With classes and work moving online amid the COVID-19 pandemic, Zoom is a part of our everyday lives. And with it comes the stale awkwardness of waiting for everyone to join the Zoom call. Instead of ...

I’ve written in many places, some wonderful, others makeshift or uncomfortable. I’ve written on trains and in hotel rooms, at ergonomically perfect desks and on laptops balanced on my knees. I once ...

YouTube’s lo-fi hip-hop community has for years offered a place to virtually gather, do homework, and find comfort in the random messages of strangers that populate in live chats. Now, as we’re all ...

Depending on whom you ask, lo-fi hip-hop is a creative feat of the internet age, a punchline, or a meaningless label tacked on to souped-up elevator music. The genre started roughly a decade ago among ...

Streams of chill, endless hip-hop beats set to visuals of animated characters have taken over YouTube, beloved by millions of users who listen to these videos while working or trying to fall asleep.

Instrumental music, once relegated to being a background sound for certain activities, has evolved to become a key element of the way people organize their day-to-day experiences. Thousands of people ...