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==Terminology==
The term [[webcam]] is a [[clipped compound]] used to combine the terms [[video camera]] and [[World Wide Web]].
When webcam models create their live [[webcast]]s, they perform the activity known as ''camming''.
Webcam models mostly perform individually in separate video [[chat rooms]], which are frequently referred to as ''rooms''.
The term "camwhore" was first used in print in November 2001<ref>Torpy, Kathryn. (November 10, 2001) [[The Courier-Mail]] ''Virtual lolitas.'' Page 4.</ref>; however, the label is considered derogatory and pejorative.<ref>Chua, Grace. (July 30, 2006) [[The Straits Times]] ''Look, it's me - Babes who blog.'</ref><ref>Oppert, Allan; Mullens, Ken. (November 14, 2004) [[The Advertiser (Australia)|Sunday Mail (Adelaide, Australia).]] ''Surviving a great white: How it feels to be a webcam girl.'' Section: Features2; Page 66. (writing, "The first lot of cam girls coined the phrase "cam whores" as a bit of a tongue-in-cheek thing. <nowiki>[In 1999, we]</nowiki> were whoring ourselves for hits, getting on cam and flirting.")</ref>
==The camming industry==
