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

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Waifu Denier said:
It is a shame too that a lot of big Chinese techtubers still take LTT as a serious channel as well, even as of late.
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It's a shame their sponsors do. Imagine paying $50,000 to Tech-QVC for them to shill your product for 15 minutes, but it's constantly broken up by them trying to sell their own hats instead and the video is raped with the maximum amount of adsense interuptions and pre-rolls that they pocket.

I guess that explains why their sponsors are mostly just chink-shit now. A reputable company would withhold payment for that sort of shithousery.
 
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Crispy Jakes said:
It's a shame their sponsors do. Imagine paying $50,000 to Tech-QVC for them to shill your product for 15 minutes, but it's constantly broken up by them trying to sell their own hats instead and the video is raped with the maximum amount of adsense interuptions and pre-rolls that they pocket.

I guess that explains why their sponsors are mostly just chink-shit now. A reputable company would withhold payment for that sort of shithousery.
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Sponsors seem to know that LTT has enough devotees that will buy up their shit that its worth it. Look how much overpriced merch they sell. People buy shit so their "mech message" gets read on the wan show.
 
Rei is Shit. said:
Spending shitloads on the camera instead of lenses is how you know its gearwhoring.
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Earlier in the thread when the RED camera was brought up, someone mentioned that maybe the camera crew took him to the cleaners so they can mess around with expensive shit. I'd believe it, he's a spend first, ask questions later guy, especially for content. As for how useful it is to shoot in 69k, you can see for yourself on Steam's hardware survey. Keep in mind that Youtube compression will kill the quality anyway, and the YT Premium "enhanced bitrate" is only for 1080p60 (I think, LTT's vids don't even have the option):
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Camera lenses that was used back in the days when shoting film didn't even have the sharpness to be above a certain resolution (in pixels) anyways, even if it's on films, it's probably not a sharp image. This is why there are movies that were shot on film never had a 4K release, the lenses just didn't cover the quality needed for a 4K image, so they just went with a high bitrate 1080p for the bluray release instead.

For LTT I think I saw a behind the scenes video where the camera setting was 4:2:0 (8 bit color), 4K. This means that the high dynamic range that these cameras can shot is disabled (they can do 10 and 12 bit), and since he has studio lighting, as you said: he can literally just use a $1000 vlog camera, and get exactly the same quality for editing. I really hope it was just a meme in his video, but it was from the viewfinder I saw this, the clip was from 2 years ago.
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Lenses don't have "sharpness" they have diffraction limits, and that is going to be a product of the lens design + aperture.

How bad that diffraction limits apparent sharpness will depend on the film, both the size of the grains and size of the film. Expensive films would be shot in 70mm, super cheap shit might be 8mm, with 35mm being the typical choice for most mid-range films and even tv shows. That film size has a far greater impact on apparent sharpness than anything else.

Oh, and lenses haven't really changed for a long time - ray tracing was being used in the late 1800s to design lenses. The big change since then has been coatings + big reductions in cost. A fixed focal length Carl Zeiss from 100 years ago is 'sharper' than any zoom on the market right now (at the same focal length ;^)
 
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Rei is Shit. said:
Lenses don't have "sharpness" they have diffraction limits, and that is going to be a product of the lens design + aperture.

How bad that diffraction limits apparent sharpness will depend on the film, both the size of the grains and size of the film. Expensive films would be shot in 70mm, super cheap shit might be 8mm, with 35mm being the typical choice for most mid-range films and even tv shows. That film size has a far greater impact on apparent sharpness than anything else.

Oh, and lenses haven't really changed for a long time - ray tracing was being used in the late 1800s to design lenses. The big change since then has been coatings + big reductions in cost. A fixed focal length Carl Zeiss from 100 years ago is 'sharper' than any zoom on the market right now (at the same focal length ;^)
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Close but not quite. There's manufacturing tolerances with today's lenses so you can happily pixel peep on your 60MP full frame camera with amazing sharpness even at the edge of the image. There's also a whole Lomo genre with deliberately shit lenses.

There has also been advances in material science for glass, especially low dispersion elements for chromatic aberration correction, and frankly that is difficult since visible light runs across around 400-800nm that bends differently. It can mostly be corrected with achromatic doublets but not perfectly, but its good enough for most cases.

Lastly for video focused lenses, they're so goddamn expensive that $4000 is a babby manual lens. The reason behind that are features like automatic mechanical breathing compensation, parafocal capability, color shift compensation and guaranteed fixed transmissibility. None of these features are relevant for stills photography.

Tldr: Hollywood directors might care how the video color tone and shift comes out but none of this matters for youtube videos.
 
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i think the largest part of why they overdo everything on the production set is one note: they're the true and honest premier tech youtube channel and they are legit.... at least in the mind of one canadian manlet. And said manlet or the forces that now pull his strings says that everything needs to be perfect, scripted and expensively lit and shot, then they, the mega tech tubers with their own office building filled to the brim with people hes buys with all this money he gets from whoring out to anything he can slap the logo on, they can edit their 64k video on super beefy machines powered by cards that they poorly reviewed.
Is it unnecesary? Yes. Is it expensive to process and store that amount of footage? Yes. Is it cool though? Also yes.
In the end, Linus isnt a business man, no matter how hard he tries to learn, at heart, hes still a weird little tech nerd who is now able to buy the friends he didnt have in highschool, and the price of maintaining all that control has reached levels that you simply cant hope to meet
 
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One of the selling points of the RED is that it can be adapted to use DSLR lenses. That used to be a big deal when everyone was curious about the Scarlet and Epic. In practice, lenses for stills breath with the exception of a few models. A good DP should make it work, but then you have the lighting requirements.

There's still no reason for them to use a fancy cam for their videos. The following is just a tacit admission:
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For LTT I think I saw a behind the scenes video where the camera setting was 4:2:0 (8 bit color), 4K. This means that the high dynamic range that these cameras can shot is disabled (they can do 10 and 12 bit), and since he has studio lighting, as you said: he can literally just use a $1000 vlog camera, and get exactly the same quality for editing. I really hope it was just a meme in his video, but it was from the viewfinder I saw this, the clip was from 2 years ago.
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ENDTOPII said:
Camera lenses that was used back in the days when shoting film didn't even have the sharpness to be above a certain resolution (in pixels) anyways, even if it's on films, it's probably not a sharp image. This is why there are movies that were shot on film never had a 4K release, the lenses just didn't cover the quality needed for a 4K image, so they just went with a high bitrate 1080p for the bluray release instead.
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For a while, I was actually bothered by how sharp some images got. It sometimes got to the point where I could see details on the actor/tress faces that were usually covered up by cosmetics and filming techniques.
 
I've yet to see a noticeable rise in camera quality in LTT videos since 2019, it's all nothing but a waste of money.

Whatever Linus is doing, these past two weeks have kinda sucked to where I just look at the thumbnails and don't even watch to assess the damage:

-a ridiculous wide monitor with no practical use
-another POV build video that cratered in views
-a techquickie filler video about tabs on Google Chrome
-fancier but even more gay watercooling loops
-the pool cleaning paid advertisment mentioned earlier with a very brutal uggo Linus face on the thumbnail
-an old PC build from 20 years ago
-an Aliexpress video with that faggot Tanner on the thumb which means I will never watch it.

He is firmly settling into the 900-1million view range, when he used to at least get 1.5-2 million after a few days. Finish the job, Steve.
 
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mandatorylurk said:
He is firmly settling into the 900-1million view range, when he used to at least get 1.5-2 million after a few days. Finish the job, Steve.
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This is the most annoying part of LTT fan base who still cling to the "GN didn't really hurt LTT" belief. It is almost unheard of for major influencer channels to just get immediately cancelled and close up over night. Instead it's the more delayed approach of "This channel has lost its credibility and will begin to stagnate until eventual collapse" which definitely seems to be what's happening to LTT.

They will still be around for awhile longer but we're probably pretty close to getting announced downsizing masqueraded as whatever corporate PR approach they want to call it. Refocusing, re-dedicating to core viewer's interests, etc.
 
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archived tweet

man that tweet is a work of art.
note the sly use of words. they're not saying there wasn't sexual harassment - they're pointing out that "allegations of sexual harassment weren't investigated was false".

also what the fuck is this:
At this time, we feel our case for a defamation suit would be very strong; however, our deepest wish is to simply put all of this behind us. We hope that will be the case, given the investigator’s clear findings that the allegations made online were misrepresentations of what actually occurred. We will continue to assess if there is persistent reputational damage or further defamation.
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This is entirely unnecessary and tbh, i'm kinda shocked it made it into the tweet. they've learned absolutely nothing. there's no way this tweet didn't pass by several people and likely, their legal team before posting.

if they feel they have a case, then sue her ass and let the courts settle it. what the fuck? if she's been lying out her ass this entire time, then she deserves it. proceeding to dangle the threat of legal-action against all of your current and future employees if they speak out is just unfathomably stupid.
 
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