Lofi Girl

Lofi Girl, formerly known as ChilledCow, is a French music channel best known for its constant-running live streams that play lo-fi music promoted as being meant for studying, playing video games, or simply relaxing.
The channel's mascot is a character named Jade"Pop Culture : la 'lofi girl' du live Youtube 'lofi hip hop radio' habite... à Lyon". 23 April 2020.Translated from French: "The 'Chilled Cow' YouTube channel broadcasts a video loop of a young girl working with relaxing music in the background. Named Jade, she lives in Lyon!" (commonly referred to as the "Lofi Girl"), an anime-styled girl created by Juan Pablo Machado. She has become a meme and is often parodied, cosplayed, and redrawn by fans.
==History==
The channel was created by Dimitri on March 18, 2015. The channel used a gif from the Studio Ghibli film Whisper of the Heart, resulting in its live stream getting taken down between July and October 2017. In March 2021, the channel rebranded from "ChilledCow" to "Lofi Girl". In April 2023, Lofi Girl launched a new livestream featuring an unnamed male character similar to Jade, commonly referred to as the "Lofi Boy".
==Music==
Lofi Girl's channel focus is on lofi hip hop music but has also had jazzhop and chillhop featured.
Lofi Girl has its own music label named "Lofi Records", releasing music from a variety of different artists to use in their streams, thus eliminating the threat of takedown due to copyright. On June 10, 2021, the channel announced through social media that all music released through the label would now be free to use for all content creators, provided that they gave appropriate credit. An example of a free-to-use song in this case is "Tender Spring x Blurred Figures x Middle School – Birds of a feather" or "Towerz x Spencer Hunt – Pillows", cause both of them are released under Lofi Records.
===Lofi Hip Hop Radio===
Lofi Hip Hop Radio is the name of Lofi Girl's two music streams, Beats to Study/Relax to and Beats to Sleep/Chill to. They both play a constant stream of music and are available 24/7. The girl in the live streams is called the "Study Girl".
In July 9-10 2022, the Lofi Girl stream was taken down by YouTube due to a copyright complaint. However, the stream was re-uploaded a couple days later on July 12, 2022.
===Mixes===
Lofi Girl also has several mixes, containing around two hours of music. These include the full tracklist for the 2018 and 2019 Lofi Hip Hop Radio streams, as well as a short mix featuring "sad" lofi tracks.
==Partnerships==
On June 20, 2022, Opera GX announced that for their birthday livestream they would be featuring original music and animation from Lofi Girl.https://twitter.com/operagxofficial/status/1538924478356496384/photo/1
==Reception==
Morgan Sung of Mashable, describing the nine lofi channels that she preferred, called Lofi Girl's lofi live stream "so universally beloved [that] it's become a meme." Luke Winkie of Vice wrote that the anime figure used by Lofi Girl "set up the aesthetic framework for the rest of the people operating in the genre."
Julia Alexander of The Verge said that channels like Lofi Girl "operate in a gray zone on YouTube", and risk receiving copyright takedown requests since they do not have ownership of all the songs they use.
==Trivia==
*Jade is left-handed.
**She is based off of Shizuku Tsukishima from the Studio Ghibli movie Whisper of the Heart.
*Lofi Girl was listed as the inspiration for Will Smith's video "chill beats to quarantine to", which was uploaded March 20, 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic.
==Channel milestones==
===Subscriber milestones===
*10 million subscribers: February 1, 2022
===Video view milestones===
*500 million video views: July 2020
*1 billion video views: November 6, 2021
==Gallery==
Jade Lofi Girl.jpg|Jade ("Lofi Girl"), the namesake character of the channel.
Lofi Boy.jpg|"Lofi Boy", another character.
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