Why Ephemeral Rift Is Quitting ASMR
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 เม.ย. 2024
- Ephemeral rift is quitting ASMR. For years, ephemeral rift has helped millions of people. Growing his channel to 1.18 million subs and the better part of 2,000 videos. His ASMR videos contain sleep for the sleepless, boardwalk candy, Arkham ASMR role plays… so on and so forth. Soft spoken, trigger assortments, story times… Lately he has changed to doing nature videos. A recent video now states that this is the end for his ASMR.
This video explains the timeline up till this time. If you want to know more about the ephemeral rift drama, checkout the JoJo ASMR video about ephemeral rift on Twitter and his use of particular words that have landed him in trouble. While uncle e has had an interesting 6 months, he is still one of the greatest ASMR artists of all time. Ephemeral rift quitting ASMR is gonna be a big blow; however, he is only one of the individuals who is quitting lately.
It seems like offerings from fredsvoice, ephemeral rift, and many others are getting fewer. Maybe it’s TH-cam, maybe it’s artists getting fed up with the life and the demand of everyone telling the artists what to do. Either way, we salute you ephemeral rift, and I hope you find happiness in whatever you do next.
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I mean he’s still not as nuts as Angelica went
Definitely
It's a real shame because i really enjoyed his weird avant-garde ASMR. I was having a real hard time going to sleep after I left his channel but I've luckily been able to find others like Cosmo.
Also my favorite Ephemeral Rift video was probably was The Candy Man sorting sprinkles for delivery.
Candyman stuff was great! He certainly had some instant classics!
ER was my go-to channel (that honor now goes to Lloyd). Out of all the triggers he had, the tissue package was my favorite.
It’s one thing when he drops the soft “a”, but minimizing the Holocaust was the red line for me. That’s my view though.
I will say I do tend to lloyds videos more these days cus i prefer more simplistic asmr videos like Lloyds. But Paul is still a good dude in my book
I'd say the horror more goes on the expansively anti-human side of the same argument you're saying is the breaking point for you, rather than the specifically anti-holocaust one, as its more alarming, but sort of historically, and morally, I get your point.
I'm sad to see him go, because I actually got into ASMR due to his Lovecraft content. I hope he finds success and enjoyment in whatever he chooses to do next.
I'm pretty sure for the past year or so, Paul has been going through a sort of crisis. Since he completely quit making ASMR content and shifted towards doing "relaxing outdoor videos", his viewerbase just hasn't seemed to click with that content. He's seemingly completely abandoned the Rift Universe for content that he can make in a "less controlling environment".
He said in that vlog of his that you mentioned that he quit making his traditional ASMR videos because of how much of a controlled environment you have to be in when filming, and how he often felt he had little "control" over how his videos were created. I don't mean to psychoanalyze the dude or anything, but I genuinely think that he had a mental breakdown last year and has now decided to pin the root cause of it on creating ASMR content, because of how much of a controlled environment you have to film the video in.
He's still one of my favorite ASMRtists out there and I really hope he'll go back to making his Rift Universe videos soon. So do many others, I feel.
Very well said
He’s my favorite ASMR channel, he’s incredible and his content was unique… 😞
More than anything else, I worry about the man. He seems to go through phases of depression and misanthropy. So far that has mostly stayed off the channel, but this brings it in. I hope uncle E is alright
I liked how thoughtful you were with this video; it was pretty informative. I was a long-time ER viewer and often watched his videos to help me sleep. I always specifically watched his unintelligible videos as they always helped with my anxiety and relaxed me. I can't keep watching him in good faith unfortunately now. Thank you, and I hope you're doing well and I hope Uncle E improves
Thanks so much! Well spoken.
I can say with absolute certainty that his stance on meat and anti-humanity is a direct result of beginning to listen to Cattle Decapitation. If you're not familiar, they are a metal band whose lyrical themes deal with death, gore, societal collapse, mistreatment of animals, the world dying, and so on. He even did a video about their albums in great detail around the time those tweets were out.
Cattle Decapitation sucks and has no riffs. If you’re that impressionable as a 50 year old man, you’re severely mentally ill.
What got me about his stance on meat and such is that he's not even a vegetarian. He says meat is worse than the Holocaust yet eats meat from the grocery store which is absolutely insane. A thing is worse than the Holocaust in his mind, but he still actively engages with and supports that thing? The implications of that are very bad. If you think it's that horrible how in the world can you still partake in it?
Meat is worse than the mass murder and torture of millions of people...but he's still down with eating meat! Like, huh? o_O
Yyyeah - Ive watched him for years.
Im 19 and struggle with mental health, i have since i was a child. The first video i watched of his was for Anxious, Worrying and Ruminating minds - I just watched it again, even, though i first saw it when i was.. 14, maybe? After looking for something to help my panic attack.
It leaves a nasty taste in my mouth to think of the.. Questionable things hes done and said. But he really helped me, and, clearly, millions of others.
I do respect his decision to follow what he wants to do. Regardless of what the fans want, he's not obligated, no one is, to entertain to a viewer's standards. He just wants to create, and that speaks to the artist in me very much.
Hell, i interacted with his 'Coloring Outside the Lines' video, and my own entry was featured - Thats what i loved, him reaching out to bring his community in.
And, at the end of the day, there's SO MANY videos he's made - All different, all unique, I'm sure I haven't even seen a sizeable fraction of them.
He's been doing this for so long - Quite honestly, he deserves the break. Even with the problematic things surrounding his name right now.
4:26 it's not terrorism, it's the food chain.
Yea it’s pretty obvious I never understand people like that have his mentality
Love his content got me through some of my toughest times asmr is my safe space sometimes and tells me everything is going to be ok😊
Thanks for the good Video! Was very informing. Yeah can't believe I am in this scene for so long that I've been there from ER start. But yeah have not watched him for a couple of years, but sounds like he had an “interesting” development over the years. So thanks for the update. It gave me a lot to think.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I honestly never enjoyed ER. Too strange for me, but ASMR really does have a super positive impact and it’s cool that you are trying to make sure both sides of his story are represented.
Also wanted to say that your videos help me in that way. I have a really busy job, I’m a creator myself and the mean things people say can get to you, no matter how successful the content is. Your video help ease that when it gets the best of me. Thanks man.
I watched ER for years, until the controversy a few months ago. I chose to unsubscribe and no longer support him by providing my viewership. What he said was completely unnecessary and negative, and as a result, I and I'm sure many others have lost a lot of respect for someone who was once such a beacon of positivity.
Idk how I feel about him. I’ve watched him for about 6 years and have mostly been a big fan. I think he’s super creative and intelligent but definitely has some strange views. I think he’s made some mistakes and has some very questionable ideas about some things, I’ve also heard some really disturbing things about him from people who have worked with him. Overall I think he just should stay in his sweet spot which is making creative content about the universe he created. I think I should try to stop watching him.
I really did enjoy his videos and even some of his videos where he shared his own opinions on certain topics but when it came out that he was saying the n word on twitter is really when it took a sharp turn for me.
I had no idea all of this was going on with Ephemeral Rift! I've watched his content for 4-5 years and it's disheartening to know he spoke offensively on various topics. I loved his candyman apprentice video so much and STILL is my go-to for when I can't sleep sometimes.
Dudes been doing nature videos for years. I didnt know about any of the controversy cause i dont use twitter. Im glad for it. Im gonna keep watching his videos.
At this point im not sure if this is factual or not, but I do remember Paul talking about him being deef in one ear due to a tumor- as I said, im not sure if this factual or not, but this slow shift over time could possibility be related?
Yes he mentioned that as well in the same vid. He said something to the tune of his life is making audio, and his benign tumor has made it difficult. I think perhaps another reason that pushed him in that direction. Good point!
@@QuietCavalierASMR I just remembered it vaguely from years ago, didn't remember the 'benign' part though.
My concern was that it had grown and slowly started to influence his behaviour.
If that isn't the case, seeing as it is 'benign' according to Paul himself, then I'm honestly disheartened by his actions- the use of slurs and alleged misogyny, not his shift to outdoor ASMR that is.
It would still be terrible, just soemwhat more 'digestible' if this was caused by an illnesses and not his personal beliefs.
All say that;
one should take care not to put too much stock in one's personal opinions regarding another human based solely on one's pararsocial relationship with said macro-influencer on TH-cam,well honestly, _any_ platform.
In the end I would seem that: everyone fail to live up to the expectations you set for them- even those expectations you would assume were a given: _Dont be a shitty person._
Sorry for the rant, I just wanted to vent and mourn the loss of a person that, properbly, never was.
Kinda wild he makes 1000s in patreon donations, and he just decides to cut off what the majority of them are there for
This is my first video of yours, and I saw this video thumbnail and the title and it immediately extremely sour vibes and gave me a click baity adversion (I think your choice of red in the thumbnail text for some reason really conveyed… something.) I have to tell you though within less than 15~ seconds evaluating your the serious but concerned tone you actually sold me very well!
It’s almost… disillusioning keeping my finger on the pulse of this whole ordeal. I have watched him since 2017 (7 years); I have bought TH-cam Premium to specially watch asmr, where on this account I have at least a minimum of 10,000 hours of TH-cam Premium watch time just on rifts channel, and this is not hyperbole in the slightest.
You’re completely utterly right. People do want to feel connected to their asmitist. For the past 7 years I opened ephemeral rifts at least five times a week to see his new catalog of fiction role plays. And now, since the racial things, I have unsubscribed and have not watched a single video of his.
We need an Emphrmeral rift substitute. There is a niche right now I genuinely think of at least 100,000 people want to be filled, and I can’t wait for someone to fill it in a more responsible way. There is something about his audio balancing, beautiful 4k resolution, black background, minimalistic poses, and fictional dialogue that I don’t feel the need to focus on while falling asleep that leaves me speechless.
Thank you for this really objectively portrayed outlook on the experience. I will be looking at your home page and definitely scrolling.
Wow. What nice words! Thanks so much! I hope you can find something more that you like 🙏
Seemed unnecessary to mention his real name.
I was a fan of Ephemeral since around the beginning of his channel. I first watched his video, asmr of a salesman. That was my first real experience with asmr. I kept watching until his meltdown, I used to think he was really wise. But now he kind of just seems like one of those incels that are obsessed with the Joker.
I know rift has some contentious stances. I ignore his political and religious side. I know he's very liberal and anti Christian and im both conservative and a Christian but his content is just super creative. I know In rhe past he's had some pretty negative interactions with people. But most of that stuff I can set aside. I don't have to approve of his personal choices to enjoy his content
There is no such thing as God.
@@RobinTheMetaGod I think there is.
@gudinevanderlinde
The atheists have debunked your God.
@@RobinTheMetaGod Nuh uh
@@RobinTheMetaGod well arent you a little ray of sunshine. Have a wonderful day.
He's clearly a delusional Redditor, pay no attention to such individuals.
Yeah after the N word apology where he patted himself on the back for 40 minutes I got out of there, so he was already done in my mind. Kinda ruined the entire vibe.
I alwats loved his Corvus Clemmons videos. Herr Doctor always tells me im his favorite patient 😂
I remember the plague doctor series was the first, i guess 'weird' asmr series i enjoyed on repeat
I had no idea all that was going on with him, still don’t care. Everyone is entitled to their opinions. I only watched for his ASMR.
I’ve heard about the controversy surrounding Paul, and while I may not agree with everything he’s said, I’m not going to chastise him for it. We’re all human. Every single person has said and done things in their life that are less than admirable. Nobody should be judged solely on their worst moments. He’s helped countless people via the content on his channel (myself included). That counts for something.
All good things come to an end. When Paul decides to hang it up, I will wish him well in his future endeavors. It’ll be sad to see him go, but we should be grateful for the 10+ years he has given his audience.
Appreciate your take on the matter. I recently found your channel, and have enjoyed your content thus far. Earned a new subscriber. Keep up the great work my man!
Thanks a lot! I appreciate the comment and the support!
He was paid alot to do it, he's not doing it out of the kindness of.his heart
@@AgencyIsland He wasn’t paid a lot of money to start. He had to put in countless hours before making a dime off of his channel. And even after he began making money, it still costs him time and energy to put out content. And regardless of whether his goal was to help people or not, that was indeed the result. And for those people who’ve benefited by watching him, I’d argue that matters more than his intent. Many people have good intentions and are judged negatively when their actions result in the harm of others. As someone who has had personal experience dealing with such a person, I can assure you their intentions matter far less than the negative effects of their actions.
I’m not saying intent means nothing, but there are other factors to consider. And who cares if he did it to make money? He still chose to create content that others ultimately found enjoyable, relaxing, etc. Not once have I seen/heard him ask for his audience to gift him money, and not every creator can say that - not that there is anything wrong with doing so. If their audience finds value and wants to support them, then that is fantastic. Many people make money on TH-cam. Does that mean none of them care at all about their audience?
I’m aware I’m not going to change your mind. But I just wanted to point out there are other factors to consider before passing judgment. Have a great day 🤙🏻
@@michael.gasaway dude buys 1000 dollar masks for videos, trust me, he's very well off because of his patreon, I hope he closes it since he won't be making content anyone liked him for anymore
Sorry adhd activation. O nice mustache
He was joking bro
After the N-word rant on twitter and youtube I checked out he sounded like an edgy teenager in the comments 😂
When? Link to tht
Blame the algorithm like everyone else
Welp luckly he still doong asmr but biw he does some outside asmr too
He's always done nature videos. He's weird. It's what we expect.
I came to watch some of his ASMR, again, and then I see this... Well... if he does leave, that's really a shame. He was easily one of the most prolific ASMRtists out there, and I remember stumbling across some of his earliest ones, with like washing the potato in his basement.
As much as I'm sad to see he might be leaving or at least winding down to an eventual exit, I can't blame him. And it's not like he's left us high and dry, so being angry isn't right, either.
It makes me feel worse that at some points, a few years back, I had criticised some of his more political/controversial videos. I avoided a lot of those, when he did them somewhat more frequently, but I still kept watching his other content, because he really was/is an amazing ASMRtist, regardless of which opinions of his I may have disagreed with.
Any controversial content taken into account, he never failed to keep people relaxed and help them during tough times. I feel bad to see him go, and it's probably not worth much now to apologise for any shade I might have thrown on the most extreme/controversial videos of his. He really was always a great guy, and his work will definitely be missed.
God damn it. Ruined my mood, not gonna lie.
Uncle E used his channel to do what he wanted as a creative outlet. He always marched to the beat of his own drum unapologetically. A lot of people have appreciated his company through his content over years.
Also, jojo sucks and Lloyd’s a beggar
I honestly think it's kind of silly to judge a public figure by their thoughts, opinions, and even sometimes the words they say if they're not actively hurting someone else, especially if that person is an artist. I think all of his viewers expect him to be/act a certain way based on the person he presents to us in his content, and seeing him act differently outside of his art disappoints people.
Is saying racial slurs right? No. Should it detract from how we can appreciate his art? I don't think so. Just because we listen to his voice doesn't mean we have a say in how he acts, nor should it. If he WAS actively harming people, that would be a different story (like all the public figures who have been exposed as predators). But writing someone off for offensive things they've said even after they've acknowledged those things and vowed to never do them again is reductive. Life is more nuanced than getting offended by words and never going near that person or their art again.
Stopped watching him after that pride flag painting video. I refuse to support any asmrtuber that starts talking about anything controversial like religious beliefs I want to watch someone that's purely entertaining above all else.
Damn that sucks, I was a huge fan of him , no idea he was a liberal nutloaf
Well we can't all be criminals and traitors
@@sjames1955 true some of us are independent lmao
Who cares about his controversy? Whiners. I don’t agree with him but those are his opinions and all I care about is the service he provides/provided.
bro he downplayed the fucking holocaust thats not whining thats having morals
By whining about the "whiners", you've become the whiner. Congratulations.
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@@Theratsintrenchcoat at least I didn’t make a whole video about it
@@Strungo only if you believe the main narrative. History is written by the victors, and everyone knows victimhood = power
@@isaacchamplain7970so what, you think the holocaust was good or something? like wtf are you even saying
Bad video, don't do this again
Hush
i full heartedly agree with this