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Have you ever stumbled upon an hourlong online video of someone folding napkins? Or maybe crinkling paper, sorting a thimble collection or pretending to give the viewer an ear exam? They’re called ...

Nails scraping on rough fabric. Stories told in breathy whispers. Lips smacking and teeth crunching. For some, these sounds do little more than make the listener feel unsettled or disturbed, but for a ...

In June, China banned and excised videos of sound effects while claiming to cleanse its internet of pornography. YouTube had already demonetized the genre in a sex panic; now PayPal is banning people ...

Maybe it is the rustle of canvas unfurling, or the sharp snipping of the stylist’s shears as they tidy up your bangs. Whatever it is, it resonates down your scalp and spine like a tuning fork. Certain ...

DETROIT – People are always looking for new ways to relax and destress from their everyday lives, and some are finding help on YouTube. It's something called autonomous sensory meridian response, or ...

Craig Richard could not stop watching Bob Ross paint. It was 1983, and Ross's television show, The Joy of Painting, had ­recently premiered on PBS. Richard, then in his early teens, would come home ...

She speaks in a low, patient whisper punctuated by a wide smile, her face inches away from the camera. Her voice is soothing and her eyes are warm. "Let me give you this shield potion," she says, ...

Cardi B is known for being so lively and boisterous that she’s probably the last person you’d think of when it comes to the soothing aesthetics of ASMR — but that’s exactly what makes this new video ...

We've entered the golden age of ASMR. Where there was once a dearth of tingles-inducing videos — or at least they were sequestered in a secret part of the internet — there is now an overabundance. It ...

Logan Moore is the Managing Editor around these parts and enjoys the video game Super Mario Odyssey. ASMR, you know, those calming videos that you or your friends probably watch on YouTube, have ...

They feature slime, crackling plastic, whispering, scratching, brushing and the thrumming of exquisitely groomed fingernails. They are, depending on whom you talk to, either the antidote to anxiety or ...