slime tutorial

English

Etymology

Named for a popular genre of YouTube videos in the late 2010s that instructed viewers on how to make slime; by sharing a name with a popular search term, illicit videos of copyrighted productions were less likely to be flagged for copyright infringement or otherwise removed from video-sharing sites.

Noun

slime tutorial (plural slime tutorials)

(euphemistic) A bootleg video recording of a theatrical production, especially of a Broadway musical.
Can anyone send me the link for a Phantom of the Opera slime tutorial?
- 2020 August 28, Sydny Long, “'Hamilton' on Disney+ is a step in the right direction for musical theater”, in The Chronicle‎^[1], archived from the original on September 26, 2020:
  "Hamilton" proved that audiences can still fantasize about one day seeing the rotating stage at the Richard Rodgers Theatre or Elphaba taking flight at the Gershwin Theatre while streaming those same shows in their living room — no slime tutorial required.
- 2021 December 1, Mariana Elosúa, “Student Blog: My First Musical”, in BroadwayWorld‎^[2], archived from the original on December 2, 2021:
  A couple of days later, I got a call back. My first callback. For this, I watched the movie, I saw the slime tutorial, I had the cast recording on repeat.
- 2022 February 28, Kat Mokrynski, “Student Blog: An Up-Close Look at Broadway Up Close”, in BroadwayWorld‎^[3], archived from the original on May 20, 2022:
  You can watch a bootleg or a slime tutorial of Heathers, but it's never gonna be the same as sitting in a theater with people.
Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see slime,‎ tutorial.