The Studio Ghibli-style Lofi Lady has been sitting by her window since 2018, listening to gentle hip hop beats ceaselessly enjoying within the YouTube livestream she lives in. She’s grow to be a learning staple, a teammate to sit down beside when you pore over homework or your half-finished sitcom script, and spawned numerous offshoots, together with a Star Wars impressed one, and one that includes a medieval Italian friar, for these in want of lofi Catholic beats as an alternative.
And, apart from a number of respites as a consequence of unintentional bans and copyright claims (making her longest ongoing livestream solely 9 months previous) by wet nights and grapefruit-colored mornings, Lofi Lady has been taking fastidious notes for an examination that by no means comes. That modified round 1 p.m. ET, on April 10, when she out of the blue and unexpectedly vanished.
“LOFI GIRL DISAPPEARED…” alerts one popular tweet.
“lofi hip hop research and chill to beats lady lore taking place rn???” wonders one other, documenting by screenshots the play-by-play of Lofi Lady’s hurried exit. On April 7, the Lofi Lady channel posted a video of the lady by her window, as common, however staring out at a neighbor’s glowing blue room as an alternative of at her notes.
“What is occurring with this blue window?” that video title says.
Lofi Lady’s livestream was renamed a crimson query mark, and it slowly zoomed in on the blue room behind the window, revealing one other chilled-out, deserted research arrange. A second livestream appeared April 7 and appeared to disclose much more of the room, displaying a effervescent aquarium frothing beneath the stream’s regular ambient fuzz, a calendar with immediately’s date circled, and a digital clock counting all the way down to 1 p.m. ET. The title for that second stream is an easy white query mark.
So, what’s taking place? Web sleuths deduced that Lofi Lady lives in Lyon, France, simply primarily based on the buildings seen outside her window—is she going to her worldwide off-the-books buccal fats removing appointment? Is she making ready for the tell-all Netflix documentary the place she advocates to ban white American males from the search time period “anime ladies”? Are they going to execute Lofi Lady dwell on digicam?
No, I believe it’s only a advertising and marketing factor.
On Twitter, the Lofi Lady model posted that the blue window revealed the area identify for a new website, lofiworld.com. All the web site at present shows is a “launch” button that takes you on to the second livestream, with the countdown. It appears to be a model growth, although individuals within the chat of Lofi Lady’s principal livestream maintain writing “LOFI GIRL DIED” and “RIP LOFI GIRL.” She received’t be useless to me until this finally ends up involving the metaverse, in some way.
