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

[TDM]

[...] I think a lot of people like to take any sort of drama and extrapolate something entirely new out of it that isn't happening and create a much bigger narrative than there actually is.

[...] it's clear that Steve does have a personal vendetta against Linus

Spastic cries because people extrapolate a bigger narrative out of a millionaire dedicating twenty minutes of premium airtime at the start of one of his biggest shows, after appearing on Jimmy Fallon no less, and dedicating countless hours to prepare, edit and audit his diatribe to respond, while stuttering and welling-up, to someone who nuked him out of the 'serious' tech orbit into 'fun' tech space over a year ago.

It's not surprising you're fucking oblivious to this, as it's the spastic-code you live by and honor, but to previously state Steve has a personal vendetta and thereby contradict your point that there is no 'bigger narrative' is world-class oblivion. Bravo.

 

[Administrator Flotsam]

[Linus] levels accusations of undisclosed conflicts of interest, inaccurate coverage and ethical and journalistic issues. He by no means elaborates on all of these.

Yeah and neither does he "reaches out for comment in private". He basically says the same bullshit about alleged COI and ethics issues but doesn't describe it in any way GN can reply to. WTF is Linus even trying to achieve?

"GN's unethical, trust me bro."

 

[Punished Wankula]

As of 20 minutes ago, Linus is still busy liking, deleting and shadowbanning comments, probably the first thing he did after waking up this morning.
He claims to read most if not all of the channel's comments, which given his ego and desire for asspats i can believe.

 

[Lisa forgive me]

His response is still very odd, and serves nobody while stoking drama: He levels accusations of undisclosed conflicts of interest, inaccurate coverage and ethical and journalistic issues. He by no means elaborates on all of these.

I 100% agree with you on this and it is right to criticize him on these grounds, which is exactly what I was trying to get at with my original post. However, it seems that a lot of people are criticizing him for things he didn't say rather than what was said in the video itself.

Spastic cries because people extrapolate a bigger narrative out of a millionaire dedicating twenty minutes of premium airtime at the start of one of his biggest shows, after appearing on Jimmy Fallon no less, and dedicating countless hours to prepare, edit and audit his diatribe to respond, while stuttering and welling-up, to someone who nuked him out of the 'serious' tech orbit into 'fun' tech space over a year ago.

No, my point was that Linus is stirring up petty drama over how he thinks Steve doesn't uphold journalistic standards, and people should take that for what it is at face value. I have zero clue how what I said got misconstrued into this. They've very publicly both taken jabs at each other multiple times and by no means is Linus free of any criticism, which I literally said in my post.

 

[Stephen Rothman]

I think I found the removed Gamers Nexus video that Linus was attacking, that may have been his source for Steve being "above ethics". Sorry, haven't had the time to give it a proper listen yet. This is the video made in response to some doctor guy as referred in the WAN show (the clip of some guy talking 3 minutes in).

Reddit post concerning the video and its prompt removal (A)

Someone's unlisted reupload: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNNQVo2dGuE
PreserveTube mirror

 

[Mr.Bucket]

Linus is such a fucking retard. If you're doing something shitty and someone holds you accountable nut up and take your bruises, sending a novel length email bitching about "bias" and "brotherhood" and "personal feelings" just makes you look like you're trying to get out of things. Being a ""journalist"" does not entitle you to a Monopoly Get of Jail Free Card and immunity from all further negative coverage because you did the most basic things possible to fix your company's reputation.

GamersNexus/Steve is a legit tech journalism outlet and LTT is the equivalent of a watered down techie "Top Gear" show. GamersNexus doesn't publish fucking Mr. Beast wannabe videos and LTT doesn't publish corporate exposés, stop acting like you're two peas in the same pod when the only thing you have in common is the shit you talk about. It's like saying Democrats and Republicans should be buddy-buddy because they're both part of a political system or something equally totally retarded.

A comparison I made ages ago is that LTT is tech junk food. Kids love it because it tastes good but it has very little to no nutritional value. While GN is actual real food. It has good nutritional value but it isn't piled with sugar and BS that kids prefer.
Or fast food vs restaurant, etc. etc.

I'll never forget that I bought a Noctua air cooler because a LTT video showed it kicking everyone's ass, including high end water coolers. Then fast forward a year or two and I see a GN video that shows it squarely in the middle of the pack vs water coolers that are actually installed and set up properly.

 

[just Reading a post]

I'll never forget that I bought a Noctua air cooler because a LTT video showed it kicking everyone's ass

Strange, because Noctua has never really been about airflow. Their whole brand is about making the fans quiet. The D-15, the flagship is a very good cooler. But beating water? Fuck off. Perhaps no name, single fan AiOs.

Anyways, LTT btfo. This Canadian cuck is just flailing at the wind. He is already in fucking tears with his crybully shit now. It all could have been avoided if he had just did a housecleaning note on WAN show about dropping Honey. That out of the way thread on his own forum is not good enough.
Mr CONSUMER ADVOCATE MAN is a tough label to live up too Linus. LMFAO

 

[Mr.Bucket]

Strange, because Noctua has never really been about airflow. Their whole brand is about making the fans quiet. The D-15, the flagship is a very good cooler. But beating water? Fuck off. Perhaps no name, single fan AiOs.

Anyways, LTT btfo. This Canadian cuck is just flailing at the wind. He is already in fucking tears with his crybully shit now. It all could have been avoided if he had just did a housecleaning note on WAN show about dropping Honey. That out of the way thread on his own forum is not good enough.
Mr CONSUMER ADVOCATE MAN is a tough label to live up too Linus. LMFAO

IIRC the LTT chart was all fucked up because, from what I understand, they didn't run the AIO's long enough to let them set in/break in/whateveryouwannacallit in which threw off the entire chart and basically made it useless.
Which is LTT in a nutshell if you think about it.
EDIT: editing in so I don't double post. I don't think Steve is married, let alone to a chinese wife. IIRC he learned chinese to make business trips easier. No worrying about things being lost in translation through a translator and it lets him wander the myriad of random tech shops and talk to the people there 1 on 1 like when he bought that ultra shitty handheld PC (I think it was a MSI I can't remember).

 

[Susanna]

IIRC the LTT chart was all fucked up because, from what I understand, they didn't run the AIO's long enough to let them set in/break in/whateveryouwannacallit in which threw off the entire chart and basically made it useless.

That would have made the water coolers overperform, not underperform.

 

[AltisticRight]

There will be a particular focus on your stance around ‘right of reply’ since it affects accuracy so much, and there will also be some discussion around misquoting (as in the recent Honey video) and your inability to address your clear conflicts of interest when it comes to covering an entity that you have chosen to view as a direct competitor, rather than a collaborator or peer, as you did in the past.

Hey Lilith, first this block of text is one entire fucking sentence. Then, you're not good at manipulation so stop trying. Collaborator/peer isn't defined by enabling your retard behaviour.

If you have some comments and evidence on what break-downs caused your inaccurate coverage of us in the past, why you seem to personally find it so challenging to cover us objectively, and what steps you plan to make to rectify these issues in the future, I would be happy to include your thoughts in the segment.

A paragraph shouldn't be just one sentence, Lilith. Canadian education? Not even once. Canadian healthcare? You might want to consider that.

As for the personal side of things, I can’t ask you to like me. You clearly disagree, on a personal, MORAL basis, with some things I do. Which ones are real, and which ones are performative, I’m not sure anymore, but it doesn't really matter. That’s your personal compass, and you gotta follow it.

Fag.

I also expect that if you cover us publicly in the future, you do so with honesty, impartiality, and proper disclosure of your numerous conflicts of interest. With that said, regardless of your motives in ‘23, your actions DID served as a wake-up call for us to supercharge the changes we were slow-rolling

>Guise guise we were slowly going to change anyway, but yeah thank you for bashing us because it made us change quicker
Emotional ex-girlfriend antics. Are you a man?
>DID served [sic]
Linus, DID is an established abbreviation. Disassociative Identity Disorder, you might want to look into it.

From GN:

We also have had a lot we have wanted to be open about, but have struggled to do so because of the perceptions of drama, friendship, and expectations of media protecting “their own.” That's something that I feel having full disclosure and open sharing of facts and opinions would greatly help with.

I mean, yeah?
That's the problem isn't it?
>I am criticising someone I am friendly with and I don't want to seem biased
This is fine but to compensate for the friendship, a lot of people would simply go to the opposite extreme. That's not journalism or neutrality, it's bias in the opposite direction.
Too soft? Well you're friends.
Too hard? It's because of above.
That should have been Linus' central thesis to his BPD letter, but he's too dumb to understand it.

 

[BigGuyOS 6 : Jovial Janny]

Let me get this straight.
Linus runs a media company that exclusively reports tech news and reviews tech products, and he is the primary talent for said media company. But he's NOT a journalist? Does he realize he's been reporting on the tech industry for the past decade+?
Also, he considers it "a hobby". That the difference in professionalism, because GN clearly considers it a job.

 

[Gunlance]

Clipped out the 23 minute segment at the beginning of the WAN show where he's talking about GN
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Linus literally bitching that his corporation didn't get to make up a PR statement before someone points out their fuckups. "oh we totally could have explained everything and added extra context to why we did bad thing". Yeah that doesn't change that you did the bad thing there bud.

Edit: Fuck me I didn't realize this faggot has lower 3rd banner ads running throughout. What a money grubbing bitch.

Edit 2: This guy is literally saying he's doing this to protect the little guy. He's upset about a clip where he said it wasn't worth trying to stand up for the little guy because people wouldn't back him or believe him, but now it's totally all about standing up for the little guy. What a fake two faced cunt.

Also, "we should praise people when they do good work, but that should be a two way street". Mans literally crying that GN doesn't sing his praises when he *checks notes* fucks up his benchmarks and doesn't tell people about scandals.

 

[WULULULULU]

Why are the commenters in GN's community post filled to the brim with fucking babies? "But I respect both of you guys", shut the fuck up nigger. Linus is not the innocent uwu techtuber he is. GN has the right to hold moral accountability up, something most techtubers will never admit they are shit in.

 

[Dan of Steel]

wordswordswords

Nigga, people don't care about the facts of this because this is just gay Youtuber drama. I like Internet fights, Linus is a soyfaced Canadian bitch that has said cringe shit like "supporting sex workers" or all the other gay shit that he's tweeted and people have archived. Him being the face of a multimillion dollar company and acting like an unprofessional spastic child because he was criticized in the past for being unprofessional just makes it even funnier.
I'm just here for the nerd fight.

 

[i440BX]

Linus threw Steve under the bus first. Steve defended himself and fucked off, went back to doing his own thing. This was only brought up again since Steve wants to pursue litigation against Honey and Linus just so happens to be the origin of where the honey scam was first found out.

Personal vendetta? Funny, because Linus came back after 2 years when Steve forgot about the whole situation. Linus came onto the podcast, completely felted and had all this shit prepared because of how much of a grudge he has against Steve.

Please format your posts better. It's like your enter key is broken or you're a redditor that remembered you have a kiwifarms account.

Also don't forget Steve warned Linus of his channel getting hacked. So the fact that Steve has a grudge against Linus is not true.

 

[AltisticRight]

Steve is married? Sauce please. I always thought he was gay because of the way he looked at some of the people he interviews.

Yeah, and she's Chinese. I don't know or care about the type of Chinese (Mainland or HK/TW etc.) because it's irrelevant.
Like a real man, he separates his family from the brand entirely. I'm sure you can find photos of her if you dig deep enough but as I said, who cares? Steve isn't the one out there going "omg bro ricecooking is great guise get this vax and ten more vax", gay retard shit nobody cares about.

Linus on the other hand had his wife running the fucking HR side of the business which was stupid. Her role in the company should have been merchandise/promotion, not something where her marital status would have impeded judgement.

Let's say Linus is completely in the right for the sake of the argument.

He absolutely is correct about the "right to respond" part. It's done in the same way that our justice system assumes innocence. One should always reach out for a formal response to make the case more robust.
Steve isn't a journalist though, or he's the hedge fund type of journalism -- gather deets, publish them.
Sort of like how a certain fruity bird site works. There's obvious benefits to both approaches. For us, we do so to avoid the subjects going "DFE". I assume the same goes with GN. Often or not their subjects of investigation will just nuke everything, causing an even bigger logistical mess which then allows them to lie about what's happening. They can put together a gay lying PR statement in 5 minutes and it'll take 5 days to tear it apart because they nuked everything.

 

[and six goriilion others]

(Timestamped at 15:22 when Steve brings up Linus to never bring him up again.)

This is what Linus is mad about? He looked comically evil with the pretend crying about smaller channels getting fucked, and Steve just said that that's a bad side to take (because it's fucking retarded). I don't even get how Linus thought his stance wasn't retarded. Man he really doesn't like being pointed out as doing retarded shit.

 

[Mr.Bucket]

Yeah, and she's Chinese. I don't know or care about the type of Chinese (Mainland or HK/TW etc.) because it's irrelevant.

I've been googling and can't find any mention at all about his marital status.

 

[likeacrackado]

After watching the clips I can somewhat understand where Linus is coming from. The clip used in the Honey video is without the context of the question he was responding to. It was still a stupid thing to say 'people will hate me either way so I shouldn't do the right thing'. GN's obsession with muh tech journalism is a little over the top and Steve puts himself on a high pedestal for not being a shill.

Linus could've a) ignored it completely b) reached out privately with a simple offer to explain himself or c) released a short public statement explaining his perspective, instead of this crybully bullshit. He's borderline unhinged for reading random youtube comments at his channel size and combing through GN's comment section to find a few people critiquing them.

 

[big dumb]

Aw sweet! A new tech-freak slapfight!