StudyTuber
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]StudyTuber (plural StudyTubers)
- A YouTuber whose account focuses on studying and academia.
- 2019 February, Rosie Wedge, “Studying”, in Student Life, number 25, page 59:
- 9/10 of the successful StudyTubers are straight-A/A* students.
- 2019 October 8, Ellie Robson, “The great rise of ‘studytube’”, in Concrete, number 367, University of East Anglia, page 11:
- As businesses have realised that there is a huge audience amongst the student body, many of these StudyTubers have become personalities and shot to small but rapidly growing levels of fame as they share their variety of experiences.
- 2020 March 31, Jonathan Moules, “How remote study is changing business school life: The coronavirus crisis has created new ways to learn and collaborate”, in BusinessDay, volume 19, number 531, page 19:
- As UK schools closed and exams were cancelled, a group of educational YouTube vloggers — the Study Tubers[sic] — felt compelled to help their fellow students, writes Amy O’Brien.
- 2020 December 3, Basilia Weir, “Studytube: you’re toxic, I’m slippin’ into a panic spiral about my productivity”, in The Glasgow Guardian, number 4, University of Glasgow, page 13:
- The lesson here is not that studytubers are terrible influences who intentionally push toxic productivity.
- 2021, Jade Bowler, The Only Study Guide You’ll Ever Need, Blink Publishing, →ISBN:
- Many of these authors are StudyTubers who are well known online for giving academic advice.
- 2021 September 29, Nicole Mui, “Investigative Report: Toxic Positivity; Selling success: Influencers’ romanticization of school life”, in The Charger Account, volume T, number 1, Leland High School, page 10:
- According to The Boar, StudyTubers have emphasized unhealthy coping mechanisms, such as rigorous studying, which cause students to feel pressured about how productive they seem in an academic setting.
- 2021 October 5, Tom Haynes, “What happens to studytubers once they stop studying?”, in i-D[1], archived from the original on 6 October 2021:
- Alternatively, as one StudyTuber suggests, some viewers find the revision tips and university vlogs made by their peers far more useful than online resources “made by someone who graduated years ago”.
- 2022 November, Anna-Marieke Lechner-Scott, “Study Partners for Sale”, in Bossy, 8th edition, ANU Women’s Department, page 55:
- Critics of StudyTube often use the idea of parasocial relationships to take issue with StudyTubers’ attempts at replacing study partners—particularly their livestreams and lifestyle/Study with Me videos—however, this is a misapplication of the concept.