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 ...
CNN

Are you a tinglehead? The weird world of ASMR

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 ...
The Hill

What is ASMR – and why does it make me tingle?

Only some people experience ASMR, a trait where people may feel a tingling sensation on their scalp and back of the neck in response to auditory and/or visual stimuli. There is a wide range of sensory ...
WBUR

Research Casts Light On ASMR, The Strange 'Brain Tingle' Millions Use To Relax

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 ...
The Asian Age

Tingle time: ASMR triggers your senses, gives you the creeps, relaxation

Maria, or more famously known as The Gentle Whisperer, is able to send tingles up and down the spines of over half-a-million subscribers of her YouTube channel. And all she does, is whispering (in ...