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TikTok user, ***white93 states that Lofi Girl our popular study companion has seemingly disappeared from our beloved stream! Where has she gone and what's that timer on the wall?! Many people have been worried for the sake of the channel and where their beloved study buddy has gone.

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This statement is true. Lofi Girl did disappear from the stream temporally. After an absence of one day, Lofi Girl launched another stream introducing a new character or friend. The last 24 hours of the Lofi Girl live stream featured a gradual zoom-out into a blue-lit bedroom in the building outside her bedroom window. At 1:00 PM EDT today, the new male character entered the room with his dog and began to work on his computer. Shortly after, the stream name was revealed “synthwave radio - beats to chill/game to.” The fanbase has begun calling the unnamed character "Lofi Boy." 

An article by Polygon reads, "And fear not, their little universe is still connected. You can see Synthwave Boy’s blue-lit window in the background of Lofi Girl’s view, and you can just make out the outlines of her well-lit window in his." 

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Lofi Girl didn’t disappear, she introduced Synthwave Boy

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This statement is factual. According to gamerant.com, Lofi Girl disappeared from her YouTube stream on April 10th, at around 1pm EDT. The channel's header image was changed into "April 11" and there is now a separate livestream with a dimly lit room with a countdown seemingly to prepare for an unveiling of some type. https://gamerant.com/lofi-girl-missing-disappeared-gone/

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The Lofi Girl channel, known for soothing hip-hop music loops, was briefly silenced after two years of continuous streaming, sparking fan outcry. YouTube later confirmed the original claim was "abusive." The channel has 10 million subscribers and features two popular streams—beats to relax/study to and beats to chill/sleep to. When the streams went down, fans feared the end of an important aspect of YouTube culture. After the ban was lifted, Lofi Girl's owner thanked fans but expressed disappointment that false claims were not scrutinized more carefully.

Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-62133768
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