A few years ago, seemingly from the depths of the internet, a buzzword emerged: ASMR. It stands for "autonomous sensory meridian response," an acronym coined by Jennifer Allen in 2010 to describe the ...

In June, China banned and excised videos of sound effects while claiming to cleanse its internet of pornography. YouTube had already demonetized the genre in a sex panic; now PayPal is banning people ...

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 ...

The subreddit r/oddlysatisfying has always had a wholesome mission: it collects small moments of magic in the world – "those little things that are inexplicably satisfying". It began in 2013, when ...

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Between 2020 being a dumpster fire of a year, and our not-so-healthy social media spirals frequently reminding us of it, it’s really no surprise that many of us have been struggling to get a good ...