Collaboration Channels
With collaboration videos proving to be fun and rewarding, YouTubers started to get ideas for collaboration channels. Collaboration channels are any YouTube channel shared by more than one user. Usually, these users make videos communicating to a particular audience of shared interests or simply to the other users on the channel. The vlogbrothers, John and Hank, held the earliest collaboration channel that I'm personally aware of, but the trend wasn't popularized until January 2008 when five female viewers of the vlogbrothers created their own home on YouTube to communicate to each other. Those viewers became known as the fiveawesomegirls (Figure 8-7). Their channel idea was unique; they would each take a weekday, vlog about their day, or answer questions the other girls had posed in hopes of making new friendships and strengthening old ones. (See the "Interview with fiveawesomegirls" sidebar.)
Figure 8-7. The five awesome girls of fiveawesomegirls
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