Of course, while they can't recommend this Taliban IED larping as a PSU, they're still going to throw up an affiliate link in the description with the imperative sentence, "Buy a GameMax GX-1050 Pro 80+ Platinum PSU".
So the one time it's obvious that the content shouldn't be anything other than how it's a piece of shit, to never buy it, etc they still include a fucking affiliate link to it specifically with the text to buy it, and then in the video proceed to have the AI talk about the fucking warranty and cables.
lol this is weak. They included an AFFILIFATE link after a statement SAYING TO BUY THIS EXPLODING PSU as a means for people to identify which product they were testing in their AI voiced "review". They couldn't use a non-affiliate link or just link to the product page on the company's site because...OMG Labs so awesome just take my money.
Relevant clip archived for posterity:
guaranttee Linus thinking the past decade has been "hey i thought it would be a fun idea to do X and i have a fuckload of money, therefore other people would like to do it too and i can charge them out the ass for it!" Not realizing everyone else isn't very rich from youtube nor has his idea of what "fun" is.
Dumbass probably dropped a screw into it. I've seen plenty of electronics pop, spark, smoke, etc. over the years, and yeah nothing like that fountain of sparks without some massive skidmarks and a cloud of smoke from a component. Especially considering it had no load and wasn't even turned on(the switch on the back may have been on, but the PSU itself wasn't actually switched on) However, a screw wobbling around touching things it shouldn't on the 110v side of the PSU could probably do it.
Didn't Bambu Labs do this shit back in January? 2 months ago? And just now Linus is trying to turn it into content after every other 3d printing and tech youtube channel under the sun did so a month or more ago? And then the video itself... he's had these printers for a while(supposedly) but didn't have a filament dryer? Still hasn't printed the extra dessicant packs to go into the AMS units?
I had seen before on the company I work on it's not common but it happens, the best is that when electrolytic capacitors explodes, they have a pungent fried chicken smell, is horrible
Linus: "you're probably wondering, why don't you guys just have a human voice the videos and then have a human fully edit it, and I get it, I would genuinely love to do that, but let me put it this way, so far on this channel we have made an eye watering $138 in AdSense"
What a return on investment Labs turned out to be.
Wow, who would have thought that the business model that works for human generated edutainment content does not work for what is effectively hardware analytics content? Its almost like you need to run different product offerings with different business models oriented towards the target audience. But that'll bring us back to the usual "Who's the target audience" debates, where its still a bit foggy whether they want to make a useful data tool for direct comparisons like GSMArena, or if they're trying to make edutainment like their mainline material reviews.
Oh, so after a week he's got a video to address the bullshit. Claims a 23% failure rate, and that 9 out of 39 of their PSUs died during testing? I'm all for finding faults in products, but that seems so high to the point of maybe they need to determine if they're actually testing the things correctly? He doesn't mention how their testing has been validated.
I think he thought he would be able to leverage his brand name to make it wildly successful, and to be fair that would've been a reasonable assumption on his part. Unfortunately there are lots of people making similar products that churn out AI generated videos etc.
