In case you haven’t run across it, there’s a whole subgenre of streaming videos called ASMR, or autonomous sensory meridian response, designed to sooth and relax viewers with sound. Some of the videos ...

China classifies videos of people doing things like crinkling paper and eating ice as porn content and bans them from streaming sites. Journalist Bonnie Burton writes about movies, TV shows, comics, ...

The Chinese government’s anti-pornography office announced earlier this month that video streaming services in the nation need to “thoroughly clean up vulgar and pornographic ASMR content.” And while ...

Yin Chenxi, a second-year postgraduate student, was working on her thesis one evening when her phone lit up with a notification from the Chinese social media platform RedNote, recommending a video ...

Coined in 2009, the term autonomous sensory meridian response – ASMR for short – describes a tingling yet calming sensation triggered by audiovisual stimuli. For more than a decade it existed only on ...