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, ...

If you’ve ever experienced a tingling sensation on your skin in response to a certain visual or sound, you may have had an autonomous sensory meridian response—or ASMR as it’s more commonly known as.

The first intentionally labeled autonomous sensory meridian response (ASMR) video was posted to YouTube on March 26, 2009, making last week the steadily growing genre’s 16th anniversary. ASMR is a ...

We open with a close-up of a young woman’s face, shot from below. She gazes downward into the camera, her light brown hair hanging so low as to almost touch the lens. Her eyes are wide with what seems ...

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 ...

A BEAUTIFUL girl gazes into the camera and calmly whispers before picking up a packet of sweets and crackling the packaging into the microphone. It sounds like a niche sexual fetish, but millions of ...