."
When you sit back and think about it, there is some core desire with us for clean, sleek edges. People get a high off it. Especially with sharp objects. Who can resist the precision slicing and dicing of apples, cucumbers, tomatoes, or cakes? You're tingling just thinking about it, aren't you? It turns out we also love watching things getting cleaned. Car washes! You can't look away.
So enjoy this stress-reliever. You've earned it.
