I've been a subscriber for about a year now.

I've been a subscriber for about a year now, and I've been meaning to write to you for quite some time.

It's taken me months to finally put pen to paper, so to speak, and write this.

You see, I used to be a YouTuber, and I had quite a lot of subscribers too.

Since this story is about some of the perils of being a big

YouTuber, I think you're the perfect person to tell it to. One rainy summer evening back in 2013,

I was browsing YouTube to combat some pretty severe boredom when I came across a video called

something like Hellboy comic book page turning. The user who uploaded the video was

named Ephemoral Rift, and it consisted of him doing something incredibly boring, or so I thought.

He did nothing more than exhibit a hardback compendium of Hellboy issues, and if memory serves me

well, he didn't say a single word throughout the entire video.

He also delicately turned the pages of the book at a rate which, while not fast by any means, was too quick to read what was written.

Under any other circumstances, I might have been asking myself why in God's name this person felt the need to upload this.

But under those particular circumstances,

I got an immediate sense of the video's purpose.

The man's slow, graceful movements and the sound of the pages being gently turned

were somehow phenomenally relaxing.

I sat there practically mesmerized with my headphones turned up to 100 for the entire 15-minute duration of the video.

When it was done, I actually wanted more.

That's how I discovered autonomous sensory meridian response, or, as you might know it, ASMR for short,

the light, tingly sensation certain people feel, whenever they're experiencing a relaxing

interaction with someone or something. From that day forward, I was hooked. I soon discovered

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