Episode 1.12 What the Heck is ASMR? - The Middle School Mind

On this episode of The Middle School Mind podcast for kids, Son introduces us to ASMR. Neither of us know what ASMR is and we go to our friends at youtube to help us find out!

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What is ASMR?

Wikipedia defines ASMR as Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR), sometimes auto sensory meridian response. It is a tingling sensation that usually begins on the scalp and moves down the back of the neck and upper spine. A pleasant form of paresthesia, it has been compared with auditory-tactile synesthesia and may overlap with frisson.

This is Gibi ASMR who helped us understand ASMR on this episode. Image courtesy of Gibi ASMR’s youtube channel.

We find a youtube video from Gibi ASMR titled “ASMR that gets darker and darker so you can sleep 🙂” to help us understand what ASMR is all about.

Gibi ASMR has 4.12m subscribers and this video has 363k views and it was released yesterday! She has an impressive following.
We jump to Gibi ASMR’s introduction of the video.
Gibi ASMR has a lot of great product placement as she uses products in her videos.

Gibi ASMR image as featured on ZME Science's article highlighting why people love ASMR so much. — Gibi ASMR’s image was featured in ZME Science’s blog post ” Why do some people love ASMR so much?”

After our initial view of Gibi ASMR’s video, we give our initial thoughts

We have more questions than answers still

We can’t quit Gibi ASMR and go back to the video

Here’s Gibi showing her salt shaker she got from the Dollar Store with pink glitter hearts
We jump to Gibi crinkling her expired, store brand bag of lentils later in the video
Gibi then taps on a tube of foam beads
We jump to 23 minutes in to watch Gibi’s segment on the Toaster Coaster

Final thoughts on Gibi’s ASMR video

Our thoughts, really boring, lots of tapping and lots of name dropping and product placement

We didn’t feel the tingles with ASMR, did you?

A special thank you to Gibi ASMR!

Gibi ASMR image on insider.com article on her youtube channel and growth in the ASMR community. — Gibi ASMR is a super impressive content creator on youtube. Check out this article and image credits from insider.com that highlights her channel’s growth. Amazing!

Her video was definitely eye-opening and helped us understand what ASMR is all about. While ASMR does not resonate with us, it is clear from all the videos, all the views and all the followers for Gibi and other youtubers that ASMR has a big following!

Please check out Gibi ASMR’s channel on youtube and see for yourself if ASMR is your thing!

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