Since it seems some people are currently preoccupied with what it means for a channel/video to be considered "DenpaTube", I thought I'd share what that I arrived at when I was considering inclusion criteria 3-4 years ago as I was putting together the DenpaTube MetaMix video. This wasn't intended to be a published prescriptive ruleset and was more for guiding my own process as well as contextualizing the scene for the audience at the live screening. Maybe you'll find it to be helpful, maybe you won't, but I found it useful for my purposes at the time.
This resulted in the following: 1. DenpaTube is made by (former) fans of Digi(Trixie) and circulates in the same infrastructure as those videos. 2. DenpaTube is pushing the elements of Digi(Trixie) videos to excessive and less commercially oriented results. 3. DenpaTube is a direct response to Digi(Trixie) (or as time goes on, it is a direct response or intentionally situated in relation to other DenpaTubers).
This wasn't intended to be a published prescriptive ruleset and was more for guiding my own process as well as contextualizing the scene for the audience at the live screening. Maybe you'll find it to be helpful, maybe you won't, but I found it useful for my purposes at the time.
Essentially I took definition of denpa at the following link, and replaced the words "moe" and "otaku" with "Digi/Trixie" https://altairandvega.wordpress.com/2012/03/21/denpa-bigaku-riron-the-rise-of-the-radio-aesthetic-in-japanese-subculture-in-the-21st-century/
This resulted in the following:
1. DenpaTube is made by (former) fans of Digi(Trixie) and circulates in the same infrastructure as those videos.
2. DenpaTube is pushing the elements of Digi(Trixie) videos to excessive and less commercially oriented results.
3. DenpaTube is a direct response to Digi(Trixie) (or as time goes on, it is a direct response or intentionally situated in relation to other DenpaTubers).