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Re: YouTube, when the walls fell [video]

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The title and description are very vague. Could someone summarize for those who like to know what videos are about before watching them?

In an episode of the TV series "Star Trek: the Next Generation", there's an episode where the main characters encounter an alien species whose speech seems to defy translation. Each time the lead fails to understand the chief alien, the alien says "Shaka, when the walls fell". Eventually it turns out the aliens communicate only by referencing historical events - their whole language is built around the concept of a s…

Sounds like Chengyu

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chengyu

Re: YouTube, when the walls fell [video]

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The title and description are very vague. Could someone summarize for those who like to know what videos are about before watching them?

It's a talking head droning on for ten minutes how he doesn't like YouTube anymore so he's gonna move his stuff to a new platform where they have more community. So you should totally subscribe to his new platform so that he can continue producing awesome content for you!!

Re: YouTube, when the walls fell [video]

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Nebula, its arms open.

IIRC Nebula has an exclusivity clause in their contract not allowing content creators to upload to other platforms, though I could be thinking of CuriosityStream.

You must mean CuriosityStream because most of my favourite Nebula creators are also YouTubers. Usually, the Nebula version of their video is slightly longer, too.

Re: YouTube, when the walls fell [video]

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The point about Nebula having an exclusivity clause feels pretty incorrect. I haven't seen a contract, obviously, but tons of videos uploaded on Nebula are also available on YouTube. There are some videos labeled "Nebula Originals" and I would imagine those are exclusive, but that's a fraction of the content on most channels, at least from what I've seen.

Re: YouTube, when the walls fell [video]

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Nebula, its arms open.

IIRC Nebula has an exclusivity clause in their contract not allowing content creators to upload to other platforms, though I could be thinking of CuriosityStream.

Yeah in the video he brings that up. Nebula + YouTube only.

Re: YouTube, when the walls fell [video]

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The title and description are very vague. Could someone summarize for those who like to know what videos are about before watching them?

In an episode of the TV series "Star Trek: the Next Generation", there's an episode where the main characters encounter an alien species whose speech seems to defy translation. Each time the lead fails to understand the chief alien, the alien says "Shaka, when the walls fell". Eventually it turns out the aliens communicate only by referencing historical events - their whole language is built around the concept of a s…

Thanks, very much sounds like it's not worth the 7 minutes, at all.
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