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YouTubing

YouTubing noun: the act of creating content as a YouTuber. Also the present participle and gerund of YouTube.

Noun

YouTubing (uncountable)

  1. (informal) The act of creating content as a YouTuber.
    • YouTubing has an abnormally low entry threshold. So long as you have a laptop with a webcam, a YouTube account and a flair for endless insincere grinning that barely masks the swirling vortex of abject nothingness that consumes your every waking moment, you’re ready to take your first steps.2017 May 22, Katharine Viner, editor, The Guardian, London: Guardian News & Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 22 May 2017
    • He had discussed joining Atlanta United in MLS and following his retirement, there was an outside chance that Hugo Lloris’ current injury at Tottenham Hotspur would create an opening there. Other offers came and went, but it was YouTubing and podcasting that filled Foster’s time, not football...2023 March 24, Adam Leventhal, “Ben Foster’s move to Wrexham: How a business and football deal was done”, in The Athletic, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the...

Also used as

YouTubing is also the present participle and gerund of YouTube.

Origin of YouTubing

From YouTube + -ing.

Questions about YouTubing

What does YouTubing mean?
YouTubing means the act of creating content as a YouTuber.
What part of speech is YouTubing?
YouTubing is a noun.

Words near YouTubing in the dictionary

  1. YouTuber
  2. YouTubers
  3. YouTubes
  4. YouTubian
  5. YouTubians
  6. YouTubing
  7. YouTubular
  8. youuns
  9. youve
  10. Youyang
  11. Youyu

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