LilyPichu

* Appearance
* Profile Icon

**Lily Ki** (Korean: 기릴리 *Ki Lily*), primarily known as **LilyPichu** is an Korean-American musician and YouTube personality. Lily gained popularity in 2011 when she released her song "I'll Quit LoL," amassing over 6.3 million views on YouTube. Her YouTube channel consists of animations, vlogs, songs, and piano covers while her Twitch stream consists of *League of Legends*, IRL content, video games, art, and music. She also sporadically uploads on her second channel, *LilyPi2* (formerly LilyRaichu).

## Background

Lily's ethnicity is Korean. She can speak some Korean and Japanese. She has a Korean name, Yuri (Korean: 유리), but prefers to go by Lily as everyone but her parents calls her that. She has a brother named Daniel who streams on Twitch under the handle SendMoney.

## Personality

Lily is considered an empathic personality type and will consistently ask other streamers if they would like to talk about their feelings, even at inappropriate intervals. She is known for being comforting and forgiving to a fault. Idiosyncratic traits of Lily include laughing during breaks in conversation to deflect from the crushing pressure of having time to reflect, and doting on her boyfriend Michael Reeves.

## Career

At the start of her YouTube channel, Lily mainly posted content around music and parodying other songs. At this time, Lily also made animations similar to other animation channels such as TheOdd1sOut. In these animations, Lily talks about her life and other various things.

In 2017, Lily officially joined OfflineTV which included other internet personalities such as Pokimane and Scarra.

In September 2018, Riot Games launched a new series of ads on YouTube for *League of Legends* including one featuring Lily and fellow OfflineTV member sleightlymusical, It was titled "LilyPichu & sleightlymusical: Duo".

Lily has videos actively uploaded to her channel every week. The videos consist of musical covers, stories, League of Legends, vlogs, and events with OfflineTV members. Lily as of June 22, 2021, has 329 uploads, 2.79 million subscribers, and 331.5 million views on her videos.

Over the years, Lily has done a variety of voice acting roles, including voicing Sayu in *Genshin Impact* in 2020.

### Music

On March 17, 2020, Lily made another YouTube account dedicated to music alone. Most of the music uploaded was mostly her piano piece, sometimes with lyrics.

On September 1, 2020, she uploaded her first lyrical song called "Dreamy Night". This song alone reached 8.9mil views on YouTube and 15mil streams on Spotify.

## Personal Life

Lily has ownership of her two Pomeranians Temmie and DaVinky. However, she would often let Jummychu tend to her dogs. This is because not only Jummy is Lily's personal assistant and primary dogsitter, he has been one of Lily's oldest friends in the OTV circle with a decade-long friendship.

In February 2020, Lily was confirmed to be dating fellow OTV member Michael Reeves.[*citation needed*]

After being on Twitch for 10 years, Lily went back to where she started, YouTube. She had her first stream on July 8, 2022.

## Discography

### Under comfi beats

#### Instrumentals

 **"walking with you"** | December 14, 2020

#### Lyrical Songs

 "**if there was a zombie apocalypse i'd let my dog eat me**"
 "**pom pom**"
 **"happy"** | August 21, 2022

### As a Featured Artist

 Natsumii x Valkyrae
 Natsumiii
 Static-P
 Streambeats (Harris Heller)

## Trivia

* Lily is part of the virtual idol group Interlunium and plays the character Dam Bi Han (Korean: 한 담비 *Han Dam-bi*) and acts as her English, Japanese, and in their second single, Korean voice.
	+ On March 30, 2019, they released her character single "Walkin' the World." Lily sings in all versions of the song.
* LilyPichu is 1 of 6 content creators in the OTV circle streaming on YouTube, the others being Valkyrae, Ludwig, Myth, Sykkuno, and CouRageJD.

## References

1. ↑ @lilypupchu. Instagram. Retrieved on 2021-07-25.
2. ↑ Ki, Lily (2017-09-02). Tweet (Video). Twitter. Retrieved on 2021-08-14.
3. ↑ Park, Jae-hyung (2020-12-02). Another Korean Japanese Conversation with Jae (DAY6), Lilypichu and other friends (Video). *Mumuchan*. YouTube. Retrieved on 2021-08-14.
4. ↑ Ki, Lily. Lily speaks korean (Video). *poutine0720*. Twitch. Retrieved on 2021-08-14.
5. ↑ Ki, Lily (2024-01-08). 🔴 VALO LEAUGE (Video). *Lilylove*. YouTube. Retrieved on 2024-01-09.
6. ↑ Ki, Lily (2019-05-22). Tweet. Twitter. Retrieved on 2021-08-14.
7. ↑ Ki, Lily (2021-02-09). Tweet. Twitter. Retrieved on 2021-08-14.
8. ↑ LilyPichu & sleightlymusical: Duo (Video). League of Legends (2018-09-06). Retrieved on 2021-07-25.
9. ↑ Ki, L. [LilyPichu]. (2017, December 19). *Interlunium -Dam Bi Han CM (CV: Lilypichu)* [Video]. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E7QPBxlfWsI
10. ↑ Interlunium. (2019, March 30). *Interlunium - Walkin' the World (Promo Video) feat. @LilyPichu* [Video]. Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bm04VVbazbg