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

[Daniel Wallace]

From what I understand, he worked for that company, so he didn't own the plaque, company did. When it went under, plaque was auctioned off, and someone else rightfully got it by outbidding competition.

Oh okay, got it. I was thinking it was his personal plaque, and that he's the one that set up the auction and put it up for sale.
So it's a completely different auction than this Billet Labs situation I'm taking it. Thank you for the explanation.

 

[Astro Galactic Megalul]

Oh okay, got it. I was thinking it was his personal plaque, and that he's the one that set up the auction and put it up for sale.
So it's a completely different auction than this Billet Labs situation I'm taking it. Thank you for the explanation.

The Billet Labs incident happened at Linus' own company auction from what I understand, tax cut charity auction to be more specific.
Meaning it wasn't sold, it's just a transaction accident.

 

[ChromaQuack]

it's just a transaction accident.

Billet labs did not consent for the block to be sold, it was an accident, a consent accident if you will.

 

[Spud gun]

I know I'm late and gay to this, and maybe it got explained somewhere and I missed it, but I'm very confused about this NCIX plaque auction situation. So, Linus had this NCIX channel, had the silver play button, but it somehow got put on auction and he didn't buy it. If it's Linus' plaque, why was it up for sale? Why didn't he just already have it?

Linus didn't own NCIX or its channel(s), he was just a regular employee. He left a few years before it went bankrupt to start up on his own with Linusracemixingtips.

 

[Average K-On Fan]

Some fine gentleman shared me this wonderful little clip. This advice would have been REALLY helpful at the current situation for you Linus.

 

[Belascoarán]

NCIX went bankrupt long after he left to do his own thing so he went to their bankruptcy auction like a vulture looking to buy trophies on the cheap

From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OCZ

Accounting practices[edit]​

Several shareholder lawsuits revolved around questionable accounting practices during 2012.

In a complaint filed in the Northern District of California, the SEC alleged that OCZ's former CEO Ryan Petersen engaged in a scheme to materially inflate OCZ's revenues and gross margins from 2010 to 2012. It separately charged OCZ's former chief financial officer Arthur Knapp for certain accounting, disclosure, and internal accounting controls failures at OCZ. Textbook accounting fraud where you hide losses as a future marketing expense, all without disclosing those liabilities to lenders.

OCZ left a lot of retailers high and dry not paying out massive back end rebates on promotions so they could keep booking revenue reported to lenders at full value versus the promotional value. I wonder if anyone at NCIX was receiving free gear from OCZ while cutting large orders of this sort of product?

 

[Rei is Shit.]

In cases like these we say "Cheapskates pay twice".

You make a stupid choice thinking you'll save money, end up fucking yourself over and losing more than you would've if you just did the reasonable thing initially.

A rich man buys expensive boots, a poor man buys cheap ones.

 

[Sugriva]

 

[Solid Hyrax]

I saw this funny edit of the thumbnail of the cooling block they auctioned off on 4chan.
I didn't see it posted here, so I'm posting for posterity

 

[LGHDR+]

Let's be honest here, this is the kind of company where if you went in as a consultant to check why it keeps bleeding money to produce nothing, you'd walk into the building, ask "what do the people here do?" in every single department and the answer you'd get is "you would not understand, it's very esoteric, too technical, just know they are integral to the company"

You would then come to the conclusion you need to fire 90% of the people there, the board will block you, you will collect your pay and fuck off to watch the explosion from afar.

You just triggered my PTSD.

The worst part of that job was when you told them who to fire/what to do and they just didn't and called you incompetent. Luckily, due to contact law they have to pay anyway. Who's incompetent now?

Oh yeah, the people who paid for the consulting firm, and didn't take the advice that they paid out the ass for.

I will never understand how these people had JUST enough common sense to know that something was fucked up, but the stupidity to hire a team to fix it and then ignore the fucking solution.

 

[xn--mck1c]

How does he manage to turn something about accountability to the audience regarding wrong information into something all about himself?

There won't be a big WAN Show segment about this or anything. Most of what I have to say, I've already said, and I've done so privately.

Privately? As opposed to informing the larger audience of the issues and to watch out for edits that aren't always pinned?

To Steve, I expressed my disappointment that he didn't go through proper journalistic practices in creating this piece. He has my email and number (along with numerous other members of our team)

I'm sure the top priority for Steve is that the audience knows what's going on, not Linus.

There are other issues, but I've told him that I won't be drawn into a public sniping match over this and that I'll be continuing to move forward in good faith as part of 'Team Media'. When/if he's ready to do so again I'll be ready.

"When/if he's ready to do so again I'll be ready." Really? When Steve is ready to do what? Shouldn’t the question instead be when Linus is ready to pull his head out of his ass?

 

[Kiwi Andy]

I didn't know how to feel about Gamer Nexus, but most definitely will be watching their channel now. It seems like they are feeling some sort of responsibility, and watching back some of the vids you guys linked, I like that he doesn't give a fuck about what reviewing serious problems with hardware will do to his relationship to a manufacturer.

GN are good people and well above their competition. Here is a comment der8auer made today specifically on the topic of work ethics and transparency:

"When GN identifies content errors, they re-record the voice-over, which no one else does.
Igor gets paid for testing just like I do. I don't mean for the results, of course, but there is money or samples for specific videos to compensate for the working time. I'm sure Igor won't be influenced by that, but you won't find that at GN.
PCGH and Computerbase also have advertorials. Paid content, which is marked as advertorial, but paid content. That also does not exist at GN. All well-known editors and YouTubers let manufacturers pay for flights or hotels when it comes to traveling abroad.
Gamers Nexus doesn't do that but pays for everything themselves. Sure, Gamers Nexus makes mistakes too, but the way they handle them and the work ethic are on a different level than everyone else.

https://extreme.pcgameshardware.de/threads/linus-tech-tips-gamers-nexus-erhebt-schwerwiegende-anschuldigungen.638278/page-2#post-11379534

 

[MavisBeaconTeachesSnipin]

quality meme from LTT reddit

 

[CYKA RUSH B]

Taking a moment during this celebratory thread to shill for my favorite small-time techtuber. PHD electrical engineer behind the Cybenetics rating system which will soon replace the bullshit 80-plus power supply standard - So far Corsair is on board with it and all their new PSUs show Cybenetics ratings on the front of the box.

Their website:

https://hwbusters.com/

Youtube channel:

https://www.youtube.com/c/hardwarebustersinternational/videos

HW Busters has just completed their second lab:

Moving their lab a 2nd time after a bad experience with landlors of the commercial space they rented:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1CfeJXjmbY

Details on new lab:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FncnOTkv4U

95% completed lab setup in new location:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8secUstoTzM

Bonus Hardware Busters / Gamers Nexus crossover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=waaR9FmjzQc

 

[Faggotdog Niggertail]

GNs video as well as Linus's response is evidence enough that we need to get this thread out of off-topic and into Internet Famous as soon as possible.
If Linus wasn't already an annoying and inaccurate shit-tech influencer, this sealed his deal as an IF lolcow, along with his company.

 

[seri0us]

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The last one with the testbench is so painful to me, mostly because of how close it was to the edge where you're pretty much "tempting fate" at that point.

 

[俺たちファームズでノッテる]

GNs video as well as Linus's response is evidence enough that we need to get this thread out of off-topic and into Internet Famous as soon as possible.
If Linus wasn't already an annoying and inaccurate shit-tech influencer, this sealed his deal as an IF lolcow, along with his company.

That or Career Cow.

 

[CYKA RUSH B]

Linus is getting brutally gaped in the comment section of the latest video. Cringe linus dick riders are being absolutely drowned out by based chads.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJlfOhQ_f1M

 

[Belascoarán]

On today's episode of things that didn't age well:

 

[BulletSpongeRTR]

I'll put $100 on the 3090ti finally getting back to BL busted like a declined Asus RMA.