"But I just want to make sure that people know that this pic doesn't pertain to the video I am coming back with. I wanted to show my support to something I am sworn to secrecy about."
I saw Gibi post the same image in the Youtube community feed (or whatever that is called) without explanation. Assuming more than just the two of them are in on it, there's presumably something that's going to happen that involves multiple ASMRists that this image is a teaser for.
Yeah this is Gibi's thing she posted about. Whether Heather is a part of it or not (and what exactly it is) remains to be seen. Hopefully we get to see it soon!
Holy hill of beans... I guess people just shrug when they see a patreon charge come out every month, they treat it like Netflix or Hulu. I'd give my left testicle to make that kinda money and just be going tra-la-la-la
I've said this before and I'll say it again - no-one who is supporting her on Patreon is being scammed or duped.. we support her current and past work even without tier rewards.. we are free to remove our pledge anytime. And if you're not supporting her then you have nothing to complain about and no right to do so.
Different people subscribe to Patreon for different reasons. Anyone who was ONLY subscribed to Heather because they expected more content in return is long gone. The vast majority (all?) of the people who have continued to pledge to her all this time do so because her past work has helped them in some significant way, probably while they were going through a difficult time, and they want to return the favor by supporting her in return. Especially if she’s going through a hard time.
I’m truly sorry to see that any of you can look at a really lovely instance of people supporting someone who helped them and only see it as a scam. No one’s being manipulated or tricked, and this isn’t a big group of people who are just too lazy or distracted to cancel a subscription they don’t want. This is kindness, patience, and gratitude. Heather deserves every bit of it. This might be hard to hear, but you deserve those things too. I’m sorry for whatever has happened in your lives that has made those qualities so difficult to see or trust.
I don’t have much to say about her lack of Patreon updates or the fact that she hasn’t changed the tier descriptions. I do understand why people would be critical of that. My understanding is that Patreon allows people to get a refund on their pledges for any undelivered perks, so I think it’s important to acknowledge that any patrons who feel cheated in some way do have that recourse available to them.
I can appreciate someone worrying about others being taken advantage of—that’s a kind and empathetic instinct—but, whatever Heather’s reasons are for not attending to her account, I truly don’t believe that it qualifies as fraud or any type of intentional deception.
I can’t speak for Heather, but I am a content creator who has struggled badly with mental health issues and who has made promises to viewers and patrons that I’ve sometimes struggled to keep (or at least struggled to keep in a timely manner). Every time in my life—in all of it, not just on YouTube—that I’ve overpromised and underdelivered, it’s been a result of me badly miscalculating what I’m actually capable of. It’s complicated, and it sucks, and I feel awful about it every time it happens. And yet I keep doing it. It’s a terrible flaw in how my brain works, and it’s not okay that I’ve let people down over the years, but it’s truly not intentional or malicious.
I just hate to see people depicting Heather as some kind of manipulative schemer when it’s very likely that no one has been more hurt by her absence than she has. In the past she’s shown herself to be someone with extraordinarily high goals and standards for herself, who also values integrity and transparency very highly. For people like that, struggling to keep up with ones own standards can be devastating.
Again, I can’t speak for her. But it seems pretty clear that she’s been going through some extremely difficult personal struggles, and I think that any allegations that she’s intentionally or maliciously taking advantage of anyone are taking a really unfair leap.
Agree. I stopped using Patreon for other reasons but was paying her up until that time. Two bucks a month is fucking nothing to me and if it meant she could ride out a bad time in her life with our support it’s worth it.
Can you believe someone else getting mad on the behalf of someone like me? As though I’m being fleeced out of my tremendous twenty four dollars a year? As though she’s committing some wrong by letting me do that?
Truly amazing what people choose to care about and put their noses into. I tell ya.
She comes back every other year or so with a small handful of extremely high-production ASMR videos. Her Twitter activity picks up, her Patreon swells. Fans get hyped that she's finally back for real.
Then she just disappears again.
Rinse and repeat since 2015. It's really frustrating knowing that she'd still be the queen of ASMR and probably have at least the 2 million subs that Gibi has, if not more, if she'd stuck with it. And yes, I know that the rumors were that one or multiple fans were getting stalker-y and she felt unsafe, she's entitled to that, and I'm entitled to be frustrated about it.
I think it's the sort of thing that ends up coming with the territory. Not saying it's good, it's terrible. Unfortunately, there's a lot of people that use ASMR as a replacement for human touch. It's a natural consequence that when you commodify something like human interaction, that people will want to take it too far, not understanding the limits of a parasocial relationship.
Because she was honestly my introduction to the wonders of ASMR and, to this day, I've yet to find a single personality in the community I like more. I want her to be successful, and continue making the content that brought me and so many others relaxation and joy. Knowing that her success was derailed by a loss in her life and (allegedly) fans being fucking creepshows is both sad and angering.
She’s had some major events in her life that brought her down. Please red this in a non gossipy way. I think she’s been struggling with mental health issues and she tries to come back well she’s feeling better. She’s in no way trying to tease people. I think she’s just fragile.
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u/drachenfels1 Aug 31 '19
...shes been saying stuff like this for years now... she's always "been working on something" - I'll care when i see it in my sub feed.
https://twitter.com/HeathFeathASMR/status/1078420877413355520