Linus Gabriel Sebastian & Linus Media Group / Linus Tech Tips - Narcissistic corporate shill YouTuber driving his media empire into the ground. KILL COUNT: 2

[marvlouslie]

Simple answer: they want their audience to think they are as ballsy as, let's say Steve from Gamers Nexus, who on many occasions fucked over many sponsorships due to staying objective and critical of shit products and practices, but at the same time they are still glorified whores who don't want to upset any company that would strike their video down or stop sponsoring them so that they can still make money like the good little sluts they are.

Don't really care for Steve a lot of the time, but the dude has balls of steel for actually being objective about shit, and the fact that companies will refuse to work with him after he's dunked on them for being fucking stupid just shows how fragile these people are.

 

[moocow]

Does anyone remember when Linus was trying to suck upto AVE, and AVE was just ignoring him he was trying to give him a free PC but considering that AVE could most likely build a motherboard from components he just ignored him.

It's been ages but he was name dropping AVE, Offering to Build him a PC and alike on a few videos and AVE took some shots at him in a video or two and then statred talking to Louis Rossman.

Mother of god, I knew Uncle Bumblefuck was based but I had no idea he was that based! Which video(s) did he swipe at Linus in? I've got to see this for myself!

Why the fuck he needs so much storage?

Data hoarding is a thing, not just for pr0n but also for more legitimate purposes (beyond "torrents of Linux ISOs"). The internet is no longer a reliable archive of content, especially media. Youtube nukes videos all the time, all its competitors either collapse soon after inception or are just unusable (and none of them ever gain any traction), and of course with all the streaming services (Netflix, Disney Plus, HBO Plus, Hulu, whatever) you own nothing and don't get to keep anything you view. If the service dies or decides to "delist" content you liked, tough noogies because it's gone for good.

So plenty of people (myself included) download local copies of anything they might want to watch or listen to more than once, be it movies, TV shows, Youtube videos, music, audiobooks, podcasts, etc. They also keep local copies of software that might disappear one day (in my case, much as I hate that I occasionally need them, I keep historical copies of all of Microsoft's Visual Studio releases all the way back to Visual Studio 6 and every subsequent version all the way up to the current version (2022), along with every edition of Windows, Windows Server and even Windows NT).

Not to mention video production takes a fuckton of disk space. Raw 4k footage is absurdly yuge. I can imagine LTT easily gobbling up a few terabytes of storage space just producing a single video.

And of course lots of people keep pr0n. Lots and lots of pr0n.

 

[Nabeshin]

Don't really care for Steve a lot of the time, but the dude has balls of steel for actually being objective about shit, and the fact that companies will refuse to work with him after he's dunked on them for being fucking stupid just shows how fragile these people are.

Like on his last video on artesian builds, where it has this disclaimer

 

[Slav Power]

Mother of god, I knew Uncle Bumblefuck was based but I had no idea he was that based! Which video(s) did he swipe at Linus in? I've got to see this for myself!


Data hoarding is a thing, not just for pr0n but also for more legitimate purposes (beyond "torrents of Linux ISOs"). The internet is no longer a reliable archive of content, especially media. Youtube nukes videos all the time, all its competitors either collapse soon after inception or are just unusable (and none of them ever gain any traction), and of course with all the streaming services (Netflix, Disney Plus, HBO Plus, Hulu, whatever) you own nothing and don't get to keep anything you view. If the service dies or decides to "delist" content you liked, tough noogies because it's gone for good.

So plenty of people (myself included) download local copies of anything they might want to watch or listen to more than once, be it movies, TV shows, Youtube videos, music, audiobooks, podcasts, etc. They also keep local copies of software that might disappear one day (in my case, much as I hate that I occasionally need them, I keep historical copies of all of Microsoft's Visual Studio releases all the way back to Visual Studio 6 and every subsequent version all the way up to the current version (2022), along with every edition of Windows, Windows Server and even Windows NT).

Not to mention video production takes a fuckton of disk space. Raw 4k footage is absurdly yuge. I can imagine LTT easily gobbling up a few terabytes of storage space just producing a single video.

And of course lots of people keep pr0n. Lots and lots of pr0n.

Hell, I even keep old personal files way back from 2010 or so, I even made copies of floppies that didn't completely deteriorate with files from 2006. Basically among all the data that I hoard I have hoarded some old personal files from days long gone, like photos of my childhood cat which has left this realm years ago. Data hoarding isn't an issue, it's a very healthy mindset to have. Archive everything, and make sure you won't lose it.

 

[Aidan]

Hell, I even keep old personal files way back from 2010 or so, I even made copies of floppies that didn't completely deteriorate with files from 2006. Basically among all the data that I hoard I have hoarded some old personal files from days long gone, like photos of my childhood cat which has left this realm years ago. Data hoarding isn't an issue, it's a very healthy mindset to have. Archive everything, and make sure you won't lose it.

God bless, people like you are doing good (as in "do good") work.

 

[Kheapathic]

As much as I roll my eyes over Steve and his "advocate for the consumer" shit; I can appreciate his brand of not giving a fuck and autism. He also appears to be a good guy with giving to animal charities and helping a dude pick PC parts (and buying it for him) out of the blue. He also should've visited Jay and had a sperg off while in California.

 

[George_Lincoln_Rockwell]

My only complaint about Steve is that he wears one of those faggy spandex bike suits when he rides his bike. Offline I'd bet he's an insufferable liberal hippy. The kind that likes sniffing their own farts and is extremely smug internally if not externally.

 

[marvlouslie]

My only complaint about Steve is that he wears one of those faggy spandex bike suits when he rides his bike. Offline I'd bet he's an insufferable liberal hippy. The kind that likes sniffing their own farts and is extremely smug internally if not externally.

So far Steve's managed to keep his personal politics out of his reviews and other videos, so that makes him sort of okay in my book. I say sort of, because while it's true he's most likely a gas enthusiast, he doesn't necessarily shove it in your face.

 

[Site of Origin]

Sometimes listening to Steve can be difficult, but I feel he's genuine. He points out the flaws in everything so people who are spending their hard earned cash on these products know up front the shortcomings they have.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

Sometimes listening to Steve can be difficult, but I feel he's genuine. He points out the flaws in everything so people who are spending their hard earned cash on these products know up front the shortcomings they have.

His presentation voice can be a bit grating though he's much more bearable to listen to than Linus's soy pitched squeals.

 

[tehpope]

 

[quaawaa]

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The backpack costs $250, by the way:

 

[Slav Power]

Weird, why is he not wearing a mask when interacting with people? Doesn't he know vaccinations don't stop you from transmitting the virus and you still need to wear your mask when in public? What an anti-vaxxer nutjob Linus is.

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

The more he does these the more I resent people who treat youtube like a real job.

 

[Falcerer]

 

[TheRaptorJesus]

Another house video, another big ass OLED tv from a "sponsor" which you can buy for $4,000 using his affiliate link. You can also use his affiliate link to buy the $3,000 speakers.

Jake seems to be the one doing all the work, is he yvonne's buck?

 

[quaawaa]

You can also use his affiliate link to buy the $3,000 speakers.

Techmoan reviewed a similar set of speakers yesterday (the same as Linus' just with a sound bar instead of separate front speakers due to space constraints in Mat's small British house) and managed to do so in an informative way without coming across as a shill or as someone who gets sponsors to subsidize his life.

Spoiler: Original Review

 

[SomeBoyo]

Jake seems to be the one doing all the work, is he yvonne's buck?

 

[Slav Power]

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Linus has officially reached the title of a Cancuck.

 

[Sage In All Fields]

I mostly just watch the Anthony videos nowadays. For some reason Linus insists on being a total faggot nowadays, becomes increasingly soy by the year and has an increasingly odd and cucked dynamic with his wife over the years, I'm not sure why he insists on being so public about his sex life.