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ASMR

Twenty Thousand Hertz

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ASMR - What Is It?

ASMR became popular with the rise of YouTube. Some credit a threat on Reddit around 2007 where people started first talking about head tingles in response to sound. It really took off when a woman in the UK posted the first whispering video on YouTube in 2009. People generally fall into one of two categories: They either think that AS MR is something that everybody has, or they don't realise that it's something that other people experience.

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