This video features an interior quality check of the Cupra Formentor, presented in ASMR style. Through soft ambient sounds, ...

What would you say is the definitive soundtrack to your youth? Is it a favourite album? Or perhaps the ambient sounds of summer, like bicycle wheels rolling over or a chorus of cicadas? For me, it is ...

MediaNama’s Take: Spotify’s explicit content problem is not an accident. It reflects a design choice in how the platform handles responsibility. Instead of owning the problem, Spotify outsources it to ...

A few months ago, a Reddit user made a disturbing discovery: his 14-year-old brother had been saving sexually explicit audio clips on Spotify. The playlists were innocuously titled “Good pods,” ...

That was far from the first time the claim spread to millions over social media. In 2024, users shared TikTok (archived) videos (archived) claiming that rain sounds in movies and videos were actually ...

Most of us think clapping is just about two hands hitting each other, but new research out this week in the journal Physical Review Research found that the clap that we hear actually comes from the ...

Hand clapping is ubiquitous behavior for humans across time and cultures, serving many different purposes: to signify approval with applause, for instance, or to keep time to music. Acousticians often ...

A round of applause, please: Scientists have finally figured out what’s behind the sound of clapping. The research pinpoints a mechanism called a Helmholtz resonator — the same acoustic concept that ...

The video was shared this week on the White House’s own X account: “ASMR: Illegal Alien Deportation Flight,” its caption read, with accompanying footage of a man in chains, and of immigration ...

ASMR Chicken Tenders & Popcorn Shrimp Mukbang 먹방 Check out my Instagram: / zachchoi Check out my Facebook: / zachchoiasmr Check out my Twitter: / zach_choi Marianne Faithfull, British singer and ...

"When we kept seeing social media posts about the similarity between frying chicken and rain, we decided to make the absolute best version of that audio." Stacey Leasca is an award-winning journalist ...