Episodes we love: Lofi Girl
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WBUR
4.2 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 11 November 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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Summary
This November, we're playing some of our favorite episodes from the past alongside new stuff, so that newer listeners can experience our back catalogue. And LoFi Girl is one that holds up, big time!
If you've ever searched for "chill beats for studying" or some other form of lean back, endless playlists without vocals and with a consistent vibe, you've probably come across "Lofi Girl."
A livestreamed Youtube channel featuring a looped animation of a girl in a cosy apartment on her desk at night, the channel has brought in millions upon millions of views and subscribers. It's also the big bang for an expanding universe, from additional channels and streams featuring slightly different animated characters and music genres, to copycats, to memes and lore - including stories about a mysterious French music producer, Dimitri.
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| 0:00.0 | Support for this podcast comes from Is Business Broken, a podcast from the Mayrotra Institute at BU Questrum School of Business. |
| 0:08.3 | What really drives accountability in the business world? Stick around until the end of this podcast to preview a recent episode. |
| 0:17.4 | Amory. Ben. |
| 0:19.0 | The greatest hits that keep on coming. |
| 0:21.5 | Hell yeah. |
| 0:22.7 | We're revisiting some favorites from the archives to introduce the newcomers to the show to how we roll. |
| 0:29.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:29.6 | And also how we chill, which is a little clue about this next encore episode. |
| 0:35.3 | So grab your headphones, your notebook, your cozy clothes, your pencil. |
| 0:44.0 | Yep, snuggle up next to that favorite window of yours with your cat and enjoy. WBUR Podcasts, Boston. |
| 1:07.3 | Let producer Nora Sacks and I introduce you to Kevin. |
| 1:12.3 | My name is Kevin Weatherwax. He, him pronouns. |
| 1:14.7 | I'm a PhD student at the University of California, Santa Cruz. |
| 1:20.1 | When you hear Kevin's credentials, you might be surprised to immediately after that hear how hard studying in schoolwork has been for pretty much his whole life. |
| 1:29.7 | So I had really kind of atypical path through school. |
| 1:32.8 | I was a high school dropout. |
| 1:34.9 | And I kicked out over and over again. |
| 1:37.1 | You know, as a kid, I got all these, you know, diagnoses really young about why, what was wrong with me? |
| 1:43.9 | And that kind of just pursued me through my life, right? And it was always this thing, why, what was wrong with me, and that kind of just |
| 1:44.6 | pursued me through my life, right? And it was always this thing, well, what's wrong with you? |
| 1:48.4 | How can you be more like other people and stop being like you? |
| 1:56.5 | Kevin would eventually be diagnosed with ADHD, which was listed as the source of his academic challenges. |
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