{"id":26595,"date":"2025-03-05T09:00:15","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T17:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/?p=26595"},"modified":"2025-02-28T10:58:03","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T18:58:03","slug":"former-nexus-column-nics-flicks-goes-youtube","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2025\/03\/05\/former-nexus-column-nics-flicks-goes-youtube\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Nexus<\/em> column Nic\u2019s Flicks<\/em> goes YouTube"},"content":{"rendered":"

Before Camosun alumnus Nicolas Ihmels started Nic\u2019s Flicks, the YouTube channel, he was most well known for Nic\u2019s Flicks<\/i>, the column. In fact, for three or so years, Ihmels ran the column right here in Nexus<\/i> before eventually moving on to UVic, where he plans to complete his studies. But while the medium he will now express himself within has changed, the content has not, and his passion for film and its developments are still palpable.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The channel, he says, explores up-to-date topics in the movie industry and will do so with a panel, eventually, made up of several other UVic students to bring together a variety of voices.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s reviews, it\u2019s news stories, it\u2019s casting decisions, it\u2019s box-office forecast,\u201d says Ihmels. \u201cIt\u2019s like a lot of the Nexus<\/i> stuff I did: the list of top 10 best movies of the year and most-anticipated summer stuff. There will be a lot of that on the channel.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Camosun College alumnus Nicolas Ihmels used to write his Nic\u2019s Flicks column for Nexus; now it\u2019s a YouTube channel (photo by Camosun College).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

What prompted the creation of the channel, Ihmels says, is an inner need to fill out a community for himself that he feels lacks. He hopes most to bring more students on board to best serve the channel\u2019s purpose.<\/p>\n

\u201cMost of my community is up at Nexus<\/i>, it\u2019s up at Camosun,\u201d says Ihmels. \u201cAnd I wanted to create the same community there. So how this channel started is me exploring ways to do that, to create that.\u201d<\/p>\n

But Ihmels is not alone in his need for community. The channel comes as a support beam to a friend in need, acting to help now co-host Jason McCracken through a particularly difficult time.<\/p>\n

\u201cLast Christmas, my best friend Jason had a really, really bad time. I had to let him come in and sleep on the couch a little bit. And he spent Christmas with my family because he was having a really bad time. One of the things he said that would help him was he wanted to do a YouTube channel on movies with me,\u201d says Ihmels. \u201cSo that\u2019s part of the major driving force of this channel\u2026 helping him to get what he needs.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ihmels says that videos will be uploaded once a week: filmed on Saturdays, edited on Sundays, and posted to YouTube by either Monday or Tuesday, with the help of McCracken. Unlike his 450-word column, where words and grammar must be kept succinct, Ihmels will dedicate several hours to movie topics through long-form videos.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re probably going to be at least two hours,\u201d he says. \u201cThey\u2019re going to consist of five topics. But we\u2019re probably going to start shorter because it\u2019s two of us. But once we have more people, we\u2019ll probably get longer and longer.\u201d<\/p>\n

The channel will as well include a live chat under videos for viewers to interact and share opinions. But while this format fosters community, Ihmels hopes to emphasize a safe environment for dialogue, where viewers may safely comment.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to make it clear\u2026 that this is a respectful place,\u201d he says. \u201cBecause we\u2019re dealing with a lot of other people\u2019s opinions, please do not attack them\u2026 It\u2019s my responsibility to keep everyone safe on the channel, and that\u2019s part of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

But it takes a village, and Nic\u2019s Flicks hopes to begin building a community at UVic\u2014hiring editors, panelists, and a marketing team of UVic students\u2014in tandem with his deep appreciation for film.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cIf [students are] at all connected to the movie world, it\u2019s like a lot of that stuff. And it\u2019s a great way to support me, to support your fellow students, it\u2019s a great way to support people… It\u2019s all about movies. If you like movies, you\u2019ll like this channel,\u201d says Ihmels. \u201cThat\u2019s the whole crux of it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Before Camosun alumnus Nicolas Ihmels started Nic\u2019s Flicks, the YouTube channel, he was most well known for Nic\u2019s Flicks, the column. In fact, for three or so years, Ihmels ran the column right here in Nexus before eventually moving on to UVic, where he plans to complete his studies. But while the medium he will […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":26596,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,328],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus","category-march-5-2025"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26595","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26595"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26595\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26597,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26595\/revisions\/26597"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}