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

[Classical Lord Dessler]

I always love ‘it’s miscommunication’ when they likely have an email chain that shows it wasn’t. It is never miscommunication.

And in the most tone deaf move they are ‘well, good news, it’s not just sitting round now’

They need to fire whoever communicates for them. They are bad at it.

Their email etiquette as a whole is comically bad. Like that's a business email going to a business partner you've now entered a contract with. In normal communication sarcasm like that is unprofessional and makes people take you less seriously. In context? That shows YOU don't take Billet seriously and don't have a clue as to the magnitude of your own fuck up. I know companies that would fire you for sending such a retarded email because it reflects so poorly on your business. No wonder Billet broke business tone- they were justifiably pissed.

 

[nzh]

No one is going to note the contrast between GN's cold, professional reporting, and their straight to the point allegations, versus the (literal) thread of rambling tweets from a mentally ill SJW who has been dismissed several times in the past?

Her evidence is literally her conflicting words and a bunch of sockpuppet accounts.

And the simps give her the reason and completely forgot about the rest (which is much more important and actually illegal, and not a crime against her feelings).

That community deserves to die anyway.

 

[A Log in D Tractor 2]

Linus couldn't just address the criticism properly the first time, now has to roll out every exec in the company for a grand apology video... I wonder how much this video cost in employee time lmao.
Also who the fuck let Linus into the apology video to be an unapologetic hack coping about everything. Everyone in the video before him was mostly professional talking about how the content is going to improve, while Linus spent half his segmemt whining about what everyone is saying about him online.

 

[Kees H]

Linus couldn't just address the criticism properly the first time, now has to roll out every exec in the company for a grand apology video... I wonder how much this video cost in employee time lmao

This is why his original reaction to the Billet Labs review is even funnier to me. "I am not going to spend 500 Monopoly leafbucks on reshooting that bawww", ending in a video with a bunch of his staff showing up in a video which took him even more manhours (and leafbucks) to create.

If only he had spent the 500 fake bucks to reshoot parts of the video and sent them their cooler + gfx card back. Lol, lmao even.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

And the simps give her the reason and completely forgot about the rest (which is much more important and actually illegal, and not a crime against her feelings).

We live in a world where a former presidant is being charged for doing completely legal stuff by his current political opponant in the middle of Election Season and half the country thinks this is ok because they hate him

Feelings never care about facts. Angry girl will always resonate more which is what has happened.

People remember MeToo for when women got justice due to feelings despite the fact that like at least 50% of the accusations were complete bs

 

[skol]

“It wasn’t sold, it was auctioned”, what next, “it wasn’t rape, it was consent accident”?
Oh wait…

 

[Susanna]

Floatplane subs are down 1300 (was 38,400, now 37,040).

Really would've costed you less money to re-do the video now, wouldn't it Linus? Cheap-ass.

It’s a recurring thing I notice in the nouveau riche. Because Linus grew up poor, 500$ or whatever he quoted seems like a lot of money to him. But in the sense of a 100kk$ business, it really isn’t much, and being stingy has now cost him a hundred times more in one month of lost subscriptions alone.

Of course, I won’t hold it against him that he thought he could safely push Billet around. They’re nobodies, it would have been hard to predict that mocking an (actually legitimately silly) product would backfire like this, and it only did do because GamersNexus decided to not let Linus challenging his legitimacy slip and this was convenient ammunition.

 

[TheRaptorJesus]

With that schnoz you know linus wouldn't spend that $500 on anything but himself. Its always funny to see the "intel/AMD tech upgrades" when all his employees live in tiny apartments and in squalor compared to how he lives. I don't think a single of of them owned a house. Reminds me of that photo of hiliary in a working persons kitchen.

 

[Edict of Expulsion]

Look I'm sure there's at least some truth to it, but I'm still skeptical of claims from someone that is clearly batshit crazy.

"I remember getting told off for taking my sick days, as in the days you're entitled to." comes across to me she was maxing out her sick leave. I used to work with people that would take massive amounts of sick leave, which increased my workload and the extra stress was affecting my mental health. So I have little tolerance for this "entitled" to sick leave bullshit. You should only take it if you are actually unwell.

Yeah this is such an odd situation. There's no objective standards of evidence or truth or anything so it's all clout and drama. The news cycle will be worlds away two weeks from now and the mob, especially the rainbow mafia, are never, ever, satisfied. I wonder if there will actually be consequences for linus, like companies not wanting to be associated with a toxic brand, maybe a world where he actually tries to retain decent talent.

No, no it's the critics that are wrong, er, 'trolls'. If only they all had mixed-race babies they would see that Linus is a person and deserves to do literally anything with no pushback, including pretend to have quality where literally every video has shoddy mistakes. A few blowies under the desk from luke and linus will forget all about this.

 

[Nicholas II of Russia]

Now that I'm watching this thread I wonder, why is this thread on Off-Topic anyway? I think with the situation and the childish response from Linus, it deserves to be moved to the Internet Famous sub-forum.

 

[Edict of Expulsion]

With that schnoz you know linus wouldn't spend that $500 on anything but himself. Its always funny to see the "intel/AMD tech upgrades" when all his employees live in tiny apartments and in squalor compared to how he lives. I don't think a single of of them owned a house. Reminds me of that photo of hiliary in a working persons kitchen.

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I've thought this exact thing. Linus is buying another mansion, this one is even bigger, more room for his hapa mutt children to solve racism. Linus home theatre upgrade, Linus home wifi upgrade. Film it all, edit it, then go back to your cracker box peasants. You're lucky Linus allows you within his presence

 

[Susanna]

Linus has been super touchy about Madison ever since she quit, which is what made me sure sexual harassment was happening even before the Glassfloor review where she explained the situation surfaced. I mean come on, the atmosphere in their videos, especially when that piece of shit Jake is on, is super dudebro. There’s no way that type of man can be professional around a woman.

I commented about the sexual harassment Madison suffered a year or two ago on a WAN show, and got a very aggressive reply from Linus himself within five minutes telling me to shut up and I know nothing. My comment didn’t even accuse him personally, but simply stated that as a woman I would be wary of applying for a job at a company with their atmosphere and track record of driving off the few women they hire in the first place. He took it personally, which told me he was part of the problem. It would have been the easiest thing in the world to ignore one comment out of thousands, or even to shadowban me if he thought I was being dangerous. But evidently my comment hit him right in the ego and he couldn’t stop himself. He did wise up and deleted his reply the next day, but only after a dozen of his simps had ganged up on me in replies and hundreds had downvoted my videos (piano music, nothing to do with the drama whatsoever).

 

[Pee Cola]

The last comment says it all, "I cannot support you because of Maddison's statements... but i'm gonna keep watching your channel when all of this blows over".

... which is why LTT will survive.

Linus' fanboys have severe brain rot, and he still has millions of them.

Most of the people hopping off the Linus train rn are normies who had no idea just how incompetent Linus is, and most of the people actively curbstomping Linus are people who saw through him and his schtick years ago.

In the worst case scenario, LMG may have to trim some fat in their head count, and possibly even downscale some of their operations such as the lab. I can see them outsourcing their editing to a bunch of pajeets to cut costs; after all it's not like they could fuck the editing up any worse than LMG's local editors being paid Canadian wages.

As long as Linus has poisoned The Algorithm by carpet bombing it with thumbnails of the second most punchable face on all of YouTube, he'll still be raking in the shekels (though maybe not as many as he used to).

wrt Maddison... I think there's something in her claims, but her tendency towards sensationalism does her no favours. I guess we'll need to wait and see if/when these claims are substantiated by any LMG staffers that break ranks as a result of this shitstorm.

Yes, even GN is not clean, they get sponsored by case manufacturers and cooling paste makers, however (as far as i know) they only take sponsorship of stuff they tested before and genuinely recommend. It's understandable why they take it, after all it's not a perfect world and it costs money to test shit, but nevertheless it's still clearly a conflict of interest.

As long as they declare their interest up front, I don't see this being a huge problem. Give the viewer all the facts and let them decide how much weight to place on this review based on how strongly they perceive the conflict of interest.

 

[Rei is Shit.]

It’s a recurring thing I notice in the nouveau riche. Because Linus grew up poor, 500$ or whatever he quoted seems like a lot of money to him. But in the sense of a 100kk$ business, it really isn’t much, and being stingy has now cost him a hundred times more in one month of lost subscriptions alone.

Of course, I won’t hold it against him that he thought he could safely push Billet around. They’re nobodies, it would have been hard to predict that mocking an (actually legitimately silly) product would backfire like this, and it only did do because GamersNexus decided to not let Linus challenging his legitimacy slip and this was convenient ammunition.

He is penny wise but pound (and time) foolish.

$500 for a reshoot, 300 for an AC? fuck off.

10 million on a huge testing lab? $$$ on a fucking pickleball court? Hell yeah!

 

[Quiproquo]

This event is a good reminder that a person should always try to do what he considers morally just, even for small and apparently irrelevant stuff.
You'll never know when a wild Steve might appear and own your ass.

 

[6MillionCoofs]

“It wasn’t sold, it was auctioned”, what next, “it wasn’t rape, it was consent accident”?
Oh wait…

‘She said no to start and then couldn’t stop screaming yes’

 

[FILTH Tourist]

Now that I'm watching this thread I wonder, why is this thread on Off-Topic anyway? I think with the situation and the childish response from Linus, it deserves to be moved to the Internet Famous sub-forum.

It is strange considering how OP is written like a normal lolcow thread. Maybe Null is secretly a fan?

 

[Belascoarán]

I like to think about it as a another supreme display of LTTs incompetence. She was hired cause of how many simps she got after participating in an LTT contest essentially just for being a woman in a male space despite being a walking talking red flag.

Correct. Linus being true to his real form and why Yvonne ran her out of the company.

 

[AN/ALR56]

I've thought this exact thing. Linus is buying another mansion, this one is even bigger, more room for his hapa mutt children to solve racism. Linus home theatre upgrade, Linus home wifi upgrade. Film it all, edit it, then go back to your cracker box peasants. You're lucky Linus allows you within his presence

What is worse is that it's always fucking sponsored, he's rich as fuck and still got to put 5K in gear in every room and a 20k server in his basement for no cost.
Also he's always talking shit about the employees apartaments, you can see they trying to be cool about in every video where he gives them a oled tv or PC that was probably in a closet full of sponsor shit.

 

[TheOtherSideofMakeBelieve]

Defending LTT - reading between the lines is because Nicky V wasn't passionate about LTT and computers, but he was doing it as a job. It would make zero sense for a previous employee to show up at work.
It may be possible to bring in past employees for things like LTX, etc.. however I guess they cannot be controlled so they don't even try (or they tried but no one wants to)

Very possible, like I said it's hard to say how much was truth, cope, and/or excuse. He had already been working with two channels though, and he seemed open to the idea. Also, at the time he left, it was still a small company where I imagine they legitimately were all friends because they were all shoved in the same hotbox and I can't imagine being in a situation with someone like that that I didn't like without just ragequitting (I think he left around the time they started moving out of the house office but someone can correct me if he worked at the warehouse. I think he probably would have worked at the warehouse for a bit if remodeling hadn't taken an extra year or so to complete but because it took so long he helped them move but that was it). Even if it didn't make sense for him to be on the main channel he still would have been a good fit for Super Fun if nothing else, though I think Super Fun ended up being a flop so yeah. Even for the main channel they've done a couple of bike reviews so that would have been a good opportunity for him, I definitely would have been excited to see him in those when I was still watching

I was thinking about it a bit at work and I think he might have been a bit of a threat to Linus's ego. Linus tries to play the CrAzY spontaneous goofball, but I think that's something he has to put a lot of work into outside of just being a spaz who constantly drops shit because he's not paying attention. Meanwhile, Nick was able to just turn that on and off as needed, the Nicky V character in particular being a perfect example

This is all just speculation based on a handful of videos that I haven't watched since he left, so I'm open to and interested in any alternative opinions, especially from someone who has followed them on avenues outside of youtube since youtube is my only exposure to them outside of the times Linus hijacked the channel's twitter and said something dumb enough that it made the news (the hapa supremacy tweet was what made me stop watching, I think I unsubbed to all the channels after the WAN show following that)