This isn't ASMR. Sorry. I have a few things that I need to say, and I'll talk about some neighborhood stuff. I really love and appreciate most of y'all, and I hope you're coping with this whole situation better than I am at the moment.
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