the.com/vlog
A diary that talks back, narrated to strangers who somehow care about your breakfast.
means A blog presented as video, in which someone records and shares the events, thoughts, or daily routines of their life for an online audience.
from A blend of 'video' and 'blog' — and 'blog' is itself a clipped form of 'weblog' (a 'log' on the 'web'). So the word is a fossil of two earlier shortenings: a log kept on the web, now spoken aloud to a camera. It surfaced in the early 2000s as web video became cheap and easy, riding the same wave that gave us 'vodcast' and 'vlogger.'
- first vlog
- Adam Kontras posted one in 2000, beating YouTube by five years
- day-in-life
- The genre where doing nothing becomes content
- third eye
- The camera turns mundane errands into cinematic events
- morning routine
- Lemon water and journaling, performed for an audience of millions
mrbeast — jimmy donaldson's channel with 200m+ subscribers, pioneered extreme challenge vlogs
david dobrik — 4-minute vlog pioneer with viral 4-minute format, 18m subscribers
casey neistat — daily vlog creator from 2010-2017, invented modern vlogging format
logan paul impaulsive — podcast/vlog show started 2018, 10m+ youtube subscribers