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==== Anti ====
 
* Anti (アンチ) is someone who is really against a particular VTuber. While some antis might simply dislike them, some might go as far as bullying them to try to get them to retire or even [[#doxxingDoxxing|dox]] them.
 
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=== C ===
==== UCorpo ====
* '''Corpo''' refers to VTubers who are affliliated with a corporation. Hololive members are thus all corpos.
==== COVER ====
* [[COVER Corporation]] is the company that owns Hololive.
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==== Doxxing ====
* '''Doxxing''' (ドックシング) means attempts to discover and release information relating to the real identity of a VTuber, such as their past online identities, real name or even their real address. As a result, doxxing is widely looked down upon in the VTuber community.
 
==== Dramatuber ====
* Dramatuber are Youtubers (who may or may not also be VTubers) whose content is based around drama in their circle (in this case, VTubers). Dramatubers are infamous for using sources of dubious credibility (for example, 4chan) and presenting their findings as facts. As a result many consider them immoral who will lie in hopes of more views. As a result, when watching content from dramatubers, one should always check the source.
 
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=== H ===
==== Halu ====
* '''Halu''' is short for the Indonesian word Halusinasi, which directly translates to "hallucination", and is commonly used to describe someone who is delusional and has unreasonable beliefs, like being married to a talent.
 
==== HoloGra ====
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==== Inaff ====
* Portmanteau of Ina and enough. [[Ninomae Ina'nis]] has a fondness for puns and whenever she does one, chat commonly responds with inaff, often in all-caps. It is often also seen when anyone in Hololive does a pun and sometimes for VTubers in general.
==== Indie ====
* '''Indie''' is short for independent and while the term is used in various different communities and industries, in VTubing, indie refers to a VTuber who is not affliliated with a company.
 
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==== Kusogaki====
*'''Kusogaki''' (クソガキ) is a term used to describe a person who acts like a spoiled brat. It can also be used as a nickname for [[Murasaki Shion]], [[Kobo Kanaeru]], [[Laplus Darknesss]], and [[Machina xX Flayon]].
 
====Kusoge ====
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====Taiki====
*'''Taiki''' (待機) means "'''stand-by'''". Viewers use it on the stream's live chat to indicate when they are waiting before the scheduled stream begins.
====Teapot====
 
*A safety word (primarily used with [[Watson Amelia]]) that the viewers say when the live stream is lagging or got disconnected.
====Teetee====
*A [[#Virtual YouTuber|VTuber]] slang, it comes from "toutoi" (尊い), meaning "precious". Usually written in Japanese as "ていてい" or "てぇてぇ".
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=== U===
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====Utawaku ====
*Japanese for "'''Live singing'''", '''Utawaku''' (歌枠) are streams where a [[#VTuber|VTuber]] sings songs live through a track list that may or may not be completely predetermined. The singer may solicit viewer suggestions and may also fulfill viewer requests by briefly singing [[Wikipedia:A cappella|a capella]] for a few lines of the requested song.
 
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====Virtual YouTuber====
====VTuber====
* An online entertainer or live streamer who is typically represented by a digital avatar generated by computer graphics such as [[#Live2D|Live2D]]. See also: [[Wikipedia:Virtual YouTuber|Virtual YouTuber]] on Wikipedia.
====VTweeter====
* VTweeter is a derogatory term referring to people who claim to be VTubers but spend little to no time streaming and instead spend their time using Twitter. A typical VTweeter has their debut indefinitely as TBD and their tweets are often political in nature.
====VShojo====
*Formed in 2020, VShojo is an all-femalea VTuber group based in the United States and one of the first VTuber groups based outside Japan. The EN Hololive members occasionally collaborate with members of VShojo. Despite the name (roughly Japanese for Virtual Girl and a play on Japanese word bishojo (美少女), meaning pretty girl), the group is no longer all-female as of September 30, 2023.
====/vt/====
*/vt/ is the VTuber board of 4chan. The board is infamous in the VTuber community for having a lot of [[#antiAnti|antis]].
 
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==== WWWW====
*See [[#Kusa|Kusa]].
 
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====[[YAGOO]] ====
*Nickname of the [[COVER Corporation|COVER corp.]] CEO [[YAGOO|Motoaki Tanigo]]. The name YAGOO itself originated from one of [[Roboco]]'s streams, where [[Oozora Subaru]] misspelled Tanigo as Yagoo.
 
==== YouTube-kun====
*Though it can refer to YouTube in general, '''YouTube-kun''' is a term that is most often used when talking about YouTube in a negative sense, most often when the stream is having connection isssues.