Lo-fi channels on YouTube getting increasingly popular during the big lockdown

YouTube’s lo-fi hip-hop channels are becoming more popular than ever in time of the pandemic, not just as background music, but as ways to find community in a difficult time, The Verge reports. The lo-fi channel College Music has increased the number of subscribers to their channel by 40 percent over the last 28 days, with total channel views up by 46 percent. ChilledCow added 340,000 subscribers in March (compared to 160,000 in January). The lo-fi channel Nickolaas has seen "a significant" rise in views.