AGTuber
English
Etymology
Blend of AG (“American Girl”) + YouTuber. By surface analysis, AG + -Tuber.
Noun
AGTuber (plural AGTubers)
- (Internet slang) A YouTuber who uploads videos about American Girl dolls.
- 2012 December 23, Dodai Stewart, “The Weird and Amazing World of American Girl Doll Music Videos”, in Jezebel[1], archived from the original on 14 April 2013:
- YouTube user AGmagical13 created this awesome Ke$ha video — in which you'll see dolls partying, DJing, bartending and drinking — in January of last year; it has over 96,000 views. She just turned 16 in August, and considers herself "an older AGtuber."
- 2018, Jessica E. Johnston, “The Doll “InbeTween”: Online Doll Videos and the Intertextuality of Tween Girl Culture”, in Girlhood Studies, volume 11, number 1, , →ISSN, page 63:
- For example, basilmentos, a popular AGTuber with over 177,000 subscribers, realized she had not posted in a month and created a video explaining how busy her life has been in college.
- 2024 July 24, Yael S Jimenez, “The Intersection of Technology, Fandom, and American Girl Dolls: An Analysis of "AGTube"”, in UCR Honors Capstones 2023-2024[2], University of California, Riverside, via eScholarship:
- According to “History of AGTube”, “Many AGTubers consider xmollygirlx as the first AGTuber, as she was most likely the first popular AGTuber.”