The Vtuber Awards, also styled as The VTuber Awards, are awards presented to the best in the

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industry organized by OTK-owned talent management company Mythic Talent. The first ceremony was held in 2023.

Process

Users are given an option to submit nominations, and afterwards they are given an option to choose one nominee for each category.

History

2023

The first edition was held on December 16, 2023 at the WePlay Esports Arena in

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, California. It was hosted by Filian in a room normally for esports and broadcast on her

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channel. Mythic Talent, Filian's agency, was the producer of the ceremony. Although VTubers had a dedicated

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category and won Content Creator of the Year at

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, The Vtuber Awards were, according to Morgan Sung at ''

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'', "one of the first of its kind ..for VTubing". Regarding the idea for The VTuber Awards, Filian said: "In every awards show, VTubers are often a footnote or sometimes treated as a unique, strange thing, and so the idea for these awards is like, 'Why not have a show for ourselves?'". The ceremony was held on a virtual stage designed in

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, after plans for a physical stage was scrapped because according to Chief Visionary Officer of WePlay Studios Maksym Bilonogov, "it's not the way, it’s not the right philosophy". According to Filian, WePlay Studios covered around half of the total production costs, which amounted to a total of around

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$100,000, with the remaining costs split between Mythic Talent and Filian herself through the show's sponsors. Among VTubers affiliated with

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, Zentreya received three nominations and

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won three awards. Several other VShojo VTubers also received awards and nominations, including Matara Kan, Henya the Genius,

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, and Zentreya. MrAJCosplay of ''

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'' praised Projekt Melody's acceptance speech for her Lewdtuber of The Year award as "a wonderful speech about the award representing how far the community has come in breaking down social barriers". In addition to several nominations,

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and its affiliated VTubers won nine of the awards at the 2023 VTuber Awards, including Best VTuber Organization.

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VTubers also had several nominations and awards, including two wins by Selen Tatsuki for Best FPS VTuber and Gamer of the Year. Shylily, in addition to presenting the Miss VTuber Award to

, won the Best Chatting/Zatsu VTuber Award. For Indie VTubers, Vedal987, creator of Neuro-sama, won the Best Tech VTuber award.

2024

The second edition was held on December 14, 2024 at the WePlay Esports Arena in Los Angeles, California. It was co-hosted by Filian and Shylily and broadcast on the former's Twitch and YouTube channels. For the first time, the award show also featured a halftime show: a 3D concert performed by Phase Connect's Ashelia Rinkou and Kaneko Lumi.https://x.com/PhaseConnect/status/1868426475411759303 WePlay Studios was the producer of the ceremony.

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Vtuber Awards, The 2023 establishments in the United States Awards established in 2023 VTubers Web awards