I've never understood what any of these podcasts are about, Are they all attempts to be like H3H3 and Tim Pool? Do they get a big audience or are they all like Steel Toe and struggling for views?
Ethan Van Sciver's show these days is boring and very random. Alot of his content is him endlessly feuding with other people like Eric July and Yellow Flash for no good reason at all. He will talk about news when news is going on. But mostly these days he just complains about other people or talks to people about complaining about other people. He generally doesn't even try to cover pop culture anymore. Its just four to five hours of mindless nonsense and him attempting to shill merchandise occasionally.
Anna is involved with something called the JACK show. Its basically degenerated into a show for the Ethan Van Sciver secondary players. They talk for hours about all the important stuff going on with Ethan Van Sciver. Anna talks alot about herself. They used to do alot of dumb degenerate content, but I'm not even sure if they do that anymore. There used to be four of them, but one of them was kicked off the show for not loving Anna's wedding enough or something.
Shane Davis and his show are also related to these people. He is a degenerate who mostly seems to do content complaining about mainstream superhero comics.
Their audiences are all in a slow decline. All these shows started many years ago as culture complaint shows. But that format is old and tired. They tend to still have the audiences they built up in those years. They are gaining no new audience and the existing audience is slowly walking away out of bordom.
Many (but not all) of these people's reasons for having channels was selling comics they made to their audience. That used to be one of the main parts of the show format. But Ethan Van Sciver is lazy and doesn't really want to do comics. Jon Malin was disinterested in making comics as well but solved his problem by hiring people to make his comics for him.
And oh do you mean Anna Nicole Smith? I don't think I ever knew she did porn! I just thought she became a thing after the Guess ads and was just "around."
I'm not sure she did "porn" in the current sense of the word. She was a 9th-gradel dropout married to a frycook in houston who was also a dropout. She became a stripper. Then she got discovered and heavily promoted by playboy which led to the fashion contracts.
And since this is a law thread, I'll describe the case she was involved in.
During her stripper career she met a guy in his upper 80s who owned 16% of Koch Industries (oil). When he was 89 and on his last legs, she married him. She wasn't mentioned in his will and she didn't have any luck trying to get at his money in the Texas courts.
So then (to bring this back to legal stuff which vaguely gets back toward Nick) she declared bankruptcy in California and attempted to use the bankruptcy court in California to litigate her claims to the estate in Texas.
The LA bankruptcy court, being (IMO) incredibly and openly corrupt, awarded her the entire estate of around half a billion dollars. The Texas probate court then reaffirmed that she was entitled to nothing AND that she should pay legal costs of the other relatives.
Then it went to federal court in California where there was another extremely strange decision that decided she deserved $88 million dollars rather than the entire estate. Then it went to the court of appeals in the 9th circuit which put an end to the case by finding that the federal courts do not have the power to override the probate decisions of individual states.
Then it went to the supreme court then years after her "husbands" death. The supreme court decided that the federal courts do have jurisdiction over the decisions of state probate courts in the matter of a widow debtor's claim of tortious interference with a gift.
Then all of the original people involved in the case on both sides died. Other relatives continued the case on one side and Anna Nicole's sleazy lawyer continued the case on the other side in the name of her daughter.
Then the case went back to the 9th circuit. Then it went back (again) to the Supreme Court in 2011. The Supreme court then decided that bankruptcy judges - because of the nature of their appointment - are not judges under the Article III of the constitution sense of a judge. Thus a bankruptcy court does not have powers to decide legal issues outside of a bankruptcy itself. That a bankruptcy court cannot override the decisions of a state probate court.