Factory-backed revival began on Netflix in 2017 and continued in 2018. Netflix declined to renew the present in 2019. In response, on April 7, 2021, Joel introduced a second Kickstarter marketing campaign with the intent on starting his very own streaming platform to host new episodes of MST3K and other remarkable jobs in a publish-COVID-19 entire world, known as "Gizmoplex", which would play a part in the new time.