"They are at the mercy of people sending abusive takedowns and YouTube's ability to detect and screen for them," said James Grimmelmann, a law professor at Cornell University. Lofi Girl made it through the ordeal relatively unscathed, but smaller artists who don't have huge platforms may not be so lucky. "It feels like a lot of the legal practices are going towards stifling artists, which is interesting when the main idea of them is to be protecting them." "There's been a lot of examples of copyright going against the ideas of art and artistic evolution," Foster said. But this isn't the first time musicians have been wrongfully shut down on YouTube. YouTube quickly apologized for the mistake, and the stream returned two days later. "I mainly saw kind of, at least through the lofi Discord, various users being like, 'Oh my God what is this? What's really going on with this?'"
"There were camps that were confused and camps that were angry," Foster said. YouTube had taken down the stream due to a false copyright claim. And with nearly 11 million people subscribed to the channel, the Lofi Girl stream has been the go-to place to find this music.īut last weekend, she went missing. There are countless people making lofi music, fan art, memes, spin-off streams, and Halloween costumes.īasically, Lofi Girl is everywhere. The genre has become increasingly popular in the last few years. Some songs are lonely or melancholy, others remind him of his school years in Michigan and toiling away at homework while listening to tunes. He describes listening to lofi as a way to escape. "I would say lofi music is the synthesis of golden era rap aesthetic with the Japanese jazz aesthetics that is then put through this lens of nostalgia," says Hixon Foster, a student and lofi artist. It's a 24/7 live stream that plays low-fidelity hip hop music - or lofi for short. The animation plays on a loop on the "lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to" YouTube stream. To her side, a striped orange cat gazes out on a beige cityscape.
A young cartoon girl wearing large headphones hunches over a softly lit desk.
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