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My Adventures As A Brain-Porn Star
Jun. 12th, 2012 04:24 pmA few weeks ago I discovered a subreddit (as topic-oriented groups on reddit are called) about ASMR, which stands for Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response, also known as "headgasm" for short. It's a pleasurable tingling that typically starts in the scalp and then expands down the length of the body, often triggered by whispers, clicking, crinkling of cellophane, etc. Although I've experienced ASMR in the past none of the videos posted to the subreddit did it for me.
Four days ago the first video in my Minecraft series had around 67 views, which for me was quite good. Then suddenly it started going up by leaps and bounds and now stands at just shy of 500. I had to wait a couple of days for YouTube Analytics to catch up so that I could figure out what was driving the sudden interest. It turned out to be ASMR.
In that first video I didn't have the gain turned up very high on the microphone and was speaking quietly from the back of my mouth rather than from the throat. My soft voice and the faint clicking of mouse and keyboard which can be heard in the background had triggered ASMR in someone who posted a link to the video to the ASMR subreddit. Pleasure hungry ASMRers then followed the link, looking for a fix.
Unfortunately for them after that first video I started speaking up more and their disappointment is plain to see in the swiftly decreasing view counts for the subsequent videos in the series.
Now I'm thinking that I should try to deliberately produce an ASMR video. I just have to come up with something to talk about.
Four days ago the first video in my Minecraft series had around 67 views, which for me was quite good. Then suddenly it started going up by leaps and bounds and now stands at just shy of 500. I had to wait a couple of days for YouTube Analytics to catch up so that I could figure out what was driving the sudden interest. It turned out to be ASMR.
In that first video I didn't have the gain turned up very high on the microphone and was speaking quietly from the back of my mouth rather than from the throat. My soft voice and the faint clicking of mouse and keyboard which can be heard in the background had triggered ASMR in someone who posted a link to the video to the ASMR subreddit. Pleasure hungry ASMRers then followed the link, looking for a fix.
Unfortunately for them after that first video I started speaking up more and their disappointment is plain to see in the swiftly decreasing view counts for the subsequent videos in the series.
Now I'm thinking that I should try to deliberately produce an ASMR video. I just have to come up with something to talk about.
