Fanlore:Featured Article Archives/2021: Week 33
The Littlest Pet Shop YouTube fandom (shortened to "LPStube") is a community of videographers on YouTube that make videos, such as music videos and episodic series, with the Littlest Pet Shop toys by Hasbro.
LPS YouTuber content consists of the YouTuber recording themself playing with their LPS toys and sets, with the only body part visible being their hands. Some of the earliest known LPStube videos, including the video that originated the trend of including hands in shot, date to 2007 (for more, see Fandom).
Sometimes LPStubers make their own dioramas rather than relying on pre-made official playsets. These videos almost always have a plot that the videographer acts out through the toys, unless they are one-off music videos. Some have compared LPStube videos to a type of of stop motion, though most videos are recorded in real time rather than frame-by-frame.