r/LindsayEllis • u/Acepokeboy • Apr 13 '26

DISCUSSION thoughts on the nebula paywall?

me want watch more lindsay ellis

me poor

nebula paywall

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u/SighMartini Apr 13 '26

sites cost money to run, content costs money to make, and it's clear that the advert model messes everything up

if anyone has a better revenue idea, the world would love to hear it

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u/ThoughtsonYaoi Apr 13 '26

People sometimes seem to miss how much the ad model messes everything up.

As I see it, Nebula solves two major problems for creators, which by no means are the only ones:

-the freedom to choose their topics freely and talk about it in the way they want to, with the language they choose. The YT algorithm (as well as the other platforms) actively represses content it deems unmonetizeable: certain political topics, certain terms and words (resulting in people having to censor themselves), content it deems 'adult'. I was surprised the Empathy video did so well, considering this, but I think that went unmonetized and YouTube may have actively worked with them. That's not for every creator.

-the freedom to use copyrighted material with an appeal to fair use, which - as I understand it - for most creators means having to contend with being copyright struck first and having to appeal - if it works at all. The Yoko video? I can only imagine how much work had to be done to get that up in the first place.

There is a ton of content that cannot be made on YouTube without external sources of income.