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VTubing

VTubing noun: the act of creating content as a VTuber.

Noun

VTubing (uncountable)

  1. (informal, neologism) The act of creating content as a VTuber.
    • While vtubing as a phenomenon has grown sharply in popularity here in the United States within the last couple of months due to Hololive debuting several new vtubers who speak English on stream, it has existed in one way or another for at least a decade, with various vloggers on YouTube or...2020 December 22, Tyler Colp, “The Vtuber Industry: Corporatization, Labor, and Kawaii”, in Vice, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2020
    • Their backs coming up against the wall with every day that passed, the girl—who was sticking to her support role—found out about VTubing, which had only just started showing glimmers of the craze it would later become.2022, Nana Nanato, translated by Alice Prowse, VTuber Legend: How I Went Viral after Forgetting to Turn Off My Stream, volume 3, J-Novel Club, published 2023, →ISBN

Examples of VTubing in a sentence

  • Popular in Asia for some years, VTubing has only recently gained traction in the U.S.2022 September 26, Ann-Marie Alcántara, “They’re Internet Famous But Remain Anonymous”, in The Wall Street Journal:
  • Despite the rapidly changing landscape and new challenges, the appeal of VTubing still shines through.2022 December 24, Patrick St. Michel, “Pioneer’s departure marked new era for virtual stars”, in The Japan Times:
  • Obskur, an all-in-one broadcasting application, wants to make VTubing more accessible by letting users create 3D models and interactive environments without technical skills.2023 November 13, Morgan Sung, “Obskur’s Character Creator and marketplace streamlines VTubing”, in TechCrunch, archived from the original...

Origin of VTubing

Blend of VTuber + YouTubing.

Questions about VTubing

What does VTubing mean?
VTubing means the act of creating content as a VTuber.
How do you use VTubing in a sentence?
Popular in Asia for some years, VTubing has only recently gained traction in the U.S.
What part of speech is VTubing?
VTubing is a noun.

Words near VTubing in the dictionary

  1. VTR
  2. VTRs
  3. vts
  4. VTuber
  5. VTubers
  6. VTubing
  7. VTV
  8. VTVL
  9. VTVM
  10. VTVMs
  11. VTX

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Adapted from Wiktionary: VTubing (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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