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ASMR

You might remember it as autonomous sensory meridian response

This spread through many posts rather than one canonical upload.

2010·The social era·oddly-satisfying

A tingling felt on the scalp and neck in response to quiet sounds such as whispering, and the videos made to cause it.

At a glanceThe facts

Remembered as
tingles
Spread in
2010
Format
Phenomenon
Era
The social era
Made by
The name was proposed in 2010 by Jennifer Allen, on an online forum
Original title
Autonomous sensory meridian response, chosen partly because it sounded clinical
Origin
No single original
Available
Not held by ViralWorld

What this wasThe story

Autonomous sensory meridian response: a tingling calm some people get from soft sounds. Named on a forum in 2010, it built an entire video genre of whispering, tapping and brushing with an audience in the hundreds of millions.

TimelineIn order

  1. Made

    Somebody describes the feeling on a health forum, in a thread headed “Weird sensation feels good”.1

  2. Made

    Jennifer Allen proposes the name.1

  3. Later

    A study of it is published in the journal PeerJ.1

  4. Mainstream

    A beer advertisement in the Super Bowl uses it.1

  5. Later

    There are about 25 million ASMR videos on YouTube.1

Why it is here: something the internet still knows by name · it got out of its own corner of the internet fast · still being watched and quoted years later

Where it came fromWhat we know

This spread through many posts rather than one identifiable original. No copy is held here — what it was, when it spread and what people called it is what this page can tell you.

Nothing here is claimed to be the first version of this. It spread through many posts rather than from one identifiable original.

Not established. This index only names a creator where the evidence supports it.

More from 2010You were there

SourcesWhat was read

  1. Wikipedia — ASMR

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