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

[Miller]

Geez, the lab cost 13 million CAD ($10.3m USD). And it wasn't cash on hand, they financed it. That's a hell of a gamble for a single company almost entirely dependent on YouTube.

Info around 37:00. He's explaining a letter to his Floatplane people and says they have about 21k subscribers over there, and they will be "increasingly reliant" on them for revenue as he expects the lab reviews to piss off hardware sponsors. That's an even bigger gamble, undercutting a main revenue stream and relying on a bespoke streaming platform.

Why did he create the lab? The purpose of LTT is to shill for new products whilst pretending to be critical through their sponsored "reviews". If his company starts doing actual reviews and tests then he is fucked.

 

[Mega Man II Intro - GB]

Why did he create the lab? The purpose of LTT is to shill for new products whilst pretending to be critical through their sponsored "reviews". If his company starts doing actual reviews and tests then he is fucked.

Maybe he got tired of being a pretend tech guy and wants to be "legitimate". Which is a mistake if you're raking in millions from being a bullshit scammer of normies. He doesn't have the kind of personality to run a real business and I suspect he'll find that out the hard way.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

Why did he create the lab? The purpose of LTT is to shill for new products whilst pretending to be critical through their sponsored "reviews". If his company starts doing actual reviews and tests then he is fucked.

Despite having over 9x the subscriber count, I bet Linus boy is intimidated by tech Jesus from Gamers Nexus for having a legitimate and as unbiased as possible review process grounded in science. Linus realizes the content he produces has little to no value.

 

[tehpope]

Why did he create the lab? The purpose of LTT is to shill for new products whilst pretending to be critical through their sponsored "reviews". If his company starts doing actual reviews and tests then he is fucked.

IIRC, its to have another source of revenue to not be required to rely on ads by YT or sponsors.

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He talks about it here.

 

[Smaug's Smokey Hole]

Despite having over 9x the subscriber count, I bet Linus boy is intimidated by tech Jesus from Gamers Nexus for having a legitimate and as unbiased as possible review process grounded in science. Linus realizes the content he produces has little to no value.

Maybe growth like that is part of it. When I first stumbled upon GN they had, and my memory might not be correct, maybe a 5 digit amount of subscribers. That wasn't that long ago and I'll tell you how it happened, but first a message from our sponsor GlassWire *LTT theme*.

 

[Retink]

Maybe he got tired of being a pretend tech guy and wants to be "legitimate". Which is a mistake if you're raking in millions from being a bullshit scammer of normies. He doesn't have the kind of personality to run a real business and I suspect he'll find that out the hard way.

Despite having over 9x the subscriber count, I bet Linus boy is intimidated by tech Jesus from Gamers Nexus for having a legitimate and as unbiased as possible review process grounded in science. Linus realizes the content he produces has little to no value.

Maybe I'm pessimistic but how many viewers are there really for actually scientific tech content? I can't imagine most people would understand if a review is legitimate or if it was true in a sense but half assed in actual valuable information.

 

[Just Some Other Guy]

Maybe I'm pessimistic but how many viewers are there really for actually scientific tech content? I can't imagine most people would understand if a review is legitimate or if it was true in a sense but half assed in actual valuable information.

Lol barely any. Most people who watch GN and shit like that are people who just want to be told what product to buy. Oh, and easy to refer to info that they can just regurgitate without thinking about.

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

how many viewers are there really for actually scientific tech content?

Millions. People want to see how the actual shit works. Nuts & bolts analysis is the only way to peek under the marketing skirt.

 

[Retink]

Millions. People want to see how the actual shit works. Nuts & bolts analysis is the only way to peek under the marketing skirt.

I don't know man, I'm more likely to agree with @Just Some Other Guy on this one as I doubt people will really care about the cleanliness of a wave form or the 0.002 amp variation of their power supply.

I also remember Rossman always saying his live under the microscope board repair videos do way worse than his other random bullshit content.

 

[Poppavalyim Andropoff]

I don't know man, I'm more likely to agree with @Just Some Other Guy on this one as I doubt people will really care about the cleanliness of a wave form or the 0.002 amp variation of their power supply.

If the content is good they’ll reach far beyond the average nvidia fanboy & the like & start attracting the people who actually give a shit about this stuff. I’m talkin industry professionals, academics & just curious people who like watching this stuff but may not be computer nerds.They’ll begone at the first hint of a shill though but keep it science & yeah a big market out there.
A tech channel like AvE or Project Farm tool channels would do well.

 

[Car Won't Crank]

Maybe I'm pessimistic but how many viewers are there really for actually scientific tech content? I can't imagine most people would understand if a review is legitimate or if it was true in a sense but half assed in actual valuable information.

I'd say a lot. Channels like EEvblog are quite big too and he goes deep into various electronics theory. He also balances it out with some fundamentals video series. I think Gamers Nexus is sorta doing the same but from the PC enthusiast technician perspective. Didn't GN also hire some ECE guy?

 

[Just Some Other Guy]

If people really cared about the technical stuff then places like jonnyguru would still be a thing. Where people did actual teardowns of psus to look over every single capacitor. That sort of stuff was fun to read.

Now everyone has short attention spans and need to play YouTuber videos at 1.5x just so they can pretend to be knowledgeable.

 

[Aidan]

I interpreted @Retink's post as how many viewers are there (as in watching LTT stuff) for scientific tech content. There's a genuine nerd demographic for tech on Youtube as mentioned by others before this post but I don't think that there is much overlap with Linus Media and that bunch. Linus is more "pop science" and if he were to shift away from that he'd probably lose a lot of those casual viewers who are there just for existing content.

Maybe my interpretation is wrong but I think it's a risk for Linus to apparently invest so much in something that isn't his bread and butter.

 

[Retink]

I interpreted @Retink's post as how many viewers are there (as in watching LTT stuff) for scientific tech content. There's a genuine nerd demographic for tech on Youtube as mentioned by others before this post but I don't think that there is much overlap with Linus Media and that bunch. Linus is more "pop science" and if he were to shift away from that he'd probably lose a lot of those casual viewers who are there just for existing content.

Maybe my interpretation is wrong but I think it's a risk for Linus to apparently invest so much in something that isn't his bread and butter.

It's a mix of both really. In my opinion the person just looking to be told what crap to buy with very surface level justification is probably way more common than the person who wants a deep dive, and Linus caters to the former as opposed to the latter. I'm sure someone can make a successful channel off of exploring tech in an in depth sense, but I think it's going to be a smaller channel than what Linus has now and it will probably have a much harder time breaking out to any kind of main stream.

There's a reason why people eat up shit like "It's solar freaking roadways!" and then when you ask really simple questions about the practicality of them they just repeat "It's solar freaking roadways, omg!" Linus already has the midwit demographic, he should have tried to capture the mouth breathers as opposed to serious tech people. Then again who knows, maybe he's just making up the lab to sound important and it's actually a sex dungeon or something with one oscilloscope sitting in the corner somewhere.

 

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There's a reason why people eat up shit like "It's solar freaking roadways!" and then when you ask really simple questions about the practicality of them they just repeat "It's solar freaking roadways, omg!" Linus already has the midwit demographic, he should have tried to capture the mouth breathers as opposed to serious tech people. Then again who knows, maybe he's just making up the lab to sound important and it's actually a sex dungeon or something with one oscilloscope sitting in the corner somewhere.

It's a balance. Quality content can win in some cases. The guy behind ArduinoVsEvil has better than 1m subscribers, because he's smart, relatable to your regular joe, and funny. The problem is that unlike soyfaced morons pumping out a consistent schedule of videos every day like Linus Inc does, it's hard to take that team of one and expand it to a bunch of similarly quality people who similarly relate to the viewers, at the level of subscribers LTT has.

What it really shows is how disposable Linus himself always was. He could kill himself tomorrow like Grant Thompson, the 'King of Random' channel guy did, after the feds charged him for lighting firecrackers in his backyard, and his chinkwife would find some random guy with a better jaw line to carry the channel on, probably a whole lot better than Grant's fill-in's have done since he flew into a cliff at 60mph to stop the feds from taking his kids livelihood away.

 

[Just Some Other Guy]

It's a balance. Quality content can win in some cases.

Sure, in the same way that 2 things always have some sort of 'balance', even if that means one of the scales is plowing itself down into the ground.

 

[seri0us]

What it really shows is how disposable Linus himself always was. He could kill himself tomorrow like Grant Thompson, the 'King of Random' channel guy did, after the feds charged him for lighting firecrackers in his backyard, and his chinkwife would find some random guy with a better jaw line to carry the channel on, probably a whole lot better than Grant's fill-in's have done since he flew into a cliff at 60mph to stop the feds from taking his kids livelihood away.

Teach me more about King of Random (Formerly Grant's)

 

[BlueSpark]

Teach me more about King of Random (Formerly Grant's)

The channel has been run by Grant's wife since he died. The videos stopped doing so well a while ago and she fired one of the two main hosts, Calli, and the other, Nate, quit shortly after. The new hosts (some of which were hired shortly before Calli was fired) aren't likeable and the channel is spiralling the drain. People speculated that Calli was fired because she came out as bisexual and the wife is a Mormon, but there's no evidence of that, she was probably just let go to cut costs.

Cali is a twitch streamer now and Nate has his own Youtube channel that's doing fairly well. He's had Calli guest in a couple of videos. Here's his video explaining the situation that he made shortly after quitting:

Why I'm No Longer with TKOR

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[tehpope]

The full dream server video. 1.2 pb server (60 x 20tb drives). 200tb NVME server.

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[Slav Power]

The full dream server video.

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