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, ...

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 ...

If you're wondering what the hell ASMR is, you're not alone. When ASMR videos started trending on YouTube and Instagram, I was perplexed, too, but I finally decided to see what all the fuss was about.

As a child, Taylor, aka "ASMR Darling" on YouTube, was watching someone draw her a picture. The hand movements and sounds of the soft scratching of the crayons caused her entire body to tingle. She ...

Seeing an artist paint at an easel. Driving through an automatic car wash. Watching a magic trick or a tarot card reading. Getting an eye exam. These are just some of the things that can make my scalp ...

When scientist Giulia Poerio was a little girl, she says she would experience this very peculiar — and distinct — feeling: "a warm, tingling sensation that starts at the crown of the head, almost like ...

Does listening to a whisper send a tingle through your scalp? Do you find watching the snip of scissors around your ears at the hair salon soothing? How about the sound of nails clicking softy, the ...

ASMR—Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response—is a strange, soothing sensation triggered by sounds like whispering, tapping, or soft crinkling. Some describe it as a “braingasm,” a wave of tingles that ...

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 ...

ASMR is a popular trend on social media. But even though it’s popular, not a lot of people understand it. And as a result, many consider ASMR videos to be weird or even creepy. And we get it. ASMR CAN ...

Alexandra Serio stares directly into the camera, a ring light reflected in her eyes and a microphone resting on the desk in front of her. She smiles like she’s just seen an old friend and whispers ...