YouTuber
nounUS /ˈjuˌtu.bəɹ/ · /ˈjuː.tʃuː.bə/
Etymology From YouTube + -er.
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Internet A user of the video-sharing website YouTube.
- Ms. Nash, who gave her weight at 224 pounds, said that she ate what she wanted, watched her health and had stopped considering her weight the prime mover of every event in her life. YouTubers loved it.2007 May 27, Virginia Heffernan, “The Many Tribes of YouTube”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
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A video creator on YouTube.
- One of the most discussed YouTube clips lately features a young woman who calls herself pizzelle2 watching a video of another YouTube user, who is watching another YouTuber, and so on.2006 April 16, John Carney, “People Who Watch People: Lost in an Online Hall of Mirrors”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC:
- How have these YouTubers become so popular? It can seem baffling to people outside their main viewing demographic: smartphone-toting “millennials” who spend as much time (if not more) watching shortform video online as they do traditional TV shows.2016 February 3, Stuart Dredge, “Why are YouTube stars so popular?”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
2 more examples
- YouTuber and sister traditionalist Lacey Lynn commented on this video, extolling Faucheux and Collett because they had “red pilled me and I owe yall so much.2019, Alexandra Minna Stern, Proud Boys and the White Ethnostate:
- Unlike those other YouTubers living in mansions with perfect hair and expensive clothes, she’s [Emma Chamberlain is] just an average teen. Sure, she lives in L.A. herself now and is undoubtedly a multimillionaire, but the point is, she doesn’t care.2019 July 3, Taylor Lorenz, “Emma Chamberlain Is the Most Important YouTuber Today”, in The Atlantic:
- Derived terms
- booktuber, PNGTuber, PokéTuber, virtual YouTuber, VTuber