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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It's not just a metal block, it's a single piece of metal carved into a series of heat pipes or what have you. That's precision cutting that you probably have to get done in a non-shithole country like America or the UK, because getting that shit done in China is a fucking joke. They'd send you back a slab of tin with "fuk u ameirkan pigdog got ur money" engraved inside it instead.

So yeah, $2550 or so for the prototype sounds just about right.
That's another thing, the craftsmanship. Something tells me, just knowing the cost of these machines due to my welding background, not all of this was CnC machined. Probably a lot of this was old school, mills and lathes, due to the cost of getting good used ones for cheap. You can use both with extreme accuracy if you know what you're doing, its just slower, which for a start up company where $2500 means a fuck ton, would be a wise move.
 
Am I the only one who thinks an accusation of sexual harassment detracts from more interesting controversies? If Linus is directly responsible for actual sexual harassment (groping, etc) than call him out for it. If it's just some random coworker doing it than call them out individually. Every company has gross Indians and m2f sexually harassing their coworkers.
 
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The prototype would have cost the same in China and everywhere else. With all the shipping and labour on your end involved, it's usually more expensive to outsource prototyping.

There's also the risk of your IP just being outright stolen. It happens everywhere, but especially in China. Workers often leave and simply take all the files they can to sell off or (hopefully) for future use.

That copper block was likely made locally, and it was probably a mix of CNC and hand assembly. They likely assembled it themselves, labour which I bet they did not take into account but should rightfully bill Linus for.
 
Am I the only one who thinks an accusation of sexual harassment detracts from more interesting controversies? If Linus is directly responsible for actual sexual harassment (groping, etc) than call him out for it. If it's just some random coworker doing it than call them out individually. Every company has gross Indians and m2f sexually harassing their coworkers.
Oh god if that trooned out ogre is outed as sexually harassing people I'll...

Not be very surprised at all, really. A Stunning ang Brave Lesbian, that man is.
 
Madison is a complete lolcow and it really pisses me off that the herd is pandering to her sexual fantasy of being the center of attention again.

If any of what she says happened to be true, she could very well report it to the authorities and LTT is full of security cameras (at least).

That she's only doing this now (classic MeToo tactic) only takes away from the credibility of someone who is already mentally unstable and very immature.
 
Oh god if that trooned out ogre is outed as sexually harassing people I'll...

Not be very surprised at all, really. A Stunning ang Brave Lesbian, that man is.
He gets a pass. You know why.

But seriously. Absolute nobody should be surprised to discover that a company full of faggy, feel good, algorithm worshiping YouTubers and tech enthusiasts has a sexual harassment problem.

Someone saying they self harm to get out of work is someone who is severely mentally ill and should be institutionalized. Just call out sick. Don't show up. Get too drunk the night before that you sleep through your alarm and don't wake up until three in the afternoon. That's what a normal person does.
 
Madison has recently started tweeting about alleged unfairness at LMG, being groped and self-harming to get out of work:
(It looks like she's deleted the tweets and if that's the case I'll archive the screenshots from reddit here later, nitter.net seems to be down at the moment)

Redditors have tracked down the real mastermind behind LMG's poor working conditions: Jordan Hitler Peterson:

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What the fuck is wrong with these people? What does lobster man have anything to do with this?
That copper block was likely made locally, and it was probably a mix of CNC and hand assembly. They likely assembled it themselves, labour which I bet they did not take into account but should rightfully bill Linus for.
They should bill Linus for the hours as well the reputational damage.
 
Wasn't Madison a ltt viewer and also won a AMD computer?(Video in question) About the allegations either she have no proof, some other retarded zoomer convinced her that she got harassed on work over nothing burger or the troon tried to diddle her and she doesn't want to be "enemy of the trans ally". Whatever the case may be I will treat as her farming reddit gold until actual proof or people getting fired.
 

New thread posted 25 minutes ago by Linus, with a privated video in the OP. According to the replies the video was private as soon as the thread went public.

Users are theorising that this was part of a coordinated effort to publish a response video and that the video has been delayed (possibly due to Madison's Twitter thread), but someone forgot to kill the thread, which sounds believable.

EDIT: Live on Floatplane, theory killed. Is it normal to be forced to login when clicking a Floatplane link?
 
Madison posting a long-ass thread about her time at LTT (and mentioned the Glassdoor review was indeed her)

I have a ghost archive (archive.ph doesn't seem to archive Twitter threads.I was only getting one tweet at a time) in two parts but I think she's still posting:
Part 1 https://ghostarchive.org/archive/GbVBE
Part 2: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/NEtGt
Part 3?: https://ghostarchive.org/archive/5KEJ2

Edit: I think she fucked up by not threading some tweets properly, so fuck it, here's just a ghost archive of her twitter page with_replies too:

(I'm out of my depth here)

Since I am a moron who still hasn't figured out how to pot attachments on Tor for Android I would appreciate someone doing that of the threads.

There's so much there. Here's a taste:

LTT workplace environment: Kiwifarms but without the empathy in the "losing loved ones to Trans" thread. Oh, and also genitals:
All tweets (Archive)

I believe that story is embellished. There’s no way that someone who is supportive of “Emily” is running around calling employees “faggot”. If what she said was true, Linus wouldn’t be able to keep a single employee.
I would bet the reason for this is an obsession with the YouTube algorithm and thinking that if they don’t monetize this, it will hurt the channel’s performance when they start uploading again. If my memory isn’t failing me, this thread has documented the many times Linus has fucked around with thumbnails after a video has been released to improve its performance in the algorithm.
Linus has messed around a lot, but nothing he does actually helps him. The only thing that matters is watch time, and poor quality videos that cause people to skip around or leave greatly reduce recommendations. Monetization has no effect on the algorithm (demonization is different because it’s a punishment). Why would YouTube care that you get paid? They get 100% of the ad revenue on a non-monetized video.

Videos that are good and recommended by the algorithm have more views than subscribers; Linus is lucky to get more than 1/15 of his subscribers to watch a video. The way to grow is to focus on quality, not on quantity, cheap tricks, and urban legends about the mystical “algorithm”.
 
While linus is an absolute faggot (I still havent forgiven him for calling adblockers piracy) correct me if I'm wrong, didn't gamers nexus get tied up in drama with fucking around with a pc build for someone? It was either them or some random brand that had a custom pc building contest
 
The prototype would have cost the same in China and everywhere else. With all the shipping and labour on your end involved, it's usually more expensive to outsource prototyping.

There's also the risk of your IP just being outright stolen. It happens everywhere, but especially in China. Workers often leave and simply take all the files they can to sell off or (hopefully) for future use.

That copper block was likely made locally, and it was probably a mix of CNC and hand assembly. They likely assembled it themselves, labour which I bet they did not take into account but should rightfully bill Linus for.
Agree. If you're prototyping, you want that done in house before mass production. No one can see the dev process, the fuck ups, and what you learned from them. The Chinese would be all too happy to learn how you built your machine. That's why they hacked the Pentagon for the F22 and F35 plans and now look:
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The F-22, a masterpiece of engineering, the thing will kick your ass in air to air, no fucking questions

and the knock off, years later
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The J20 Mighty Dragon. See anything fellas? Why protecting your shit is important?
Linus has messed around a lot, but nothing he does actually helps him. The only thing that matters is watch time, and poor quality videos that cause people to skip around or leave greatly reduce recommendations. Monetization has no effect on the algorithm (demonization is different because it’s a punishment). Why would YouTube care that you get paid? They get 100% of the ad revenue on a non-monetized video.

Videos that are good and recommended by the algorithm have more views than subscribers; Linus is lucky to get more than 1/15 of his subscribers to watch a video. The way to grow is to focus on quality, not on quantity and cheap tricks, and urban legends about the mystical “algorithm”.
It's a mistake many youtubers run into, but most don't have a 100 soyjack army to do it. They think lots of views equals good reception, not quality equals lots of views over time, a legacy if you will. A video he pumps out today won't be remembered tomorrow. A Jontron video will, and will continually farm views
 
I think Madison is at risk of being revisionist for the sake of making herself look good. However, she makes some good points. It sounds like management culture is consistently bad/incompetent, and these nerds are unable to handle themselves around a female co-worker. There is almost too much detail to her posts. I am unsure if she is embellishing her experiences or having a meltdown.

I wouldn’t be surprised if Madison-related content on LTT gets deleted very soon.

She did mention that one co-worker was kind enough to install a RAM upgrade after her request was met with dead air. The only person I would think would actually do that is Anthony, lol. I’m not sure how they keep inventory on their shit but I feel like they should probably just have RAM lying around for editors to take… cant believe thats not the case. It’s ~100$ for 16GB now AFAIK.

LTT shows if you cut corners to meet greedy idiot self imposed throughput goals, you eventually get hit
 
We want the names. I'm going to throw out a wild guess, Tivvy.
I name Colton. James and Jake seem dudebros, but not the radioactive kind. Colton has manlet syndrome

Putting on a hat of sperging like those stupid behavioural analysts:
This video shows Colton showing his sense of 'humor' (can someone archive, pretty please?)

I am a kiwifarm user, so clearly my social adjustment is what it is.... yet I know enough to not reply with a stupid emoji to an external company when I messed up badly. What they did wrong:
- Reply had to come from the CEO, showing that it has been escalated and they are taking it seriously
- It was waaay too colloquial
Dear XX / Hello XX,
I deeply apologize we won't be able to return the sample. Unfortunately, as you are aware, it was included in the silent auction at LTX. This is due to internal miscommunication and misunderstandings.
We are taking every action to ensure this won't happen again. Nick/Colton (and?) will be in touch to discuss what steps we can take to try to make this right.

Rest assured we are taking this very seriously internally and I want to apologise again on my and my employees' behalf.

Linus Sebastian (?)
CEO of LTT

The emoji in that fucking message is beyond everything. Cringe 😬 Fuck off 😬


A bit more on Madison:
I think most of what alleges happened, although some of it not to the degree at which she is portraying it.
The contractual changes are probably the most interesting as it is something that either party can refute, as I assume there is written communication.
Regarding sex "jokes", etc... a lot has been written. I remain of the opinion that LTT is a nightmare of manchildren that think that dick jokes are the best thing to do in a professional environment with everyone, and cannot distinguish between work-friends and normal colleagues (Linus is a prime example of this). I can imagine Dennis being too touchy as a "gay guy" who gets away with far too much, and Colton being his bitter manlet self.

I WANT to see names tho. Do it Madison!

Fyi - this is Max's twitter account. She is the first woman who left LTT https://twitter.com/mmaxinelucille/with_replies
 
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