Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. I have just spent 38 minutes looking at someone unwrapping three bars of chocolate. Before that, I watched a ...

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.

Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) has become a new craze in the social media age, though the practice has been around for much longer. Many YouTube channels and apps are now dedicated to ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Put on your headphones and get ready to take a 25-minute ride to chill town, because the newest player in the YouTube ASMR genre is here: Ikea. Ikea’s latest ads are part of a campaign called “Oddly ...

Not long ago, I opened my laptop, dimmed the lights in my room, and clicked play on the YouTube video “ASMR Ear Eating Twins”. To let my imagination drift, I lowered the sound levels and closed my ...

Despite having died two decades ago, there’s still so much about Bob Ross to latch on to. The hair, the positive attitude, those gentle landscapes, and, of course, that sweet, buttery voice. That ...

Not long ago, I opened my laptop, dimmed the lights in my room, and clicked play on the YouTube video “ASMR Ear Eating Twins”. To let my imagination drift, I lowered the sound levels and closed my ...

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 ...