Shoot 'em ups are a sub-genre of action games. There is no consensus as to which design elements compose a shoot 'em up;some restrict the definition to games featuring spacecraft and certain types of character movement,while others allow a broader definition including characters on foot and a variety of perspectives.
Interactive television is a form of media convergence,adding data services to traditional television technology. It has included on-demand delivery of content,online shopping,and viewer polls. Interactive TV is an example of how new information technology can be integrated vertically into established technologies and commercial structures.
Batsugun is a 1993 vertically scrolling bullet hell arcade video game originally developed and published by Toaplan in Japan and Europe by Taito,as well as Korea by Unite Trading. The last shoot 'em up created by Toaplan,the title takes place on a distant Earth-like planet where a global takeover operative led by king Renoselva A. Gladebaran VII is set into motion,as players assume the role from one of the six fighter pilots conforming the Skull Hornets squadron taking control of submersible jets in a last-ditch effort to overthrow the invading military force from the planet. Its gameplay mainly consists of shooting mixed with role-playing game-esque elements using a main two-button configuration.
Bullet hell,also known as manic shooter,is a subgenre of shoot 'em up video games featuring large amounts of projectiles the player character is required to dodge. Introduced in 1993 with Batsugun and initially limited to vertically scrolling shooters,bullet hell elements were later added to numerous other genres. Pure bullet hell games remain a niche genre due to their high level of difficulty,akin to masocore games.
The Naver Corporation is a South Korean internet conglomerate headquartered in Seongnam that operates the search engine Naver. Naver established itself as an early pioneer in the use of user-generated content through the creation of the online Q&A platform Knowledge iN.
Subtitles are texts representing the contents of the audio in a film,television show,opera or other audiovisual media. Subtitles might provide a transcription or translation of spoken dialogue. Although naming conventions can vary,captions are subtitles that include written descriptions of other elements of the audio,like music or sound effects. Captions are thus especially helpful to people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. Subtitles may also add information that is not present in the audio. Localizing subtitles provide cultural context to viewers. For example,a subtitle could be used to explain to an audience unfamiliar with sake that it is a type of Japanese wine. Lastly,subtitles are sometimes used for humor,as in Annie Hall,where subtitles show the characters' inner thoughts,which contradict what they were saying in the audio.
Niconico,Inc. is a Japanese video sharing service based in Tokyo,Japan. "Niconico" or "nikoniko" is the Japanese ideophone for smiling. As of 2021,Niconico is the 34th most-visited website in Japan,according to Alexa Internet.
Livestreaming,live-streaming,or live streaming is the streaming of video or audio in real time or near real time. While often referred to simply as streaming,the real time nature of livestreaming differentiates it from other non-live broadcast forms of streamed media such as video-on-demand,vlogs and video-sharing platforms such as YouTube.
An internet celebrity,also referred to as an internet personality,is an individual who has acquired or developed their fame and notability on the Internet. The growing popularity of social media provides a means for people to reach a large,global audience,and internet celebrities are commonly present on large online platforms such as Facebook,Instagram,TikTok,and YouTube,which primarily rely on user-generated content. Some internet celebrities are also social media influencers,known simply as influencers,due to their social influence online.
Kumikyoku Nico Nico Douga is a series of video medleys,and is also the title of one of the videos in the series. The original video was created by Shimo (しも),a user of the video sharing website Nico Nico Douga.
A second screen involves the use of a computing device to provide a different viewing experience for content on another device.
Bilibili,nicknamed B Site,is a Chinese video-sharing website based in Shanghai where users can submit,view,and add overlaid commentary on videos. Bilibili hosts videos on various themes,including anime,music,dance,science and technology,movies,drama,fashion,and video games,but it is also known for its extensive kuso-style parodies by subcultural content creators. Since the mid-2010s,Bilibili began to expand to a broader audience from its original niche market that focused on animation,comics,and games (ACG),and it has become a major Chinese over-the-top streaming platform serving videos on demand such as documentaries,variety shows,and other original programming. Bilibili is known for its scrolling danmu commenting system. Bilibili also provides a live streaming service where the audience can interact with streamers. Bilibili also offers games,mostly ACG-themed mobile games,such as the Chinese version of Fate/Grand Order and the Chinese game Azur Lane. In the third quarter of 2022,the number of average monthly active users reached about 332.6 million,including 28.5 million paying users.
AcFun,also known as A Site for short,is a Chinese video sharing website. The name "AcFun" is an abbreviation of "Anime,Comics and Fun". The website is initially orientated as an ACGN community and is a video sharing web platform. AC Musume and TD Musume are the representative icons of AcFun.
Social media and television have a number of connections and interrelationships that have led to the phenomenon of Social Television,which is an emerging communication digital technology that centers around real-time interactivity involving digital media displayed on television. The main idea behind Social Television is to make television consumption a more active content experience for audiences. In the 2010s,social media platforms and websites allowed for television shows to be accessed online on a range of desktop and mobile computer devices,smartphones and smart TVs that are still evolving today in the 2020s. Alongside this,online users can use social media websites to share digital video clips or excerpts from TV shows with fellow fans or even share an entire show online. Many social media websites enable users to post online comments on the programs—both negative and positive—in a variety of ways. Viewers can actively participate while watching a TV program by posting comments online,and have their interactions viewed and responded to in real time by other viewers. Technologies such as smartphones,tablets,and laptop computers allow viewers to watch downloaded digital files of TV shows or "stream" digital files of TV shows on a range of devices,both in the home and while on the go. In the 2020s,many television producers and broadcasters encourage active social media participation by viewers by posting "hashtags" on the TV screen during shows. These hashtags enable viewers to post online comments about the show,which may either be read by other social media users,or even,in some cases,displayed on the screen during the show.
A mukbang is an online audiovisual broadcast in which a host consumes various quantities of food while interacting with the audience. The genre became popular in South Korea in the early 2010s,and has become a global trend since the mid-2010s. Varieties of foods ranging from pizza to noodles are consumed in front of a camera. The purpose of mukbang is also sometimes educational,introducing viewers to regional specialties or gourmet spots.
A reaction video,or a react video,is a video in which one or more persons react to something. Videos showing the emotional reactions,criticism or commentary of people viewing movies,television series episodes,film trailers,music videos,news,or other media are numerous and popular on online video hosting services such as YouTube and live-streaming services such as Twitch. The depicted persons may not even be aware that they are being recorded. In many cases,the video to which people are reacting is shown within the reaction video,letting viewers see what is being reacted to.
The live streaming of video games is an activity where people broadcast themselves playing games to a live audience online. The practice became popular in the mid-2010s on the US-based site Twitch,before growing to YouTube,Facebook,China-based sites Huya Live,DouYu,and Bilibili,and other services. By 2014,Twitch streams had more traffic than HBO's online streaming service,HBO Go. Professional streamers often combine high-level play and entertaining commentary,and earn income from sponsors,subscriptions,ad revenue,and donations.
The Leader is a 2019 Chinese animated web series based on the life of German philosopher Karl Marx. Commissioned by the Chinese Communist Party,a production team was formed in 2016 which included propaganda departments,scholars of Marxism,and the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. The series was announced in 2018 by the streaming service Bilibili as part of the celebration of the 200th anniversary of Marx's birth. The seven-episode series was created to attract young people to Marxism,and it was streamed weekly on Bilibili between January 28,and March 4,2019. A webcomic version was produced by Zhong Jun,the series' chief scriptwriter.
"Bad Apple!!" is the sixth track in the soundtrack of the 1998 bullet hell video game Lotus Land Story,the fourth entry in the Touhou Project series created by Team Shanghai Alice. The instrumental theme was originally designed to be played during the third stage of the game,as chiptune on the Japanese NEC PC-9800 computer platform,at 161 beats per minute using a frequency modulation synthesis chip. The Lotus Land Story version that has more than 1.4 million views on YouTube is a remake of the song from an official Touhou album named Akyu's Untouched Score Volume 1 and was released on 21 May 2006.
TwitCasting is a livestreaming service operated by Moi Co.,Ltd.,headquartered in Tokyo,Japan. In early 2013,TwitCasting was developed as a way to use the Twitter feed to stream content from smartphones directly onto a user's channel. As of July 2021,it had over 33 million registered users. As of March 2020,it had the most monthly active users among livestreaming apps in Japan,according to App Ape Lab analytics.
