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

[John Ligma]

Funny asian man is gone. Heartfelt video done by GN.

I'm excited for the next WAN Show where, like every week, Linus will refuse to talk about tech news such as this and will instead fill the three hour runtime with discussions about their merch, shirt sizing and badminton.

 

[Joe Swanson]

I think anyone with half a brain could figure out honey was selling user data as their way of making money, I knew it the first time it was advertised

 

[The Great Milenko]

Linus is a fag, but he owes his fellow contemporaries nothing.

Perhaps not, but it makes Linus the DSP of Tech "Reviewers".

 

[Susanna]

I think anyone with half a brain could figure out honey was selling user data as their way of making money, I knew it the first time it was advertised

You’ve misunderstood. Everyone assumed they were just selling user data, what they actually did was overwrite the cookies saying ”LTT contributed to this sale”, so that the affiliate link payment went to Honey instead of the YouTube advertiser. That doesn’t hurt you the customer one bit, but it does stab the YouTube advertiser in the back.

What they did do to hurt you the customer was cooperate with the store, such that the store could tell them ”don’t give the user the 15% coupon code, give them this 5% one instead”. But if you didn’t have the addon chances are you wouldn’t have gotten a discount at all (have to look codes up manually), so you the user still benefitted. Honey’s scumminess mostly just negatively affected other advertisers. Wah wah.

 

[Joe Swanson]

You’ve misunderstood. Everyone assumed they were just selling user data, what they actually did was overwrite the cookies saying ”LTT contributed to this sale”, so that the affiliate link payment went to Honey instead of the YouTube advertiser. That doesn’t hurt you the customer one bit, but it does stab the YouTube advertiser in the back.

What they did do to hurt you the customer was cooperate with the store, such that the store could tell them ”don’t give the user the 15% coupon code, give them this 5% one instead”.

Do you really think a company scummy enough to do that also wasn't selling your data on the side

 

[Susanna]

Do you really think a company scummy enough to do that also wasn't selling your data on the side

Of course they were, but you can assume every browser extension does this.

 

[i440BX]

Funny asian man is gone. Heartfelt video done by GN.

This sucks a lot. Rest in Peace, Gordon.
I first discovered him when he criticized the removal of 3.5mm jacks in phones.
Then I started liking him more and Gamer Nexus.

Here is a soundboard of him from 2000's using flash

https://web.archive.org/web/20240924171314/https://www.leedash.com/rantsoundboard/

 

[Susanna]

People need to stop whining about 3.5mm plugs. They’re long gone and in real life nobody misses them, earbuds with ANC aren’t expensive and give a much better experience.

 

[Administrator Flotsam]

Reddit never fails to deliver

The audience is as stupid as he is, its fucking uncanny. The CEO should raise merch costs every year and start a merch subscription service. Rob them blind, such gullible people won't be around for long.

It's even worse than you realize. On Twitter his display name is "Linus LinusMediaGroup" as a stale reference to that one time Trump said Tim Apple. Probably the Jobs inspired photo is part of that.

IIRC he had Jobs photo profile picture before Trump. I think there was a time when Linus actually saw himself as a visionary and industry leader. But unlike Steve Jobs, he seems to have dropped that charade so I guess he deserves points for honesty.

 

[Vecr]

People need to stop whining about 3.5mm plugs. They’re long gone and in real life nobody misses them, earbuds with ANC aren’t expensive and give a much better experience.

No they aren't. All my audio stuff is 3.5mm. Bigger jacks are more durable, but almost anything is better than Bluetooth.

 

[grump]

I could sort of buy the argument people are making to defend LTT that they didn't have an obligation to tell the world especially with the possible legal issues and damage to their reputation with sponsors if they didn't completely cross every t and dot every i. But that only really works for a normal content creator.

Getting to the bottom of stuff like this should be the bread and butter of the kind of channel they hold themselves out to be. They're not some random makeup streamer or LPer. They're a team of supposed experts with considerable resources geared to these exact problems. The fact that they flubbed this off without caring to look deeper and joined another scam service sort of puts their status as tech gurus into question.

 

[Nabeshin]

LTT that they didn't have an obligation to tell the world

I can sorta buy it but because megalag covered it before Linus and shown that LTT knew about it and did nothing means that Linus can't milk it for content in the normal way that they would do. If they cover and ignore that he didn't warned anyone, people will hate him, if he apologizes people will think it will be just because he got discovered and if he doesn't cover people will think he's avoiding drama. In almost every scenario I couldn't think of, Linus reputation is damaged so this week wan show will be a fun one

 

[Mr.Bucket]

This sucks a lot. Rest in Peace, Gordon.
I first discovered him when he criticized the removal of 3.5mm jacks in phones.
Then I started liking him more and Gamer Nexus.

Here is a soundboard of him from 2000's using flash

https://web.archive.org/web/20240924171314/https://www.leedash.com/rantsoundboard/

GN actually mentions and shows that soundboard during the video. Which is hilarious.

 

[Michael Bluth]

watched the honey vid on the weekend, what was funny about the LTT shit was they just went with another similar sponsor with Karma (as mentioned in the vid). Karma probably pulling the same shit just not as bad. But I bet we'll see a karma vid in the next few years.

 

[Hall of Cost Payer]

Linus is a fag, but he owes his fellow contemporaries nothing.

For people here on the farms, behavior like this was pretty much expected. LMG realized Honey was fucking them over, so I booted them. They didn't care for other YouTubers or their viewers and whatever. And since LMG is a group of retards, they fell into the exact same trap with Karma.

But what is funny, is that Linus always pretends to be a holy Samaritan, caring about users, other people etc. So all his incel fans who think believe that got their world view busted and are reminded, Linus is a literal millionaire and he only cares about things that make him money.

 

[Spud gun]

Funny asian man is gone. Heartfelt video done by GN.

Gordon was one of the good ones, he was doing the sort of consumer advocacy that GN does, but a long time before.

 

[Administrator Flotsam]

They're a team of supposed experts with considerable resources geared to these exact problems.

Linus can't milk it for content in the normal way that they would do.

They've botched vids on things that they've got on hand and had review guides for. They can't even be trusted to copy-paste product specs from press releases and manufacturers' sites. Its safe to say anything that involves first-hand research will be impossible for them. Their whole pipeline is optimized to put out as many vids with as little effort as many times a week as possible.

Even if there was someone who was willing and able to make a well-researched investigative video, they'll be forbidden from making it since it can potentially drive away sponsors.

 

[StutterBox]

People need to stop whining about 3.5mm plugs. They’re long gone and in real life nobody misses them, earbuds with ANC aren’t expensive and give a much better experience.

Kill yourself

 

[Chickenpolar]

People need to stop whining about 3.5mm plugs. They’re long gone and in real life nobody misses them, earbuds with ANC aren’t expensive and give a much better experience.

I miss microSD card slots more than the 3.5mm jack but getting rid of the 3.5mm jack was still dumb as hell

 

[mandatorylurk]

Phones get thinner yet they get bigger in dimensions defeating the purpose. Just let me have the iphone 6 with the power of today and it's fine, better than what they sell now.