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Sam (from Wendover)
@wendoverpro
Head whatever at Wendover, Half as Interesting, Jet Lag: the Game; Chief Content Officer at @watchnebula
Nov 20, 2024 • 10 tweets • 2 min read
Thanks for all the support on this! Really encouraged by demand so far.
If you're interested, I'll do a little logistics thread to explain why it takes so long to get stock, why international shipping rates are so high, and what we're doing to try to solve both problems... To get to the point where we can ship it out to you, the game first needs to be produced in Asia which takes about a month. Then it has to be shipped by sea to the US, which takes another month. Then it has to be processed at the warehouse, which takes another week or two.
Nov 4, 2023 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
Well this is disappointing.
Our latest Wendover video was removed from YT due to a policy violation.

Ultimately I do think YouTube is partially at fault for this but probably not in the way you think, so let me explain... Image It's first worth clarifying that the video was *not*, as some have speculated, taken down for any reason related to its subject matter (Israel/Gaza.)
Nov 1, 2023 • 11 tweets • 2 min read
So, if you're a creator you know that venture capital has come to town and started a bajillion start-ups paying a flat-fee to license your back-catalogue and capture its ad-revenue.
In this thread, I will rant about why these are bad and exploitative and you should stay away. Essentially, it's a loan where instead of paying it back yourself, your YouTube channel pays it back for you. For that business model to work (which it does,) their flat-fee payout inherently has to be less than they'll make back.
Feb 1, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
One thing I hate is just how well negativity works.
Of our top 10 performers over the past year, eight (in my view) include direct or indirect negativity in the title/thumbnail.
(A🧵) Image "Negativity bias" is a generally-accepted cognitive bias that basically suggests that humans feel negative things more significantly than equivalent positive things.
Jan 29, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I’m gonna regret this tweet but…

“Sure, this steak is good, but I wish it was free and made of unicorn meat and gave me the power of flight.”

^^^ Thats what most criticism of Mr Beast sounds like to me. The guy has taught an entire generation of kids that helping people is cool, legitimately helped people, and built one of the largest IPs ever all simultaneously and independently, and all creators do when he releases anything new is nitpick and armchair-expert. Exhausting…
Apr 23, 2022 • 21 tweets • 5 min read
Many of you have reached out and asked why our latest video (How Cyberwarfare Actually Works) is now unavailable due to copyright claim. For those interested, a thread:

TLDR - It's a classic copyright abuse situation with some nuance. Roughly 75 seconds of this video cover the story of iDefense--an early Cybersecurity company that found itself intwined in the foundation of the zero-day (software vulnerability) market