In the YouTube video that would make her famous, Makenna Kelly sits in a light purple bedroom between a queen-size mattress and a microphone roughly the size of her head. Makenna is 13 years old and very small. She has a mouthful of braces, red hair pulled back into the tight bun of a middle school ballerina, and when she starts to talk, she whispers. `Hi guys, welcome back to another A-S-M-R video,` she says, spelling out each letter with her fingers. For a few minutes, Makenna makes hushed small talk. Then, an iMovie fade cuts to her sitting in the same room the next day, now in soft pink pajamas. The eighth-grader unwraps a box of pure honeycomb and starts to eat it into the microphone,...
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