YouTube Poop

See also: YouTube poop

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

YouTube +‎ poop, with the word poop chosen to refer to the perceived low quality of the videos[1] and for the assonance.

Pronunciation

  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈjuː.tjuːb puːp/, /ˈjuː.t͡ʃuːb puːp/
  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈju.tub puːp/
  • (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA(key): /ˈjʉː.tʃʉːb pʉːp/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Hyphenation: You‧Tube Poop

Noun

YouTube Poop (countable and uncountable, plural YouTube Poops)

  1. (Internet slang, somewhat derogatory, uncountable) On YouTube, a style of video mashups composed of clips from preexisting media with visual and auditory effects for humorous or surreal purposes.
    Synonym: YTP (initialism)
    Coordinate term: vlog
    Hypernyms: mashup, video
    Meronym: clip
  2. (Internet slang, countable) An instance of this style of video mashup.
    • 2019 March 20, Luke Dormehl, “YouTube Poop is punk rock for the internet age, and you probably don’t get it”, in Digital Trends[1]:
      Agreeing on exactly what is and isn’t a YouTube Poop is a matter of surprising levels of debate.
    • 2022 November 13, Sydney Butler, “What is "YouTube Poop" And Should Anyone Watch It?”, in HowToGeek[2]:
      Some YouTube Poops are even important to internet culture and history.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Russian: пуп (pup)

Translations

See also

References

  1. ^ Halle, Randall (30 March 2021), “Heterotactic Community Formation: YouTube Pooping”, in Visual Alterity: Seeing Difference in Cinema, University of Illinois Press, →ISBN