How to Use ASMR in a Sentence
ASMR
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So, what do the hours-long ASMR compilations on your feed mean?
—Mythili Devarakonda, USA TODAY, 7 Oct. 2022
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In contrast to role-play videos, this category captures ASMR out in the wild.
—Eliza Brooke, New York Times, 4 July 2023
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In times of anxiety, anything can be a purveyor of ASMR.
—Laia Garcia-Furtado, Vogue, 13 Mar. 2024
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Along with the actual slime, this set comes with cupcake charms so your kids can indulge in ASMR exploratory play.
—Dorian Smith-Garcia, Parents, 3 Oct. 2023
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So how did his quest for professional arm wrestling lead him to the wild world of unintentional ASMR?
—Kelsey Weekman, Rolling Stone, 26 May 2023
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Since then, she's consistently posted videos about beauty, fashion, food, and even ASMR.
—Kaleigh Fasanella, Allure, 5 Sep. 2020
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Sometimes, people find ASMR annoying or can share feelings of calm and relaxation from videos without feeling the tingles.
—Dominique Fluker, Essence, 13 Oct. 2023
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The store offers customers sounds and smells throughout the dispensary experience, with ambient nature audio and even cannabis ASMR like rolling a joint, heard over speakers.
—Lindsey Bartlett, Forbes, 13 Apr. 2022
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The app started to get saturated — with brands, movies, videogames, cats, ASMR, and more all battling for attention — which made marketing music both more expensive and less effective.
—Elias Leight, Billboard, 6 Feb. 2024
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That makes sense; there's a whole cult-like following around podcasts and videos that use binaural microphones to produce surround sound and a tingly feeling in the ears, known as the autonomous sensory meridian response, or ASMR.
—Sarah Wells, Popular Mechanics, 10 May 2021
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Functional genres will include white noise, nature sounds, machine noises, sound effects, non-spoken ASMR, and silence recordings.
—Jem Aswad, Variety, 21 Nov. 2023
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Even viewers who aren’t getting the order in question can have these emotional responses—and many of them also experience ASMR as tissue paper is crinkled, tape is ripped, and a soothing voice narrates the packing process.
—WIRED, 27 Mar. 2023
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