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PROVO — With finals wrapping up around the country for students before winter break, BYU’s Harold B. Lee Library wanted to help students stay motivated and focused with a set of videos.
Each of the two videos released Monday is an hour long and show students sitting in different parts of the Library and studying for an hour.
The library’s twitter feed, which is known for it’s more humorous tongue-in-cheek tweets, says it’s copying the wildly popular Japanese trend “Study With Me,” which has been a trend that’s garnered millions of views of other students and internet content creators filming themselves quietly studying.
Paul is doing his biology homework in one part of the library, and Sara is reading Radium Girls in another corner.
The trend was popularized by one of Japan’s largest internet stars Hajime Shacho who has over 6 million subscribers. Shacho released a video in late 2016 that is mostly silent, where he never speaks but has racked up more than 3.5 million views.
Not in school anymore, no worries, there are also plenty of people who film themselves for hours just doing their desk work.
Don't want to study alone in these last few days? I've go you covered! See the full video here: https://t.co/1i2OykccHB
— BYU Harold B. Lee Library (@hbll) December 18, 2018
Inspired by the extremely random Japanese trend, here: https://t.co/wRcjOp3pHj
Happy finals!! pic.twitter.com/Iir1THVS83
The trend has drawn comparisons to another interesting internet trend called ASMR, which feature soft repetitive noises like crumpling paper over and over again or typing on an especially clicky keyboard that is supposed to help with focus.
