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 ...

Over the past few years, Gibi ASMR has emerged as one of the most recognizable faces of the YouTube subgenre dedicated to the art of helping people relax through the internet-coined phenomenon ASMR.

Is there a particular sound that gives you goosebumps or makes your head tingle? Do you love the tapping of keyboards or the pouring of hot water into a cup? Well, you might have Autonomous Sensory ...

Maria says she is going to squeeze your shoulder. She's explains she's going to let it go and then gently rub it between her hands, back and forth. She describes her movements as firm yet soft. "I ...

If you’ve ever experienced a tingling sensation on your skin in response to a certain visual or sound, you may have had an autonomous sensory meridian response—or ASMR as it’s more commonly known as.

When Spirit Payton started making videos in 2015, she had no idea she was destined to become the online "Queen of ASMR." Now, millions of people have watched her eat pickles. ASMR, or Autonomous ...

Between 2020 being a dumpster fire of a year, and our not-so-healthy social media spirals frequently reminding us of it, it’s really no surprise that many of us have been struggling to get a good ...

It started in preschool for Gracie. She and her classmates were coloring with markers. The crinkling of the paper and the squeak of the markers made Gracie so tired that she put her head on the table ...

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