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means A person who records and publishes regular video diaries of their life, opinions, or activities online, typically on platforms like YouTube.

from A straightforward 2000s blend of 'video' and 'blog' — itself already a clipped form of 'web log.' As blogging matured from text into video in the early-to-mid 2000s, with the rise of accessible video-sharing platforms, 'vlog' and 'vlogger' followed the same word-building pattern almost automatically. No myth here, just internet morphology doing what it does best: smashing words together as fast as the technology moves.