Q 01/05

Which virtual character, who began posting YouTube videos in late 2016, coined the term 'virtual YouTuber'?

A) Mirai Akari

B) Kizuna AI

C) Nekomiya Hinata

D) Weatheroid Airi

Answer · why

B) Kizuna AI

Kizuna AI's sudden popularity set off the VTuber boom: by mid-2018 about 4,000 virtual YouTubers were active, and agencies such as Hololive and Nijisa...

Q 02/05

Which Japanese animation software, first introduced in 2008, is typically used to rig the drawn models of VTubers?

A) Blender

B) Spine

C) Live2D

D) Maya

Answer · why

C) Live2D

Live2D splits a flat illustration into layers that can be warped to fake depth, so a webcam can puppet the head and expressions of a drawn character.

Q 03/05

Borrowed from Japanese idol groups, which word describes a VTuber retiring a character or leaving an agency amicably?

A) Graduation

B) Hibernation

C) Ascension

D) Reincarnation

Answer · why

A) Graduation

Graduation softens what is really a retirement: the agency often keeps the character, so a departing streamer may return under a new persona that fans...

Q 04/05

Which Hololive English star, nicknamed 'Same-chan' in Japan, was the first VTuber to reach four million subscribers?

A) Takanashi Kiara

B) Mori Calliope

C) Amelia Watson

D) Gawr Gura

Answer · why

D) Gawr Gura

Gawr Gura got her Japanese nickname from same, the word for shark, and she passed one million subscribers only forty days after her September 2020 deb...

Q 05/05

Which Puerto Rican streamer became the first VTuber to win Content Creator of the Year at The Game Awards in 2023?

A) Silvervale

B) Ironmouse

C) Nyanners

D) Zentreya

Answer · why

B) Ironmouse

Ironmouse lives with an immune disorder that has left her largely bedridden, and her charity campaigns for fellow patients have raised over $1 million...