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tube site en · NOUN

Pronunciation

Etymology

From tube (“television”), probably more immediately from YouTube, a very popular (but not pornographic) video-sharing site.

Meanings

  1. (Internet) A website for the uploading and playback of pornographic videos.
    • www.CAMGIRLS.com is just a white label for now, but I can buy 1,000,000 banner impressions on Tube sites for $30 and it's very *clicky*! 2011 July 15, Graham Cooper, “SKEPTIC LOGIC AT IT'S FINEST”, in alt.atheism (Usenet):
    • Although txcollegeboys features amateurs, and although its videos are uploaded to the amateur section of a major tube site, the account is itself a for-profit. 2016, Bonnie Ruberg, “Doing it for free: digital labour and the fantasy of amateur online pornography”, in Porn Studies:
    • The general sentiment is that the porn business crash around 2008 was due to the rise of widescale piracy on tube sites and torrents, an increase in amateur porn, and the Great Recession. 2014 October 23, David Auerbach, “Vampire Porn”, in Slate:
    • Reared on the tube sites, where a user might skim ten or more clips in the course of a given session, they have grown accustomed to a degree of stimulation that most porn isn’t equipped to satisfy. 2025 November 14, Daniel Kolitz, “The Goon Squad: Loneliness, porn’s next frontier, and the dream of endless masturbation”, in Harper's Magazine, →ISSN:

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