Los Angeles Times

Column: The tingle is all around us: ASMR is the anti-digital digital phenomenon

I have seen the savior of print journalism, and it is ASMR videos. Hours into a days-long journey through the whispering, tapping, crinkling, crackling tingle-inducing caverns of YouTube’s ASMR ...
Yahoo

Here's What ASMR Actually Is—and How to Know If You're Reacting To It

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ASMR stands for an autonomous sensory meridian response. The funny thing? Research and science behind ASMR are still so new that ...
Business Insider

The last few years have left many of us touch starved. For some, face-touching ASMR videos are helping fill that void.

For many, the last few years have been a time of isolation. A global pandemic has left us afraid, yet still craving human connection and desiring human touch. According to a 2021 study published in ...
Polygon

How one of YouTube’s biggest ASMRtists created her shot-for-shot Shrek remake

ASMR videos started as a fringe section of YouTube, but the industry has grown exponentially in the last decade — rough estimates say there are at least 25 million ASMR videos on YouTube alone, coming ...
The Daily Northwestern

As the ASMR sensation grows online, a Northwestern alumna finds her place among the whispers

The YouTube video opens on a smiling young woman facing the camera. She makes soft fluttering noises with her fingers, moving them from side to side as she slowly and delicately whispers into a highly ...
Psychology Today

What Is ASMR?

What do the sounds of whispered affirmations, page-turning, and tapping fingernails have in common? What about the sight of slow hand movements, soap being gently cut to pieces, and hair being brushed ...