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

[AltisticRight]

muh blockchain solves this but unironically.

You're just not going to put an entire video onto the blockchain. The best approach I can think of is taking individual screenshots in certain random intervals and putting that onto the blockchain instead. Therefore, if someone decides to change the video, the shortened or longer length and many frames that require precision to match up makes this nearly infeasible.

And, it will still not be cheap. The most reasonable method is to take these snapshots and put the URL onto the blockchain in the form of an ERC-1155 standard which batches multiple NFTs (typ. ERC-721) into a single contract.

Who's to say the tokenised URL (NFT) won't be tampered with? An NFT is just a token for a URL that points to an image. There's ways to change the image without changing the URL, though having such a system will complicate the matter enough. I suggested multiple random intervals, if there are several snapshots, then there will be a large amount of snapshots to replace.

This also brings forth the importance to archive the image(s) using archive.today. There is an existing service that takes a snapshot of tweets and puts it onto the blockchain. This image can then be archived properly and in my opinion the combo is just as good as a link archive for preservation purposes. Lacking html information is a huge downside, as such can be used to find sock accounts and other underlying information at times.

They're better off just trying to rationalise whatever the content was to normies.

 

[oh no its pipkun]

I'm sure he'll steal a politician's response and go with, "I don't recall" when asked where it went.

"I dont have the information on hand because it was handled by another department but I will ask my team to send you the details."

 

[Falcos_Commisar]

Steve & GN went in raw and unlubed with that video. They didn't hold back at all.

Edit:

J fucking C, I'm 3/4 of the way through the video and the LTT seem maliciously incompetent rather than just incompetent

The way they fucked over that start-up is mind boggling

Linus was probably butthurt that the startup wasn't run by non whites and trannies so he took revenge

 

[SaidNoOneEver]

Also, Linus' excuse that the billet auction went to charity is also shady. Who gets the tax write-off for the charitable "contribution"? Always be wary of buying things where the seller claims that proceeds go to charity. 9 out of 10 times that means they're harvesting tax deductions for themselves on your "donation".

 

[Vesperus]

Lifted from the LTT reddit:

 

[skol]

For me Linus showed his cards when people started complaining about the misleading thumbnails with soyfaces and Linus made a response video basically saying “it is bad BUT it gives me more money.” And of course saying that it’s required because he pays people. And it’s not like he’d have to live in poverty if not for that. Why is it always quantity and not quality for those people.

 

[Wodanaz]

This defense makes zero sense. This video was for the audience's cognizance. The only value in informing LTT instead would be to give him an opportunity to cover his tracks and avoid accountability. These people have completely lost the plot.

They definitely have. I remember when Linus was just getting into the lab review space, Steve said that he wouldn't be treating them with kid gloves, in spite of their relationship, because the accuracy of this testing is sacrosanct. Not just because it pays Steve's bills, but because it's important to everyone, as he pointed out in this most recent video. People do take reviewers less seriously when retards like Linus fuck it up for everyone else, which is consequently why nobody respects traditional journos anymore. One journo started lying about trump, or obama, or whoever, and then it was over for all of them. Nobody with sufficient pull called out the retards, and now the public is almost universally aligned against journos.

 

[oh no its pipkun]

And right after he raped poor Naomi Wu, too. Someone need to stop this man.

have you seen linus' wife? I'd be desperate too.

 

[Slav Power]

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).

Perhaps I'm just holding myself to too high of a standard compared to what I'm willing/am capable to do. I want the OP to be a comprehensive summary of all the major shit that was discussed throughout those 250+ pages and before, complete with local archives. But I'm too lazy to look through all those 250+ pages to sift through all the relevant stuff, download all the media to then reupload it to the new OP etc.

The current OP in PG is the OP from this thread, just with a few edits I bothered to do before forgetting about it. The plan really is just this:
1. Expand the PG OP based on posts from this thread + other research
2. Send a TTS query to replace the OP in this thread with the OP from PG
3. Send a TTS query to move this thread into IF

The biggest hurdle is actually getting the OP done. Clearly I'm not capable of doing it all by myself.

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

I never really thought anything. I whipped up a quick and dirty OP based on just the stuff I remembered because people were talking about Linus in various other threads, so I wanted to start anything so that the discussion would be less scattered. Never expected it to be features 3 times with it still being stuck in I&T with the same lazy OP.

 

[Administrator Flotsam]

The video that GN refers to isn't even an LTT video, its from this MurfsGaming guy. These "testers" whoever they are fucking next level quirky soyence people flexing about how expensive their setups are. Its hilarious knowing they spent all that money and built all that ego but still can't benchmark a few cards across the same settings.
Can't download with ytdlp for some reason so someone else please try that but the comments are golden.

 

[エボラちゃん]

You can't write TLTTD (Total Linus Tech Tips Death) without TTD. Alright I'm out!

 

[Better Fuck Chuck]

We win, kiwibros. The floodgates have opened between Steve’s and Hardware Unboxed’s videos.

 

[Lady Adjani]

These "testers" whoever they are fucking next level quirky soyence people flexing about how expensive their setups are. Its hilarious knowing they spent all that money and built all that ego but still can't benchmark a few cards across the same settings.

It's quite impressive how tech reviewers manage to make something as simple as sitting down in front of a camera talking about <latest product> into these ginormous 100 man operations, decked out offices, editors, designers, sponsors etc.

Then you fuck up a 3dmark benchmark.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

And right after he raped poor Naomi Wu, too. Someone need to stop this man.

Do you mean Timaz? I'm willing to bet Linus likes short, roided American men more than the plastic bimbo that is Naomi Wu.

 

[im5!XxhO]

LTT might actually be in trouble over this. So far they seem unable to recruit and deploy their fans effectively. And knowing YouTube, if such a video doesn't get blowback everyone will jump onto the band wagon and this will result in a wave of anti LTT videos that will over time change the perception of the brand. And since the original video is so well researched and reasoned the "it's just drama" excuse won't quite pack enough punch punch punch punch. In short, he could actually loose some normies over this and even a 20% downturn in views will be big trouble.

 

[WhatIsThePunchline]

They made a followup, responding to Linus response:

Holy shit, Linus dropped communication with Billet labs after hearing how much the prototype would cost and only got back to them after the callout video.

If I read this right Linus offered to pay for it after they had auctioned it of, then when told how much it would cost and asked if they would reimburse the company they went cold, then only contacted them again after this callout video.

There was no real agreement to reimburse the company. Linus lied.

 

[A Log in D Tractor 2]

"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.

What a retarded statement. So GN was just supposed to email them behind the scenes while the millions of viewers continue to be misled by incorrect and poorly gathered data... As if LMG would have come out by themselves and admitted that most of the info in their videos is wrong...

 

[4090 Chad]

They made a followup, responding to Linus response:

Damn, Steve comes off as a bonafide LTT alog at this point

 

[Pill Cosby]

One of the biggest problems with LTT and it’s not Linus being a sociopath or a faggot but the fact that they openly allow the tranny menace to work there.

The tranny menace will cause headaches for them as they defend Anthony when all his deranged sexual fetishes come to light. They will have to tread on egg shells to make sure that everyone bows down to the tranny menace and not hurt their feelings.

The tranny menace will ruin everything they will ruin people’s channels much like they’ve ruined women’s sports.

 

[TroonFiringSquad]

Now we just need Tranthony to come out and call Steve transphobic and we'll have some real juicy drama to sink our teeth into.