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.
另請參見
- Indie Virtual YouTuber (for use with solo indies)
- Utaite
- Virtual graduation commemoration
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).
該術語首先由Kizuna AI普及，他稱自己爲“世界上第一個虛拟的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 “虛拟流媒體”/“ VStreamer”（由于以前的術語提醒人們英語的風琴）。在中文中，“虛拟上傳器”/“ vup”一詞與“ vtuber”旁邊更常用，在比利比利（Bilibili）上首次創造。用英語，也存在諸如“ pngtuber”和“ gixtuber”之類的術語來指代其模型使用這些格式的VTuber，因爲它們不再是印度的常态（當天無法訪問3D模型）。在日本，“ vliver”一詞也用于在“圍牆花園應用”的利基市場中引用創作者和公司，例如iriam和Anilive，觀衆用來觀看專門在其上播放的VTubers。
此标簽不僅适用于虛拟YouTuber本身，還适用于虛拟YouTuber的模仿，對它們的引用，虛拟的虛拟YouTuber，假虛拟YouTubers和最終未使用的概念藝術（對于後三個，應使用原始三個）。雖然标記吉祥物和标簽的員工還不錯，但VTubers的家人和朋友不适用，除非他們也是VTubers，否則與VTubers相關。