ASMR on Instagram vs. ASMR on YouTube

Most of the ASMR videos on this site have come from Instagram, and there's a good reason for that--Instagram has a strong and creative ASMR community with new channels being made and new content areas being explored all the time. The medium's focus on short videos helps anyone and everyone create ASMR content and put it out there, and the social media aspect helps content creators find each other and promote/encourage one another. Of course, it's the Internet, so there's a good bit of silliness and unnecessary hate flying around in the comments of any given video, but generally speaking it's the golden age of ASMR on Instagram right now.

However, it's also the golden age of ASMR on YouTube as well, with many Instagrammers also making YouTube accounts, and vice versa. Yet the two communities serve very different community needs and evoke very different styles. Here's what I mean: