Lofi Girl
Music label and YouTube channel
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| March 27 2025 | Collaborated with Ubisoft to release an Assassin's Creed: Shadows themed video featuring Lofi remixes of the game's songs. The iconic Lofi Girl was replaced by an animated version of the game's protagonist, Naoe. |
| March 18 2025 | Lofi Girl celebrates ten years anniversary of the YouTube channel. |
| 2024 | Mooncube Games released Spirit City: Lofi Sessions, a game inspired by the aesthetics of Lofi Girl. |
| 2024 | The Lofi Girl channel became one of the 10 most watched channels in France and was recognized by Nouvel Observateur as one of the '20 videos that have marked the platform'. |
| 2024 | Lofi Girl channel partnered with Sega to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the game Alien: Isolation. |
| July 2024 | Collaborated with video game company MiHoYo to release a Zenless Zone Zero-themed video featuring lofi remixes of the game's songs. |
| July 2024 | Lofi Girl became the main sponsor of the e-sports organization Gentle Mates, supporting them during their competitive events. |
| May 2024 | Lofi Girl channel established a dedicated space within the Fortnite video game platform, expanding their digital presence beyond YouTube. |
| March 2024 | Lofi Girl collaborated with Renault, featuring a character resembling the Lofi Girl in a video to announce the new Renault 5 automobile |
| February 26 2024 | Launch of two new livestreams focusing on peaceful piano and dark ambient genres, revealed after the interactive event concluded. |
| February 26 2024 | Interactive choose-your-own-adventure livestream event where viewers could vote on items and walking directions for Lofi Girl and Synthwave Boy. The characters walked to Parc de la Tête d'Or in Lyon, France, with Synthwave Boy leaving a note for Lofi Girl on a bench. |
| February 22 2024 | Lofi Girl and Synthwave Boy disappeared from their respective streams, with a video showing them packing items and preparing to leave their apartments, teasing an upcoming event on 26 February. |
| 2023 | The Lofi Girl channel averages 40,000 concurrent viewers daily. |
| December 2023 | Lofi Girl YouTube channel collaborated with Chess.com to release a video titled 'Lofi Girl x Chess.com - chill beats to play chess to', marking a unique partnership between the music streaming channel and the online chess platform. |
| November 2023 | Lofi Girl released its first music video titled 'Snowman', which tells an emotional narrative about Lofi Girl's childhood memories of playing in a snowy forest with her parents and her present-day journey through Lyon. |
| November 2023 | Lofi Girl and Synthwave Boy disappeared from their respective streams, replaced by a stream of a slowly forming snowflake, followed by a new animated music video featuring both characters. |
| November 12 2023 | Lofi Girl posted a picture pondering a framed photograph, shortly before disappearing from her stream. |
| November 11 2023 | Lofi Girl's X (formerly Twitter) account posted an image of her gazing longingly out the window. |
| September 2023 | Lofi Girl channel partnered with The Lego Group, releasing a special mix titled 'Lofi Girl – chill beats for LEGO building' which featured a Lego-themed version of the Lofi Girl character. |
| September 27 2023 | Taiwan presidential frontrunner Lai Ching-te launched a 24-hour lofi beats channel featuring an anime-styled boy studying with his dog, coinciding with the 30th anniversary of his party. |
| July 2 2023 | A new synthwave stream was created, and the previous stream was removed from the channel. |
| April 11 2023 | Lofi Girl launched a third live stream called 'synthwave radio - beats to chill/game to', featuring a new character 'Synth Boy' sitting with his pet dog in front of a desktop computer at 5:00 pm UTC. |
| April 10 2023 | The animation of the Lofi Girl and her cat disappeared from the live stream, with the audio music stream continuing with a still visual background and without record and track labels. |
| 2022 | Italian rapper Tha Supreme released an animated music video featuring a scene with an anime-styled depiction of the singer in the same setting and pose as Lofi Girl. |
| 2022 | Disney released a compilation album of lofi remakes of Disney songs, promoted as being compiled by Minnie Mouse and showing clear influences from Lofi Girl. |
| 2022 | Paradox Development Studio released lofi versions of soundtracks for Crusader Kings 3 and Victoria 3 on YouTube, featuring parodies of Lofi Girl based on the historical settings of the games. |
| July 2022 | The Lofi Girl live stream surpassed 668 million views in July. |
| July 12 2022 | Lofi Girl resumes streaming after YouTube confirms the copyright claims were 'abusive'. |
| July 10 2022 | YouTube takes down two of Lofi Girl's streams due to a copyright takedown request from FMC Music Sdn Bhd, which was later revealed to be filed by hackers. |
| February 2 2022 | Channel reaches 10 million subscribers, celebrating with a party event in the livestream chat. The ongoing stream had been running since 22 February 2020 and had over seven million likes. |
| March 18 2021 | Channel officially rebrands from ChilledCow to Lofi Girl, recognizing the iconic status of the Lofi Girl character. |
| September 2020 | A viral trend started on Reddit where the Lofi Girl was redrawn to match the context of different countries or places. Will Smith also published his own version, replacing the study girl with himself wearing a Bel-Air hoodie. |
| February 2020 | The main Lofi Girl live stream 'lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to' reached 218 million views in February. |
| February 2020 | YouTube briefly removes the channel, which is later reinstated after public backlash. The original livestream was 13,000 hours long. |
| September 2018 | Juan Pablo Machado, during his final year of master's degree at École Émile-Cohl, responded to ChilledCow's tender for creating an original Lofi Girl character with Miyazaki-esque visuals. |
| March 2018 | The Lofi Girl channel began using the Lofi Girl mascot for its streams, replacing the previously used Shizuku Tsukishima character from Whisper of the Heart. |
| 2017 | Established YouTube channel ChilledCow, which provides 24/7 lo-fi hip hop music livestreams with an iconic animated girl studying/relaxing. |
| September 2017 | Livestream is reinstated with a custom animation of a girl studying. |
| July 2017 | YouTube takes down the livestream for using footage of Shizuku Tsukishima from 'Whisper of the Heart'. |
| February 25 2017 | ChilledCow begins streaming lo-fi hip hop music, branding it as relaxation music for studying and working. |
| February 25 2017 | ChilledCow begins streaming lo-fi hip hop music, branding it as relaxation music for working or studying. |
| March 18 2015 | Dimitri Somoguy creates the YouTube channel 'ChilledCow', which initially focuses on lo-fi hip hop music streaming. |
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