YouTubian

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English

Etymology

YouTube +‎ -ian

Adjective

YouTubian (comparative more YouTubian, superlative most YouTubian)

  1. (Internet) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of YouTube.
    • 2006 October, George Gilder, “The Information Factories”, in Wired:
      As large as the current Google database is, even bigger shocks are coming. An avalanche of digital video measured in exabytes (10 to the 18th power, or 1,000 petabytes) is hurtling down from the mountainsides of panicked Big Media and bubbling up from the YouTubian depths.
    • 2008, John Green, "Introduction", in Alan Lastufka & Michael W. Dean, YouTube: An Insider's Guide to Climbing the Charts, O'Reilly Media (2008), →ISBN, page ix:
      First I'm going to do something prototypically YouTubian: I'm going to talk about myself.
    • 2008 April 21, Teresa Wiltz, “Sharp Edge, Lethal Aim: Chris Rock Brings the Pain to D.C.”, in The Washington Post:
      In these YouTubian times, there's a certain peril in conducting a multi-city stand-up comedy tour: Punch lines precede their progenitor.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:YouTubian.

Synonyms

Noun

YouTubian (plural YouTubians)

  1. (Internet) A user of video-sharing website YouTube.
    • 2006, Andrew Riggins, "Blogging will lead to face-to-face interaction" (letter to the editor), The Arkansas Traveler (University of Arkansas), Volume 101, Number 14, 20 September 2006, page 5:
      YouTubians, as many of us now refer to ourselves, have started to focus not only on the events of our own lives and the expression of our own views, but on the welcome response of others, from not only around the nation, but around the world.
    • 2011 May, Tony Millin, “Public inconvenience”, in Cardiff Now, page 26:
      Millions of us YouTubians laughed, out-loud some of us, as we watched a middle aged lady walk into the retaining wall of an ornamental fountain, fall head first into the water, thrash around as if being attacked by piranhas for a few seconds, clamber out and then continue to shop as if nothing had happened.
    • 2013 December 13, Del Stone Jr., “Dreaming of a white Christmas? Snap out of it!”, in Northwest Florida Daily News:
      I took a video and posted it to YouTube, where my fellow YouTubians charitably pointed out I was crazy.
    • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:YouTubian.

Synonyms

Wikious
Boobota
Sagapedia