GentleWhispering triggers tingles, calms anxiety, puts some to sleep. April 8, 2014— -- The YouTube channel, "GentleWhispering," features 180 videos that most people would consider slow-paced and ...

On July 27, a 30-year-old Russian expat, known only to her followers as Maria, hit 1 million subscribers on her YouTube channel GentleWhispering–which features her doing just that. Maria is one of the ...

The pretty blonde woman is plucking at the bristles of a hairbrush with gold-manicured fingertips, tapping her nails softly against the wood handle as she holds it close to a microphone. Bathed in ...

So I've been working on some pretty weird stuff lately, yet this may be a more embarrassing topic to write about. For some percentage of readers, this article could make a major positive impact on ...

For all 600,000 of GentleWhispering's devoted YouTube subscribers, the evening is made better when Maria — the soft-speaking star of the channel and unofficial queen of the community known as ASMR — ...

ASMR videos - which claim to induce a tingling feeling in the viewer - have quietly become an internet phenomenon. When I was a child I sometimes experienced a pleasant physical sensation in my scalp ...

You may have heard of ASMR, the increasingly popular internet-based relaxation trend. You might have caught the New York Times’s blog post about the phenomenon, or the Washington Post’s profile piece ...

You’ve heard about Cardi B tried it. You saw the Zoe Kravitz beer ad. But what is ASMR, exactly? Autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) is a heady way of saying “brain tingles.” For lots of ...

Put yoga and meditation in the too-hard basket. There’s an easier way to decompress. Right this minute, thousands of people are watching a YouTube video of a woman stroking a boar-bristle hairbrush.