Hey guys - I know the video says $15 but the holiday sale has just been extended! This means you can now get CuriosityStream AND Nebula for $11.79 a year. (That’s less than a dollar per month!) Sorry for the confusion. curiositystream.com/polymatter
This is stupid. It was just an advertisement for the Nebula We should not tolerate this half video bullshit crap and unsubscribe PolyMatter and should not watch his video again.
These videos are basically becoming an ad for that nebula/curiosity thing. I tried it once with a 3-month trial. i canceled it in 2 weeks because there's little worth watching. All content there is high quality ofc, but most of it is also available on youtube, it still has ads and you'll run out of content in a few days of watching what interests you. Creators DO get paid there more, but by that logic i'd rather use Patreon.
Use sponsorblock and ublock origin extensions for pc and UA-cam vanced for Android. No ads, background play, sponsor skipping too. Better than yt premium.
Not even a link to the Nebula version of the Video in the description... do you even care ...? And please just tell me before I watch the video that there is a nebula version
This video being cut off where it was is extremely disappointing, I say that as a nebula subscriber. I don’t watch this channel on UA-cam to see part of a video, I want to see the full story. If you want to tell a separate story that is related and plugs at the end of the video sure, but this here is ridiculous
I also pay for nebula, but rarely watch any of the content over there. I find there are some things missing: comments and playback speed for example. These two are pretty important to me, so I decided to pay Nebula as it is not too expensive and I can support my favorite content creators, but I keep watching their videos on UA-cam. To be forced to switch to a far inferior app is bullshit in my opinion...
Polymatter, I never thought you would do something like this but the ending was just complete sellout. I don't mind ads and stuff but this was just disrespect, you would've at least mentioned that this is just a preview to view the rest elsewhere.
To be fair the title is about tencent, and the video tells the fulls tory of tencent. Ant is a totally different company and a totally different story, so he didn't really exclude anything--in fact he added.
Well, I have Nebula and there is a minute of extra content that says something like "company criticized regulation, so was regulated" :-D You didn't miss much and I don't plan on using that service in the long run. (this is the case for most videos that had this kind of ending and I was interested in it)
Putting parts of a video behind a paywall and calling it "extended version"? I like your channel and respect you as a creator but, really? this is how you do it? I have no problem with exclusive videos just put them in nebula don't release a trailer of it on youtube...
@@davixpixie243 please watch the full video before you comment.. no hate just a friendly reminder...Who said it was a clickbait or the title was not fully explored? the way video was going into, it talked about all of the recent events about the chinese government mishaps which really should have included jack ma's story...
@@WillJackDo you didn't understand the comment. Why put like half the video on UA-cam then leave it at a cliffhanger and charge people. It pisses people off and they might not come back. Having trailers for exclusives is much better. If you want a case study just look at motor trend. They did the same thing on UA-cam and hid behind a paywall. That wasn't a good move because they lost a lot of subscribers and people just jumped to the next UA-cam channel.
For anyone curious about the name: Chinese companies often have official English/Western names that are phonetic approximations of their Chinese name but don't mean exactly what their Chinese name means. This is because asking a non-Mandarin speaker to casually pronounce a Chinese name accurately would be a bit challenging due to the differences between Mandarin and western languages, and a literal translation may not always be the most appealing name for a company. - TenCent's name is a phonetic approximation of the characters 腾讯 (téng xùn), which literally means "soaring news." - WeChat's name is a phonetic approximation of the characters 微信 (wēi xìn), which literally means "micro-letter" ("letter" as in the document and not the alphabet). This is true even for companies that aren't in Mainland China. For example, Taiwan is home to a ton of computer companies whose official Western names are nothing like their Chinese names. Acer's Chinese name is 宏碁 (hóng qí), which sounds absolutely nothing like "Acer."
@@PEK-97 Would not even be that bad of a name hell the original term for the short text messages mobiles send was SMS literally an abbreviation of Short Message Service. Micro in lay English is pretty much a synonym with small so native English speakers would read it as being essentially Small Message.
I'm already a nebula subscriber and have been supporting you guys over there for a few months. Making me go over to nebula just for two more minutes of content rubbed me the wrong way. I'm paying for it already anyway, but it would really suck to sign up for nebula based on this ad/recommendation only to find out all you're getting is a few sentences.
Asshole move tbh. I have a year of subscription to nebula, but it is completely unusable for me. I cast to my TV via a chromecast, and the videos constantly stop and/or have trouble with skipping. :/
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@@Jonas.856 I have one too, but I barely use it. The discoverability is not great, the app is slow too, and the website is just bad. Often I forget that I have it.
@@swapnilsharma2794 I have the subscription but it’s so buggy the interface doesn’t even load properly and once loaded properly then I need to search and once again doesn’t load properly. Once switched interface, it just doesn’t load. Then all obstacles cleared and get to the video, then the video doesn’t load. I don’t know how it is now. Also they don’t recommend videos. I don’t mean collect user data is good, but I want some relevant videos to me. I hope they fixed their buggy video streaming service because I didn’t go to the app for a long time. Hopefully my information is outdated.
I don't know if it's skipping content since all his videos are around 9-14mins in length, just that back in those days he was segwaying into stuff like Brilliant and not extra content.
So this whole Nebula thing seems like a paywall, in that the moment you get into interesting content for some reason or another you cut it off as a Nebula premier, why even bother with creating youtube content at all? Just create Nebula content if you cba to actually make something for UA-cam that isn't lacking content because that's a part of the Nebula exclusive.... I rlly used to like this channel and Wendover productions, but it seems that these days any content you produce has this caveat that the rest of this wonderful video is behind a paywall...
@@thejagtimes I dont think Nebula needs to be free, I would just say they stop explicitly mentioning that they made more content for the same video but only share half of it on UA-cam, coz if something needs to be exclusive don't bother posting on youtube
@@dejectd2972 it happened decades ago when Hongkong was officially returned to China. Keep in mind that the only reason this issue even exists is because of European colonial crimes. The city has always been part of China, it is again and the only reason why it ever had a special status was because the CCP decided so a couple decades back. We really shouldn't treat HK differently than Catalonia.
Even vast majority of gamers don't know about Tencent because they are not publisher/developer just investment firm that buys these gaming companies/properties.
Believe it or not, some of my friends who actively used UA-cam doesn't have any clue who PewDiePie is. So, it comes as no surprise that the same could be said with Tencent.
My dad started a social network at university, but his view of the government did not leave to officials looking favorably upon his ventures. We emigrated in the early 2000s. Some of his colleagues went on to found tencent.
Waiting until the end of a video to say "go here and pay money to see the full video" should be and probably is against UA-cam terms of service and is an immediate turnoff for viewers. Nothing against promoted content and supporting channels, just that this is a very scummy way to do it.
@@guilhermelopes9430 I agree. The Ant Group section seems completely separate from the video itself, and I feel that the Tencent information was more than enough.
it's real name is 腾讯，腾 means ascend, soar rise. Also the founder‘s name is 马化腾。 讯 means message, information, the romanisation of 腾讯 is TengXun, which sounds like Tencent..
Of course the CPC controls those companies (as it should), but what he was talking about is that Tencent was given a lot of freedom from government interference to become what it is now. Obviously that could end any moment now because no corporation in China js above the interests of the country.
@@heretic124 yeah, that one who genocided whole indian population and living off their stolen land, and bombing middle east nation every year and stealing their oil
@@ezioauditore5616 You have no idea how many people would have died miserable deaths if it weren't for the world order that the USA has built and enforced. Sure we have to enforce international law every now and then, but American troops don't just walk around mowing people down, there are very strict rules of engagement that must be followed, and if they are not then the one who pulls the trigger can spend the rest of their life in prison. You may feel cool by talking shit about the United States, but remember the United States military could easily be the only reason you are free, and safe.
"The very existence of Alibaba ..... Prove China's willingness to tolerate" *Cough cough Jack Ma....Ant IPO...... Antitrust lawsuits against Alibaba....
Really? Taking out part of your video and putting it behind a paywall? Such a scummy business move, akin to game developers taking content out of base games and making it paid DLC at launch.
Totally wrong reason to explain why ant group ipo was cancelled by the state. The main reason is ant posted a financial risk to the state financial system and they didnt want to make it even bigger risk with the ipo.
I'm fine with the Nebula begging at the start of your videos, but please, don't lock part of your videos behind a paywall, all it does is making us hate Nebula.
Ugh. Subscribed to the channel for effective, meaningful education videos. Not half-shots finishing with an advertisement telling you to pay money if you want to see the whole thing.
Why do we need to pay to watch the rest of the video? I understand big projects being locked behind a pay wall, but a full, regular video goes against what most UA-camrs believe: always having their main content available for free.
We don't hear about the Chinese giants that often, but man I feel they will soon overcome all the companies we know. The Chinese market is ruthless, much ruthless than anywhere else in the world. Those who survive are the most hardcore competitors.
So true. I’m a Chinese currently living in the US. I use Uber Eats to order food delivery, And it feels like a featureless beta version app. It’ll definitely die in Chinese markets where the competition is unimaginable.
In China information and media are blocked by government; in America information and media are blocked by having to sign up for a whole subscription service. Capitalism!
Although I understand you wanting to push Nebula, this video felt weirdly inconclusive and hence very unsatisfying, and I think this hurts the overall quality of your channel. I would rather you kept releasing exclusive videos there rather than releasing half a video here and them going "to watch the rest go to my service".
6:08 twitter->weibo UA-cam->bilibili Netflix->iqiyi reddit->tieba (belongs to baidu) discord->YY Tencent doesn’t rule them all, and that’s the “truth” you want the rest of the world believe.😅
@@Alaois Back in the day, he probably wouldn't have mentioned Ant Group as a segway into more content but instead something else that segwayed into Brilliant/Skillshare, making it seem like there was never more content to begin with.
The BAT abbreviation is merely a coincidence. As a Chinese I can tell you that prior to 2020 barely no Chinese have heard of anything related to bat cuisine, not to mention considering it edible. If anything one can heard at that time, there was a tourism promotion video of Palau, made by the "president" of the "Republic of China" (commonly known as "Taiwan" although these are two very different concepts) Tsai Ing-wen, talking about her experience eating a bat soup there (she has made tourism promotion video to all countries recognizing her government on Taipei as the government of China instead of the one in Beijing, and Palau is just one of them). Bat cuisine is very Pacific thing and has its root in their culture. Honestly I won't blame them (although most Chinese express their hate against bat-eaters since they know their existence in 2020), because that's just how the indigenous find a way of living. Before 2020, every year there are people who either visited those countries or influenced by certain culture, and consumed bats. That's it. It's like you can easily find snake, ostrich, venison, alligator, etc in American butcher shops that is almost exclusively visited by White Americans but most White Americans probably throughout their whole life won't know that one of the butcher that they visited does sell those thing. Most, however, have heard of bamboo rat (a herbivore species size similar to a guinea pig or a rabbit) cuisine, due to an Internet celebrity named Huanong, who is a farmer raising thousands of bamboo rats. Unfortunately after the COVID-19 hit, his farm got eradicated by the Chinese government due to their one-size-fits-all approach, and we miss his funny vlogs about his bamboo rats.
You forgot to mention that unlike credit card system, the WePay system Tencent created doesn't take a cut of every business transaction, making it even more popular than 'pay with cash' for small business owners -- which turns Tencent into a public good which most American companies certainly are NOT. This gives the chinese government reason to look favorably upon it.
I was and still am considering giving Nebula a try, but the way this video's ending was treated left a pretty sour taste on me. Not going to boycot it because of that, but this was really disappointing. I hope this doesn't become the norm.
Nebula is shit I made my first week free trial and wanted to cancel before it ends but Nebula was so boring that I used it only one time after I made my account and forgot about it and after like 12 days I remembered my Nebula account and when I opened the app I found out that they have taken 5$ from me. I was so angry I don't recommend it to anyone it is so boring.
@@green0563 Hm, yeah? Where exactly did I say that he couldn't do what he wanted with his video? Do I have to tell you that I can do what I want with my feelings, like being sad, too? I don't understand why you're being so obvious here.
No. Tencent is clearly just part of the chineese goverment. By any reasonable measure. All goverments are made of a variety of semi cooperative, semi competitive parts.
The Chinese people all know that the purpose of enterprises is to develop the economy, and the ultimate purpose is to serve the people. In China, the interests of the people are above everything else. In the Tang Dynasty, there was an emperor named Li Shimin. He said that water can carry a boat and overturn it.
@@aaaadit5155 Why are you acting like an authority when you just admitted you have no clue about his research and that you know nothing about the topic?
Photonic Pizza because I have seen his previous videos on topics I did know about, and it was littered with inaccuracies. Again, dude only has access to the internet just like us, he doesn’t seem to be an expert diplomat or economist, so I would hold his opinions to a grain of salt
1:48 Baidu is no longer considered an Internet giant in China. In 2020 the net worth of Tencent was 1333 billion CNY, while that of Baidu was 332 billion.
@@MikeIce4SG meh, they’ve been making plenty before 2020. If anything, the pandemic seems to have slowed their production of game merch. We’ve had like half as many skins this year than last year on 王者荣耀，which is one of their largest grossing games, although only available in the Chinese App Store. And since almost all their skins are limited edition, that can’t be good for sales.
@@MikeIce4SG on top of that, guess who missed out on a bunch of sales on travel, mobile data, public transportation, rent, etc? Tencent is almost completely linked to the Chinese economy, and it’s never good news for any part of China to be shutting down.
The United States also prohibits the use of Huawei, ZTE or DJI drones, and tiktok must be independent of the world server, a separate server in the United States Safeguarding national security is a job that every country will do ， I hope that more countries, like China, have Internet firewalls, so that the evil penetration of the United States will be limited
As a Nebula subscriber, I have to say it's really hard to purposefuly go to Nebula to watch something there. No comment section, it looks technologicaly dated, kinda not it generaly. Anyways, whatchagonnado
No amount of wealth is above the law. I think that’s something the US should have learned after 2008. We would be as prosperous as China is today if the govt didn’t just let the wallstreet billionaires destroy our lives, and reward them for it on top of that.
This explain why my foreign student from china seems detach from us I thought they were free from the CCP Turn out CCP still hold them through we chat And yes, all of my chinese foreigner use wechat on their daily online interaction
I understand the need to advertise nebula, but I feel robbed of a conclusion here. If you want to dive deeper I understand but if this channel is just going to turn into adverts for nebula uploads then I have no reason to stick around
Ant has the potential to cause something like depression in 2008 according to its business model and possible abuse of it. It is probably the right decision to call a stop.
I think that’s Evergrande. Ant was at least doing one business that it’s supposed to be in rather than a whole range of businesses including financial products that Evergrande has no place to be. Not exactly pro-Ant but just thought there’s a worse offender in the room that we should not forget.
Nebula can take the L if youtubers are going to abruptly stop the video. Make a different video ie more content over there rather than cutting a video in the middle on UA-cam
Hey PolyMatter! Weird question: I was influenced by your channel to subscribe to Curiosity Stream, but didn't do it via your link thinking Curiosity Stream and Nebula are always bundled together. Now I can't get the package anymore. Is there any way to bundle it afterwards? I can't have 2 Curiosity Stream accounts, can I?
9 minute ad for Nebula? There are more entertaining edutubers that are mountains less overbearing; unsubbed and you should feel ashamed- you used to make so much better content
6:38 "The very existence of Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent show how the state is willing to tolerate monopolies that help it" Jack Ma: *laughs in delisted IPO*
But Jack Ma’s IPO wasn’t a monopoly. The ant financial IPO was gonna hurt the interest of state monopoly on banking, so shutting down Jack Ma’s IPO was tolerating state monopoly on financial institutions.
@@Edt5814 Ant financial is borrowing money from the banks to give out loans to their users. The banks are taking all the risks of ant financial. Plus they changed their name from ant finance to ant technologies to avoid being regulated. Jack Ma thinks he's smart but only street smart.
Hey guys - I know the video says $15 but the holiday sale has just been extended! This means you can now get CuriosityStream AND Nebula for $11.79 a year. (That’s less than a dollar per month!) Sorry for the confusion. curiositystream.com/polymatter
Oj
That is honestly incredibly cheap for such high quality content
I clicked on the link but I'm getting a 404 error after I subscribed 🤔
Like how you outlined the Chinese map and shown "Aksai chin" as part of India.
This is stupid. It was just an advertisement for the Nebula We should not tolerate this half video bullshit crap and unsubscribe PolyMatter and should not watch his video again.
EA is so evil, they constantly trick us spending money in their games
Tencent: That's cute
@@jeremymoeglich unless you're talking about Supercell
@@moonskee still requires experience/knowledge for the clan war though. Money can't buy skills
@@jeremymoeglich Some of their games are p2w. Crossfire for example, you have to pay a fuck ton of money to get good guns
@@jeremymoeglich how about promoting political agendas
@UNIA LTD they also own Riot games
1:46 "Together abbreviated as BAT"
Conspiracy Theorists: Ah yes, it's all coming together
The picture is getting clearer ey hahahahhaa
Danm as a Chinese I never think into that lol.
444 likes 😳
No no, he's got a point
Very sus
that ending was so abrupt.
I know I hated it
These videos are basically becoming an ad for that nebula/curiosity thing. I tried it once with a 3-month trial. i canceled it in 2 weeks because there's little worth watching. All content there is high quality ofc, but most of it is also available on youtube, it still has ads and you'll run out of content in a few days of watching what interests you. Creators DO get paid there more, but by that logic i'd rather use Patreon.
Use sponsorblock and ublock origin extensions for pc and UA-cam vanced for Android. No ads, background play, sponsor skipping too. Better than yt premium.
@@prakharmishra3000 What do you mean by sponsor skiping, can you automatically overtake nebula ads in video?
@TricycleRaider He's mentioned it in past videos, but this is the first time he's made a video specifically about it. It's not a repost.
I knew Tencent as the company that owns PUBG mobile
And Fortnite. 😁👌
I knew it as a chinese giant that funded discord
@Dianchos blizzard? 🤔 Mind you explain it?
Tu india wala ye kya
Same
So now you only upload half videoes to UA-cam? And redirect everything else to Nebula? wtf..
Makes him the most money, doesn't surprise me
@@CelluloidRacer2 well youtube is a shitty platform.....
Not even a link to the Nebula version of the Video in the description... do you even care ...? And please just tell me before I watch the video that there is a nebula version
Nope, he'll tell you at the end
yikes
This sounds like a Chinese comment 💀
why do u have nebula
This video being cut off where it was is extremely disappointing, I say that as a nebula subscriber. I don’t watch this channel on UA-cam to see part of a video, I want to see the full story. If you want to tell a separate story that is related and plugs at the end of the video sure, but this here is ridiculous
Ikr
Yea he's becoming a sellout now
Plot twist:
Nebula owned by Tencent
trueeee
I also pay for nebula, but rarely watch any of the content over there. I find there are some things missing: comments and playback speed for example. These two are pretty important to me, so I decided to pay Nebula as it is not too expensive and I can support my favorite content creators, but I keep watching their videos on UA-cam. To be forced to switch to a far inferior app is bullshit in my opinion...
That ending was really anti climatic
@Julo Micha Explaining Tencent by becoming Tencent
Damn Im starting to hate Nebula.
Yeah i understand that it helps youtubers to makes a living, but hell, i feel like this video is an ad for nebula
I'm unsubbing from all of these creators if they keep doing this
nebula is a scam
i got to watch a kento bento Macao pork bun murder that some guy uploaded to youtube but an hour later it got removed which is sad
@@thomk3282 I'm making videos about the founding story of famous companies and I don't have sponsors or ads
Wendover: North Korea
Economics Explained: Norway
PolyMatter: *China*
Yes
Balanced as things should be
Is whendover really North Korea.
the infographics show is north korea
Wendover should be planes
Polymatter, I never thought you would do something like this but the ending was just complete sellout. I don't mind ads and stuff but this was just disrespect, you would've at least mentioned that this is just a preview to view the rest elsewhere.
To be fair the title is about tencent, and the video tells the fulls tory of tencent. Ant is a totally different company and a totally different story, so he didn't really exclude anything--in fact he added.
Shut up fam
Dude hes still gotta make money
Well, I have Nebula and there is a minute of extra content that says something like "company criticized regulation, so was regulated" :-D You didn't miss much and I don't plan on using that service in the long run. (this is the case for most videos that had this kind of ending and I was interested in it)
First strike Polymatter, dont do this bait and switch shit
What do you mean?
@@AlexLikesFloors video cuts off with a suggestion to buy a full version
@@ianaruto1 lol, great point.
The whole video shows entirely what the title says it will, all about Tencent.
@@ianaruto1 That's not what a bait and switch scam is.
He's locking behind a paywall.
Putting parts of a video behind a paywall and calling it "extended version"? I like your channel and respect you as a creator but, really? this is how you do it? I have no problem with exclusive videos just put them in nebula don't release a trailer of it on youtube...
@@davixpixie243 please watch the full video before you comment.. no hate just a friendly reminder...Who said it was a clickbait or the title was not fully explored? the way video was going into, it talked about all of the recent events about the chinese government mishaps which really should have included jack ma's story...
Ah, but then we wouldn’t be as inclined to get nebula and pay him.
@@WillJackDo you didn't understand the comment. Why put like half the video on UA-cam then leave it at a cliffhanger and charge people. It pisses people off and they might not come back. Having trailers for exclusives is much better.
If you want a case study just look at motor trend. They did the same thing on UA-cam and hid behind a paywall. That wasn't a good move because they lost a lot of subscribers and people just jumped to the next UA-cam channel.
You see, when five businessmen argue with each other, they all want to give their 2 cents. That is when TenCent was born
Nice pun
But then China made it *one cent*
So I own a fifth of it?
either upload the full video or just upload it on nebula. don’t come fishing on youtube
Look, he made it, he can do what he wants with it.
And he wants people to use Nebula, so he's giving them an incentive to do so.
@@green0563 and jay joshi can freely criticize it
@@wizardly And I can freely argue against the points he raises.
@@green0563 Your arguments are poor then.
Waiting to the end of the video before telling everyone the rest is on Nebula is so scummy.
Ironically so is tencent
Thanks for the video. Can you do one on Alibaba and the alleged disappearance of Jack Ma
According to chinese media he is just "laying low" so don't worry.
I don't think content speculating on where is Jack Ma would fit this channel.
A what is Alibaba would be good though
@@174b9 you are correct
Oh, he's "laying low" after last being seen in public, criticising government policies, not suspicious at all.
He wouldn’t do that he is a Chinese shill
PollyMatter has now basicly became a "Let's find something cool about China" Channel
Cool? more like concerning
"""" Cool"""""
If you listen closely, it’s pretty obvious that Polymatter is Chinese-American
@@haz2296 if you even listen very closely you can't get to know who asked
"Cool" lol
For anyone curious about the name: Chinese companies often have official English/Western names that are phonetic approximations of their Chinese name but don't mean exactly what their Chinese name means. This is because asking a non-Mandarin speaker to casually pronounce a Chinese name accurately would be a bit challenging due to the differences between Mandarin and western languages, and a literal translation may not always be the most appealing name for a company.
- TenCent's name is a phonetic approximation of the characters 腾讯 (téng xùn), which literally means "soaring news."
- WeChat's name is a phonetic approximation of the characters 微信 (wēi xìn), which literally means "micro-letter" ("letter" as in the document and not the alphabet).
This is true even for companies that aren't in Mainland China. For example, Taiwan is home to a ton of computer companies whose official Western names are nothing like their Chinese names. Acer's Chinese name is 宏碁 (hóng qí), which sounds absolutely nothing like "Acer."
WeChat used to be named "MicroMessage" during development, which is a more literal translation.
funnily enough, MSI's (Micro-Star Industries) native name just literally translates to micro-star
@@FluorescentGreen5 hhhh 微星
@@FluorescentGreen5 We also got Coloful: 七彩虹。Huawei: 华为。 Taobao.....
@@PEK-97 Would not even be that bad of a name hell the original term for the short text messages mobiles send was SMS literally an abbreviation of Short Message Service. Micro in lay English is pretty much a synonym with small so native English speakers would read it as being essentially Small Message.
I'm already a nebula subscriber and have been supporting you guys over there for a few months. Making me go over to nebula just for two more minutes of content rubbed me the wrong way. I'm paying for it already anyway, but it would really suck to sign up for nebula based on this ad/recommendation only to find out all you're getting is a few sentences.
To all of those complaining about him releasing extended version on nebula just know that it's only 40 seconds longer.
That's why I hate it he fucked up the vid and wants us to buy something for only 40 SECONDS
@SomeoneOnlyWeKnow they leave the free video on a cliff hanger and then we have to get a whole subcripsion to find out what the hell the ending is
@@ajking4773 u can pirate it lol
@@ajking4773 I wouldn't mind suscribing...if wasn't just SAME VIDEO WITH 40 SECONDS of extra contet. I'd expect at least 5 - 10 more minutes.
@@estebanrosa8635 yeah same
Nice. Putting the extra content behind a paywall. Beautiful. /s
😂😂😂
Poor
Its almost like this guy needs to make money...
Asshole move tbh. I have a year of subscription to nebula, but it is completely unusable for me. I cast to my TV via a chromecast, and the videos constantly stop and/or have trouble with skipping. :/
@@Jonas.856 I have one too, but I barely use it. The discoverability is not great, the app is slow too, and the website is just bad. Often I forget that I have it.
Fuk nebula, so buggy and not got fixed for years.
Whats nebula
Do you have the subscription?
I was wondering if they ever fixed the site or not (tried it a year ago). I guess not.
I tried using it, too, but I also found it a bit disappointing.
@@swapnilsharma2794 I have the subscription but it’s so buggy the interface doesn’t even load properly and once loaded properly then I need to search and once again doesn’t load properly. Once switched interface, it just doesn’t load. Then all obstacles cleared and get to the video, then the video doesn’t load. I don’t know how it is now. Also they don’t recommend videos. I don’t mean collect user data is good, but I want some relevant videos to me. I hope they fixed their buggy video streaming service because I didn’t go to the app for a long time. Hopefully my information is outdated.
The video is not yet available on Nebula...
1:46 "Together abbreviated as BAT." What a coincidence.
LMFAOO
Literally what went through my mind....
YO WTF hahahahahha
It's all coming together 0.0
@@TapDat52K Perhaps the conspiracy theories are true. Who knows
Is this new normal to skip content to monetize curiosity of viewers?
I don't know if it's skipping content since all his videos are around 9-14mins in length, just that back in those days he was segwaying into stuff like Brilliant and not extra content.
man is not doing this for free
He has to pay the bills. So there you have it 😁
@Cloudy Nguyen if it is free than you are the product
Aw, cmon i have a sub to nebula, and now must head over there to see the whole vijao?
@Thomas Richardson uhhh because you come to youtube to watch the first half of the video amd then the rest of it is pay to see?
vijao
So this whole Nebula thing seems like a paywall, in that the moment you get into interesting content for some reason or another you cut it off as a Nebula premier, why even bother with creating youtube content at all? Just create Nebula content if you cba to actually make something for UA-cam that isn't lacking content because that's a part of the Nebula exclusive....
I rlly used to like this channel and Wendover productions, but it seems that these days any content you produce has this caveat that the rest of this wonderful video is behind a paywall...
Nebula should be free with ads
Nebula should be free with ads
I feel the same😪
@@thejagtimes I dont think Nebula needs to be free, I would just say they stop explicitly mentioning that they made more content for the same video but only share half of it on UA-cam, coz if something needs to be exclusive don't bother posting on youtube
China probably wouldn’t like the expression "across the border from Hong Kong".
There is an official border though. The passports are different. And trust me, if CCP didn't want that border to exist, it wouldn't be there.
But it is?
nah Chinese people will just hear it as "this is how ignorant outsiders are about China... yet they like to judge us... what a joke"
@@bw1678 oh it's already happening
@@dejectd2972 it happened decades ago when Hongkong was officially returned to China. Keep in mind that the only reason this issue even exists is because of European colonial crimes. The city has always been part of China, it is again and the only reason why it ever had a special status was because the CCP decided so a couple decades back.
We really shouldn't treat HK differently than Catalonia.
Fun fact: Ma's nickname being 'Pony' is because the character for Ma means Horse in Mandarin
Says most people don’t know Tencent true gamer analytics be like I’m not sure abt that
Thats why he says “most people”, not “all people”.
@@SdGary420 ye true
Even vast majority of gamers don't know about Tencent because they are not publisher/developer just investment firm that buys these gaming companies/properties.
@@experience_point6233 I mean I watched multiple documentaries abt how games are made that’s how ik
yep every redditor knows painfully welll about tencent
"Wegame is bigger than steam."
Any Chinese gamer: lmao
I'm a Chinese Steam user and I've never heard of Wegame until now lol
@@q_q123 WeGame have been existing for a long time.
@@q_q123 you must not play lol
watch this on x1.25 speed. you're welcome
I might be wrong but I feel like a lot of people know about Tencent already, even if they've only heard about them in the last few years or so.
Yea, maybe it’s cas im living in southern east Asia but I thought everyone knew tencent they’re ginormous after all
Westerners only know about Tencent through them owning shares in gaming related companies
Yeah, you wrong. trust me some people are just figuring out that the grocery industry is controlled by 10 companies.
Believe it or not, some of my friends who actively used UA-cam doesn't have any clue who PewDiePie is. So, it comes as no surprise that the same could be said with Tencent.
Those who actively keep up with gaming related news will know of Tencent. Their tentacles reach far and wide within the gaming sphere.
My dad started a social network at university, but his view of the government did not leave to officials looking favorably upon his ventures. We emigrated in the early 2000s. Some of his colleagues went on to found tencent.
Really?
Nahhh cap
Waiting until the end of a video to say "go here and pay money to see the full video" should be and probably is against UA-cam terms of service and is an immediate turnoff for viewers. Nothing against promoted content and supporting channels, just that this is a very scummy way to do it.
I understand you but the vid u clicked was what's tencent and that's what u got. The blocked content is pretty much another topic
@@guilhermelopes9430 I agree. The Ant Group section seems completely separate from the video itself, and I feel that the Tencent information was more than enough.
He has to pay the bills. So there you have it 😶
He has to pay the bills. Why don't you try working for a company without getting paid? See how that feels, you gross ignorant furry.
@@NeonLuminous Bloody hell mate who pissed in your corn flakes this morning? And besides he has fucking ads to pay for his content?
Why do they name themselves “Tencent” ? If their in China they should be named “0.65 Yuan”
Haha everyone in China is a Communist please laugh at my joke
😂😂😂😂😂
👎
@@deadrivers2267 whats wrong with comunism comrade
it's real name is 腾讯，腾 means ascend, soar rise. Also the founder‘s name is 马化腾。 讯 means message, information, the romanisation of 腾讯 is TengXun, which sounds like Tencent..
I still don't know what Tencent it.
Well, pay the Nebula sub and you might know
Just google it. Polymatter is just promoting his new business and sponsorship this video at nebula.
"CCP doesn't control big Chinese companies."
Tell that to Alibaba's founder who's disappeared after criticizing monetary politics.
Of course the CPC controls those companies (as it should), but what he was talking about is that Tencent was given a lot of freedom from government interference to become what it is now. Obviously that could end any moment now because no corporation in China js above the interests of the country.
And microsoft, google, facebook is "partnered" with us gov and military, whats the difference?
@@ezioauditore5616 One government is committing genocide, the other isn't, for example.
@@heretic124 yeah, that one who genocided whole indian population and living off their stolen land, and bombing middle east nation every year and stealing their oil
@@ezioauditore5616 You have no idea how many people would have died miserable deaths if it weren't for the world order that the USA has built and enforced. Sure we have to enforce international law every now and then, but American troops don't just walk around mowing people down, there are very strict rules of engagement that must be followed, and if they are not then the one who pulls the trigger can spend the rest of their life in prison. You may feel cool by talking shit about the United States, but remember the United States military could easily be the only reason you are free, and safe.
"The very existence of Alibaba ..... Prove China's willingness to tolerate"
*Cough cough Jack Ma....Ant IPO...... Antitrust lawsuits against Alibaba....
3:37 you forgot to include the fact that it's used for messaging
He said that previously 3:06
Really? Taking out part of your video and putting it behind a paywall? Such a scummy business move, akin to game developers taking content out of base games and making it paid DLC at launch.
Totally wrong reason to explain why ant group ipo was cancelled by the state. The main reason is ant posted a financial risk to the state financial system and they didnt want to make it even bigger risk with the ipo.
I know one thing, they're worth much more than ten cents
I know one thing, you're an AMD fanboy.
fireworks everywhere
@@MrStealthy007 I'll be the first to buy an Intel CPU once they catch up. Amd still cannot launch great gpus.
I'm fine with the Nebula begging at the start of your videos, but please, don't lock part of your videos behind a paywall, all it does is making us hate Nebula.
Ugh. Subscribed to the channel for effective, meaningful education videos. Not half-shots finishing with an advertisement telling you to pay money if you want to see the whole thing.
Why do we need to pay to watch the rest of the video? I understand big projects being locked behind a pay wall, but a full, regular video goes against what most UA-camrs believe: always having their main content available for free.
Exactly.
@@jonizulo that is a whole another video, a full documentary, Also 15$ a year isn't much
@@assassinbarno2496 Why would I want to pay a monthly subscription just to watch that one video?
@@jonizulo Because it's add free, and there is a lot more exclusive content... UA-cam isn't free. No adds mean pay UA-cam Premium.
@@jpfidalgo7 there is this thing called youtube vanced. The same yt interface but with no ads.
I see Tencent everywhere and I have come to the realisation that Tencent is all
Pubg players:
This is one of our leaders??
We don't hear about the Chinese giants that often, but man I feel they will soon overcome all the companies we know. The Chinese market is ruthless, much ruthless than anywhere else in the world. Those who survive are the most hardcore competitors.
So true. I’m a Chinese currently living in the US. I use Uber Eats to order food delivery, And it feels like a featureless beta version app. It’ll definitely die in Chinese markets where the competition is unimaginable.
In China information and media are blocked by government; in America information and media are blocked by having to sign up for a whole subscription service. Capitalism!
So, the whole video was an ad?
Although I understand you wanting to push Nebula, this video felt weirdly inconclusive and hence very unsatisfying, and I think this hurts the overall quality of your channel. I would rather you kept releasing exclusive videos there rather than releasing half a video here and them going "to watch the rest go to my service".
Man. This guy sounds so bored. Just barley managing to close his jaw after each vowel.
Disliked simply because of hiding content behind paid subscription. Otherwise, good content.
Ok then
We need to pay to see half of the video. Funny how a guy who knows so much about power and reputation is directly fucking up his own.
World = America
Literally everybody in Asia onows who Tencent is.
Guess I’ll be cancelling my Spotify subscription then.
they only own 7.5 of shares !
Come to tidal, which is artist owned.
@@stefanoraffo5096 The desktop and mobile app sucks
@@Techy_Cloud how lol, for me it's at least on par if not bettrr
@@stefanoraffo5096 music selection isn’t good, though.
6:08 twitter->weibo
UA-cam->bilibili
Netflix->iqiyi
reddit->tieba (belongs to baidu)
discord->YY
Tencent doesn’t rule them all, and that’s the “truth” you want the rest of the world believe.😅
most people in china havent even heard of half of these websites
niconico乾杯～
Tencent basically monopolize communication via wechat and QQ.
Bilibili is more of like a weeb version of UA-cam.
"Nebula exclusive content"
no thx u ill torrent it
Us*
good luck finding it or download it with 2 seeder
@@VJETRA if the seeds are fast you'll get it pretty quickly even if it's just 2 seeds. And even if they're slow, you'll get it eventually
@@laurinneff4304 yeah i know, but for these kind of content, no big torrent server will host it.
bro plz link me to it I'd really appreciate it
Tencent owns Riot which owns League of legend
Love Polymatter. They are so calming to watch.
agreed
His voice is like a cool breeze on a hot morning
It's very calming.
Nothing wrong with having to pay for content.
@@Alaois Back in the day, he probably wouldn't have mentioned Ant Group as a segway into more content but instead something else that segwayed into Brilliant/Skillshare, making it seem like there was never more content to begin with.
The BAT abbreviation is merely a coincidence. As a Chinese I can tell you that prior to 2020 barely no Chinese have heard of anything related to bat cuisine, not to mention considering it edible. If anything one can heard at that time, there was a tourism promotion video of Palau, made by the "president" of the "Republic of China" (commonly known as "Taiwan" although these are two very different concepts) Tsai Ing-wen, talking about her experience eating a bat soup there (she has made tourism promotion video to all countries recognizing her government on Taipei as the government of China instead of the one in Beijing, and Palau is just one of them).
Bat cuisine is very Pacific thing and has its root in their culture. Honestly I won't blame them (although most Chinese express their hate against bat-eaters since they know their existence in 2020), because that's just how the indigenous find a way of living. Before 2020, every year there are people who either visited those countries or influenced by certain culture, and consumed bats. That's it. It's like you can easily find snake, ostrich, venison, alligator, etc in American butcher shops that is almost exclusively visited by White Americans but most White Americans probably throughout their whole life won't know that one of the butcher that they visited does sell those thing.
Most, however, have heard of bamboo rat (a herbivore species size similar to a guinea pig or a rabbit) cuisine, due to an Internet celebrity named Huanong, who is a farmer raising thousands of bamboo rats. Unfortunately after the COVID-19 hit, his farm got eradicated by the Chinese government due to their one-size-fits-all approach, and we miss his funny vlogs about his bamboo rats.
You forgot to mention that unlike credit card system, the WePay system Tencent created doesn't take a cut of every business transaction, making it even more popular than 'pay with cash' for small business owners -- which turns Tencent into a public good which most American companies certainly are NOT. This gives the chinese government reason to look favorably upon it.
Hi can u help me about tencent l have a work with it do u have an email
I was and still am considering giving Nebula a try, but the way this video's ending was treated left a pretty sour taste on me. Not going to boycot it because of that, but this was really disappointing. I hope this doesn't become the norm.
CCP is easy on it’s companies? Has anyone seen Jack Ma lately?
did u watch the whole video
Lmaooo ya they just fucking yoinked the guy
@@TechPoint56 yup
Nebula is shit I made my first week free trial and wanted to cancel before it ends but Nebula was so boring that I used it only one time after I made my account and forgot about it and after like 12 days I remembered my Nebula account and when I opened the app I found out that they have taken 5$ from me. I was so angry I don't recommend it to anyone it is so boring.
"Tencent" is not allowed to be used in the warframe community
Why
@Maxblau because..?
@@duckyuu5900 because 动态网自由门 天安門 天安门 法輪功 李洪志 Free Tibet 六四天安門事件 The Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 天安門大屠殺
The Tiananmen Square Massacre 反右派鬥爭 The Anti-Rightist Struggle 大躍進政策 The Great Leap Forward 文化大革命
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution 人權 Human Rights 民運 Democratization 自由 Freedom 獨立 Independence 多黨制
Multi-party system 台灣 臺灣 Taiwan Formosa 中華民國 Republic of China 西藏 土伯特 唐古特 Tibet 達賴喇嘛 Dalai Lama 法輪功 Falun Dafa
新疆維吾爾自治區 The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region 諾貝爾和平獎 Nobel Peace Prize 劉暁波
Liu Xiaobo 民主 言論 思想 反共 反革命 抗議 運動 騷亂 暴亂 騷擾 擾亂 抗暴 平反 維權 示威游行 李洪志 法輪大法 大法弟子 強制斷種
強制堕胎 民族淨化 人體實驗 肅清 胡耀邦 趙紫陽 魏京生 王丹 還政於民 和平演變 激流中國 北京之春 大紀元時報 九評論共産黨 獨裁
專制 壓制 統一 監視 鎮壓 迫害 侵略 掠奪 破壞 拷問 屠殺 活摘器官 誘拐 買賣人口 遊進 走私 毒品 賣淫 春畫 賭博 六合彩 天安門 天安门 法輪功
李洪志 Winnie the Pooh 劉曉波动态网自由门
@@sweg8558 ah yes, the infamous copypasta that westerners think will actually get people banned lmao
@@sweg8558 well said
The fact that this video got cut off like that is really sad
Really sad to lose a part of the video because I'm a filthy UA-cam peasant.
It's not "lost" though. He made it, he can do what he wants with it, right?
@@green0563 Hm, yeah? Where exactly did I say that he couldn't do what he wanted with his video? Do I have to tell you that I can do what I want with my feelings, like being sad, too? I don't understand why you're being so obvious here.
@Thomas Richardson You're right, I should have used "miss out" instead, at least that's a closer word to the idea I had in mind.
@FDN My bad, I meant what Thomas said.
No. Tencent is clearly just part of the chineese goverment. By any reasonable measure. All goverments are made of a variety of semi cooperative, semi competitive parts.
"certain companies extraordinary freedom" aka they're anti-competition for the sake of the state.
The Chinese people all know that the purpose of enterprises is to develop the economy, and the ultimate purpose is to serve the people. In China, the interests of the people are above everything else. In the Tang Dynasty, there was an emperor named Li Shimin. He said that water can carry a boat and overturn it.
where does polymatter find so much info about china :0
Ricchi Wikipedia. I don’t know his sources and half of what he says is probably wrong
@@aaaadit5155 Why are you acting like an authority when you just admitted you have no clue about his research and that you know nothing about the topic?
Photonic Pizza because I have seen his previous videos on topics I did know about, and it was littered with inaccuracies. Again, dude only has access to the internet just like us, he doesn’t seem to be an expert diplomat or economist, so I would hold his opinions to a grain of salt
3:50 c'mon...we all know that muricans spend more time on social media than their entire life...
1:48 Baidu is no longer considered an Internet giant in China. In 2020 the net worth of Tencent was 1333 billion CNY, while that of Baidu was 332 billion.
It's bytedance now
Never thought I'd see a UA-cam video with DLC...
98% of comments:
BAT
It isnt a coincidence.
They certainly have profited through games during the whole of 2020.
@@MikeIce4SG meh, they’ve been making plenty before 2020. If anything, the pandemic seems to have slowed their production of game merch. We’ve had like half as many skins this year than last year on 王者荣耀，which is one of their largest grossing games, although only available in the Chinese App Store. And since almost all their skins are limited edition, that can’t be good for sales.
@@MikeIce4SG on top of that, guess who missed out on a bunch of sales on travel, mobile data, public transportation, rent, etc? Tencent is almost completely linked to the Chinese economy, and it’s never good news for any part of China to be shutting down.
Time has come to dislike polymatter video. Just like people are used to WhatsApp and now it is changing all its policies, same goes for polymatter.
Really enjoyed watching that. It's surprising how few people have heard of a company like Tencent!
one of the worst companies in the world👿
Man you have me inching closer to getting that subscription. Does curiosity stream have financial educational videos?
The United States also prohibits the use of Huawei, ZTE or DJI drones, and tiktok must be independent of the world server, a separate server in the United States
Safeguarding national security is a job that every country will do ， I hope that more countries, like China, have Internet firewalls, so that the evil penetration of the United States will be limited
As a Nebula subscriber, I have to say it's really hard to purposefuly go to Nebula to watch something there. No comment section, it looks technologicaly dated, kinda not it generaly. Anyways, whatchagonnado
No amount of wealth is above the law.
I think that’s something the US should have learned after 2008. We would be as prosperous as China is today if the govt didn’t just let the wallstreet billionaires destroy our lives, and reward them for it on top of that.
Anyone else hates League of Legends so bad but keeps playing it because it's better than most games
I never like LoL but I play AOV from time to time.
Eww
Better than most games? Get outta here bro. Theres countless games better than lol
This explain why my foreign student from china seems detach from us
I thought they were free from the CCP
Turn out CCP still hold them through we chat
And yes, all of my chinese foreigner use wechat on their daily online interaction
now，New “BAT” is Byte dance、Alibaba and Tencent
Byte dance is damn small dude lol
@@tanmaypaturu3459 smaller than JD and PDD lmao.
I understand the need to advertise nebula, but I feel robbed of a conclusion here. If you want to dive deeper I understand but if this channel is just going to turn into adverts for nebula uploads then I have no reason to stick around
Ant has the potential to cause something like depression in 2008 according to its business model and possible abuse of it.
It is probably the right decision to call a stop.
I think that’s Evergrande.
Ant was at least doing one business that it’s supposed to be in rather than a whole range of businesses including financial products that Evergrande has no place to be.
Not exactly pro-Ant but just thought there’s a worse offender in the room that we should not forget.
Nebula can take the L if youtubers are going to abruptly stop the video. Make a different video ie more content over there rather than cutting a video in the middle on UA-cam
He just applied a Tencent move on all of us and tried to charge the extra for the DLC lmao
Tencent do anything that earns money, but do not exactly cares about anything. It's all about marketing and users wallets.
Hey PolyMatter!
Weird question: I was influenced by your channel to subscribe to Curiosity Stream, but didn't do it via your link thinking Curiosity Stream and Nebula are always bundled together. Now I can't get the package anymore. Is there any way to bundle it afterwards? I can't have 2 Curiosity Stream accounts, can I?
9 minute ad for Nebula? There are more entertaining edutubers that are mountains less overbearing; unsubbed and you should feel ashamed- you used to make so much better content
Really man? Why is nebula such a shitty and buggy platform. You simply cannot hide content behind viewers curiosity.
6:38
"The very existence of Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent show how the state is willing to tolerate monopolies that help it"
Jack Ma: *laughs in delisted IPO*
But Jack Ma’s IPO wasn’t a monopoly.
The ant financial IPO was gonna hurt the interest of state monopoly on banking, so shutting down Jack Ma’s IPO was tolerating state monopoly on financial institutions.
@@Edt5814 Ant financial is borrowing money from the banks to give out loans to their users. The banks are taking all the risks of ant financial. Plus they changed their name from ant finance to ant technologies to avoid being regulated. Jack Ma thinks he's smart but only street smart.
我来自中国，我认为腾讯在游戏运营这方面是最不好的，作为一个使命召唤的忠实粉丝，我眼睁睁的看着他们把使命召唤online毁在自己手上，而我们想要玩到使命召唤正作，非常麻烦，尤其是从使命召唤15后，暴雪战网的服务器让我们不是关小黑屋，就是体验高延迟，哪怕开了加速器，延迟只能勉强控制在50毫秒以内
This whole video was just a preview for the full version on Nebula lol