tube site

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

  (file)

Noun

tube site (plural tube sites)

1. (Internet) A website for the uploading and playback of pornographic videos.
   • 2011 July 15, Graham Cooper, “SKEPTIC LOGIC AT IT'S FINEST”, in alt.atheism‎^[1] (Usenet):

     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*!

   • 2014 October 23, David Auerbach, “Vampire Porn”, in Slate‎^[2]:

     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.

   • 2016, Bonnie Ruberg, “Doing it for free: digital labour and the fantasy of amateur online pornography”, in Porn Studies‎^[3]:

     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.