Streams of chill, endless hip-hop beats set to visuals of animated characters have taken over YouTube, beloved by millions of users who listen to these videos while working or trying to fall asleep.

Lofi Girl, the beloved animated figure from YouTube’s longest-running study stream, has officially graduated. In a TikTok video, the familiar figure swapped her headphones for a graduation cap, ...

Instrumental music, once relegated to being a background sound for certain activities, has evolved to become a key element of ...

For a brief period of time last month, YouTube caused everyone to experience the decidedly un-chill worry that the foundational “lofi hip hop radio – beats to relax/study to” was going to disappear.

It’s a well-established fact that tuning into “lofi hip hop radio – beats to relax/study to” turns the average person into a superhuman academic whose powers of concentration are rivaled only by ...

I’ve written in many places, some wonderful, others makeshift or uncomfortable. I’ve written on trains and in hotel rooms, at ergonomically perfect desks and on laptops balanced on my knees. I once ...

Slowed and reverb and lo-fi hip-hop share some distinct similarities, with both subgenres birthing their own subcultures online, and becoming the soundtrack to Generation Z. On TikTok, the hashtag for ...

The White House recently shared a strange cartoon video of President Donald Trump to promote the proposed benefits of his ...

YouTube’s lo-fi hip-hop community has for years offered a place to virtually gather, do homework, and find comfort in the random messages of strangers that populate in live chats. Now, as we’re all ...

Welcome to WWW: What We're Watching, Sixth Tone's new column looking at the best, the most viral, or just what's obsessing us on the Chinese internet. It is 10 o’clock at night as I stare at my ...

In a fusion of politics and chill, the White House has released a "Lo-Fi MAGA Video to Relax/Study To," featuring an animated version of President Donald Trump in the Oval Office. This new video ...