Nebula / Dave Wiskus and Standard Broadcast LLC - A Creator-Owned Streaming Service

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Nebula (archive) is a streaming service created by the Standard Broadcast LLC content management group and Dave Wiskus, in 2019. CuriosityStream is stated to have an investment in them as well. Nebula advertises itself as a platform that seeks to uncouple creators from restrictions present on platforms such as YouTube, while also provding funding to some in order to improve the scope of content produced.

Nebula is notable for featuring a good number of creators in their upper echelons who are associated with the BreadTube community, including but not limited to Hbomberguy, Lindsay Ellis, and Abigail Thorn. The company states that 50% of the subscription profits are distributed to the creators based upon watch time.

This platform caught my attention recently during the Hbomberguy plagiarism drama. A major focus of the video was on a creator named James Somerton, and discussions of his poor use of citations as well as his failures in adhering to certain progressive lines. In looking into Somerton, I found information regarding his vocal criticism of Nebula as a platform, which caused somewhat of a stir in that sector (archive).

Given Harris' association with Nebula, and certain financial ties, it is worth considering how much of the decision to discuss Somerton could have been motivated by the latter's negative comments regarding the platform.
It is my somewhat baseless belief that Nebula is to some degree integral to the behind the scenes coordination of BreadTube, though the degree to which this is the case if at all is presently unknown.

The parent company only lists 4 employees on LinkedIn, with the highest listed rank seemingly only being a CFO. They also seem to lack a specific company site.


Their LLC registration is kind of weird, (archive), very little information. They registered with New York but their stated jurisdiction is Wyoming. They are registered in both NY and WY.
New York Filing:
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Wyoming Filing (archive)
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According to this article (archive), their CEO is Dave Wiskus / Prakopcyk.
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YouTube (archive)
Formerly Twitter (archive)
IMDb (archive)

Courtesy of @Ninon42 :
Ninon42 said:
Nebula got one infusion of venture capital in 2023 but have two other late stage VC suckers still in process from last year per Pitchbook.
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But I thought Nebula didn't want venture capital money!
Dave Wiskus said:
I’ve never been less worried about the future of Nebula. I’d just much rather answer to the creators and the audience than to venture capitalists.
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Dave Wiskus said:
Venture capitalists hit us up constantly. We don’t want to do that. We’re much more interested in building this with you.
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Dave Wiskus said:
Rather than take a loan or take investment from venture capitalists, we decided to experiment with lifetime memberships as a way to let the audience themselves place a bet on us.
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I curled and parsed their creators page, hopefully this didn't fuck up.
12tone
Adam Neely
Aimee Nolte
Airplane Mode
Alex’s Corner
Alt Shift X
Apple Talk
Astro Pro
Atlas Pro
Be Kind Rewind
Berm Peak
Better Elevation
Beyond the Screenplay
Big Joel
BobbyBroccoli
Branch Education
Breaking Taps
Broey Deschanel
Bunnyhop Book Club
CHEFPK
CULT TENNIS
Captain Midnight
Chain Bear
Charles Cornell
Cinema of Meaning
CinemaWins
City Beautiful
CityNerd
Cogito
ColdFusion
Conversations with Joe
Created by Barnaby Martin.
Curious Elephant
Dad & Sons
Dom Burgess
Draw Curiosity
Eddache
Epic History TV
Extra Credits
Extremities
F.D Signifier
Feature History
FilmJoy
Foreign Man in a Foreign Land
Game Maker’s Toolkit
Genesis
Georgia Dow
Ghost Notes
HBomberguy
Half as Interesting
Haminations
Hello Future Me
Here’s the Bad Version
Hit the Bricks
How to Make a Science Video
Imaginary Ambition
Induction
Innuendo Studios
Ironic Sans
Isaac Arthur
It’s Probably (not) Aliens!
Jacob Geller
Jenny Ma
Jessie Gender
Jet Lag: The Game
Joe Scott
Jordan Harrod
Just Write
Kat Blaque
Kento Bento
Knowing Better
Lady Emily
Ladyknightthebrave
Laura Crone
LegalEagle
Leo Vader
Lessons from the Screenplay
Let's get this party started.
Liam Triforce
Life Where I’m From
Like Stories of Old
Lindsay Ellis
Listening In
Little Joel
Lola Sebastian
LowSpecGamer
Luria Petrucci
Maggie Mae Fish
Man Carrying Thing
Mariana’s Study Corner
Mary Spender
Medlife Crisis
Mia Mulder
Michael Wuerth
Middle 8
MinutePhysics
Mobox Graphics
Modulus
Movies with Mikey | Deep Dive | You Should See It | Portscenter
Ms Beautyphile
MusicalSplaining
Mustard
My True North
Nando v Movies
NerdSync
Neuro Transmissions
Not Just Bikes
Not Overthinking
NotesByNiba
Now You See It
Odd Time
Once Upon a Roll
Our Changing Climate
Our Ludicrous Future
OzTalksHW
PantslessPajamas
Paper Skies
Patrick (H) Willems
People Make Games
Philosophy Tube
PolyMatter
Polyphonic
Practical Engineering
Princess Weekes
RM Transit
Rare Earth
Razbuten
Real Engineering
Real Life Lore
Real Science
Real Time History Podcast
Release Notes
ReligionForBreakfast
Rene Ritchie
Sam O’Nella
Sarah Renae Clark
Sarah Z
Science and Futurism with Isaac Arthur
Science with Katie
Sexplanations
Showmakers
Simon Clark
Skip Intro
Something Rotten
Song vs. Song
Soph’s Notes
Sounds Good
Step Back
Stephen Bridges
Stewart Hicks
Strange Parts
Suibhne
Super Bunnyhop
T1J
TLDR News
Tale Foundry
Tantacrul
Taran Van Hemert
TechAltar
Terrible Writing Advice
That’s Absurd Please Elaborate
The Back Focus
The Climate Denier’s Playbook
The Closer Look
The Coding Train
The Cursed Judge
The Daily Briefing
The Dalrymple Report
The Editorial
The Efficient Engineer
The Exploration with William C. Fox
The Friday Chillout
The Great War
The Inforium
The Izzy and Murtada Picture Show
The Layover
The Octopus Lady
The Only Podcast About Movies
The Only Warrior Cats Podcast
The Royal Ocean Film Society
The Science Asylum
The TLDR News Podcast
The Thought Emporium
The True Crime Of…
The Urbanist Agenda
The Zach Highley Show
TheAMaazing
Thomas Flight
Thomas Frank
Tier Zoo
Todd in the Shadows
Tom Nicholas
Trace Dominguez
Unprofessional
Up & Atom
Volksgeist
Welcome to Macintosh
Wendover Productions
WonderWhy
Zach Highley
abitfrank
kaptainkristian
misteramazing
münecat
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Misc. Links:
Nebula FAQ (archive)
Nebula Blog (archive)
Reddit post criticizing SB LLC (archive)
 
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Okay, where funny?
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Outside of them having many people with threads as headliners, nothing yet. I don't necessarily anticipate this being a funny thread, but I do think that it's worth looking into. If you want to hold that against me I don't blame you. I do think the nebula aspect of the hbomberguy plagiarism video does deserve some attention, the entire incident was kind of saturated with attention on the internet historian segment, but there's a lot more to it than that.
 
Needs more work but could be interesting. Do you have any leads on something aside from the hbomberguy incident ?
 
I would say don't worry about the funny. If it's not lolcow enough this thread can always go in off-topic. I've always wanted a thread on Nebula because of their ties to many lolcows.
 
I remember seeing NileRed talking about joining and wondering WTF he was talking about. It did give me a weird vibe.
 
Heh, I looked into this about a month ago once I saw people like Lindsey Ellis and Abigail Thorn (can't even remember his real name) where on there. I payed for a year a couple of years ago when they were running a bundle deal with Nebula and Curiosity Stream but did not renew because I never watched it. Came up again because two channels I like, Mustard and Paper Skies are both putting more videos on it instead of their YT channels, supposedly because YT fucks with their monetization or something.

I saw the CEO appears to be a BreadTuber enjoyer but didn't see much else about him. But that was enough to decide not to sign up again. This might be good as a community watch thread or even just put it in Multimedia. It may not be really lolcowy right now, but I see potential for it in the future.
 
I'm skeptical this works out once the advertisers find out the demographic profile of the audience.

Though I am willing to entertain the possibility that it's not actually a business.
 
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I'm skeptical this works out once the advertisers find out the demographic profile of the audience.

Though I am willing to entertain the possibility that it's not actually a business.
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Throughout the day, internally I've been referring to it as "BreadTube Inc."
 
Kilo Riley said:
Powerword: Oliver Thorn.
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Oliver Lennard, Thorn is the stagename bullshit for his drag persona cause hes a drama nigger

Also Nebula was founded by the guy who made the Discovery Channel. Thats one of the parts of the pitch when Hbomb first shilled it in 2018 as a documentary platform for science documentaries. Thats probably worth looking into, its like censored.tv for commies.

I didnt expect a lot of these people on the list though, Razbuten, Closer look and LFTS surprised me. Man Carrying thing and Like Stories of Old felt a bit commie so I knew they would be on there but the others seem wholesome and non communist, Im gonna feel bad unsubbing from them. Same with Tierzoo, he just seemed like an average guy. Im surprised AccentedCinema isnt here though, hes also a commie, chinese canadian commie infact so he should be a prime candidate. No Dan Olson or Adam Conover as well, very strange.
 
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Put it into Multimedia because there's not much of a Community Watch to look out for
 
Always got weird vibes from these people. Like some of them make decent videos, but they're just so cliquey that it's kinda unsettling. Like they all seem like the type of person who has one of those "in this house we believe..." signs in their yard

The only interesting bit of drama I know about them is that champagne socialist Second Thought, who previously did a show for Nebula about driving luxury cars, was kicked off their platform last year after saying and endorsing psychotic shit like in regards to the Israel Palestine conflict

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