Nova Tiberium

Nova Tiberium is a Canadian YouTube media organization based in Alberta. It consists of a group of friends creating videos for the internet, with a few videos hitting rarely-achieved top spots in the past. Members have been involved in planning and creating content, with a few members also being aired on national/local news for achievements outside of Nova Tiberium.
NoTi is also planning on creating future ventures, such as news services and a complete content reform.
The group was initially founded by Dylan McMurdo, Julia Brander, Mikhaela Huq, Lior A., Anabelle, Moira, Kristen McLeod, and Owen Pringle. However later on, some of them have left the organization, and was later joined by Taylor, Taylor W, and a few other members.
Nova Tiberium is the official successor of both Arutz Tele and Mikhaela's Camera Roll.
== History ==
=== The early days ===
While the current channel has been created in 2012, its founder Lior has experimented with how the channel would look and be seen by many other people, and has always had a interest in creating a collaborative channel (similar to Smosh, All India Bakchod, etc).
Meanwhile, a few founding members (who came to high school a year before him) experimented with a similar format with vlogs, but have not met Lior until sometime in fall 2018 and 2019 in general, along with new familiar faces. During their first year in high school, Mikhaela (along with Julia, Jordanna, Julia, Sammy, Julianne) launched a group vlog channel which would aim to achieve similar content like what Nova Tiberium was aiming for, and posted the "Day in my life" vlog which would begin the day at their high school, and end with cheer practice plus studying with two other people to close out the video. 
On the other hand, a few kilometres away - televisionadscom (renamed to Arutz Tele in 2017) experimented with posting a lot of different content - from elevator videos, to food reviews, and technology stuff. Sometime in April 2018, after watching Windows XP Romania - he made the "Windows for Normies" video, which gained 100K views in the first 4 days, mostly Romanian viewers - which established and made way for the future channel's analytics.
Nova Tiberium was founded at Ross Sheppard High School in Edmonton, the capital city of the Canadian province of Alberta. Because of the members' involvement in Shep activities and extracurriculars; often Nova Tiberium carries over some influences from Ross Shep and integrates it into its culture. Sometime in early June 2019, the Nova Tiberium name was chosen and was adopted on the 25th of that month, and by the fall of that year, friends/acquaintances were already expressing interest in joining the organization. Uncertainty, and stage frights however delayed the start-up/launch by a few months, eventually resulting in beginning its development at the near-end of 2019, and proposing to launch in Spring 2020. However, the early days of COVID pandemic, and closures/lockdowns have prompted Nova Tiberium to launch online.
Mikhaela and a few friends have also appeared on Global Edmonton's newscasts, however very few of the clips are available on Global News' website, and due to how Global archives its newscasts- some of the news clips is forever lost to history; however Mikhaela's Global appearance is still online, and another news report involving a NoTi acquaintance/friend also included a few NoTi founding members' faces clearly visible in the shot coincidentally.
=== Quarantine era ===
It was originally planned that Nova Tiberium would take off in the spring of 2020, however the COVID-19 lockdowns have postponed it - and never got a chance for the first founding crew to meet in person due to the Alberta government not reopening schools in-person for the rest of the 2019-20 year.
Around March 2020, around the time it was supposed to start up, Dylan, Julia, Mikhaela, Lior, Anabelle, Moira, Kristen, and Owen confirmed that they want to be involved, with Julia saying "I think it'll be great" - eventually making Nova Tiberium a reality- less than 9 months after the name/logo were adopted, and were hoping to start off with videos related to the pandemic. Despite the relaxed online school period, members have tried to look into doing the videos; such as the cooking club, but no enough work was done. A Windows Server virtual machine was created to aid in transferring files, but no videos were produced and very few (mainly by the manager) were posted. Kristen, Dylan and Owen went on Google Meet calls to make sure the plans are set, but no plans have been properly executed.
As some members were still essential workers during COVID-19, they still showed up to work such as grocery store cashiers, but with adequate protection hence why the minimum effort was put in.
During the online learning period, the Alberta government reassured people during their daily COVID-19 briefings that the 2019-20 school year will end without return to in-person instruction, which jeopardized a potential emergency meeting. Around May-June, EJ, Jordanna, Mikhaela and other friends got together in Spirit Week while the school is closed, which also involved the NoTi members taking pictures and posting to Instagram; though the photos have since been deleted from social media. The year ended when the school did a drive-thru graduation, which is completely different than the original plan due to COVID restrictions. Management planned on going to the potential evening Class of 2020 dance in the fall of 2020; but was quickly shelved due to the uncertainty.
Mikhaela and Julia were removed due to uncertainties after their graduation. It is unlikely and unknown whether they will return to NoTi in the future.
Fall COVID to summer 2021 era
When schools resumed (but also went on/off online modes) in fall 2020, Nova Tiberium finally had a chance to start up. With Julia/Mikhaela no longer involved due to graduation, the organization began to quickly bring in their friends to join. Taylor and Tayche joined, alongside Teagan as well- eventually quietly growing the team. Organizational meetings were held, and some ideas were planned out in meetings and some video ideas had a chance to be executed.
The COVID restrictions and on/off lockdowns prior to fall 2021 has impacted NoTi, which also serves as another reason why not enough work has been done. Members chose to suggest "boring" ideas where it involves revealing the manager's face, something the organization has denied and completely defeats the unity goal of NoTi.
With members joining, Anabelle, Moira, Kristen (founding members) resigned.
2021-22 era
The era was a interesting one for Nova, as during the summer a new logo has rolled out as part of a major rebrand. Someone took the reins of the organization's chapter at its founding school, but due to improper communication they resigned.
The organization also created a concept on how their founding school will look in the future, which met the backlash of many others- causing NoTi's reputation to sink, which led to a 3 month hiatus, and announced a return at the end of April 2022. Owen Pringle for the first time since founding NoTi, also made a public debut on the revival trailer.
To be continued...
== Series ==
NoTi is currently planning a common theme and content right now, however currently you'll find varieties, such as exploring, parody videos, and potential future work.
=== NoTi News ===
Potential future current affairs and news department of NoTi which will aim to cover documentaries, and also report on local stories/hyperlocal. While a launch date is unknown, evidence of it is shown on NoTi's Instagram page. 
Category:Canadian YouTubers
Category:Users who joined in 2012