Hello, beautiful, a British accent whispers through smiling teeth.
Are you ready for bed now?
It has almost 2.5 million views.
Emma WhispersRed/Facebook
It carries on like this for 41 minutes.
Some people call us ASMR-tists, she tells SELF.
But whatever you want to call me is fine.
I’m not trying to be a millionaire, she says.
I’m just on a mission, really.
It’s just my purpose.
Shes collaborating with 15 other ASMR content creators to stage a massive live presentationan ASMR spanext year in Berlin.
Emma WhispersRed:I’ve always experienced thetingly sensation.
I didn’t know there was a name for it and that other people experienced it, too.
Then, in 2010, I had a car accident and developed PTSD afterwards.
I was told I was going to lose my leg.
I didn’t walk for a whole year.
But somehow, many operations later, I can walk again.
It was a couple of years down the line that thePTSDkicked in.
I was on YouTube looking for relaxation videos, and ended up finding ASMR videos.
I was obsessed with getting involved in the community.
I started a Facebook group called ASMR UK, and started chatting with people through that.
There was a meet-up of people who had ASMR channels, but it was only for content creators.
So, that’s when I started my channelbecause I just wanted to be at the meet-up.
I carried on making videos, but it was really just to connect with people.
But after a while, people were telling me that my voice was helping them sleep.
I didn’t think I’d be any good at it.
I didn’t tell anyone in my family.
No one in my house knew that I had a YouTube channel.
It’s a bit likeThe Viewin the U.S. By that point, my husband and my kids knew, but no one else knew.
You know, they call it brain-gasm, and whisper porn, and that kind of thing.
Because it looks strange to people who don’t experience it.
I completely understand that.
It’s really hard.
At first, I never shared that I had children or talked about my partner.
I ended up being Emma at home and then this WhispersRed person online.
So, I started sharing a bit more about myself, and everything just felt so much easier.
I share pictures of the children sometimes.
I’ve made a video with my husband.
I feel a lot more comfortable sharing everything now.
I feel like I’m reciprocating the friendship by sharing things about myself, too.
Just last year I started doing it full-time.
I was filming in the shed because the house was always busy and noisy.
Cardi Btweeted about it a while ago.
She said she watches this red-haired English lady and it turned out it was me.
You just don’t know who’s watching.
People often ask if I can give myself tingles.
Answers have been edited for length and clarity.
