Depending on whom you ask, lo-fi hip-hop is a creative feat of the internet age, a punchline, or a meaningless label tacked on to souped-up elevator music. The genre started roughly a decade ago among ...

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, ...

On Wednesday (Jul 30), social media pages for Lofi Girl uploaded a video in which the iconic character is seen recreating a scene from the Disney Channel series ANT Farm – with its caption referencing ...

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 ...

Lo-fi: it’s a term that’s become inescapable in 2024. This vibe-based musical style, which has gained millions of streams via various study and focus playlists, is not to be confused with the ...

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 ...

To the relief of millions of YouTubers and people who need a study time playlist - a well-known music channel is back online. Good morning. I'm Rachel Martin. To the relief of millions of YouTubers, a ...

All around the world, students in high school, college, and graduate school are nearing the end of their spring semesters. This period of time for most means that it's about time for students to hole ...

Jay Peters is a news editor covering technology, gaming, and more. He joined The Verge in 2019 after nearly two years at Techmeme. In the latest virtuoso move to promote his hit song “Montero (Call Me ...