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.
In these YouTubian times, there's a certain peril in conducting a multi-city stand-up comedy tour: Punch lines precede their progenitor.
2009 September 12, p [username], “Re: Restaurant.com, 90% off sale”, in alt.rhode_island[1] (Usenet):
Spud one time called a link 'o mine a YouTubian adventure.
2011, Narayanan Kulathuramaiyer & Hermann Maurer, "Why E-Learning as It Stands Is Not Enough", in Rainbow of Computer Science: Essays Dedicated to Hermann Maurer on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday (eds. Cristian S. Calude, Grzegorz Rozenberg, & Arto Salomaa), Springer (2011), →ISBN, page 159:
Another emerging development, as pointed out by 3, is the emergence of a Youtubian generation which would believe a 30 second clip more than a text book.
Noun: "(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.
2009 August 18, Finn's Awake [username], “Re: To be, or not to be, anonymous?”, in alt.gathering.rainbow[2] (Usenet):
to quote wolffenhaus, an amazing fellow youtubian who i hold in highest esteem: […]
2010 July 6, Antonio Huerta, “Re: Singularity - FPS is Out”, in comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.action[3] (Usenet):
At the very first frames, a thought occured[sic] to me that the game was much like Bioshock; the comments from the youtubians confirmed that. I'd also say that the flashback (i.e., the very existanece[sic] of the flashback and the manner it is served) reminds me of Cryostasis.
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.