DURHAM SU APOLOGIES OVER ASMR

PALATINATE HAS REPORTED that Durham SU has issued an apology over an ASMR reel of a SU staff member packing food parcels.

After facing criticism for “trivialising the actual issue of student poverty”, the video was deleted, with Durham SU stating “the video was intended to visually promote the Foodbank in a way to try and destigmatise any unecessary shame or worry about having to use one.”

Students heavily criticised the video, stating “this isn’t an aesthetic? Why are you making it cute that students are starving.”

Durham SU “recognise[s] how this can undermine the significane of the problems currently facing students, and for that we apologise.”