AI-generated ASMR videos are taking over the existing ASMR trend, offering creative content that provides stress relief for many

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 tagged with words including “stress relief” and “cutting perfume bottles”.

Exhausted from her work and in dire need of distraction, Yin opened the video.

In it, a glass perfume bottle was sliced in two by someone with a knife. As the two liquid-filled halves fell away, a gurgling sound could be heard.

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