ASMR The Great Lakes (soft spoken, map tracing) 

I'm so excited and relaxed at the same time. 😁 I'm from the Detroit, Michigan area, and I've been looking for a map to send you. Thank you for the wonderful and relaxing content. 😴

there's nothing like being raised by the great lakes 💞 no matter which one of the lakes or what side of the border, I always feel so connected to other great lake babies when I meet them out n about 🇨🇦💞🇺🇲

I’m from Michigan so when I saw Great Lakes I was so in!!! We learn them as HOMES (Huron, Ontario, Michigan, Erie, Superior). Thanks for such a tingly video about the beautiful lakes I grew up with 💜💜💜💜💜 Just so you know Mackinac is pronounced “Mackinaw” and is a Canadian French work that is a short version of the Ojibwa word that means “the territory of the Mishinimaki” who were the specific band of Ojibwa that used to live in the area. The other states below Michigan that border the Great Lakes from west to east are Illinois (which has Chicago), Indiana, Ohio, then not connected to Michigan is Pennsylvania which is just below New York. I keep editing this with more things to tell you like that our lakes create rocks only found on their shores like Lake Superior Agate, Yooperlite (which is a UV reactive form of sodalite), and Petoskey Stones. And that Lake Superior is basically Feminine Rage incarnate and I love her for that. And that we have this thing called lake effect snow that you touched on a bit and it is insane it’s super wet and heavy and gross. The lakes essentially create their own precipitation system haha. I just really loved hearing you talk about my home. Gonna go watch this 500 more times.

As someone who grew up on lake Ontario, I can say they are truly "Great" lakes! Basically seems like a fresh water Ocean when your there

I am from Grand Rapids, MI. This was an excellent presentation about our beautiful fresh water seas!

I think Mishka surpassed herself in this video. Lovely kitty sounds. I’m impressed that you carry on regardless with your relaxing and soothing talking whilst she squeaks and purrs and climbs all over you 😂

The crescent shaped industrial region that you pointed out south of the Great Lakes is referred to as the "rust belt". And the one you see running through the low country of the Southeast is the "cotton belt".

Almost forgot to mention, we're filming the Q&A later this week. So if there's anything you'd like to ask, there's still a little bit of time! Please leave the question as a reply under this comment or on the community tab, it makes it a bit easier for me to organize.

I can't watch at the moment, but being from the Great Lakes region, I'm very excited to check this out. I find your videos are consistently incredibly relaxing, but also incredibly interesting and informative. Thank you for the hard work you put into your videos. The only thing better than relaxing is learning a little something while you're relaxing!

Love love love! I am from Michigan but live in the UK. I miss going to the lake so much, it was such a huge part of of my life swimming in the summer and walking on the frozen waves in winter

I was really excited to watch this, being from Wisconsin myself! I learned a lot of interesting information that even I as a local didn’t know before. I have gone on many trips to the Lake Michigan and Lake Superior coasts. Looking out across them feels like you could be looking out across a whole ocean. They are both pretty cold (especially Lake Superior), so not usually ideal for swimming, but there is some amazing hiking along the coast, especially the bluffs of Door County. 🙂

Very excited to see a Great Lakes map video! I grew up in Southern Ontario and have very fond memories. I love road maps as well, so that was another win for this video! Your whispers are very lovely, and the soft crinkles of the road map 💕💕

Perfect! Thank you so much for taking the time to make these wonderful videos.

So happy for this video! I never imagined I'd hear my hometown on Lake Ontario mentioned on this channel! Informative as always.

Was excited to watch this! I live just a few miles from the shore of Lake Michigan in Wisconsin. We do have many beautiful beaches along the shore here. These Great Lakes have a huge influence on our weather. In the hot summers we say “cooler by the lake.” In winter we get “lake effect snow.”

One of the best asmr channels. Your amazing Austrian accent spoken softly in english is my favorite thing. I don't speak much German but I absolutely love all your videos and find it equally relaxing when I'm not exactly sure what's being said.

Yay more Melange! Have a huge map of the Great Lakes hanging behind my desk at work. Love this area 😊

Yay, I live on Lake Superior in Michigan and I’m so excited to see it mentioned! It’s a truly awe-inspiring body of water - so cold and powerful, basically an inland sea. Growing up on it definitely taught me to respect nature. Thanks for the lovely video!

What a heavenly video. The brushing, the tracing, the purring…. It’s all so wonderful. And although I live in the US I’ve never learned much about the Great Lakes, so it was so informative! Thank you for another fabulous video and congrats on 50k. Onward and upward!!

My grandparents lived in Michigan and we loved visiting from our home in Hawai’i. I still remember the smells and sights of Lake Michigan and how cold the water was!!

I am so glad for modern technology because it allows me to take your videos and absolutely beautiful voice wherever i go.

my family's cottage is right on the edge of lake huron and it's my very favourite place in the world! there's nothing like a summertime dinner of fresh lake huron perch and fresh cobs of ontario corn eaten overlooking the water 🫶🏼🤍 I love my home!

Just leaving a comment to show my appreciation! It's hard to find map ASMR videos like these, and yours are always the best (in my humble opinion)!

The last time I was on the shore of Lake Superior, it felt like an ocean to me. It happened to be a windy day and the waves were high. It was really amazing.

I love when I see that you have uploaded a new video. You're my favorite ASMR artist. Although you're more than that because you're so informative. Well done Melange.

As a Buffalo NY resident this video was extra special to listen to 😴

Thank you, Melange! I really love your history videos, and the Christmas videos, but being from Michigan this video was special. I now live in the Appalachian region, love the mountains, but miss the Great Lakes terribly. Small mountain lakes are just not the same! Thank you for covering both beautiful places I have lived and also for introducing me to the Scythians and the concept of hygge. Love your voice, love your channel!

Hearing you talk about my home (Chicago) and all of the various places I've visited in the Great Lakes region made me feel like I was back in school learning geography. Thank you!

Your kitty makes the cutest noises ever. ❤

She's the most relaxing, most informative, most soothing voice.

I live in Minnesota, this was a marvelous video thank you so much ♥️ and I love your sweet kitty.

I always love your videos but Mishka’s little sounds made this one extra special! As always, I look forward to the next video😊🫶

I love the sing-song way you say Lake Erie! Wonderful video as always, thank you for sharing

Oh my god, Melange, your style of ASMR ticks all of my boxes. I'm a soft spoken/hand gesture guy so the fact that I only recently discovered your channel is a minor crime in and of itself. But what really does it for me is the way you delicately manipulate your wooden pointer! It brings on tingles, coziness, a strange sense of simple peace, and makes me feel like I'm back in 4th grade with Mrs. Moder learning geography. Your videos are simply perfect. Thanks for making a video featuring my home state of Michigan! Sorry about the Mackinac spelling trap.

I grew up on Superior, in Minnesota. It's a magnificent lake and truly a natural wonder. ♥

So calming and the purr of your company was very pleasant as well.

I live 45 mins from both Lake Huron and Lake Erie. They are vast bodies of water. Not unlike inland seas, but of course being fresh water. Great video!

Love the sound track from the cat❤

The kitty purrs 😍 So soothing 🥰 Im originally from upstate NY, and we experienced much of the lake effect snow ❄️☃️ Beautiful area though 💕🌲

What a wonderful video. Relaxing and informative all at the same time. Loved it ❤

This was so comforting ❤️ reminds me of geography class in school. Love my home🇨🇦❤️

As someone who lives within 10 minute bike ride from the Horseshoe Falls it was very interesting to see and hear the perspectives and info about my area and Canadian cultural icons like the Group of Seven from a non-Canadian. Also what a beautiful little cat 😀

What a nice video! Lake Michigan has been a huge part of my life. I was born and grew up in a town (famous for its sand dunes) along Lake Michigan in Indiana, and moved to Chicago as an adult. I just feel at peace knowing it’s never far away from me❤🌊

Thank you for the warm cozy feelings and the zzzzzs

This was so relaxing and informative. Thank you!

27:30 is one of my favorite pictures of Michigan - and yes those are clouds! Snow has become rarer in MIchigan due to Climate Change although we continue to receive it! When I was a child we would receive several feet of snow during the course of the Winter and the rivers would freeze almost entirely ‼

You might have to give your kitty royalties from this video because she was purrrrfect!

thank u for giving love to my home :) (Michigan)

What a delightful ASMR video this was. I live in Iowa, south of Minnesota, but I spent some childhood years in Michigan. Now, I make annual trips to Michigan, so it was fun to listen and learn. Thank you soooo much!!

This was really interesting, and I learned a little bit of North American geography while getting very relaxed for sleep. Mishka really outdid herself with her purring this week. She clearly likes hearing you talk as much as we do!

Your cat makes the cutest noises 😭

I live in the Great Lakes region and I never realized really that there are indeed several other 'great' lakes along a NorthWestern line traversing Canada also ‼I never thought about how the Canadian Shield mountains are related geographically to those lakes ❣

I just discovered this channel today and found this video to be quite relaxing and enjoyable. I’m very picky about ASMR videos (it’s mostly about the “Bob Ross” effect of a calming voice for me, not all the other sounds and whispering) and this is the only other channel on RU-vid I’ve found that hits that sweet spot (Latte ASMR is the other), so I’m adding this to my subscriptions. Well done! Also, as someone who grew up in Ohio not far from Lake Erie but now lives in the UK, it was especially nice to see this. Keep up the great work!

For a land size comparison, the Great Lakes alone are about 2.6x the size of Austria! Or about half an Austria per lake. As an American, I have a hard time wrapping my head around European countries being so small!

I liked the part about shipping. Where I live, it is the furthest inland port on Superior (on the Canadian side) and on Friday we had our first "salty" arrive of the year! It arrived from the Marshall Islands. There are also "Lakers" as well.

If you go to Niagara Falls, they do have boats that will take you out and you can see everyone on board is wearing a poncho because you can get very wet! There's so much more history and geography to cover here about the various industries in the US/Canada and the way the lakes influenced them, but this was another lovely video and I definitely learned some things! Also i expect it will hold up to rewatching as well as your others!

I wish she had talked about Lake Champlain - the “sixth” Great Lake! It deserves some love

I grew up like 2 hours from Lake Superior. Went up there many times.

I’ve been to Vienna twice and loved every minute. It would be wonderful if you could share the pedestrian boulevards Kärntner Strasse and Graben with everyone in your wonderful style

now this is exciting, as someone who lives right on Lake Ontario in the GTA. love your content as always 💗💗💗

What a great video again , thanks gods to have create all the things that led me sleeping with you ! Come back quick, I already miss you ❤

That was nice-a little bit of my home with intense kitty action. Thank you!

Lovely stuff ❤

Thank you for this video. I live in a Canadian city on Lake Superior and I see it every day, it's like a sea

I've driven by the MapArt Publishing Factory many times in Oshawa off the 401 Highway in Ontario. So amped to have this map video with ASMR 🎉🎉

-- Hello Melange! It’s always lovely to hear your voice and to see a new video from you. I will most certainly relax to this tonight. 😊❤️

I’m from the metro Detroit area and it was really nice to see some stuff about the region I live in, another amazing video. I’d also like to recommend a video about the Balkans

I live less than ten miles from Lake Erie, the most shallow of the Great Lakes (average depth of sixty feet and a couple hundred feet deep maximum).

I usually watch your entire videos, but I was so tired yesterday that I used it as a regular ASMR for sleep. Works as well ;) From what I managed to hear before I snoozed away, I'm surprised that these lakes can be as big as Austria. They aren't exactly close to each other so I could have ever had a chance to compare them :P

What an awesome ASMR video plus highky interesting topic as well. By the way, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio are the 3 additional States that boarder the Great lakes to the South. They were cut off on your map.

^_^ Katze! What a cute surprise.

Your cat loves a good geography-history lesson

Congrats on 50k

I live in Portage, IN, which is right on the shore of Lake Michigan and is home to Indiana Dunes National Park. I couldn't click this link fast enough 😊

Kitty clearly wants to visit.

The straight between Lake Michigan and Lake Huron and the island are all pronounced the same way as the city, 'Mack-i-naw'. The Straight and the Island are spelled as Mackinac and the city is Mackinaw, but all are pronounced as Mackinaw. The name is a shortening of the Native American name Michilimackinac. The British changed the spelling of the city to match the accepted pronunciation, but the island and straight names stuck and never changed. -A Michigander

Thanks!

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Der gute alte Hölzel-Atlas - wir ham unsre von da Schule bekommen, und hatten um 2010 oft no welche mit Jugoslawien eingezeichnet 🥲

yay :) x

Haha oh my goodness, I'm having some minor health issues and for a second I thought that the breathing at 28:13 was ME and panicked about my lungs. It was the kitty :)

Very close, but Mackinac (sometimes spelled mackinaw) is pronounced without the second C - like mackinaw. I live there :)

Mishka wanted to be the star!

fyi Mackinac is pronounced [MACK-i-naw]; it rhymes with 'law'. great video! also Niagara is pronounced [nigh-AG-ruh]; 'nigh' rhymes with 'bye', the 'AG' rhymes with 'bag', 'ruh' rhymes with 'the'

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Hello my fellow Michiganders!!!!

Adorable! I've lived along the Niagara Peninsula for all 40+ of my years, so the little divot between Lakes Erie and Ontario feels incredibly tiny and quaint to me. I suppose the Great Lakes system is rather huge, though, although it's quite impossible for me to think of it as such.

Hallo Melange! Love your videos, but I must correct you on something. The Gulf Coast (Texas to Florida) is considered the “Third Coast” of the US, not the Great Lakes.

But where's the fish? 😸

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Кот это победа!

Wtf Mishka 😂❤

glad to see so many michiganders in the comments 😂