Nostalgic ASMRs

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your family is asleep and you're playing minecraft on a cool 2012 summer night Crusty Nutts Hace 2 semanas *12 year old me gets blown up by a creeper and rage quits FRIEND: don't worry bro I'll pick up your stuff and put it in your chest for next time you log on 7 years later *19 year old me logs on again and sees his loot in the chest crying voice Thank You Wait.., why do look s..sad?

Anonymous Mon 21 Jan 2019 08:52:58 No.447698837 View Reply Original Report Quoted By: 447698921 >447699325 >>447699768 >447700261 447700350 447700463 447700667447701856 447702162447703850 447704461 >Zoomers are now posting nostalgia for the Late 00s-Early 10s >Those "if u remember minecraft and Cod ur childhood wuz awesum" shitposts from 2012 our faumin er nieto and youre playing coJust a few years ago everyone agreed the Late 00s-Early 10s were the downfallshit era 175KİB, 739x387, Screenshot 2019-01-21-00-49-34- 1.png came true in the end View Same Google idb SauceNAO What do you think of this? Anonymous Mon 21 Jan 2019 08:53:50 No.447698921 Quoted By: 447699175 447699323 447702994 Report >447698837 early 10s were a lot better than late 00s View Same Google iqdb SauceNAO Anonymous Mon 21 Jan 2019 08:54:57 No.447699031 Report Quoted By: 447699901 go f--- yourself boomer, let these kids enjoy and remember their beloved childhoods d. gyro.png. 22Ків. 300x250 Anonymous Mon 21 Jan 2019 08:55:17 No.447699069 Quoted By: 447701173 Report time moves forward >People grow >Most people are nostalgic for a vague cluster of years during their adolescence Wow Anon how could this have happened w-- bros

49 Playing MW3 late at night in 2011 while your mom has an affair and your dad comes home and kills em 25,290 views 845 79 Share Download Save

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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).