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

[Flaming Dumpster]

That's the tell-tale sign of a pretender (or a shitty entry-level engineer). Any idiot can put together something absurdly complicated to achieve some task and it might even work sometimes. It takes skill, experience, talent and intuition to come up with a simple, elegant alternative that always works.

Describe some simple task that even a raspberry pi is beefy enough to run (modest-performance static web server, for instance) to an MCSE and ask them what they'd recommend, and they'll tell you to buy a $5k software stack (all Microsoft garbage, of course) and $10k in hardware. Then they'll tell you it'll take a week to set up (and they won't be wrong).

Hi moocow, I tried to message you in Teams but it said do not disturb so I thought I'll swing by your desk instead. I've uploaded a design doc for this to Sharepoint and created some ServiceNow tasks for the boss to assign out. Basically we'll need the Azure guys to create the subscription, network guys to allocate a subnet and create the VNet and the infrastructure guys need to create a couple of VMs, one for the Azure App Proxy Connector and another for hosting the app itself.

I'm waiting on the lead to approve this but my best guess is we'll have this setup in about a month assuming it gets all the approvals, budget and passes CAB.

 

[Klokateer636]

Curious question, at what point do people feel like Linus started to become insufferable?

For me, it's when they stopped doing the weird but interesting builds (full room watercooling) and building competitions (Scrapyard Wars).

Once it shifted into "this machine has X components, let's benchmark it" and "here's this product, buy it", it became insufferable.

 

[Aidan]

Curious question, at what point do people feel like Linus started to become insufferable?

For me, it's when they stopped doing the weird but interesting builds (full room watercooling) and building competitions (Scrapyard Wars).

Once it shifted into "this machine has X components, let's benchmark it" and "here's this product, buy it", it became insufferable.

Good question. I started to tune out in 2015 or so as it felt way too shilly. Checked in here and there since then and some videos are alright but never re-subbed.
I like the idea of some of the challenges but the execution is always lacking.

 

[mandatorylurk]

What I see is just so much bloat now. This is still one of their best videos and still works for a build guide three years later:

Yet they tried to make this newer build guide this year that is supposed to never be outdated but it's just so much fucking filler to feel important, I'd much rather watch the video above instead:

 

[Trans Fat 41g]

Curious question, at what point do people feel like Linus started to become insufferable?

For me, it's when they stopped doing the weird but interesting builds (full room watercooling) and building competitions (Scrapyard Wars).

Once it shifted into "this machine has X components, let's benchmark it" and "here's this product, buy it", it became insufferable.

When they started building shit literally no one who isn't some three letter agency glownigger would have use for.

 

[moocow]

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Ah yeah, the Juicero episode was such a classic. God damn that thing (and everyone associated with it) was insane.

Hi moocow, I tried to message you in Teams but it said do not disturb so I thought I'll swing by your desk instead. I've uploaded a design doc for this to Sharepoint and created some ServiceNow tasks for the boss to assign out. Basically we'll need the Azure guys to create the subscription, network guys to allocate a subnet and create the VNet and the infrastructure guys need to create a couple of VMs, one for the Azure App Proxy Connector and another for hosting the app itself.

I'm waiting on the lead to approve this but my best guess is we'll have this setup in about a month assuming it gets all the approvals, budget and passes CAB.

I hate you so, so much.

Just kidding, I love you fam, especially for reminding me I no longer work with people like that.

 

[bifftango]

What I see is just so much bloat now. This is still one of their best videos and still works for a build guide three years later:

Yeah, you're right -- that fella does look pretty bloated. Eat a salad, guy!

 

[The Great Milenko]

Yeah, you're right -- that fella does look pretty bloated. Eat a salad, guy!

He does eat a salad! A Cobb salad with extra chicken and ranch. And 3-4 hardboiled eggs.

Always. Orders a Diet Coke.

 

[Cukimoo]

Has anyone found Anthony's furry profiles yet?

 

[George_Lincoln_Rockwell]

Curious question, at what point do people feel like Linus started to become insufferable?

For me, it's when they stopped doing the weird but interesting builds (full room watercooling) and building competitions (Scrapyard Wars).

Once it shifted into "this machine has X components, let's benchmark it" and "here's this product, buy it", it became insufferable.

After I had cataract surgery and noticed his faggy earrings. It got even worse when he did that video about how his nickname in high school was literally faggot

 

[Slav Power]

After I had cataract surgery and noticed his faggy earrings. It got even worse when he did that video about how his nickname in high school was literally faggot

In what fucking video did he say that

 

[Flaming Dumpster]

In what fucking video did he say that

Fucking hell, it's real.

 

[GhostButt]

Fucking hell, it's real.

The amount of times I've had that video reccomended to me by the ai and I looked at the thumbnail and went "yeaaaa, no. that looks depressing as fuck" Well, I'm sorry you tube algorithm, this was gold all along.

 

[Pissmaster]

Fucking hell, it's real.

and then he went on to dye his hair pink in the 8th grade, after being nicknamed "faggot" for two years

Gee I have no clue why anyone would bully you, Linus

edit:

*inhale*
"You know..."
*heavy exhale*
>voice sounds like he's about to break out into tears any second
"Every car that I've owned, personally, has been second-hand, and, um... to this date, I've driven every single one of them into the ground, and it's not 'cause it gives me some kind of satisfaction to... sit in a vehicle every day with no air conditioning"

lmao how wealthy must you have been all along to talk about never having owned a new car and that's something worth sobbing over?

He goes on to say it's because he hates waste, but how many second-hand thousand dollar cell phones has he had?

 

[JoseRaulChupacabra]

Good question. I started to tune out in 2015 or so as it felt way too shilly. Checked in here and there since then and some videos are alright but never re-subbed.
I like the idea of some of the challenges but the execution is always lacking.

Same here. I was a regular viewer from 2010 to 2014 and steadily lost interest after that. I can still recall some of the things they've been doing in those times, but have hardly any memory of anything more recent other than the latest CPU releases.

 

[Chongqing]

Curious question, at what point do people feel like Linus started to become insufferable?

For me, it's when they stopped doing the weird but interesting builds (full room watercooling) and building competitions (Scrapyard Wars).

Once it shifted into "this machine has X components, let's benchmark it" and "here's this product, buy it", it became insufferable.

From what I can see, the downfall of LTT is the inability of his audience to play along. When it comes to game shows, whether the viewer at home can play along and try to answer questions is what makes viewing a gameshow worthwhile.

I think LTT was kind of like a game show to play along with. If you take a series like scrapyard wars, it was legitimately fun to think that you could go to local e-waste recycling center, get a server board and use it to build a weird looking gaming PC for really cheap.

Now, what is there to relate to? They purchase products that cost more than cars. It's impossible for me to get excited about it because the only people in the world I could imagine being into it would be incredibly wealthy beyond what I could imagine.

Even the video where they created a lawnmowing business to see if kids could save up to buy a powerful laptop for school was legitimately interesting. I felt like I was there counting the money with them.

That magic is now gone.

 

[Letora]

I had no idea there was a thread on LTT and just stumbled across it. To find out that Anthony is a trans-activist is immensely disappointing, though I suppose an obese, perpetually single tech-bro from Tranada didn't have much of a likelihood of being based.

Linus promoting race-mixing because of attractive children is hilarious, considering his children are all ugly. Typical parent thinking their children are the most beautiful in the world.

They look mostly Asian with the worst features of Linus, who is not particularly attractive, and neither is his wife (the only thing she has going for her is that she is thin). His son looks uglier than him, one of his daughters looks like she has down syndrome, and the other one has a pig nose. I honestly think they would have been more attractive if they were 100% Asian. Woops. Being an ugly Wasian male, his son might have trouble finding a relationship, unless Linus can give him a big trust fund.

 

[Pee Cola]

From what I can see, the downfall of LTT is the inability of his audience to play along.

I think LTT was kind of like a game show to play along with. If you take a series like scrapyard wars, it was legitimately fun to think that you could go to local e-waste recycling center, get a server board and use it to build a weird looking gaming PC for really cheap.

Now, what is there to relate to? They purchase products that cost more than cars. It's impossible for me to get excited about it because the only people in the world I could imagine being into it would be incredibly wealthy beyond what I could imagine.

Ignoring my own raging hateboner for Linus' soy face carpetbombing YouTube for a moment, it's obvious that some people (mainly zoomers and late millennials) found him relatable at one stage.

Although Linus is hardly the first YouTuber to lose touch with his audience, I think his loss of touch is particularly egregious, as he hasn't even tried to remain down to earth. He's too busy whoring himself out to sponsors and The Algorithm. It's even more sad when you realise there are plenty of other big YouTubers that at least try and remain relatable, despite a lot of their toys being out of reach for much of their audience.

Mighty Car Mods is a great example of this; despite the fact that Moog and Marty have each got quite nice car collections built up over many years of hard work, they'll still go out and buy cheap nuggets to work on and make videos about. The sort of nuggets that plenty of people are buying as their first car, like old Toyotas and VWs.

At the same time, another chunk of their audience is at the same life stage as those two guys, and can relate to the stuff they do with nice modern day sportscars or appreciating classics, such as Moog's 180SX and Marty's RX-7. All because they too have been working hard for the last 15-20 years and are now buying the cars they lusted after when they first started driving in the '90s.

I realise that cars ≠ computers, but there is a lot of crossover between car YouTube watchers and tech YouTube.

 

[seri0us]

He goes on to say it's because he hates waste, but how many second-hand thousand dollar cell phones has he had?

juging from the ridiculous setup videos his employees probably take them

 

[Car Won't Crank]

Ignoring my own raging hateboner for Linus' soy face carpetbombing YouTube for a moment, it's obvious that some people (mainly zoomers and late millennials) found him relatable at one stage.

Although Linus is hardly the first YouTuber to lose touch with his audience, I think his loss of touch is particularly egregious, as he hasn't even tried to remain down to earth. He's too busy whoring himself out to sponsors and The Algorithm. It's even more sad when you realise there are plenty of other big YouTubers that at least try and remain relatable, despite a lot of their toys being out of reach for much of their audience.

Mighty Car Mods is a great example of this; despite the fact that Moog and Marty have each got quite nice car collections built up over many years of hard work, they'll still go out and buy cheap nuggets to work on and make videos about. The sort of nuggets that plenty of people are buying as their first car, like old Toyotas and VWs.

At the same time, another chunk of their audience is at the same life stage as those two guys, and can relate to the stuff they do with nice modern day sportscars or appreciating classics, such as Moog's 180SX and Marty's RX-7. All because they too have been working hard for the last 15-20 years and are now buying the cars they lusted after when they first started driving in the '90s.

I realise that cars ≠ computers, but there is a lot of crossover between car YouTube watchers and tech YouTube.

I'm surprised you think Mighty Car Mods hasn't lost that initial magic. I used to watch them back in their early days when they were doing those electric turbocharger mythbusting video and other questionable modifications with Turbo Yoda. Recently though, I'd say around 2017ish I think MCM certainly has grown very big and at the same time has become sort of corporate like LTT. Almost everything they do feels formulaic and contrived and sometimes over produced. The video that comes to mind is when they hired a bollywood style dance group to dance in front of one of their cars as part of a really over produced gag. I think some of their video series are even available for consumption on the entertainment devices of some Australian airlines, either Quantas or Jetstar.

I think balance with the audience can still be achieved when one's channel grows very big with multiple sponsors pouring in the money. Some good examples of this are channels like Hoovies Garage, Tavarish, and Matts off road recovery.