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

[Susanna]

Top Gear (nor the BBC) didn't buy all those supercars, they were loaned to them by the manufacturers for publicity. In this they were very much like Linus and the other tech youtubers. And just like Linus and the tech youtubers, the best content is the stuff where they're not just formulaically driving some silly sports car around a track or waving the latest motherboard in the air, it's when they do fun things like "drive across Africa in cheap European cars with absolutely zero design for offroading" or "using only craigslist ewaste, compete to build watercooled gaming computers" or "drive motorcycles across Vietnam" or "Watercool a whole room of computers with a single loop". Difference is, the Top Gear trio were funny even to someone like me, who otherwise doesn't care much for the crass humour and oneupmanship car show stuff, while Linus and his employees have the combined charisma of a wet sock. Like, I could watch James May disassemble a toy train for an hour, even though I have zero interest whatsoever in toy trains (or trains of any sort), but just because I like James May. I wouldn't watch Linus disassemble a computer for an hour, even though he probably would be as enthusiastic about that as James about his childhood toy, because Linus just isn't pleasant to listen to. He probably could be if he wanted to, but that's not the persona he's cultivated.

+1 for the farming series, it's done a lot to redeem Clarkson in my eyes. I didn't use to think much of him, but I think in the farming series he does show another side that genuinely cares about the farmers around him. It's telling that when he wants to set up a restaurant at the farm to capitalise off his fame, the farmers around him are ecstatic because it means they'll be able to sell their milk and pork and barley as overpriced local produce to a huge mass of people with disposable income to spare, while the local city council, representing wealthy retirees, oppose it strenuously and in violation of the spirit of the law, because it would mean building a parking lot.

 

[Slav Power]

Top Gear fell apart after they didn't pay their hosts enough money

Actually, from what I remember it was because Clarkson got into a scandal where he punched a producer after a series of other controversies, BBC kicked him out, and both May and Hammond resigned because they wouldn't continue doing Top Gear without Clarkson. And then Amazon picked them up and they ended up being off in a better position than they were working with BBC.

 

[Nabeshin]

you know management is gonna put their finger on the scale.

99%(I claim even 100% a most of the times) of people on a company don't need Administrator privileges on their account even more on a public company like LTT. The worst thing is that Linus and Luke don't understand that, they could have an AD for all users and create an account with administrator privileges but that doesn't let you log-in on any system with it. So they could easily do their work in a way safer environment.

But they are so retarded, that like on the WAN Show that Linus leaked his house by plugging his personal laptop on the capture card and doxxing his mansion, he would give Administrative privileges to him, luke and almost everyone there when asked because he can't be bothered to type an username and password on a box

 

[quaawaa]

Top Gear fell apart after they didn't pay their hosts enough money

That wasn't the reason why (@Slav Power gave the correct answer), but Clarkson and friends were horrendously underpaid at the BBC. They each earned around £1 million/year, which isn't a small amount of money, but Top Gear was the most popular TV show in the entire world with 350 million weekly viewers. They were paid a tiny share of the value they brought to the network. Top Gear was also one of the only profitable shows that the BBC had and it subsidized everything else.

 

[Chongqing]

Thanks for the correction on Clarkson. I remember thinking back then that the situation could have worked if they were paid fairly, but maybe that was oversimplifying it.

I think there's a reason why people still bring up Scrapyard Wars, or driving in Africa on Top Gear, and that's the realness of it. A lot of people have to make situations like that work for whatever reason.

 

[WelperHelper99]

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This thumbnail made me feel physically sick

The plugs are fine, I approve plug autism... but that face bruh, that scruffy chin, how does this have 755k views with that kind of repulsion?

 

[Susanna]

The plugs are fine

I’m sure one of them is. The other plug is SCART, which is most definitely not fine. My childhood was spent climbing behind screens to plug those in because I was the smallest and could sort of fit, and they were a menace. They were very finicky about going in even under perfect conditions, and the pins would bend from a stiff breeze. They also refused to stay in once you’d gone through all that hassle, and would pop out on their own once a week. Leave it to the French to come up with good ideas like “let’s have a single universal plug for audio and video” at the same time as “let’s make it absolutely awful”.

 

[WelperHelper99]

I’m sure one of them is. The other plug is SCART, which is most definitely not fine. My childhood was spent climbing behind screens to plug those in because I was the smallest and could sort of fit, and they were a menace. They were very finicky about going in even under perfect conditions, and the pins would bend from a stiff breeze. They also refused to stay in once you’d gone through all that hassle, and would pop out on their own once a week. Leave it to the French to come up with good ideas like “let’s have a single universal plug for audio and video” at the same time as “let’s make it absolutely awful”.

Really I just meant talking about weird old plugs in general. There were so many ideas even if some of them sucked

 

[Slav Power]

I’m sure one of them is. The other plug is SCART, which is most definitely not fine. My childhood was spent climbing behind screens to plug those in because I was the smallest and could sort of fit, and they were a menace. They were very finicky about going in even under perfect conditions, and the pins would bend from a stiff breeze. They also refused to stay in once you’d gone through all that hassle, and would pop out on their own once a week. Leave it to the French to come up with good ideas like “let’s have a single universal plug for audio and video” at the same time as “let’s make it absolutely awful”.

At the same time, SCART was HDMI of the 70's, and in Europe it's so widespread that you can get brand new DVB-T2 decoders that have a SCART connector and you can plug it into ancient CRT TV's and still receive the newest TV channels and watch them on that old ass TV that on it's own cannot show anything because all analog signals got shut off in Europe. It was an incredibly futureproof for a standard made in 70's while NA had to rely on RF switchboxes and cinch connectors. I can't blame Anthony for liking it so much, given NA never got anything like this before the dawn of digital signals and HDMI.

 

[Susanna]

At the same time, SCART was HDMI of the 70's, and in Europe it's so widespread that you can get brand new DVB-T2 decoders that have a SCART connector and you can plug it into ancient CRT TV's and still receive the newest TV channels and watch them on that old ass TV that on it's own cannot show anything because all analog signals got shut off in Europe. It was an incredibly futureproof for a standard made in 70's while NA had to rely on RF switchboxes and cinch connectors. I can't blame Anthony for liking it so much, given NA never got anything like this before the dawn of digital signals and HDMI.

Know what other parallell connectors existed in the 70s? D-sub, RJ-type telephone plugs (but I don't think they were yet standardised), DIN (kind of like an upscaled S-video, but actually not garbage), and simply three connectors with colour-coded plugs. Apart from one which remembers you to remember the correct order of three colours, each of them can be easily plugged in without looking, each one is more likely to stay in (D-sub in particular will never come out unintentionally, I've seen ewaste CRTs carried by the VGA cable, swung around for momentum, and chucked five metres into a dumpster), and each one is more resilient to bent pins (which is saying something, considering D-sub doesn't have a great reputation).
I'd go so far as to say only S-video is a worse connector. Some of SCARTs faults are down to the standards of the time, it needed to carry disgustingly high loads for a data signal, but I would rather have the three colour-coded plugs to attach, than one SCART. Maybe it was just my dad constantly buying weird imported electronics, but every single time I plugged something into the TV it had the three colour-coded plugs and a SCART adapter. It was never SCART to SCART. SCART thus solely existed to make my childhood home theatre nights annoying, because I could never just put a casette into the player or a DVD into the playstation, I had to first squeeze behind the screen and mess with the stupid SCARTs. I'm convinced they would fall out every week from the vibrations of people walking past.

 

[AnimuGinger]

Linus is too easily swayed. You have people commenting that they find one host annoying, and they are basically gone. On the other hand, if they respond positively to someone, they will show up everywhere - which ends up generally backfiring as then people start to find them annoying.

I'm pretty sure this is how Madison ended up hired at LTT. An army of simps, and now most of them probably don't even remember her.

 

[SAFSPRIN]

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Ah Scart. The bane of my fucking existence as a child. If we got a new system in the house, I was the one to climb behind the system and try to plug it in. I swear, USB learned how to do that multiple flip before you get it right trick. You'd go to plug it in, wrong way so flip, wrong way and flip again, now you got it!

Oh, you're moving back out? Let me play you the song of my people, which is the CLUNK of the plug slipping out of the socket and slapping against something.

You'd have to really jam those fuckers in to make sure you got it right. And you'd think a scart switch would help, but nooooooo, not one bit. Why? Because the scart cable from the box to the TV would always be oriented wrong, and the much thicker cable would get jammed right up against the TV shell or something else, meaning it was just a matter of time before it slipped back out and You'd be back there doing it all over again.

Composite though, the 3 colors (Red - Right Audio, White - Left Audio, and Yellow - Video) were super easy to get right. Only complaint about that is if you plugged them in wrong, You'd get jumpscared by the video signal being interpreted as Audio. Because, you know, dumb af systems. Other than that, great cable plugs. Never came loose unless you fucked up the grounding circle.

I'd prefer to plug and switch composite cables around on the front of my TV than ever reach behind to change a scart.

 

[Kheapathic]

At the same time, SCART was HDMI of the 70's, and in Europe it's so widespread that you can get brand new DVB-T2 decoders that have a SCART connector and you can plug it into ancient CRT TV's and still receive the newest TV channels and watch them on that old ass TV that on it's own cannot show anything because all analog signals got shut off in Europe. It was an incredibly futureproof for a standard made in 70's while NA had to rely on RF switchboxes and cinch connectors. I can't blame Anthony for liking it so much, given NA never got anything like this before the dawn of digital signals and HDMI.

People with older consoles who still want to play stuff on newer TVs and such also spring for SCART. Granted you end up having to buy a convertor or two; but especially Sega stuff, if you want an excellent to perfect signal, they swear by paying the money and get SCART.

As an aside, an interesting thing about PAL/Region 2 in the HDMI era is the Metal Gear Solid Collection (this is on the PS3, no idea about the 360). If you weren't using an HDMI cable with the console/game, beating the game on Hard (or higher) difficulty was literally impossible. There's a part in the game where you have to freeze demolition charges, and the location of these change depending on the difficulty. On the higher difficulties, one of them is on a conveyor belt and you have to track it down as it moves; but for some reason, in the EU/PAL region, if you weren't using HDMI, the artifacts (or whatever the technical term is) simply would not load; on screen or in the background.

 

[74164978231]

Instead, his current direction reminds me of the British show Top Gear. The banter between the show's three hosts is what made it work, but then it seems like they got the idea that it's the expensive "super cars" they review that made people watch the show. So, every episode, a million dollar car. Showing us exactly how the million dollar car works. What kind of wood grain it has, what kind of leather, its lap time, everything.

That shit is a massive problem with social media content creators.
They start off producing good genuine content but then when they blow up they go from providing new informative content to mutating into this parasocial shit that tangentially covers what they used to.

Great example of this is guntuber Garand Thumb. 2-3 years ago his videos where of just him with almost all of the video showing off the specific firearm/product he was covering, no fluff no non sense. Now his videos are filled with 3-4 hangerons, constant banter and jokes as if youre there with him fucking around for the day.

That shit is fucking dumb. Im not some loser who uses social media to fill a void in the human condition.

 

[MechanicalHugbox]

Re: Hating Linus
I don't hate Linus, I barely even dislike him. Hell I regularly watch his videos out of boredom and because while he's far from the best tech YouTuber and his videos have filled with his clear lack of any real knowlege outside of gaming and marketing, its light entertainment that I don't really have to think to follow. That is his target audience even if he likes to pretend that his target is "enthusiasts" and while he doesn't get into nearly as much detail as he should, the broad strokes are okay (This GPU good, this GPU overpriced ect).
However, I'm not going to pretend all his dumb drama is funny as fuck, and his rampant mismanagement and questionable moves are funny to watch and point at, a lot of the time he breaks the rule of If you don't understand it, don't rant about it to the world at large and make yourself look like a jackaass. His employees are probably more lolcows than he is (looking at you Anthony) but he can't seem to bring himself to do anything besides enable them. Hell if she wasn't so good at staying at least somewhat private I could see Yvonne being one of the bigger LTT cows, but she can hide most of her faults behind her husband. Linus is just an average PC gaming circlejerker who got lucky and is now trying to be a big boy tech youtuber when his peak was making dumb over the top PC builds and giving broad strokes PC part reviews

 

[mandatorylurk]

A totally "objective" employee interview about working for Linus, someone's ego needed to be assuaged. Nothing feels sincere, a lot of qualifiers for criticism that remind me of the compliment sandwich, that Tanner faggot just makes me want to punch him every time I see or hear him because he's constantly putting on a bit because he thinks he's a funny man (who gained 30 lbs since working at LTT, so he says). I believe this might be a set up to have Linus show up and go "we will not be doing a video a day in order to protect the wellbeing of my employees," which would be fine if you had 10 employees, not 100, I can't feel sympathy when you're at that level. It is also worth noting Dennis, Edzel, and Luke were not interviewed for this, nor that other guy who's been there forever who does the business end.

The only thing that feels genuine is people talking about how there is no parking, and that they should move locations to a cheaper place in Leaf Land. This video also points out the modeling the underwear thing with regards to the weirdest thing while working at LTT, it's actually becoming creepy and might be a weird fetish power thing. I used to feel sorry for Colton being this midget who gets made fun of but the guy admits to having all these tattoos he gets of LTT brands and sponsors so the guy's a weird corpo cuck.

 

[batigol]

Fuck me, fragile ego much. Nothing else really needs to be said about that video.

 

[Empress.]

This snippet from the latest video where they played it straight really had me cracking up

 

[1988 prick]

A totally "objective" employee interview about working for Linus, someone's ego needed to be assuaged. Nothing feels sincere, a lot of qualifiers for criticism that remind me of the compliment sandwich, that Tanner faggot just makes me want to punch him every time I see or hear him because he's constantly putting on a bit because he thinks he's a funny man (who gained 30 lbs since working at LTT, so he says). I believe this might be a set up to have Linus show up and go "we will not be doing a video a day in order to protect the wellbeing of my employees," which would be fine if you had 10 employees, not 100, I can't feel sympathy when you're at that level. It is also worth noting Dennis, Edzel, and Luke were not interviewed for this, nor that other guy who's been there forever who does the business end.

The only thing that feels genuine is people talking about how there is no parking, and that they should move locations to a cheaper place in Leaf Land. This video also points out the modeling the underwear thing with regards to the weirdest thing while working at LTT, it's actually becoming creepy and might be a weird fetish power thing. I used to feel sorry for Colton being this midget who gets made fun of but the guy admits to having all these tattoos he gets of LTT brands and sponsors so the guy's a weird corpo cuck.

Linus just couldn't wait a year to suck his own dick for how much of a great boss he is...
The video just feels like copium after the LMG employee handbook leak and it doesn't even matter of its true or not cuz this is literally the worst way to do it.

I wish for the day that one black employee in their company to just get sassy and go ape-shit (pun intended).

 

[tehpope]

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