Student Made £45k In A Year From Role Play Videos Of Her Whispering

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A 20-year-old student has found a way to earn the big bucks by making role play videos of her whispering and sharing them online.

Lottie Fellows, who is studying accounting and finance at the University of Bath, uploads videos with the aim of helping people fall asleep through autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR).

ASMR is the feeling of a tingling sensation in the head, neck, spine and sometimes legs which makes people feel sleepy and relaxed.

According to Sleep.org it can be triggered by certain noises and visuals, and videos show people doing simple, quiet tasks, such as folding towels, whispering, brushing their hair, or flipping magazine pages.

Describing the feeling, the 20-year-old said:

Its like the sensation you get from a scalp massage or when someone plays with your hair.

Its that intense feelings of relaxation that almost makes you shake its so good.

Lottie experienced ASMR herself from a young age, though at the time she didnt know what it was called. After finding out more about it last year, however, she began to get more involved.

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She explained:

My earliest memory of experiencing tingles was in primary school listening to a teacher softly read the class a story. The soft-spoken words and the sounds of the pages turning made my head tingle, and I would always feel sleepy.

I only discovered ASMR online in early 2018 after my mum had heard about it on the radio and suggested it to me after Id been struggling with mental health and sleep.

I remember looking it up on YouTube and initially thinking it was the weirdest and funniest thing. After watching it for a few minutes I then realised that it was a massively relaxing feeling that I had always experienced but didnt know exactly what it was. I have been hooked ever since.

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The student created her own page in September 2018 as a hobby to help with her mental health, though she kept it quiet at first and only made the videos late at night.

Her subscriber growth was slow initially as she figured out how to film and edit, while also saving up for a new camera, microphone and lighting, but she has since racked up over 87,000 subscribers.

Lottie now has 170 videos on YouTube, some of which have over 245,000 views, and after earning £45,000 in a year her income continues to grow.

Speaking about her videos, the 20-year-old said:

I was shocked when my channel began to grow, it was very surreal.

I remember watching my videos back and cringing a bit, so knowing others were enjoying it was a surprise.

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She whispers phrases such as hello my darlings and role plays different characters, such as a medical practitioner, a big sister and a stylist to give her videos a personal feel.

Her content is created solely for the purpose of relaxation and sleep but Lottie has said her videos can be misinterpreted as sexual.

She explained:

When people say ASMR is sexual I respond with the argument that anything can be sexualised.

I can understand why slow whispering or the words roleplay can be misinterpreted as being sexual, and there are some femaleRead More – Source