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  • Hello and welcome to BBC Trending.

  • Today’s top story: The growing popularity of animated dolls on YouTube.

  • A increasing number of young women are part of a new wave of online film makers, who are

  • applying DIY animation techniques to brands of dolls from the nineties and noughties.

  • American Girl dolls are among the most popular. The videos are known as AGSM

  • American Girl Stop Motion.

  • It’s like you take one picture and then you move the doll slightly and take another

  • picture. And you continue to take pictures. It can be hundreds of pictures or thousands

  • of pictures depending on how long you want the video to be

  • and it does look like the dolls are moving. It’s really cool.

  • The stories are about all sorts of things like the first day of school or high school prom.

  • But many have a serious social message. Cyberbullying is one of the recurring themes

  • A lot of people get bullied for making doll videos

  • and so I think the cyberbullying videos and stuff like that with

  • the deeper issues, I think they kind of give people hope, you know, youre not alone.

  • The dolls are often customised to look exactly like their owners.

  • But the stars of the videos are the dolls themselves.

  • Since 2011 there has been a steady increase in the number of AGSM videos posted on YouTube.

  • Last year, the videos were viewed more than 33 million times and that number is on the rise

  • While the AG community is growing, many still keep their hobby a secret. We contacted dozens

  • of video makers. Those who responded weren’t willing to go on camera as they hadn’t told

  • their friends and family about their pastime.

  • There’s a lot of girls who keep it a secret.

  • To try to explain it to other people, they don’t understand what youre trying to do.

  • Theyre just like, youre 17 and you like dolls. It’s not like that. It’s a lot deeper.

  • As well as stop motion, people are making music videos, beauty tutorials and what are

  • known as haul videos -- where collections of new clothes and accessories are unveiled.

  • Many continue playing with dolls long into adulthood….

  • I think this is a good opportunity for myself and many other girls to grow in their skills

  • in filmmaking, where they could move on and go further.

  • And that’s all we have time for. Take care of yourselves…. And your dolls.

  • Excuse me... What's going on here?

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