You possible know Lofi Girl. If the identify doesn’t ring a bell, she’s the YouTuber who can usually be seen sitting at her desk along with her cat and headphones on, streaming enjoyable beats for folks to hearken to, the preferred being “lofi hip hop radio – beats to relax/study to” and “beats to sleep/chill to.” Well, it was a tragic day for a lot of religious listeners when YouTube took these streams down due to false copyright strikes.

Lofi Girl has a complete of 10.7 million subscribers however the two dwell streams, which have been streaming since February 2020, garnered a complete of 757 million views, and on July 10 these movies have been taken down as a result of a copyright declare by ‘FMC Music Sdn Bhd Malaysia.’ But seems this declare is fake. Lofi Girl instructed TechCrunch that the channel’s music is launched by Lofi Records, its report label. Which means they’ve the mandatory proper to share it. This shouldn’t be the primary time YouTube has given unwarranted strikes to the channel. In 2020 YouTube eliminated the channel, as a mistake, for violating the Terms and Services.

The newest strike introduced disappointment after which outrage by followers of the channels. One YouTube remark reads “Rest in peace to one of the most important streams in YouTube history,” one other “This stream has literally been my comfort blanket and the one I put on when i’m winding down and reflecting on my day. So sad it’s been taken down. RIP.” Fans additionally took to spreading the phrase on-line by tweeting at YouTube with #BringBackLofiGirl.

The entire scenario caught YouTube’s consideration as they admitted their mistake once more. In a tweet YouTube “confirmed the takedown requests were abusive & terminated the claimants account we’ve resolved the strikes + reinstated your vids.”

The movies must be reinstated inside 48 hours, however it’s uncertain and unlikely that the stream will decide up the place it left off. When YouTube final took down Lofi Girl the stream ended (and created a protracted video), so the earlier current two 12 months lengthy streams will in all probability face related remedy.

But this shouldn’t have occurred within the first place in accordance with Lofi Girl. In a collection of tweets the account wrote that they have been “shocked and disappointed to see that there’s still not any kind of protection or manual review of these false claims,” and “this event has shone a light on an underlying problem on the platform: it’s 2022, and there are countless smaller creators out there, many of which engaged in this discussion, that continue to be hit daily by these false claims on both videos and livestreams.”

As of Tuesday morning, the 2 dwell streams haven’t been reinstated. But a brand new “lofi hip hop radio – beats to relax/study to” has been scheduled to start out again up this afternoon.