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]

Player Three has entered the game!

I'm about 20 minutes in so far, and the only thing I've learned is that it's possible to fight autism with autism.

 

[Flaming Dumpster]

Dr. Ian Cutress, a veteran hardware reviewer from Anandtech and overall clever and well connected computer nerd, gives his take on Linus and GamersNexus. Good points and basically summarises my views on the matter. It’s literally a video essay, so maybe a bit dry.

It's pretty good but I've gotten up to 24 minutes in and he starts talking about Madison. It is revealed that he is the biggest faggot of all time as he starts the segment with a trigger warning, complains about "toxicity" and denounces anyone second guessing her motives or the truthfulness of it all.

This line made my head pop:

Second, to those asking why we believe her and shouldn't we hear both sides first before even addressing the issue? First of all: you are a fucking problem. If someone is being attacked by a lion, you don't first ask the lion for their side of the story. You ensure the person being attacked is safe and well.

I don't want to encourage a BPD lunatic to make bullshit sexual assault allegations against this guy, but if one did, it'd be real funny to see this logic turn around and bite him in the ass.

 

[Susanna]

I'm about 20 minutes in so far, and the only thing I've learned is that it's possible to fight autism with autism.

I just like that we're getting a response that isn't just "lol yeah Linus totally sucks, pls let me suck your cock GamersNexus!!". Ian shits hard on LTT for the sexual harassment stuff, and then goes on to rip hard into GamersNexus for being a dumb gamer who has no idea what working at companies with more than five people is like.

I don't want to encourage a BPD lunatic to make bullshit sexual assault allegations against this guy, but if one did, it'd be real funny to see this logic turns around and bites him in the ass.

I think maybe you just don't try to see Linus' videos from a woman's perspective? The atmosphere comes across as incredibly unpleasant. I don't doubt that Madison was sexually harassed for one second, no matter how insane she ultimately is (and she obviously is at least a little, going by the self-harm and pronoun nonsense).

 

[CYKA RUSH B]

Player Three has entered the game!

Dr. Ian Cutress, a veteran hardware reviewer from Anandtech and overall clever and well connected computer nerd, gives his take on Linus and GamersNexus. Good points and basically summarises my views on the matter. It’s literally a video essay, so maybe a bit dry.

What an absolutely insufferable faggot. This video is a total waste of time. Someone needs to tell this fart huffer that concision is much more important than autistic detail outside of specific highly technical topics.

This dipshit actually gave a trigger warning. I can't fucking believe it.

Fucking LOSER

I suppose i shouldn't be surprised. He's a britbong and his channel is named "tech tech potato." The only potato here is the retard in the video.

Hardware Busters opines on the topic. Spends most of the video shitting on Linus being a retard and having no conception of how a lab is run or what the implicaitons are. Do you think linus knows he needs to spend 50-100K per year in equipment calibration alone? What chance in hell does Linus' 13-15MM investment have to be iso certified?

A couple of interesting points raised.

- How could imbecile linus permit tim holocaust's comment to stay in the final video?

- To run a lab, you need to know more than all the test engineers working for you. Obviously Linus is not equipped to oversee the lab, even at a 50k ft level.

- Proper lab should document and make available their automated testing setup to allow 3rd party validation. HW Buster's have pulished whitepapers on their testing methodology. Will imbecile linus do so?

- Imbecile linus' lab director was apparently an Asus marketing rep before. Maybe he has the qualificaitons, maybe not, but it's very odd nonetheless. How long since this guy last worked in a technical field?

I just like that we're getting a response that isn't just "lol yeah Linus totally sucks, pls let me suck your cock GamersNexus!!".

I applaud your patience. I had to tap out. I understand where you're coming from because it's been a week-long feeding frenzy of trash takes by low iq faggots and clout chasers, but an hour-plus long video by some pedantic british faggot that could/should have been only 20 minutes long is not the way,

I think maybe you just don't try to see Linus' videos from a woman's perspective? The atmosphere comes across as incredibly unpleasant.

General question, is it possible for a co-ed work environment to be pleasant to women if it's not on the extreme end of professional and/or everyone walking on eggshells?

I can see how LDT with its collection of porn addicted freaks and fuckups would be unpleasant and i can feel it radiating through the screen. But I think it wouldn't really be possible for it to be any other way. Few of them are professionals, most don't have any real corporate experience so they have no idea how to behave in a business setting, But how would such an organization provide a reasonable workplace for women? The only way I would see is if the imbeciles in front of the camera were separated from the people who run the business, that way the moronic energy they bring wouldn't pollute the back office where the actual work is supposed to get done. On-air "talent" would need to be treated like cattle. Once the camera is off they need to fuck off back to some pen and not speak unless spoken to.

Realistically though any organization where a midwit like linus has decision authority would end up dysfunctional, so the first step would be to find a job at a place that isn't called Imbecile Linus Tech Tips.

 

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maybe im an old retard but all of these pc autists are fucking faggots. just tell me if the new card is better than the old one and if the price point of the fucking things is good or not. wasting millions of dollars on "labS", fuck off

 

[seri0us]

I think maybe you just don't try to see Linus' videos from a woman's perspective? The atmosphere comes across as incredibly unpleasant. I don't doubt that Madison was sexually harassed for one second, no matter how insane she ultimately is (and she obviously is at least a little, going by the self-harm and pronoun nonsense).

As a natal woman linus and jake giving me the ick guys, it's like... bad vibes or something... i can tell when there's a bit of a rape atmosphere going on you know

 

[Druveer]

maybe im an old retard but all of these pc autists are fucking faggots. just tell me if the new card is better than the old one and if the price point of the fucking things is good or not. wasting millions of dollars on "labS", fuck off

This is what bugs me the most, what I enjoy most from LTT was them talking about tech (that's not retardedly expensive) and when they did stuff like talking about their servers or hardware setups. Yes even tho I get they did shit wrong as a noob it's interesting to me.

Also, Dr. Ian Cutress is the one who assaulted Madison but he told her that if she told anybody he'd hurt her family. Don't question me or your toxic incel something or other.

 

[Flaming Dumpster]

I think maybe you just don't try to see Linus' videos from a woman's perspective? The atmosphere comes across as incredibly unpleasant. I don't doubt that Madison was sexually harassed for one second, no matter how insane she ultimately is (and she obviously is at least a little, going by the self-harm and pronoun nonsense).

I don't doubt Linus Media Group is a shit place to work if you're a woman. It's a place dominated by socially awkward weirdos and at least one who is LARPing as a woman, so it's basically guaranteed to be unpleasant and Linus' staunch anti work from home policy guarantees you have no escape from being surrounded by these freaks. That still doesn't mean that her allegations are true and I'm not "the fucking problem" for not instantly believing everything she says.

The convenient timing of these allegations for maximum attention + the lack of any real proof other than a boilerplate HR meeting in the aftermath makes her credibility very low in my opinion.

I've gotten to 43 minutes in the video and have seen nothing compelling enough to change my opinion on the GN video. So far the criticism seems to be that GN's video had an obvious slant in how things were presented and he seems particularly annoyed at the smile on Steve's face when he says he didn't want to do the video, implying the exact opposite. There's a focus on divvying up responsibility for mistakes rather than laying it all at Linus' feet, but I disagree since by literally having his name in the company's initialism, Linus positions himself as the one captaining the ship of retards and has to take responsibility for mistakes.

 

[Vampirdžija]

That still doesn't mean that her allegations are true and I'm not "the fucking problem" for not instantly believing everything she says.
The convenient timing of these allegations for maximum attention + the lack of any real proof other than a boilerplate HR meeting in the aftermath makes her credibility very low in my opinion.

To me on the other hand her allegations aren't weird or shocking.
>I was groped by somebody
>somebody asked me to twerk
If you saw the LTT videos, you know that's their "sense of humor". In the first video she appeared in they make sex jokes and I think Linus makes a daddy issues joke.

Imho: She's young, it's her dream job, she's trying to be quirky and one of the guys, to fit in. Contract and workload issues start popping up, her patience grows thinner. Somebody goes too far and gropes or touches her in an inappropriate place- she loses her shit and tells them to fuck off, goes to HR. HR brushes it off because LTT doesn't have proper segregation of "friends" and adult working place. Somebody makes a twerking joke and she's at the end of her nerves already.

Also Colin and Taran confirmed she talked to them about all of this before she quit.

 

[Flaming Dumpster]

Somebody goes too far and gropes or touches her in an inappropriate place- she loses her shit and tells them to fuck off, goes to HR.

Doesn't even need to involve physical touch. A lady I worked with years ago complained to HR that she was "mentally raped" by a male colleague. This is probably why I don't give a lot of consideration to these sorts of complaints.

 

[Kheapathic]

Doesn't even need to involve physical touch. A lady I worked with years ago complained to HR that she was "mentally raped" by a male colleague. This is probably why I don't give a lot of consideration to these sorts of complaints.

I forget the exact wording; but something about me being scary and imposing as I stand over a female worker. She was sitting at her desk, I was trying to fix something, because I'm IT, it's what I fucking do... she didn't like the way I towered over her and cried to HR. I believe that was the same occasion (definitely the same woman) where the HR Director pretty much told me something akin to "A company is far more scared of a litigious woman than a worker with a bad attitude."

 

[Gian-Luca Caluga]

Ha! Good luck getting in touch with them. Unless you're literally LTT-sized, you're not going to have any way to contact Google. GamersNexus burning his bridges with Linus is kind of a big deal for this reason, Linus did have the email of a YouTube employee so he could be a go-between for affiliated channels.
It's kind of a ridiculous way to run things considering how much money YouTube makes off of even relatively small channels.

Yeah, gentle PL here but I've worked on a channel with half a million subscribers, massive engagement and a global brand presence—we had to fight to get even acknowledgement, let alone a rep*. Eventually got a relationship manager, which youtube called something like a 'content and engagement enhancement technician', but he was clearly dealing with a thousand other channels and we had better luck just asking the community about how the whole thing worked.

Linus having actual contact with someone who can pull youtube's strings is a bit sinister, tbh, given his conduct. Tinfoil hat time: do we think he's ever used that power for evil? And re. Gamers Nexus: would you trust that scheming little dickhead Linus to accurately send on information as a go-between for a 'rival'?

*and of course, we had senior management who either hired pretty but knowledge-averse presenters or forced female staff on-air with hilarious consequences. LTT's story is a common one. Glad to be away from it all.

 

[LiquidKid]

Player Three has entered the game!

Dr. Ian Cutress, a veteran hardware reviewer from Anandtech and overall clever and well connected computer nerd, gives his take on Linus and GamersNexus. Good points and basically summarises my views on the matter. It’s literally a video essay, so maybe a bit dry.

This guy is the biggest pseudo-intellectual retard I have ever heard outside of moviebob and Jim Sterling. “GN wasn’t objective my my scientific analysis of Steve’s wording says he wasn’t” “he manipulated the audience by saying opinions” “he wasn’t uncomfortable because he smiled” “he made the former asus guy out to be just an exec when he actually tested mother boards with his hard guys” “he made it seem like Asus only sponsored because of that guy being there”

Nearly everything this guy said came across like a political commentator trying to say one side was lying to prove their ideology. A lot of it was him digging to find issues that weren’t there.
Gamer’s Nexus had issues in their video, I think he focused too much on Billet Labs and not enough in their bad testing, he harped too hard in the video production quotas rather than the mismanagement of the teams etc etc. but this dude brought up none of the actual issues. Really it just seems like he’s inserting himself to feel important.

“Who am I? I’m an analyst and I’m very important.” Truthfully I feel this dude offers no value to this situation or any situation

And no, it’s not standard to reach out for comment in all instances. I thought we weren’t supposed to ask a Lion for his side of the story. Similarly Steve did not reach out to Newegg for comment before the video, the controversy started with them than continued.”

“If this wasn’t to promote his channel then why didn’t he put it on a new channel?”
Uh, because he has over a million subs which means people will actually see it. There is such a thing as using your influence and platform to call attention to issues no one is addressing

Why are British people always so god damn insufferably stupid?

 

[guiltyspark85]

Using the title 'Dr' constantly is such an insufferable flex and always makes me cringe when I hear him referred to by other people as Dr Ian Cutress. At most call him Ian Cutress or just plain fucking Ian if we know who you're talking about.

 

[LiquidKid]

Using the title 'Dr' constantly is such an insufferable flex and always makes me cringe when I hear him referred to by other people as Dr Ian Cutress. At most call him Ian Cutress or just plain fucking Ian if we know who you're talking about.

It’s a respect thing that I frankly don’t think anyone deserves.
It’s like by acknowledging the doctorate degree means everything he says is correct or that he’s smart. That isn’t what it means. All that title means is that he was able to waste the money on a very expensive piece of paper. People who add the doctor to this dude’s name are the same who think college professors are instant smart because “they’re a professor”

At least medical doctors implies their job and not their status

As a natal woman linus and jake giving me the ick guys, it's like... bad vibes or something... i can tell when there's a bit of a rape atmosphere going on you know

I am not woman, but I 10000000% feel like Riley is a sexual predator. His face, his mannerism, and his voice are a sleazy as they get. He’s allegedly married, but how any woman would marry such an insufferable douche bag, even in Canada, is beyond me

 

[Corn Flakes]

So far the criticism seems to be that GN's video had an obvious slant in how things were presented and he seems particularly annoyed at the smile on Steve's face when he says he didn't want to do the video, implying the exact opposite.

That's an incredibly disingenuous criticism to make, too. It's clear Steve was nervous while recording the video, particularly at the start. His smile was not a gleeful one, he was trying to find which tone to use in a video he knew was going to net him controversy beyond his usual autism.

 

[LiquidKid]

That's an incredibly disingenuous criticism to make, too. It's clear Steve was nervous while recording the video, particularly at the start. His smile was not a gleeful one, he was trying to find which tone to use in a video he knew was going to net him controversy beyond his usual autism.

Dr.Faggot addresses that by saying he “clearly isn’t uncomfortable because he appears to be laughing as he says it.”
Because apparently he can acknowledge smiling as a nervous reflex but not laughing as a nervous reflex.

I watched that entire video and I want my time back

 

[Flaming Dumpster]

I watched that entire video and I want my time back

I refuse to proceed further

 

[Susanna]

General question, is it possible for a co-ed work environment to be pleasant to women if it's not on the extreme end of professional and/or everyone walking on eggshells?

Absolutely, but it’s not LTT. You first need to not hire total creeps, which Linus failed to do, and then set up a relaxed atmosphere that doesn’t give the men the impression that the women are available to hit on, which Linus failed to do. He’d have to basically gut the staff to fix things at this point, because once this attitude sets in it becomes very difficult to correct. “If a guy is unpleasant to you, you should buy him coffee and take him on a not-a-date to have a heart to heart about why he creeps you out”, WTF??

As a natal woman linus and jake giving me the ick guys, it's like... bad vibes or something... i can tell when there's a bit of a rape atmosphere going on you know

Yeah, this is exactly what I’m talking about. Add to that putting Jordan Peterson enthusiasts in upper management positions, and you’re not going to have a welcoming atmosphere for women. That we can sense this just through the (edited to put them in the best possible light) videos must mean it’s truly egregious behind the scenes.
The guys in here throw so much hate on Madison, but how can anyone doubt she actually had the experiences she claims even before several men at LTT risked their jobs to back her up?

Using the title 'Dr' constantly is such an insufferable flex and always makes me cringe when I hear him referred to by other people as Dr Ian Cutress. At most call him Ian Cutress or just plain fucking Ian if we know who you're talking about.

It’s a respect thing that I frankly don’t think anyone deserves.
It’s like by acknowledging the doctorate degree means everything he says is correct or that he’s smart. That isn’t what it means. All that title means is that he was able to waste the money on a very expensive piece of paper. People who add the doctor to this dude’s name are the same who think college professors are instant smart because “they’re a professor”

It’s a sign of respect. A doctorate isn’t just a piece of paper you bought, it’s years of studies. In this case, into methods of silicon analysis. Calling him doctor when he’s talking about tech or his professional career is relevant, I think you’ve just succumbed to the US culture of anti-intellectualism. If Cutress were to weigh in on something outside his field, absolutely don’t call him doctor if you don’t want to, but in his field you really ought to, because it shows the difference between him, who has devoted a decade or more to this field of study, and people like Linus or GamersNexus, who are simply hobbyists. In the case of GamersNexus perhaps more erudite than most hobbyists, and in the case of Linus more entertaining and better presentation than even professional outlets, but ultimately still just hobbyists. This is why I like the video, he outlines that GamersNexus really has no idea what he’s talking about most of the time because he’s never actually worked in journalism, he’s just a hobbyist who made a name for himself, and the standards he keeps himself to, good as they may be, are not what the industry is really like. Covering your own travel expenses doesn’t mean you’re independent of outside influence when everything you do still revolves around these companies. You can let them fly you out and house you without this being some great moral compromise that automatically puts GamersNexus on a pedestal because he personally chooses to pay extra instead.

 

[LiquidKid]

but in his field you really ought to, because it shows the difference between him, who has devoted a decade or more to this field of study, and people like Linus or GamersNexus, who are simply hobbyists

Hard disagree. A doctorate means literally nothing other than the willingness to pay for it. The overwhelming majority of people with non-medical PHD’s are morons, and this guy clearly was one too, not to mention his massive ego.

He’s not a scientist, he’s not a researcher, he’s a basic bitch youtuber who pretends to be superior because he’s an “analyst” which is a job so unimpressive that’s even Anita Sarkesian could do it. Especially in the tech and engineering field where the majority of the innovators did not have such degrees.

Not respecting people with a doctorate has nothing to do with “anti-intellectualism.” Though the assumption that obtaining a doctorate makes someone an intellectual is in itself a sign that you are the type to be told what to think more than you are to come up with your own conclusions and ideas.