An ongoing web video series by creator Taylor ASMR
, which positions the viewer as one of various test subjects being experimented on in some kind of mysterious mad science laboratory. The host plays "Doctor Taylor", a cheerful, Affably Evil lab assistant who performs various experiments and tests on the viewer character.
Unlike most ASMR videos, this series has an ongoing plot, though it mostly has to be inferred second-hand, since the viewer never sees anyone but Taylor.
Can be found here.
Tropes in this series
- Comically Missing the Point: At some point, everyone else working at the lab disappeared— Taylor says she hasn't seen anyone else in weeks, and that some of their experiments appear to have escaped— her only conclusion is that they're all lazy jerks, making her do all the work (while still taking the breakroom snacks).
- Didn't Think This Through: In an earlier video, the viewer is tested on by giving them impenetrable, bulletproof skin. Later Taylor admits it was a mistake to do this one first, before trying to do other surgeries.
- Disposable Vagrant: One video shows the viewer as a brand new test subject being processed into the system— it's confirmed that they didn't have a permanent address or any family that will notice they're missing.
- Insistent Terminology: Taylor (actually a lab assistant) insists on being referred to as Doctor Taylor after she takes over the lab, saying that she is "basically a doctor" now.
- Mad Scientist Laboratory: The setting of the roleplay.
- Medical Horror: Part of the "horror" subgenre of ASMR videos— the viewer character(s) are subjected to bizarre and scary medical experiments, though we rarely see the direct effects.
- Minimalist Cast: We never see anyone but Taylor, though occasionally we hear other people.
- Suspiciously Specific Denial: There is no particular reason for making your skin bulletproof. They're definitely not planning to create an army of powerful mutants— they would never do something like that.
- Unbroken First-Person Perspective: Like most ASMR videos, the camera plays the role of the viewer/protagonist.
- Unreliable Narrator: Most of the plot has to be figured out second-hand, as Taylor continues to insist everything is going fine, despite the deteriorating situation in the lab.
- Who Even Needs a Brain?: Taylor claims to have had her brain removed, and says she plans to remove the subject's as well.
- You Won't Feel a Thing!: Said word for word, right before she takes a blood sample... with a pocket knife.
