History Platform / NicoNicoDouga

* {{MST}}: The /a/ and /jp/ boards on Website/FourChan sometimes use the site to upload and mock videos from [=YouTube=]. Such videos include various {{fanime}} series ([[http://www.nicovideo.jp/mylist/10483090 example]]) and the infamous [[http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm719083 report]] about the "[[NewMediaAreEvil hackers on steroids]]" group Anonymous.

Nico Nico Douga (ニコニコ動画) is a Japanese video-sharing service much like Website/YouTube. In fact, it started out as an online [=YouTube=] front-end before they were blocked from loading videos off [=YouTube=] servers. Now they host their own videos (for most language versions; for the English version they have somehow been allowed to do this again). Its trademark feature is the ability to add timed scrolling or subtitle-style captions to a playing video instead of offering a regular comments page like [=YouTube=]. This solves one problem (multiple pages required to see all comments on a [=YouTube=] video) while introducing a whole new one (see "Bullet Hell" below). Additionally, it has two features not originally seen on [=YouTube=] [[note]]Well, the live broadcast for [=YouTube=] eventually spawned.[[/note]] -- one is the "live broadcast", which is exactly what it sounds like, usually a concert or anime, and the other is the "International [=NicoNico=] Film Festival", where people compete to make a short film based upon a certain theme; there is a cash prize.

Despite the title, Nico Nico Douga isn't just limited to videos -- 2009 brought in sister sites [[http://seiga.nicovideo.jp Nico Nico Seiga]] and [[http://dic.nicovideo.jp Nico Nico Pedia]]. Seiga is the place where content creators post art, comics, and comment on other people's work {{Imageboard|s}} style. Later years allowed for official publishers to post chapters of their ongoing series, making for a handy site to catch up on lesser-known works. Pedia is the site's own [[TheWikiRule official wiki]], giving information on the characters, memes, and inside jokes that run rampant throughout. The popularity of these portions most likely contributed to the site being rebranded as "niconico" in 2012.

* StupidStatementDanceMix: Like its Western counterpart, Nico Nico is home to these. They even have common songs to back up the dance mixes, commonly referred to as "series".
* {{Troll}}: Since comments scroll across the video instead of being forced to the comments section which you can ignore, naturally, this can and often is [[InternetJerk used in the exact way you'd expect.]] Thankfully, it's ([[SurprisinglyGoodEnglish usually]]) not a problem if you don't know Japanese. If the comments get too inflammatory or controversial (or if there are simply so many that it begins to make it hard to see the video), the uploader may insert a tag in the keywords which roughly translates to "it is recommended to hide the comments" as a warning.

* CoverVersion: Tons of them, to the point where an entire tag was crafted for them. Many popular contemporary singers got their start as ''utaite'' on Nico Nico.

* TropeMaker: For ''-mita'' videos (''utattemita'',[[note]]"I tried to sing"[[/note]] ''odottemita'',[[note]]"I tried to dance"[[/note]] etc.), which eventually launched into their own media category (''utaite'' and ''odorite'' refer to those singers and dancers that started on Nico).

* {{Troll}}: Since comments scroll across the video instead of being forced to the comments section which you can ignore, naturally, this can and often is [[{{GIFT}} used in the exact way you'd expect.]] Thankfully, it's ([[SurprisinglyGoodEnglish usually]]) not a problem if you don't know Japanese. If the comments get too inflammatory or controversial (or if there are simply so many that it begins to make it hard to see the video), the uploader may insert a tag in the keywords which roughly translates to "it is recommended to hide the comments" as a warning.

** Becomes quite literal in some ''VideoGame/{{Touhou}}'' videos, especially with comments composed of Sakuya's knives. ─━╋ ─━╋ ─━╋ ─━╋ ─━╋ ─━╋

* {{Troll}}: Since comments scroll across the video instead of being forced to the comments section which you can ignore, naturally, this can and often is [[{{GIFT}} used in the exact way you'd expect.]] Thankfully, it's ([[SurprisinglyGoodEnglish usually]]) not a problem if you don't know Japanese.

* CaramelldansenVid: The TropeMaker.

* TropeMaker: For ''-mita'' videos (''utattemita'',[[note]]"I tried to sing"[[/note]] ''odottemita''[[note]]"I tried to dance",[[/note]] etc.), which eventually launched into their own media category (''utaite'' and ''odorite'' refer to those singers and dancers that started on Nico).

* TropeMaker: For ''-mita'' videos (''utattemita'',[[note]]"I tried to sing"[[/note]] ''odottemita''[[note]]"I tried to dance"[[/note]] etc.), which eventually launched into their own media category (''utaite'' and ''odorite'' refer to those singers and dancers that started on Nico).

* TropeMaker: For ''-mita'' videos (''utattemita'',[[note]]"I tried to sing"[[/note]] ''odottemita'',[[note]]"I tried to dance"[[/note]] etc.), which eventually launched into their own media category (''utaite'' and ''odorite'' refer to those singers and dancers that started on Nico).