It's all finally happening! I've always wanted to start my own ASMR channel, and now, it's finally starting to happen. I still have so much to do.
Back in July of 2018, I decided I could make my own ASMR channel. The channel was originally named QueenBee Whispers ASMR. I've had so many ideas for videos ever since I stumbled on ASMR in high school. I plugged my microphone into my laptop, hit record on my phone (really high-tech, I know), and began with the tingles.
It was a gorgeous video. The theme was tingles from bathroom products. I brushed my hair, played with a loofa and had lid sounds from a makeup remover product. I did some light whispering, but it was only a light amount because I had no clue what I should be talking about. Other than that, it was perfect. The sounds were so amazing, and I couldn't wait to upload it onto YouTube.
However, that video never even made it past 10 minutes of trying to edit it. When I tried to cut things out of the video, either the video or the audio would lag behind. It drove me crazy. I couldn't figure out how to fix it without the long process of going through the video second by second to make sure everything lined up. I decided to ditch the project and either come back to it when I had the tools for it, or just start over entirely.
Fast forward to a couple of months ago. As I was drifting to sleep in my dorm room (that sure does show how young I am), listening to yet another ASMR video, I realized my problem. I needed to record the actual video with everything together on my laptop. I did a little bit of research to see if there was anything out there that could support those products and have them plug into my laptop, and put the idea on hold until the summer (my hall had a nasty habit of being noisy at all times in the day, so there was no good time to record there).
Obviously, this isn't summer. Since the pandemic started to grow in size and concern, and everything started to shut down, my university closed days before Spring Break. So I packed up as much as I could into my car and left for home. Adding on to the change from the virus, I've found myself going through a lot of other stressful changes in my personal life. I chose to try and start up the channel now, since everyone could use some relaxation right now.
I started putting everything into motion yesterday. Thanks to online classes, I now have the nasty habit of staying up until two, three, even four in the morning. Last night, I put that time to good use by starting to build this website, since I thought it would be fun to document the process of building this channel with a blog (hi). But it took more work than I thought and the work began to snowball.
It started with creating a special email just for the channel and channel related business. That came with so many issues since the email I wanted wasn't available, so the email and the channel name went through a lot of minor changes. After those were both set up and good to go, I started on social media. Each social media account (except for Twitter for some reason) I got lucky and had my name available.
I spent so many hours working on this website. Being the little perfectionist that I am, I couldn't rest until I didn't see a single mistake or item out of place on the website. Hopefully I didn't miss anything, but knowing me, I probably did. I'll probably make a million changes in the future, but for now, I think I'm happy with how it's turned out.
I'm so extremely nervous and excited for this journey. I've always love how kind and inviting the ASMR community is, and how everyone is welcome. But anyone who has been in the community for a while knows the stereotypes that come with ASMR, which means I haven't told anyone, and I mean anyone, that I'm doing this. Maybe that's a mistake. And maybe in time I can tell one or two people in my life, but for now, this is an adventure between you and me...
And I couldn't be more thankful for it.
Love
Little Queen Bee
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