virtual youtuber
A Virtual YouTuber, sometimes called VTuber, is a content creator and personality that utilizes a 3D or 2D digital avatar for online videos and/or livestreaming, often assuming a character as well. Despite the name, content is not limited to YouTube, and often, a VTuber is someone who declares themselves as such.
The term was first popularized by Kizuna Ai, who called herself "the world's first virtual YouTuber". Many others followed suit, and the explosion in popularity of the practice lead the term to be used even outside of YouTube, though variations on the term have been introduced as to diminish the use of the brand name, including "VTuber", "Virtual Singer"/"VSinger" (for those that exclusively do music, not be confused with Vocaloid China), and "Virtual Liver"/"VLiver" (specifically referring to virtual streamers) or "Virtual Streamer"/"VStreamer" (due to the former term reminding folks of the organ in English). In Chinese, the term "Virtual Uploader"/"VUP" is used more commonly alongside "VTuber", after being first coined by Xiao Xi on Bilibili. In English, terms such as "PNGTuber" and "GIFTuber" also exist to refer to VTubers whose models use those formats, now that they are no longer the norm among indies (that had no access to 3D models back in the day). In Japan, the term "VLiver" is also used to refer creators and companies in the 'walled garden app' niche, such as IRIAM and AniLive, apps which viewers use to watch VTubers who stream exclusively on them.
This tag should apply to not only virtual YouTubers themselves, but also to parodies of virtual YouTubers, references to them, fictitious virtual YouTubers, fake virtual YouTubers, and concept art that ultimately isn't used (for the latter three, original should be used). While tagging mascots and staff with the tag is fine, family members and friends of VTubers don't apply, unless they too are VTubers, nor do things merely associated with VTubers.
另请参见
- Indie Virtual YouTuber (for use with solo indies)
- List of virtual YouTubers
- utaite
External links
- Pixiv Encyclopedia: Virtual YouTuber
- UserLocal (JP Database): virtual-youtuber.userlocal.jp
- Moegirl article (Chinese): Virtual Uploader
- Namuwiki article (Korean): Virtual YouTuber
- MoguraVR's VTuber article section (Japanese) : VTuber
- MoguraVR article (Oct. 2022): moguravr.com/vtuber-management-companies-list
The following tags are aliased to this tag: vtuber (learn more).
该术语首先由Kizuna AI普及，他称自己为“世界上第一个虚拟的YouTuber”。 Many others followed suit, and the explosion in popularity of the practice lead the term to be used even outside of YouTube, though variations on the term have been introduced as to diminish the use of the brand name, including "VTuber", "Virtual Singer"/"VSinger" (for those that exclusively do music, not be confused with Vocaloid China), and "Virtual Liver"/"VLiver" (specifically referring to virtual streamers) or “虚拟流媒体”/“ VStreamer”（由于以前的术语提醒人们英语的风琴）。在中文中，“虚拟上传器”/“ vup”一词与“ vtuber”旁边更常用，在比利比利（Bilibili）上首次创造。用英语，也存在诸如“ pngtuber”和“ gixtuber”之类的术语来指代其模型使用这些格式的VTuber，因为它们不再是印度的常态（当天无法访问3D模型）。在日本，“ vliver”一词也用于在“围墙花园应用”的利基市场中引用创作者和公司，例如iriam和Anilive，观众用来观看专门在其上播放的VTubers。
此标签不仅适用于虚拟YouTuber本身，还适用于虚拟YouTuber的模仿，对它们的引用，虚拟的虚拟YouTuber，假虚拟YouTubers和最终未使用的概念艺术（对于后三个，应使用原始三个）。虽然标记吉祥物和标签的员工还不错，但VTubers的家人和朋友不适用，除非他们也是VTubers，否则与VTubers相关。