Nostalgic ASMRs
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About
Nostalgic ASMRs are immersive audio recordings of popular video games and TV shows playing in a room, set to the ambient background of a typical family household. Since emerging on YouTube as an oddly relatable joke in late 2018, the trend has grown into a wholesome meme that evokes childhood memories of comfort for the millennial and Gen Z internet users.
Origin
On December 11th, 2018, YouTube[1] user WahlTV uploaded a video titled "Playing MW2 late at night in 2009 while your parents fight about your mom having an affair". In the video, as still screenshot from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was accompanied with various game sounds and background noise of a verbal argument between a man and a woman. The video received over 371,000 views in two months.
Additionally, on the same day WahlTV posted the video to /r/okbuddyretard subreddit[2], where it gained over 1,500 upvotes in two months.
Spread
Over the next month, WahlTV uploaded three more similar videos, with the conflict between the "parents" escalating in each one. The most popular video, uploaded on January 11th, 2019 (shown below), gained over 436,000 views.
On January 15th, YouTube[3] user rye – chip uploaded a video titled "your family is asleep and you’re playing minecraft on a cool 2012 summer night" containing a still image of a laptop in a dark bedroom with Minecraft video game running, accompanied with "Calm 3" composition from the game and chirping of crickets in the background. The video gained over 1.7 million views in one month.
In the following month, rye – chip uploaded over 20 similar videos with references to popular video games, TV shows and music of 2000s and 2010s (examples below).
Starting in December 2018, WahlTV and rye – chip videos were mentioned in numerous posts on Reddit. On January 13th, 2019, Redditor[4] Rhino2115 made a post to /r/oddlyspecific subreddit (shown below) which gained over 500 upvotes in one month. Posts by Redditors Darkstaar[5] and Kakkapoika333[6] to /r/me_irl and /r/dankmemes subreddits, made on January 18th and January 21st, received over 6,100 and 11,700 upvotes in three weeks, respectively (shown below, center and right).
On January 21st, an anonymous 4chan[7] user launched a discussion of the trend on /v/ board.
Various Examples
Search Interest
External References
[1] YouTube – Playing MW2 late at night in 2009 while your parents fight about your mom having an affair
[3] YouTube – your family is asleep and you’re playing minecraft on a cool 2012 summer night
[4] Reddit – This persons content is perfect
[6] Reddit – Lets go back😤😤😓
[7] 4chan – /v/ Thread #447698837
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