In case you haven’t run across it, there’s a whole subgenre of streaming videos called ASMR, or autonomous sensory meridian response, designed to sooth and relax viewers with sound. Some of the videos ...

A creepy kissing device with moving lips designed to allow people to feel “real” intimacy with long-distance lovers and even land smackers on random strangers, has gone viral on Chinese social media.

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 ...