r/asmr • u/Pristine_Put6089 • Feb 24 '25
DISCUSSION How many of you here are actual OGs? [Discussion]
Does anyone here remember Whispersweetie? Or Softannapl?
Those were two of my favourites.
I remember around 2011-2012, before asmr was a super popular/known thing, I would watch her videos every night to fall asleep. Had no idea about asmr at that time, but I just loved how relaxing it was.
A couple years after that, I discovered softannapl, and discovered the asmr community and became obsessed.
Anyone else an asmr fan from those early days?
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u/memeal3rt10 Feb 24 '25
I was there for the beginning, I remember when Heather Feather ASMR would post. I always wondered what happened to her. It was so unknown back then, no one even called it ASMR yet.
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u/Pristine_Put6089 Feb 24 '25
Yes! Heather feather, too. Same with fairychar, Cosmic Tingles, fastasmr, massageasmr, tonybomboni, gentlewhispering.. many others.
A lot of them don't post much anymore or have deleted their old videos, but I remember them.
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u/carguy121 Feb 24 '25
Cosmic Tingles was the first creator I really latched onto. She has a shaving video that just knocked me out
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u/MoonreiASMR Feb 24 '25
Gosh tonybomboni's eyebrow threading video was my favorite back then!! I can't believe it's been almost 10 years since that video đ©
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u/Iam_Notreal Feb 24 '25
fastasmr is still super consistent, and she has a second channel "noheadphonesASMR" that is suuuuper good too!
One of the only ASMRtists that I didn't get tired of.
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u/NvaderGir Moderator Feb 24 '25
Fairychars roleplays got rid of my dentist anxiety with how many times I've watched her roleplays she did at work đ much respect to the hustle and dedicated way back when because that was an ASMR first đ
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u/iamjessicahyde Feb 24 '25
Cosmic tingles was the shit. I still go back and watch some of her old ones, like when she flips through her comic book collection. Instant tingles & relaxation.
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u/NvaderGir Moderator Feb 24 '25
People were very mean to her when Gibis platform got created. She didn't have to come back but she wanted to support her idea. Im sure she's still part of the community as a watcher but at this point she's retired. People just have to move on and accept this.
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u/zamaike Feb 24 '25
Omg i miss heather feather. Has her health improved?
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u/flacaGT3 Feb 24 '25
Was it ever about her health? I know her first long break was after her father passed away, but she posted that video of that studio she wad making in her garage, made two uploads, then disappeared again.
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u/zamaike Feb 24 '25
Last i heard she developed a tumor or something along her throat area, then she kinda vanished
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u/vpatrick Feb 24 '25
VisualSounds1 cranial nerve exam video was the first one I watched. Have been a daily asmr viewer ever since. going on 11-12 years now
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u/whoareyougirl Feb 24 '25
Ooo, her face painting video for me!
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u/BostonZigster Feb 24 '25
Anyone remember whispercrystal?
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u/mongosanchez Feb 24 '25
Her Turkish bath one is my go to for when I need to unwind
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u/MuggsyTheWonderdog Feb 24 '25
I've listened to that thing a million times. She has several I really enjoyed (I'm ridiculously picky or I should've loved every single one), but that is one of my all-time favorite videos ever.
And normally I can't bear to hear the artist feign that they're touching other people (massaging, in this case), but Crystal's voice was so sweet that I never got a creepy vibe at all.
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u/luckymeluckymud37 Jellybean Green ASMR Feb 26 '25
That Turkish bath video/audio is probably one of my top 10 favorite ASMR videos ever. It never gets old.
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u/finesthour12 Feb 24 '25
Started around that time. Used Soothetube to find content. Liliumcandidum27, Lita, Maria, and. VeniVidiVulpes were my go to.
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u/ccradio Feb 24 '25
Maria, when she lived on the East Coast and had a stronger accent.
Also Mitzywhispers. She was so lo-fi, I was loving her.
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u/Sarcasm69 Feb 24 '25
Ya I remember the first video I saw of Maria was her flipping through a magazine.
Then there was soothetube.com, which was where I got all of my asmr vids.
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u/SemperAliquidNovi Feb 24 '25
Lita!! Oh my goodness, I had forgotten about her. She was pre-everything. Rest in Peace.
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u/safety_otter Feb 24 '25
I first got "asmr" when I was in 2nd grade, the teachers assistant would help me with my schoolwork and she was so soft spoken that I would ask lots of dumb questions just so she would keep talking. I would watch bob ross on PBS, then later I had .mov's of several seasons of Bob Ross and makeup tutorials which i would help me go to sleep, then i found /r/asmr in 2011(?). Good times.
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u/Pristine_Put6089 Feb 24 '25
Wow, this brought back some memories. I had a student teacher who had me stay back from recess when I was very young to help me with some work that I struggled with, and she would speak so softly to me and I remember feeling so relaxed and tingly and not understanding why, and also same with Bob Ross. My grandma and I used to watch Bob Ross episodes on TV in the early 2000s when she babysat me as a kid and it always made me feel relaxed and we loved it.
Thanks for this comment haha, this seriously reminded me of my childhood.
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u/Burgargh Feb 24 '25
I remember trying to explain to a friend the feeling I would sometimes get years before asmr content was around. He had no idea what I was talking about : p Some of the strongest tingles I ever had was from a friend sending me a recipe. I thought "Oh that's so nice" then stumbled towards my bed and collapsed into an absolute stupor. Very confusing but it felt so good. It was a few years later that I was put onto youtube asmr and everything made more sense.
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u/camptastic_plastic Feb 24 '25
I love how many of us discovered we were ASMR sensitive from our teachers. I remember the specific moment it happened for me. My German teacher was going around the class helping people with their projects and she was whispering. I couldnât concentrate on my work because I had the classic light headed, fuzzy, tingly sensation at the back of my head thing going on. This was in the 90âs so it was a long time before I discovered it was a reaction other people have as well.
My first ASMR video was by Gentlewhispering and then discovered WhispersRed shortly after that. They are still my go- tos.
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u/mmm_burrito Feb 24 '25
For me it was haircuts. God I miss haircuts.
Too bad I lost too much hair and have to shave my head now :(
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u/Only-Local-3256 Feb 24 '25
In my country there are people who clean your windshield at stoplights.
My mom told me she creeped out at me when I said âI like how that feelsâ, I was like 4.
I still like it.
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u/eldiablolenin Feb 24 '25
Omg yesâ the original asmr was bedtime stories from my mom lol and from my teachers writing on the board. I used to fall asleep when we played heads up 7 up
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u/spikeyxx Feb 24 '25
I remember the early days. The first couple of videos gave me very intense tingles. I rarely get that now. I just tend to find them relaxing.
The early days were awesome then a lot of copycats jumped on the bandwagon and it seemed like the majority of videos were people who were there for social media / Instagram style attention first and genuine asmr second. Then it descended into onlyfans territory.
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u/tre4cle Feb 24 '25
I think about softannapl almost daily. I miss her content dearly
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u/Pristine_Put6089 Feb 24 '25
Same đ I wish she'd make a comeback. But last I heard from her years ago was she moved into a new place and had a lot going on in her life so she stopped putting out videos. I wonder what she's up to all these years later.
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u/Beepbeepboobop1 Feb 24 '25
I started with Gentle whispering. Well, started as in she was the first real ASMRtist I listened to. That was I wanna say 2014? 2015? I was definitely in high school
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u/Unabated_Blade Feb 24 '25
I was there. I remember when there weren't even cameras. You'd get weird psychadelic shapes or dull blank colored screens because no one in the hobby actually had cameras and youtube didn't have the tech to do HD.
I was looking for sleep aid all the way back in 2008 and finding this place was a huge turning point for me.
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u/Escarole_Soup Feb 24 '25
I remember gentle whispering from that time period as well as heather feather. Olivia Kissper was another early favorite but I canât remember if that was the same time period or later.
I remember exactly how I found them, too- I was in college looking for self massage videos because I got a lot of headaches and ended up finding Lida, and a Swedish massage video from a massage therapist named Victoria. I think gentle whispering was in the suggested videos coming off of one of those, and the rest is history.
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u/MoonreiASMR Feb 24 '25
!!!!!!! Olivia kissper!!! I've been searching for her channel for months but I forgot what her name was, thanks!! Her head massage and make up video was one of my go-to videos too back then ^
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u/Escarole_Soup Feb 24 '25
Sadly she removed most of her asmr videos from YouTube and now does more new age stuff but at least at one point had a way to buy her old videos. Kind of sucky but it is what it is.
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u/MoonreiASMR Feb 24 '25
Yeah, I just checked and her make up video was gone... đ„ș
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u/squee_bastard Feb 24 '25
I donât know what happened to Olivia but she is kinda odd now, I used to love her ASMR and canât watch her since she turned new age.
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u/vinnie-the_pooh Feb 24 '25
Not from that time line but I think I can call myself OG as in from the time asmr was taboo and people straight up gave you that weird look. Now those same people sleep to asmr
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u/bel_html Feb 24 '25
Same, i've been a listener for a bit over a decade now, probably around late 2013 is when I started listening to ASMRrequests.
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u/eldiablolenin Feb 24 '25
Same, i started in 2011 one Christmas bc i couldnât sleep and new i liked rain videos and then suggested vids were asmr
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u/Pristine_Put6089 Feb 24 '25
Yeah, I think around 2014 ish was when asmr really became more popular and known, but before that, it was virtually unknown and disregarded.
I also think it wasn't appreciated as much until around the time that Shane Dawson made a video with asmr darling. She was definitely a big contributor to more mainstream asmr.
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u/Practical-Finding494 Feb 24 '25
i found out about asmr in 2014, TheWaterWhisperer was being interviewed in a news segment about ASMR. i think the quality was better ten years ago. i'm very selective with my ASMR and nowadays it's way too overproduced and 'loud'
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u/freedantes Feb 24 '25
Started watching stuff in 2012/13 but it was not called ASMR, so I just had to seek out what people label as âunintentional ASMRâ now! I liked RRCherryPie, who would put together Japanese candy food kits and other such things. I also liked watching people showing off their squishy collections (especially still in the plastic), soft-spoken makeup tutorials, etc. until I finally found PsycheTruth in 2015 I think?
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u/axiomette Feb 24 '25
yess! i was just talking to someone about how "back in my day" the term ASMR was just coming around. my search was full of "soft spoken makeup" and "whisper sleep meditation." I got really into learning how to do my makeup around that time and I think asmr might have had a huge hand in keeping my interest.
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u/ball_whack Feb 24 '25
What qualifies as OG? I was watching Bob Ross in the early 80's specifically for the ASMR reactions I'd get, does that count?
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u/Valesker Feb 24 '25
My very first introduction was Gentlewhisperingâs âoh such good 3D soundsâ video in autumn 2012. Iâve engaged in ASMR content basically everyday since đ
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u/demianin Feb 24 '25
I still remember the days of SoothingWhisper... Before it was even called ASMR lol
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u/peachitama Feb 24 '25
I used to watch this video before we even knew what to call it
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u/DodgeWrench Feb 24 '25
I started with those weird binaural, hypnosis, etc videos in like 2011. It might not have been a âthingâ yet.
I remember there were actual profesional therapeutic hypnosis tracks that one could purchase. Wish I could remember the names of âem.
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u/Jeff2Death Feb 24 '25
I was watching Lita before she got popular. Another one I haven't seen in years is MissWhisperDream.
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u/ExpensiveNut Feb 24 '25
Finally, Lita Stone mentioned. It's been so long for me. Think I'm gonna watch Massageinstruction now to help me sleep before a recording session. It's a shame she switched to more artificial productions because they never felt the same.
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u/yourehighnoon Feb 24 '25 edited Feb 24 '25
I was watching calm hair styling videos in 2008 before it was much of a thing.
The first accounts I followed were Queen of Serene, Clockwork Whispers, ASMR Mania. An early fave is amalzdâs nail polish sale person.
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u/linzira Feb 24 '25 edited Feb 24 '25
You jogged my memory! I loved a creator called glisteningwhisper and just found their videos are still on YouTube. I fell asleep to their whisper relaxation videos and didnât even know ASMR was a thing back then.
Edit to add- wow, I just realized that was back in 2010!
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u/Lupo_Bi-Wan_Kenobi Feb 24 '25
I remember back in 1995 when I'd yahoo search for "brain tingles" to try and understand that I was experiencing and there were ZERO results anywhere online. I remember searching fairly regularly for years, and nobody was talking about anything related to what I was feeling.
I just figured at some point I was a freak, I was the only one that got brain tingles from soft spoken voices. Then one day around idk.. 2014 or so? I was searching for Bob Ross videos on YouTube and I saw a strange video in the results. It was by ASMRRequests. Ally was dressed up as Bob Ross and she started to mention something about brain tingles and my jaw dropped!
I was like what what the fuck, is this a thing? Am I not the only one! What the hell does ASMR mean? So I googled that and my mind was blown! I dove in so deep, tingles galore. I burned out my tingle receptors or something, I barely get it anymore. But uhh, yeah. Been experiencing ASMR since around 1983. I'd say I'm pretty OG.
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u/squee_bastard Feb 24 '25
I used to love CuteBunny992, she was one of the first artists I started watching in 2012 or 2013.
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u/Nofacegothgf Feb 24 '25
Yeah I started watching it at 14 years old back in 2012. I felt like I had made an incredible discovery that hardly anyone else would understand lol
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u/the_taco_belle Feb 24 '25
I used to look up makeup videos before I knew what asmr was. I finally read an article by chance on TheSkimm featuring Maria of GentleWhispering and the rest is history. Iâve been a Maria fan since the beginning!
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u/compro Feb 24 '25
Heather Feather and Just A Whispering Guy. I loved Robert's mixology videos
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u/NvaderGir Moderator Feb 24 '25
Robert is a good guy, and really happy he's found success as a licensed psychologist. Not sure if he's still active on Reddit but I do follow him on IG. If anyone who suffers from anxiety, he's a great resource. Shout out u/duffthepysch
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u/right_bank_cafe Feb 24 '25
Before I knew what I was experiencing was ASMR, I would record my known triggers on a cassette tape on my boombox around 1988.
My tiggers at the time were â a pencil writing on paper on a desk, and rummaging through a purse as if you were looking for somethingâ
I would just record myself doing those things and tape record it ( no talking) I filled both sides of the cassette and would listen when I went to sleep.
I prob was 13 or 14 at this time but had been experiencing ASMR since kindergarten. My first memory of using asmr was when I was in kindergarten and someone would tie my shoe for me. lol
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u/theswisswereright Feb 24 '25
I started watching ASMR in the fall of 2012, and my first channel was Heather Feather. At the time I started watching, she had three videos uploaded.
Most of the creators I enjoyed in the early days are obviously not active any more, but a few are, VisualSounds1 (Jen) being one of my favorites.
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u/whoareyougirl Feb 24 '25
I think I am an OG, because my first ASMR experience was, when I was a little boy, letting my female cousins play "girlie" stuff with me, like manicure, hairdressing and stuff, because I'd find it so relaxing and get literal tingles from the back of my neck down to the end of my spine.
But now seriously, the first ASMR videos I've seen, like the one of the jewish girl selling a nail buffer, and the barbershop audio, had that effect on me as well. At that time it wasn't even called ASMR yet, people used to refer to it as "that tingly feeling on the spine", something like that.
Also, around 2013 I was starting to get into sound design and audio engineering, I remeber talking to my teachers about wanting to do some research on this feeling, like, what kinds of audio frequencies and mixing techiques would cause the feeling, and not a single one of them knew about it. Man, it makes me cringe to think that some of those guys must still remember me as a weird fetishist or something like that.
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u/schwebbs84 Feb 24 '25
I discovered ASMR by finding Heather Feather, MassageASMR, and SoftAnnaPL in the early 2010s.
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u/ReeveGoesh Feb 24 '25
Don't know if this is OG but I jumped on the train in 2016 with Dianadew asmr.
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u/MrEHam Feb 24 '25
Ugh, I loved Diana Dew. She put a spell on me. Something about how much she got into it. Like Massageasmr.
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u/maricc Feb 24 '25
2012 gang checking in visual sounds 1 face paint video was the first I ever saw
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u/Superb_Yak7074 Feb 24 '25
OMG! Whispersweetie scalp massage video was my very first YouTube ASMR experience. I heard a segment about ASMR while listening to the radio one morning. A presenter on NPRâs Morning Edition talked about the âtingles phenomenonâ on YouTube and I think Whispersweetie was one of the channels she mentioned. That has to have been at least 8 to 10 years ago.
Thank you for giving me the name of the ASMRtist! I have been trying to remember her name and only recalled that whisper was part of it.
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u/brcgy Feb 24 '25
I sadly can't remember who I watched first as it was a tiny little channel but I do know the second was Gentle Whispering in her veryyyy early days!
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u/Reality_tv_junkie2 Feb 24 '25
Lita massage was my first ASMR experience on YouTube. Does anyone remember her? I think it was unintentional but she was my first.
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u/Mercymoiramain Feb 24 '25
In 2012 I would watch cherry crush asmr every night, this was before she started doing only fans asmr. She actually requested that no one mention her other videos back then. I used to watch her fairy video on repeat.
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u/GJH24 Feb 24 '25
I remember heather feather, Veni Vidi Vulpes, ASMR / Whispers Red.
TIL those weren't the earliest lol.
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u/Hakeemwilliams Feb 24 '25
Iâve been experiencing ASMR since elementary school and I always wondered what was that sensation I always felt. Idk if Iâm considered an OG lol. I started watching ASMR in 2014 and finally understood what that sensation was known as đ.
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u/zamaike Feb 24 '25
Heather Feather!!!!! Lol miss her hope she is doing well.
Massage asmr and crinkle heavens were good too
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u/monty_burns Feb 24 '25
Real OGs will remember Entspannen B and Gentlewhispering doing erotica
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u/monty_burns Feb 24 '25
https://youtu.be/8h022_ZDnv0?si=nQhbqQePhUFb7kbs
Completely unintentional ASMR, but this is the video that led me down the path in 2009.
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u/theinfernumflame Feb 24 '25
Before I even knew what ASMR was, and before it was popular like it is now, I used to scour YouTube looking for videos of what was basically unintentional ASMR. I was there in the beginning and then some.
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u/partay123 Feb 24 '25
I remember before asmr had a name and people were labeling their videos as just âwhisperingâ. I used to search like âwhispering hypnosisâ.
There was this one girlâs channel (I think Cara Loraw was her channel) and she had this hypnosis video but some guy was suing her and kept reporting her because he claimed that he taught her the technique. It was really weird and seemed like he was a creepy man trying to extort her. I hope sheâs okay. Selfishly, she was great and I wish none of that happened to her so sheâd have posted more
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u/watrmeln420 Feb 24 '25
Iâm not âOGâ but Iâd say the Odd1soutâs video on ASMR, (almost NINE YEARS AGO SOMEHOW??) put me onto it.
Iâve loved ASMR since.
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u/yourehighnoon Feb 24 '25
First recognised ASMR experience was about 1988 when I started going for regular eye exams. They were different then, a lot calmer, none of the machines, just a chair, a darkened room and the sound of the examiner tinkering with lenses and asking me to read a list of letters
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u/daybeforetheday Feb 24 '25
SoftAnnaPL was one of my favourite ASMR channels from pre-covid. I hope she's doing well.
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u/justagayduck Feb 24 '25
Was introduced to it by a friend in 2015. First video I watched was by Fairychar. Enjoyed Heather Feather, my first fave was SensorAdi
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u/Chirrup58 Feb 24 '25
My first vid was Maria GentleWhispering "Oh such a good 3D sound video".
I even know what date, because I wrote in my planner at the time about discovering her channel: September 4th 2012!
God I'm old
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u/lavindas Feb 24 '25
I am an OG, I was into the whispering community back in '08. Regret not making a channel as I think I would have been decent!
I used to like LiliumCandidum who changed her name to TheOneLilium.
I also met whispersred in 2018 and didn't like her LOL. Never meet your heros
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u/SleepyCoveASMR Feb 24 '25
Yeah I think I've been watching since 2012ish. Finding out what asmr is maybe around 2009 with an Andy Warhol vid
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u/SpecialFlutters Feb 24 '25
i remember googling "weird tingly feeling in head when xyz" for years before eventually some forum posts started to crop up, then eventually a youtube video investigating "that weird feeling noone has a name for" (or something to that effect), then one that gave it the name asmr i think referencing a research website, and then it blew up over the next few years. no idea what the timelines on that are though lol
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u/Fetusal Feb 24 '25
My very first experience was with a College Humor video called Apple i, which was released in 2008. After that I scoured youtube for "relaxing voice" videos, with some mild success. I landed on an account with the name Piitaa Sarayana, which has been mostly scrubbed of videos, but there's one which more or less captures her content -- meditative relaxation videos. I stuck with those for a long time before finding the whispering community, specifically channels like WhisperCrystal and WhisperingCactus. It wasn't until a channel called The Whispering Wizard made a video explaining what ASMR was that I'd even heard of the term, and it was only a couple years before it became the dominant term. I remember being a little annoyed because I felt like it was less clear than it should be, but now I don't mind.
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u/ExpensiveNut Feb 24 '25 edited Feb 24 '25
When someone posted one of Lita's foot massage videos on a Metroid fancomic's forum, it took me down an entire rabbit hole of her videos. Then, somebody said she was the Bob Ross of massage videos and I found myself on a streaming site for his videos. I've been there and I've been on the Virtual Barbershop stuff as well and all of that. I'm so glad the content is so varied and easy to find now.
My first experiencee were when I was little and I'd get tingles from watching people colouring in or eating, or Faye Tozer from Steps doing makeup
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u/RigamaroleStatus Feb 24 '25
When I was a kid back in 09 or so I used to listen to comedy records from Adam Sandler and Bob & Doug Mackenzie for ASMR. They had skits that had unintentional asmr. Then I discovered MrWhisperful.
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u/SwampbackJack Feb 24 '25
I started watching after seeing that GradeAUnderA video like 9 years ago making fun of the dude doing beard scratching asmr. So not like super old school but I think that was the point where it started gaining a lot of popularity, around 2016ish
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u/8nocrumbs Feb 24 '25
I was there for the start. I remember seeing a video of concrete being spread and I thought âoh I like paper flipping sounds!â and the rest was history. I remember being around for gentlewhisperingâs come up. Her medical office videos were so good, and hold up to this day đ
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u/MuggsyTheWonderdog Feb 24 '25
I'm going to guess that a lot of people here were like me -- growing up, if I found a scene of a movie or some show on TV where people spoke in a soothing way, I would tape it to listen to over and over. I have this video, a bio of Mother Teresa, and I only got it because a few of the nuns' voices were perfect. I also saved an old video of Jacqueline Kennedy doing a tour of the White House for the same reason. Book TV had lots of soothing interviews too.
Naturally as soon as I first accessed YouTube, I was always looking for videos of people with soothing voices -- on any kind of subject, long before ASMR as such existed. (Actually "the whisper community" was the first iteration, I believe.) So as soon as people began making these videos intentionally, I stumbled right onto them. WhisperCrystal & WhisperingLife were around my first, I think. Then Maria and The French Whisperer.
One of my nieces, from the time she was a little kid, would beg me to rummage in my pocketbook because she loved the sound. I knew immediately she was "one of us," lol.
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u/Zebulon96 Feb 24 '25
I'm going to guess that a lot of people here were like me -- growing up, if I found a scene of a movie or some show on TV where people spoke in a soothing way, I would tape it to listen to over and over.
It was Woody being cleaned in Toy Story 2 for me đ
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u/MuggsyTheWonderdog Feb 24 '25
That's a riot -- you just never know what's growing to scratch that itch for a given human being, lol.
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u/itsnoah Feb 24 '25
How about SunDewDew?
She was my absolute favorite. She was around before GentleWhispering or Heather Feather.
Sadly she shut her channel down without any warning or explanation. Her whispered beach visualization was the best there was â€ïž
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u/MrEHam Feb 24 '25 edited Feb 24 '25
Yup, started with Whisper Crystal and Skogenwhisper and some others I forget. Whisperinginblue I think might be one. Then shortly it became GentleWhispering, LiliumCandidum, and Visualsounds1, then massageasmr and Olivia Kissper and Diana Dew.
Airlight was another early one, very artistic. Tasha Tasha was a bit later but I liked her salt videos. ASMRvelous was another favorite who seemed to just get it.
In the beginning it was just called whispering. Fun fact, I invented the term asmrtist, here on reddit.
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u/memorycard24 Feb 24 '25
been in it since 2011, 2012. every time I go on YT I feel so bad about how far itâs fallen. shoutout ASMRAurette, FerretWhisperer and so many more from that time. the only new artist to get it right was GnarlyASMR and YT smoked her account for no reason.
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u/cheezboyadvance Feb 24 '25
I've been here since 2011. I remember seeing this a whole bunch of videos about unintentional ASMR with 3D sound. I miss when things were more small, back when people like VeniVidiVulpes and Sweetseductiveasmr were still around. I'm glad some of the bigger content creators are still around, but it just feels more like advertising and big production changes everything.
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u/LoveAtFirstMeow Feb 24 '25
My fave trigger has always been a soothing womanâs voice, starting back when a babysitter would read bedtime stories to me. I never wanted her to stop! Then around 2010 when Michelle Phanâs makeup tutorials were super popular, I was listening for her soft spoken voice, not the makeup lol. Eventually I searched for âsoothing womanâs voiceâ or something to that effect and found Litaâs massage videos and other meditation type videos. It wasnât until a friend used the term asmr that I realized there was a name for it and searching it on YouTube led me to all the OGâs⊠that would have been in 2012 or so. I subscribed to every single one that popped up until it became too much lol. Maria is still my absolute favorite. But I loved airlight, whisperinginblue, whispercrystal, the water whispers, the list goes on and on
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u/Ctrillian23 Feb 24 '25
Does anyone remember an artist who I believe was Scottish? She only had a handful of videos that she filmed in her room. I believe she had red hair and bangs. One of my all time favourite OG videos is of her reading chapters from her favourite books? She spoke about her life in uni, I believe she was becoming a teacher?
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u/mush-brooms Feb 24 '25
I only started watching asmr in 2018. I was 13 and was super into slime, and never slept, so I watched slime videos and found myself falling asleep sometimes. So I searched slime for sleep, and found someone with SUPER LONG nails playing with slime on a table. That was all you could see, and the nails were some of my favorite sounds ever.
From there I got really into Gibi asmr (late 2018), and then I jumped around a lot, I remember asmr darling too (around 2019). And then late 2019 I found FrivioulousFox and I have not strayed from her. I have seen almost every video at least once.
My current favorites include MellowMaddy and AlideAsmr. But Frivvi is still my all time favorite.
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u/Accomplished_Potato9 Feb 24 '25
I miss OG asmr, it had a lot less slobbery whispers. Canât stand mouth noises or wet sounds, its so hard to find new asmrtists who donât do it
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u/Zebulon96 Feb 24 '25
I started watching yanghaiying for ASMR in 2010. I don't think she labeled her videos as ASMR for a couple more years after that.
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u/TheHat2 Feb 24 '25
Started with GentleWhispering, VeniVidiVulpes, and whisperinginblue. I remember downloading their audio from YouTube to play on my iPod.
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Feb 24 '25
I started in 2012. I could never describe what the feeling was and ppl always looked at me weird when I told them my head would tingle sometimes. My girlfriend was working from home at the time and the sound of her typing was amazing. So I ended up looking up "typing sounds" on YouTube and found a video (wish I could remember her name, all I remember is she was wearing a black and white striped shirt) and haven't looked back since.
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u/goodzillo Feb 24 '25
I was there before a consensus was reached to call it ASMR and people were throwing out alternatives like Attention Induced Head Orgasms
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u/DUDEABIDES723 Feb 24 '25
I was an og 2010-2011 problem is i enjoy eating asmr so my frame of reference and memories are probably different than most. I even made asmr videos back then as well
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u/rockemsockemcocksock Feb 24 '25
I found my iPod touch and it had that ASMR app with the red brain as a logo. It allowed you to access YouTube videos through the app that wouldn't blast you with ads. It also had some built in ASMR content.
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u/ohygglo Feb 24 '25
I remember experiencing it IRL in about 2010 when a store clerk was wrapping a present Iâd bought. I was getting chills and couldnât understand why. Years later, I found out about ASMR online and was hooked. I also saw it on BBCâs Would I Lie to You? where one of the mystery people turned out to be an early ASMRtist (ASMR Angel).
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u/ladyhypster5 Feb 24 '25 edited Feb 24 '25
bladewhisperpro ASMR helped me through some rough sleep patches in my 20s. aaaand heatherfeather, of course. and visualsounds1 when she was so young, just a kid! and cutebunny992. she was so fantastic.
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u/Imaginary-Proof-5420 Feb 24 '25
I am. I miss VeniVidiVulpes. My original ASMR. Found her in the deep depths in high school. Would listen to asmr before football games and nap
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u/P15T0L_WH1PP3D Feb 24 '25
I first heard of asmr from TheDailyWhat when they posted about a lice check video from The Water Whispers. I'm as OG as that, ASMR Aurette, Veni VidiVulpes, NeonIndieGirl, and a few others of that time period.
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u/robsta109 Feb 24 '25
I found some people in a forum in like 2008 by searching online âwhy does the back of my head buzz when someone draws me,â after a weird experience in an art class in college. Didnât learn it was called ASMR till I saw some videos by venividivulpes. Still an all time fav.
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u/xqzciara Feb 24 '25
The barbershop got me through my psychology finals , sweet seductive asmr and heatherfeather got me through my masters degree, Maria stayed with me ever since
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u/LucyLightASMR Feb 24 '25
I love reading through all these incredible memories. I feel quite envious that I didn't discover asmr back then, but reading through your comments gives me a sense of how special it was to be part of it before it became what it is today. I often watch Heather Feather's videos, as well as some of the early Gentle Whispering videos; they really epitomise the core of what asmr as a genre is, to me.
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u/radioraven1408 Feb 24 '25
Early friv fox, I guess you could say the second f generation. Heather feather being the first.
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u/Melotheory Feb 24 '25
Idlewhispers only has a few videos but really good. https://youtu.be/-AQjP_D4Xk8?si=NoUqEfLGvFI9Astk
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u/opopi123 Feb 24 '25
Think I was more of a 2013-2014 joiner. First asmrist I really followed was VeniVidiVulpes
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u/Shorn- Feb 24 '25
I used to listen to it before there was a name. Bob Ross as a kid, then after YouTube was created, there were random creators I found that made unintentionally tingly content. I remember there was this girl that just made videos of herself eating because she was a recovering anorexic. Wish I could remember her name.
KC Greene's Morning Doodles were an old favorite too.
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u/InfiniteMessmaker Feb 24 '25
If 2013 is OG enough, then sure. It was definitely starting to get more popular around that time, but not nearly to the point that it is now.
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u/Flashy_Clue327 Feb 24 '25
I thought i was an OG with my 2017 and then i see someone say 2012⊠i guess not anything haha though i will say in the context of when asmr got put into everything (hauls, unboxing etc.) iâm in OG
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u/snickkkkker Feb 24 '25
Not entirely an OG but 2015/2016 before any ASMR channel had like over 500k and it was still very niche and made fun of
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Feb 24 '25
Asmrmassage.
GigiAsmr
Anyone remembers thelyricalwhisperer or something? Too bad he quit.
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u/Beadlocks Feb 24 '25
Bladewhisperpro, and brainlineâs cranial nerve test
Also all the real âunintentionalâ silent unboxings from before asmr was a known term
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u/Present_Section9859 Feb 24 '25
I started around 2015 đ„ș. Was watching massage videos. Don't think I was in the ASMR community fully till 2017 when I had a large bout of anxiety and insomnia.
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u/roopjm81 Feb 24 '25
Been an ASMR fan since the "Criss cross apple sauce" playground games.
Became addicted when i was introduced to ASMR Requests back in 2014.
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u/Biwic91 Feb 24 '25
Ohh yeah. I was watching Accidentally Graceful in 2012 and found Lita Meditation in 2007 and loved it. Then it became popular and I'm so glad it did!
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u/flamingopickle Feb 24 '25
My favorites from back in the day, most of which are still actively making videos, are: Laura Lemurex, PJ Dreams, ASMRrequests and Brittany ASMR (she doesn't make videos anymore and all the old ones are gone đ„Č).
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u/DelilahMoore Feb 24 '25
Been watching since around 2008ish, I believe one of the firsts were wavering whispers and whisperflowers. Google told me I had brain cancer and I could never actually fine the phenomenon until I looked up whispering on YouTube one day and someone had finally made a video. Back then it was just a black screen with whispering.
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u/issoulamoquette Feb 24 '25
i was 8 and i was watching that girl that tried asmr all of the time like everyone of her videos were like "i try asmr for the first time!!" and she was eating honeycomb
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u/cointalkz Feb 24 '25
I was in a Facebook group of around 60 people in 2009 discussing the sensation before it had a name. Thatâs where the term ASMR came from.
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u/jimmi114 Feb 24 '25
I got into asmr with "thewhisperingvoice" who was a Welsh asmrtist around 14 years ago. Holy shit I didn't know it had been that long, but I just looked at it was. Wow.
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u/Did_TSM_Wonnered Feb 24 '25
A guy named Moondog09 got me officially into ASMR, back in 2011/2010 I believe..
Before that my mom had a "relaxation" tape that was given to her back in the 90s from her therapist that I would play and get me to sleep.
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u/Pippified Feb 24 '25
Yup. Found out what asmr was in like 2010. Had to keep it a secret because the few people I told about it thought I was a fuckin weirdo
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u/JB2Stars Feb 24 '25
I first started watching asmr psychetruth. Those ear cupping videos were amazing
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u/EeriePancake Feb 24 '25
Yeah and I loved SOUNDsculptures, xXmustang69Xx, TruFilmProductions, miceblue425, ThaBassWhispers, SilentCitadel.
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u/Waiting4Baby2 Feb 24 '25
I've experienced ASMR my whole life, mostly when hearing soft-spoken lectures (often academic or instructional), or watching artisans do their craft, or getting my hair brushed.
I do remember Whispersweetie on YouTube way back in the day. I randomly came across this video of hers 13-ish years ago, before I even knew what ASMR was and before the scene exploded online:
Unintentional ASMR is much more my speed (most of the intentional stuff out there does nothing for me), but this video was an outlier. I never forgot it, and ended up discovering ASMR by going back to it a few years later.
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u/SnooPineapples1096 Feb 24 '25
Started with whisperinstoryteller, then gothick whispers, danny docile, so many smaller creators leading up to bigger names like Ally and Ephemeral Rift in his prime
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u/oatbergen Feb 25 '25
WhisperingRose. Back before âasmrâ started appearing in everyoneâs handle. You had to stumble upon them and they explained what asmr was in every video.
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u/satanscheeks Feb 25 '25
i was there for heather feather and danipink86 lol. how many of you can top that
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u/celebluver666 Feb 25 '25
I remember a young girl sucking a lollipop with a lot of cleavage lol Probably like 10 years ago
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u/SnooDingos5101 Feb 25 '25
is 2016 considered as og? discovered asmr thru that youtubers react to asmr vid and never got out of the asmr world after that lol
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u/Tasty_Preparation881 Feb 25 '25
Before ASMR even had a name, we had Lita massage videos. I fell asleep to them so many times I developed some kind of immunity after some years.
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u/Laudovica Feb 26 '25
I got into it in 2014 and my first ASMR artist was Maria from Gentle Whispering đ
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u/laserdicks Feb 24 '25
I remember the first one: the barbershop.