YouTube Blocked "Lofi Hip Hop Radio" & Twitter Lost It

YouTube Accidentally Shut Down “Lofi Hip Hop Radio” Livestream & Fans Lost It

By Feleg Tesema in Music

A few days ago, YouTube shut down lofi hip hop radio — beats to relax/study to, a popular instrumental live-stream account that plays chilled beats to a continuously-looping video of an animated girl doing her homework. The streaming platform reinstated the account soon after, along with an apology, but not before fans of the station went lost their cool Twitter.

The account behind lofi, ChilledCow, was accidentally banned by YouTube for “violating its Terms of Service.” In a since-deleted tweet, ChilledCow messaged the platform directly and asked for an explanation — backed up by an influx of angry fans — which appeared to work.

Read YouTube’s apology in the tweet below.

My account has been unbanned, thank you from the bottom of my heart for the tremendous support, I'm grateful to have such an amazing community🧡I will launch the stream again as soon as possible pic.twitter.com/hcAKB5wXWb

— ChilledCow (@ChilledCow) February 22, 2020

Press play below to jump back onto the lofi livestream and keep scrolling for some of the best initial reactions while you listen.

RIP lofi girl

a moment of silence please

we just lost 24/7 lofi hip hop beats to chill and study to pic.twitter.com/TC5FEjndJ1

— IMT Benji (@min_uit) February 22, 2020

If you recognize her, then you were either
A: being hella productive
B: being hella unproductive
C: going through some shit
D: stoned
And if you’re like me, you’re devastated by her passing. RIP lofi hip hop girl pic.twitter.com/usZUgepDic

— Troy W (@TroyWomboCombo) February 22, 2020

HOLD UP

the lofi hip hop radio with the studying girl is gone, not like there are no others but SHE was special pic.twitter.com/fW487GIeCB

— 𝘚𝘦𝘢𝘵𝘰 (@_Seato) February 22, 2020

Just watched YouTube shutdown "lofi hip hop radio – beats to relax/study to"

How the hell am I supposed to study/relax now??? pic.twitter.com/653ND28Ng4

— James Warner (@jmswrnr) February 22, 2020

The Lofi hip hop girl was studying for 13165 hours straight. In that time she could have achieved:

– 6 careers (1920h per career)

– 109 PhDs (120h per doctorate)

– learn 7 of the hardest languages (1729h until fluency)

– Walk the earth almost twice (8000h) pic.twitter.com/jjE2bHiV1U

— Lulu🌈🍔 (@luulubuu) February 24, 2020

the lofi hip hop girl finally finished her homework pic.twitter.com/euNz7whGSo

— ZephPlayz (@MoreZeph) February 22, 2020

She lives on!

Late last night, YouTube terminated @ChilledCow’s account, ending 548 consecutive days of lofi hip hop radio beats to relax/study to. They just reinstated the account, which will resume streaming at 9pm PT/12am ET tonight. Study Girl lives on! pic.twitter.com/jR376F5RU5

— Andy Baio (@waxpancake) February 22, 2020

Happy to see @ChilledCow's lofi hip hop radio stream got reinstated, but I think by taking the account down – however briefly – YouTube may have inadvertently created the longest video on the platform.
That is a 13,165 hour, 23 minute, 44 second long stream VOD 😂 pic.twitter.com/LsMBoQodPV

— Pixlriffs 🎮 (@Pixlriffs) February 22, 2020

me when i get to the end of the Lofi hip hop stream pic.twitter.com/WjqkYxT5VW

— PeckettProductions (@PeckettProduct) February 22, 2020

you either die a lofi hip hop beats to relax/study to guy or live long enough to see yourself become a future funk/city pop mix (3 hours) guy

— Shen Comix (@shenanigansen) February 24, 2020

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Words by Feleg Tesema

Staff Writer

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RIP lofi girl

She lives on!

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