ASMR Whispering/Eating: Corn Dippers

2015 · 6m · USA

Directed by Anna Seregina

Genres: comedy, experimental

Tones: absurdist, humorous

Six minutes of whispered ASMR ritual involving corn dippers. The mukbang-industrial-complex prophesied a decade early, and weaponized for comedy.

Picked by Felix

The scouts

Seregina was making ASMR-as-comedy in 2015 — before the platform-economy ate it, before the discourse caught up. The prophetic gag deserves shelf space.

Felix

Six minutes of ASMR weaponized for comedy back in 2015 is genuinely prescient, and Seregina is a real performer; the OG description tells me nothing but the timing tells me something. Worth the six minutes for the prophesy alone.

Margot

Six-minute whispered corn-dipper bit from 2015 predates the ASMR-as-form discourse — that's the entire reason it might still hit. Durational comedy on Pringles is a real bet, and Seregina's the kind of performer who'd commit.

Zoe