During the last six years, LoFi Girl has gained popularity for its focus/study music. Over the weekend, a bogus DMCA takedown request cut off iconic LoFi Radio streams — and YouTube’s copyright protection policies are again under fire.

On July 10th, YouTube struck the popular channel LoFi Girl, taking down two of the channel’s most popular livestream stations. LofiGirl immediately tweeted that false copyright claims against the content led to YouTube’s takedown, and that its videos ‘comply with live streaming policy’—leaving no reason for their removal.

The two videos ‘LoFi hip hop radio—beats to relax-study to’ and ‘beats to sleep/chill to’ have close to 800 million views, and LoFi Girl shared that the false copyright claims came from “FMC Music Sdn Bhd Malaysia.”

Following the tweet, a firestorm of protest ensued online, and users took to Twitter with #bringbacklofigirl to demand YouTube better manage its copyright claim system. The current automated process automatically flags and takes down videos when it receives a claim—without verifying the facts.

Users questioned this ‘flawed’ copyright protection system. It appears that a lack of human interactions during the copyright review process has caused frequent takedown of content and channels. Sadly, false takedown requests can bury a less high-profile channel for good.

For LoFi Girl, this isn’t the first time the channel faced the brunt of individuals abusing YouTube’s policies. Back in February 2020, the entire LoFi...

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