Over the past few years, YouTube has exploded with videos aimed at making viewers feel relaxed, tingly, and even sleepy — a sensation known as autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR). Within the ...
A YouTube community dedicated to gentle whispers and soft sounds is celebrating a milestone, after one of its most popular celebrities hit one million subscribers. A Russian-American woman named Maria ...
Can YouTube videos be intimate? ASMR video content may very well show that they can be. ASMR is a non-scientific term that stands for ‘Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response’, which specifically refers ...
Broom sweeps and marble rumblings are just a taste of the sounds that you can enjoy at Whisperlodge, an interactive ASMR performance. Founded in 2016, Whisperlodge invites guests to experience ASMR, ...
Leanna Alaiwat is an OB-GYN physician assistant with a large social-media following. On TikTok and YouTube, she posts ASMR videos of OB-GYN procedures to show what visits are like. Below, she talks to ...
If you've only just recently heard of ASMR thanks to the viral memes and trending topics associated with the online community, you may be surprised to learn that the first ASMR YouTube videos popped ...
ASMRtists, as they are called, type on keyboards, tap on brushes and whisper gently to induce "the tingles." But is there any whisper of scientific truth to the trend? Kalyan Boruah / Alamy The ...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...
If you came across a video by Maria, known to her more than 430,000 subscribers as GentleWhispering, without real knowledge of what she was doing, you might assume you’d entered a fetishistic YouTube ...