Carpet cleaning (or rug cleaning) videos is another genre of youtube videos in the same vein as Restoration videos. It ticks both the "things going from disorder to order" and the "oddly satisfying" boxes; it's also ASMR according to the channel tags. Unlike the restoration genre, however, it doesn't seem to be as advanced and there are a number of channels that don't "get it." In fact, as far as I'm concerned, the entire genre mostly comes down to just one channel - the one above.
I have a number of questions about the nature of the cleaning. You'll note that he's constantly working side-to-side. You'd be constantly transporting dirt from the rug to another part of the rug. Wouldn't you want to work from the center outwards to get the dirt out of the rug as soon as possible? Similarly, dirt is constantly going from the surface, sinking downward to the bottom of the rug. Therefore, I would think that there should be constant flipping. Even more important than that, dirt, going downwards is hitting the tile and getting trapped. It seems to me you'd want to put the rug on top of something that allows the water to freely flow out - perhaps a screen. Do the professionals know best? Are there good rebuttals to these questions? I don't know.
One of the weaknesses of this genre, it seems, is that you really want the carpet to get clean to have that dramatic before and after contrast but that never really happens the way it "should." A carpet never gets fully clean, it only gets cleanER. It gets cleaner and cleaner and cleaner but at some point you just have to arbitrarily stop. As an ignorant newcomer, that diminishes the enjoyment... Though, you get used to it after several hours.
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