--- title: Best Slime Instagram Accounts: Interview description: Meet the young slime creators creating homemade slime on Instagram for thousands of fans. canonical: https://time.com/4800457/best-slime-videos-on-instagram-interview/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-05T16:01:02.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:46:27.253Z og:title: Meet the Slime Creators of Instagram Making Squishy Goo og:description: “Nothing is more satisfying." og:url: https://time.com/4800457/best-slime-videos-on-instagram-interview/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt503f0fa797682d4d/6988cfd786f68e4d5e6e4f4b/slim3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3226 og:image:height: 1815 og:image:alt: Slim3 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Meet the Slime Creators of Instagram Making Squishy Goo twitter:description: “Nothing is more satisfying." twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt503f0fa797682d4d/6988cfd786f68e4d5e6e4f4b/slim3.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Meet the Slime Makers of Instagram Who Mesmerize Thousands With DIY Squishy Goo > Sponsored content. 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Courtesy of Alyssa Jagen, by Glenn Scott Photography. by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Jun 5, 2017 4:01 PM UTC When other DIY [crazes](http://time.com/money/4762207/fidget-spinner-inventor-catherine-hettinger/) die, we might find that making and selling homemade cotton candy colored-slime on the [internet](http://time.com/4532104/most-influential-teens-2016/) has some staying power. After taking off in [Thailand](https://www.instagram.com/gift%5Fsweetdeco/?hl=en), handcrafted slime now amuses thousands on Instagram. The original goopy toy was packaged and sold in [sealed plastic trademark “trash cans.”](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vf1GkWvWelI) Then came the [ghostly green goo of _Ghostbusters_](http://www.slate.com/articles/health%5Fand%5Fscience/culturebox/2016/07/ghostbusters%5Fmade%5Fslime%5Fa%5Fnational%5Fobsession%5Fcan%5Fthe%5Freboot%5Fmake%5Fooze%5Fcool.html), and a slew of toys offering sludge-like “ectoplasm” gel. Most infamous of all, slime was a [Nickelodeon staple](http://www.avclub.com/article/bring-back-90s-memories-home-brewed-nickelodeon-ga-228146) otherwise known as “gak.” Getting “slimed” by surprise was the highest honor on children’s shows like _Figure It Out_ and the Kids’ Choice Awards, a tradition that [lives on today](http://time.com/4699437/kevin-hart-demi-lovato-kids-choice-awards/). But now slimers on social media are shedding the compound’s gross-out factor origins and going in a new direction: eye candy. Creating jiggly homemade slime with ingredients like butter, shaving cream, detergent, clay and [high-demand glue](http://www.cnbc.com/2017/02/23/stores-cant-seem-to-keep-elmers-glue-on-shelves-heres-why.html) has become so widespread that craft brand Michaels launched a [“Slime Headquarters” online.](http://www.michaels.com/slime) Putty makers have made thousands concocting and selling different aesthetically pleasing varieties like flubber and floam, sometimes mixing in beads, glitter or confetti for an eye-popping effect. Instagram is now a popular place to display and sell slime. Prim Pattanaporn, a 23-year-old Vancouver college graduate who displays “vanilla whipped slime” on her account [SparklyGoo](http://@Instagram.com/sparklygoo), started making the substance in February 2016 after finding her goopy muse on Instagram. “The more slime videos I watched, the more I felt compelled to touch it,” she told TIME. The most interesting draw: people find the sensory videos soothing, just like stretching and squeezing the stuff can be. “The repetitive movement eventually becomes subconscious. It keeps my hands busy and almost redirects the stress to the slime,” she says. That’s the case for another savvy slime entrepreneur, 15-year-old Alyssa Jagan from Toronto, who spends 20 hours a week whipping up slime with brightly colorful pigments and managing her account [CraftySlimeCreator](https://www.instagram.com/craftyslimecreator/). “It’s a gooey stress reliever that has an interesting texture and makes satisfying sounds,” Jagan says.  Courtesy of Alyssa Jagan by Glenn Scott Photography. They’re fun to watch, but there is one lingering question. If the videos drive customers to shopping sites, how much money can a person make squishing goo? For Jagan, it started as a hobby until her mother told her she had to quit because there was just “too much slime.” So she had a thought: sell it for $7 a tub. Jagan has made $6,846 selling slime since August, she told TIME. Three quarters of her earnings go to supplies and she saves the rest for college. Like Pattanaporn, Jagan recently slimed her way into a deal for an upcoming book. 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