We call ASMR tapping when tapping with nails or fingers on certain things or parts of your body in a very gentle way that serves to reduce your anxiety and stress. It is a good technique that is usually connected with others in several treatments.
To listen while using other apps, switch the player to Picture-in-Picture (PiP) during playback — it keeps playing in a small floating window (the screen stays on).
To listen with the screen fully off, in-browser playback stops by YouTube's design. Open the video in the YouTube app to keep listening where background playback is supported (e.g. with YouTube Premium).
Open in YouTube app