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I really liked the premise and promise of Nebula (and backed it up with a lifetime membership) but they've been making a lot of suspicious moves. Partnering with an evil company like Spotify, not a great look. I get it, it brings exposure to their people and brings in clicks.
But like, the mobile apps aren't good. My tablet they dropped support of (android version too old) but the app still works for now. The roku apps aren't very good either. Like before you spin off a news channel and a movie studio, maybe hire a full time developer to make your apps not suck?
I've also heard they're very selective about only letting popular creators on. So like, forget curation or community voting or any other mechanism for selecting new creators that might build up new people and new ideas. No, just do what every other big (failing) streaming company is doing and try to lock up exclusive rights with big names, chase that paper all day until you're selling out your customers and cannibalizing your own business core.
I really want to nebula to succeed as an idea where small creators can incubate and grow and maintain independence. But in truth, it really seems like they just want to backdoor into Netflix money by exploiting the already over-exploited youtube creators with the promise of freedom that seems built from the start not to last.
Yeah, I've bought a lifetime membership recently as well purely because quite a few creators I like are on Nebula. A little worried now. Maybe there's something to why CGP Grey and Kurzgesagt removing themselves from it.
Actually, if anything it's the exact opposite. Any creeping "ick" from Nebula would likely have been accelerated if they had stuck around.
A comment from the Real Engineering guy, and a few other comments from Reddit that have been made here and there in the time since Grey and Kurzgesagt left, revealed that it was because they wanted to use it as a platform to essentially allow the big creators (like themselves) to leech off of smaller newer creators being added to the platform. And to be honest, with how Kurzgesagt handled the whole Coffee Break situation, it's very easy to believe that he'd be encouraging less honest business practice.
Oh wow I never knew that. You did remind me there's is always something about Grey and Kurz as well.