ASMR Darling

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Taylor Darling
Personal information
Born (1997-05-14) May 14, 1997 (age 26)
Florida, United States
Occupation(s) YouTuber, Twitch streamer
YouTube information
Also known asASMR Darling
Channel
Years active2016–present
Genre ASMR
Subscribers2.51 million [1]
(October 2023)
Total views634 million [1]
(April 2024)
Last updated: April 25, 2024

Taylor Darling (born May 14, 1997), [2] also known as ASMR Darling or simply Darling, is an American ASMR creator, Twitch streamer and YouTuber known for making ASMR videos. [3] [4] [5]

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Career

Taylor began a career on YouTube on March 12, 2016, initially recording ASMR videos on her phone. Shortly after hitting 50,000 subscribers about 1½ months after uploading her first video, she was featured in a gaming video by PewDiePie. [6] At two months, close to 100,000 subscribers, Taylor stopped producing work for her Youtube channel and placed all of her videos on private, mainly due to technical issues with new equipment and being overwhelmed by her popularity. [7] After a one-month break, she began making videos again, including the very popular ASMR 10 Triggers to Help You Sleep (35 million views as of August 2022).

In July 2017 she uploaded another popular video, ASMR 20 Triggers to Help You Sleep (38 million views as of August 2022). She was interviewed in a Shane Dawson video in August 2017, [8] and shortly afterwards she reached 1 million subscribers on YouTube. [9] In February 2019, Wired UK estimated that she was earning $1,000 per day from advertising revenue on her YouTube channel. [5]

Taylor voice acted and was a model for the character ASMR Sweetie in the VR game Fire Escape, released in April 2018. [10]

In June 2018 she began streaming on Twitch, in the beginning gaming most days a week with a weekly ASMR stream. As of 2022 she streams ASMR two times a week. [11]

Taylor was featured in an episode of The Try Guys in February 2019. [12] That summer, she participated as one of five ASMR creators in Reese The Movie: A Movie About Reese, [13] a 1½ hour long advertisement for Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, made in ASMR style. She was on the ASMR panel at VidCon 2019 in Anaheim, California in July 2019. [14] In September 2019, Taylor was performing and discussing ASMR with Neil deGrasse Tyson and Kelly Clarkson in The Kelly Clarkson Show on NBC. [15]

Personal life

She has deliberately kept her last name private, choosing to go only by her first name Taylor to protect herself from stalking and doxxing. [16] As of September 2020, she resides in Florida. [17]

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  2. ↑ @asmrDarling (May 14, 2019). "Thank you everyone for all the birthday love and wishes ❤️🎂 Feels good to be 22!!!" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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  7. ↑ ASMR Darling (May 27, 2016). "Tay and Roscoe in love... Update (not ASMR)". YouTube.
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  9. ↑ "1 million darlings". Instagram. September 5, 2017.
  10. ↑ "Fire Escape: An Interactive VR Series". IMDb. April 18, 2018.
  11. ↑ "Stream schedule for 2022". Twitter. December 31, 2021.
  12. ↑ The Try Guys (February 27, 2019). "The Try Guys Ruin ASMR ft. ASMR Darling". YouTube.
  13. ↑ "REESE The Movie: A Movie About REESE". IMDb. June 17, 2019.
  14. ↑ Matty Tingles (August 4, 2019). "The Stars of ASMR - Vidcon 2019 Panel". YouTube.
  15. ↑ Kelly Clarkson (September 25, 2019). "ASMR Darling Shares Her Ear-Tingling Tricks With Neil And Kelly - The Kelly Clarkson Show". YouTube.
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  17. ↑ @asmrDarling (September 20, 2020). "I live in central Florida" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
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