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

[Pee Cola]

My idea was always to write a new OP, replace the one in this thread, and move this entire thread to IF. The issue is that I'm too lazy to work on this alone, to filter through 200+ pages to compile all the crucial information with all the archives into a lengthy comprehensive OP.

The PG thread was only there in hopes that perhaps people will help me out on working for the new OP, but hey ho, looks like it all boils down to my laziness.

There's probably enough between both OPs, as well as the last 24 hours worth of stuff that's come out, to copy the OP in this thread and use it to finish off the PG OP.

Linus has well and truly crossed the lolcow Rubicon, therefore it's time to get him into a lolcow forum. Much like how Nick Rekieta got carted out of Multimedia and into IF when his degeneracy came out, after nearly 1000 pages worth of general discussion (and Rackets wasn't shat on anywhere nearly as much as Linus, because there wasn't anywhere nearly as much cause to until the cuckolding and Balldo shit became public knowledge).

 

[Aqua Panda]

"Why not settle this in private, you have my number, my wife's and etc."

The sheer narcissism in demanding special treatment when they been publicly dropping passive aggressive baiting into their videos for over a year now.

Also, "it's not journalistically appropriate" is straight lol. LMAO even. He's become far to coddled by the mainstream.

 

[seri0us]

My idea was always to write a new OP, replace the one in this thread, and move this entire thread to IF. The issue is that I'm too lazy to work on this alone, to filter through 200+ pages to compile all the crucial information with all the archives into a lengthy comprehensive OP.

The PG thread was only there in hopes that perhaps people will help me out on working for the new OP, but hey ho, looks like it all boils down to my laziness.

When you made this thread over a year ago did you really expect that he'd get featured 3 times in one year?

 

[CreamyHerman’s]

Holy fuck I was unaware of the whole suicide episode. Fuck this Canadian Nigger

 

[Ethan Ralph Is 5'1"]

Gamer's Nexus "shitting on greedy retards" kino for the uninitiated:

The collapse of Artesian Builds:

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9NzY8TDCAY

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2xMi7inB28

MSI's shady review practices:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O6BXwCJtaZE

Newegg scam:

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fnXsmXzphI

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wECJJveifw

Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CL-eB_Bv5Ik

Part 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1R4wbuXFII

Gigabyte Exploding Power Supply:

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aACtT_rzToI

Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xts3pvbcFos

Part 3: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JmPUr-BeEM

Part 4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SleaZ68ZO0

Shitty pre-built PCs:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sDRiakWcIM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bflZYG5DWPg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICMKUSff_6I

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DY1dlVPzUVo

 

[AltisticRight]

Here was the video in question.

People in the comments were rightfully pointing out the improper aspects of this poor review. They failed to mention anything important and just passed this thing off as yet another one of those cheap open-source Chinese PCB keyboards with cherry switches.

"Welfare state is GOING TO BE A THING. Socialism is GOING TO be a thing. Or we are all going to starve (most of will). PERIOD."

It's always the wealthiest people saying this kind of ridiculous garbage. Canada is already a welfare state and I doubt Linus knows what a socialism is. "Free" healthcare isn't really "socialism", it's the belief that poor health will lead to a huge decline in productivity and having the state covering it is ultimately cheaper, ie it's from a capitalist's perspective, not "for the good of the society" or whatever dumb cosmopolitan libshit words this leaf will string together.

Btw, Linus made a response to Gamer Nexus' allegations on the forum: https://linustechtips.com/topic/152...nd-integrity/?do=findComment&comment=16078641

Not good enough. Nobody but his diehard fans (most of which seem to be revolting) will use their stupid forum and Reddit.

 

[Smashed & Slamed]

The most shocking revelation from this video is that LMG has access to a 'drop-in place' video editing system that, as far as I'm aware, has only been a rumor. There have been claims that big dinosaur media agencies have been completely replacing very old videos that made current major politicians look bad, but I thought that was probably a bridge too because it would involve YouTube directly. Now that I know the big channels actually have this feature to use on their own, I believe it.

Drop in place has existed for a long time but it was used by Music companies to put higher quality versions of their music videos without losing view count.

 

[Kyuruma]

I worked in an electronics repair shop for over a year and we would put tech videos on in the lobby to keep waiting customers from murdering people. Initially we started with LTT but so many people complained about how annoying Linus sounds. Switched over to GN and the complaints stopped, make of that what you will.

 

[AltisticRight]

Drop in place has existed for a long time but it was used by Music companies to put higher quality versions of their music videos without losing view count.

I have seen decade old music videos with 4k 60fps and obviously new items in it like those garbage nigger headphones. It was weird at first, until someone in the comments said music labels can just have videos replaced without altering the URL.

It has been a thing for a while, yeah.

 

[buttmunch]

LTT's fans apparently caused someone's wife and son to an hero

woooooooooooooooooooooooooow, imagine being this guy, doing this, then having the zero awareness to go crying on your faggy little podcast about muh kiwifarms kills people

 

[Otis Mallebrok]

Saw this on linus' twitter while looking for a response. Does he really need that many employees to make these stupid youtube videos?

I think it is the other way around. Because he has 100+ employees, he absolutely needs to make 25 videos every week. And eventually quantity takes ever greater precedence over quality. Not to say that Linus isn't a little Canadian faggot.

 

[Ducks Sorted in a Row]

LTT's fans apparently caused someone's wife and son to an hero

LTT: 2 kills - Promoted by YouTube algorithm, exclusive creator tools, no pushback
KF: 0 kills - Unprecedented action taken at all levels to deplatform and censor

 

[Administrator Flotsam]

Hi there, are you subsribed to the GN channel on youtube?

Yes.

 

[JoseRaulChupacabra]

The beatings will continue until integrity improves.

 

[Nabeshin]

If an engineering sample costs at least $5000 from my experience in China, then it will likely cost more than 10k in the UK

I'm not from UK but I have an uncle who does custom high quality stainless steel lyres for bands and orchestras. He was talking to us that he wanted to automate the cutting, as he does it by hand, when he quoted on a shop to cut. The price of spinning down and up the CNC or laser cutter for a few sheets was so expensive that it costed a few months of products alone. Selling less was more profitable than it

 

[xn--mck1c]

Just got to the part in the GN video where Linus said he couldn't justify spending $100-$500 of his employees time to test a product properly. Doing shit properly is the entire reason you buy hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of gear and a multi-million dollar workspace.

That's essentially admitting that they're willing to put out inaccurate information to save 3-digits worth of money. In a business where credibility is especially important since there's always the looming thought of the financial gain from big "sponsorships" influencing reviews.

And he compares it to the cost of the product, as if that should even matter, even if the product was free. Is this supposed to be a cost/profit thing or an integrity/credibility thing? There's an extremely low cost solution to fixing a video that was based off wrong assumptions in the first place: taking it down and issuing a retraction.

 

[DumbDude43]

He can't. He has 100 employees. He overextended the company way too much. Whether he likes it or not, he'll need to downsize, and probably abandon the labs idea.

what i don't understand is this: with a small army of full time employees and a massive lab/workshop, why is it so difficult to put out some two dozen videos per week? they have more than enough manpower to do it, they're not exactly starved for resources.

 

[Lady Adjani]

How can anyone look at a LTT video and not see it for what it is, a shinny advert. These people aren't interested in giving you an unbiased take or review, they have sponsors to please, product to sell.

And this isn't something new either, people commenting as if Linus turned into a penny pinching jew overnight.

 

[Pee Cola]

That's essentially admitting that they're willing to put out inaccurate information to save 3-digits worth of money.

Considering how many hundreds of thousands of dollars LTT has sunk into its labs and Linus' apparent desire to be taken seriously, letting incorrect or inconclusive results escape the lab and onto video for the sake of saving a couple hundred bucks makes absolutely no financial sense at all.

That's like dropping $500k on a brand new Lambo and then putting regular gasoline in it because you're too cheap to pay the extra few cents a gallon to fill it with premium.

 

[WelperHelper99]

I'm not from UK but I have an uncle who does custom high quality stainless steel lyres for bands and orchestras. He was talking to us that he wanted to automate the cutting, as he does it by hand, when he quoted on a shop to cut. The price of spinning down and up the CNC or laser cutter for a few sheets was so expensive that it costed a few months of products alone. Selling less was more profitable than it

Probably paying off the machines honestly. From my experience, both can easily go into the millions, especially laser cutters. Plasma tables are significantly cheaper, but way less accurate due to being a superheated gas and needing tuning depending on the material and it's thickness for best results (not often done due to diminished returns). Source: I'm a welder, used torchmate and plasmacam.