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When Jennifer Allen watched videos of space, she sometimes felt this peculiar sensation: a tingling that spread through her scalp as the camera pulled back to show the marble of Earth. It came in a ...

Recently, PayPal came under fire for banning ASMR artists and freezing their accounts, under the impression, fuelled by trolls, that the content was sexual. This was around the same time YouTube ...

In the last decade, thanks to YouTube, Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) has grown from a hard-to-describe psychological oddity into a mass cultural phenomenon, writes Jamie Lauren Keiles ...