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 ...

If you came across a video by Maria, known to her more than 430,000 subscribers as GentleWhispering, without real knowledge of what she was doing, you might assume you’d entered a fetishistic YouTube ...

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 — ...

The hoarse whisperer: Maria, the 28-year-old Russian expat whose videos have drawn more than 87 million views (Washington Post) The pretty blonde woman is plucking at the bristles of a hairbrush with ...

Fun fact about me: I'm the lightest sleeper in the history of sleepers. I hear every creak of the floorboard, every flush of the toilet, every honk of a distant horn. I wake up whenever my boyfriend ...

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 ...