ASMR Favorites

ASMR stands for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response. Basically, its that thing that makes you go all tingly and relaxed when someone brushes your hair or rubs your back or whispers to you or...well, there are lots of things that make people experience this. Not all of them work for everyone all of the time.

For me, it seems to particularly strike me when watching slow, methodical movements in a soft or whispered voice. Just the whispering can sometimes do it, but for some reason, the slow movements seem to be especially effective when there is some tapping/clicking like nails on a polished table while folding or playing with beads on a necklace. I can't stand chewing videos (if that's your thing, bully for you.) and crinkling of papers and other objects irritate me too. Finding videos that don't include these can be really hard.

I thought I'd share a few of my favorites today that aren't the typical GentleWhispering (Maria) or other "major" ASMR-tist. All of these people have fewer than 15,000 subscribers. While that's a lot of people, I think YouTube only acknowledges you at 50,000 subscribers or something ridiculous, and the bigger-name ones have something like 200,000 or more.

1. Elizabeth ASMR--she's in Denmark now, I believe, but is from Iceland and has a very unusual accent. I love her voice and her honesty about the things she shares. I don't like that she occasionally curses. However she uses her space more like a blog than anything else, which makes her channel feel a little more purposeful than just making sounds. She's been kinda AWOL lately, but has quite a few videos up. Check her our in this video:

2. Little Watermellon Based mostly in Barcelona, she mostly posts about drawing (often without whispering) and daily life. She is one of those people who is naturally gorgeous and rarely focuses on huge quantities of makeup--good. There are too many of those. My favorite of her videos is sharing this children's book in Catalan about Gaudi:

3. SouthernASMR Sounds This lady films from rural South Carolina mostly about her thrift store finds (something I readily identify with). Occasionally, she does sounds videos or roleplay videos (which I am not so into), but usually its thrift related. I think its her descriptive language that does it for me. 

Let me know what you think about these ASMR-tists and if you have found any lesser-known ones that give you tingles!