YouTube Briefly Terminates Lo-fi Hip Hop Stream, Ending Year-and-a-half Chill Vibes Marathon

Chill vibes everywhere were briefly threatened this weekend when lofi hip hop radio – beats to relax/study to, YouTube's famous, endless stream of moody grooves, disappeared. The stream had run non-stop for 549 straight days before mysteriously vanishing from YouTube.

The person behind the stream, Twitter user @ChilledCow, tweeted that he had received an email from YouTube support saying his account was in violation of the site's Terms of Service, and that he was banned from making any more accounts.

YouTube</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/ytcreators?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">ytcreators Any explanation on this? pic.twitter.com/LlPIOuvl8V

— ChilledCow (@ChilledCow) February 22, 2020

This prompted an outpouring of support for ChilledCow's famous stream, as well as some jokes that the perpetually studying girl who serves as the channel's visual was finally ready for her test.

The impact this will have on the education system https://t.co/57tSFs6gmp

— Des ♉️ (@_chismosa_) February 22, 2020

If you recognize her, then you were either A: being hella productiveB: being hella unproductiveC: going through some shitD: stonedAnd if you’re like me, you’re devastated by her passing. RIP lofi hip hop girl pic.twitter.com/usZUgepDic

— Troy W (@TroyWomboCombo) February 22, 2020

the lofi hip hop girl finally finished her homework pic.twitter.com/euNz7whGSo

— Zeph (@MoreZeph) February 22, 2020

Later that day, YouTube responded to ChilledCow on Twitter, saying the termination of the account was a "mistake on our side," and reinstated it. ChilledCow posted the email saying the account was reinstated, thanking fans of the lofi stream.

Thanks for flagging this to us! Our teams confirmed that this was a mistake on our side and your channel has now been reinstated. We’re sorry this happened! We've shared feedback with our review team to prevent similar errors from happening in the future.

— TeamYouTube (@TeamYouTube) February 23, 2020

My account has been unbanned, thank you from the bottom of my heart for the tremendous support, I'm grateful to have such an amazing community🧡I will launch the stream again as soon as possible pic.twitter.com/hcAKB5wXWb

— ChilledCow (@ChilledCow) February 22, 2020

The situation inadvertently made ChilledCow's original lofi hip hop stream the longest video on YouTube at 13,000 hours long.

I've just realised, now that the Lofi hip hop radio beats to relax to stream has ended, it has now officially beaten the world record for longes YouTube video pic.twitter.com/t5Ct28EO0x

— DibzNr (@DibzNr) February 23, 2020