ASMR, the quirky YouTube subculture, has acclimated to mainstream attention with relatively little backlash — until now. China’s government has leveled their notoriously authoritarian Internet ...

The Chinese government’s anti-pornography office announced earlier this month that video streaming services in the nation need to “thoroughly clean up vulgar and pornographic ASMR content.” And while ...

Yin Chenxi, a second-year postgraduate student, was working on her thesis one evening when her phone lit up with a notification from the Chinese social media platform RedNote, recommending a video ...