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I understand why they did, but I kinda hate it. See here.

Something I've liked a lot about Nebula and found refreshing is how much it isn't like YouTube. I click a video, the video plays, and that's all that's there. No comments, no recommendations, just a comfy void of the video and only the video. Nothing else nagging me to distract me further. And adding a sidebar like this starts to ruin that.

This also bothering anyone else?

Is it just me, or have a lot of creators had near-identical sentences back to back recently? Off the top of my head, I've been seeing it with Tom Nicholas and TLDR news a lot, and just today it happened with Legal Eagle, too (see 18:26 and 19:02 on this video for an example of what I mean).

My guess is that these lines are usually bracketing an ad of some sort on youtube? But on nebula, it's just been really jarring and feels like an editing mistake most of the time.

It didn't used to happen, and then it was suddenly happening on multiple creators all at once starting... a few months ago, maybe? That's why I think it might be the result of creators responding to a change in strategy on youtube or something.

Has anyone else been noticing this? What do you think caused it?

I don't know if anyone else has seen the new Maxinomics video on Nebula yet, but it is driving me up the wall. He keeps saying socialism but his main examples are all explicitly communism.

He talks about Berlin being capitalist on one side and "socialist" on the other (it was communism).

He talks about a factory not responding to what customers actually want because all the decisions were made at the top (communism).

He talks about Karl Marx and Das Kapital and the Communist Manifesto but then conflates socialism with the latter because...?

He talks about who owns the land because "socialism can't answer that question" except it does. Because private ownership of land is an option under socialism, as is government or co-op ownership and so on.

^(My family owned their farm in socialist Yugoslavia, and they owned the apartment they bought inside a government-built apartment tower (it was more complicated than that, because my grandfather was an engineer for the government and that apartment was part of his compensation, but they did outright own it).)

So... why? Why is Maximonics working so hard to portray socialism using the hallmarks of communism?

He changes tacks towards the end to be like "it's not clear to me if this is what people mean when they say socialism" but he just spent twenty minutes talking about it as if it is while not even clarifying, from the start, that this was EXPLICITLY COMMUNISM. LABELED AS SUCH BY THE SOVIET GOVERNMENT THAT RAN IT.

Then, even after that disclaimer: He shows photos of Stalin, Mao, and Castro, and then describes them as leaders of socialist countries. Each and every one of those was communist.

What sucks is that I usually really look forward to his videos because they are very informative and I often end up learning a lot, even if I don't agree with much of what he says (a standout being his video on how to read the economy through cargo data). But being this blatant with misinformation (possibly disinformation) has me doubting everything I thought I'd learned from his work.

Just wondering if there's any comments on the fact that Hacksmith's latest Youtube short is plastered with hashtags for an apparent partnership with OpenAI?

Given Nebula's AI policies, and given that OpenAI is known to have infringed on people's intellectual property rights it seems problematic.

Is there any chance we'll see Nebula willing to flag that channel's partnerships at least so that Nebula viewers can make an informed decision about whether to keep watching Hacksmith videos?

Edit: for reference, this is the YT Short I'm referencing: https://youtu.be/TavsU06HyNs