chill lo-hope memes to 😭 to

My curiosity is piqued by the genre of long-running YouTube live streams which consist of music that you are meant to listen to in the background along with a looping animation which is meant to be pleasant but not really something you stare at.

A good example is lofi hip hop radio - beats to relax/study to, with over 30,000 simultaneous viewers as I am writing this post.

In an small apartment full of mementos, lofigirl sits at her desk wearing headphones and writing in a journal. Next to her, an orange tabby cat sits calmly looking out a window with a city view.

This one in particular is popular enough that it's been meme'd for a while as "#lofigirl". Today, VioletBlue's excellent weekly pandemic round-up included the particularly dystopian and still-too-relevant version by Yuumei Art below.

lofigirl, now surrounded by lush green plants, is wearing an N-95 mask while viewing memes about the end of the world on her laptop. Her cat is pressed against the window in alarm at the view outside of a blazing forest fire.
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