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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My take on the whole apology video

  • The new CEO apology was very corpo style
  • Everyone else besides him and Linus was good
  • Linus apology was bad.
    • Linus tried to take off his a lot of blame by pushing it into the community, drama people and others.
    • Linus didn't spoke first because he knows that people has tiktok attention, so they will forget about him and not the CEO
    • He blamed others like Colton
    • He didn't directly apologize to anyone
With the Madison drama now and big pages like Dexerto talking about it, I don't think this will be the end of everything. I imagine that someone will surface the clip of the Wan show where he said that saying Nigger was ok and people are too soft
 
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Their reasoning for the sponsor and store ad.
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Checking their reddit, where I found this screenshot, its in open revolt. Their fans are really angry, every minute (literally) theres a new thread on how angry they are.

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AltisticRight said:
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.
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That happened to the Fidget Cube people iirc. Their product was sold on Wish before they even got the first batch delivered to them.
 
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Probably a larp, it isnt even really an accusation, hell if I was looking at an extra expense for my small business, I would try to monetize it as well.


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Making a throw-away here as I do not want to get involved or flack since I still am in the tech industry.

I want to begin by saying that my direct dealings with Linus have always been fairly positive and never had a direct problem with him, but I vehemently trust the story of my colleagues' story.

Back when LTT was operating at the Langley house I was working with another tech industry representative who was talking with most of the workers at LTT including Luke. If you recall they used that house as their base of operations, including editing of course. As you can imagine when you have multiple people video editing in the same room it will get intensely warm, as such all of the employee's went to Linus and asked for an air conditioner. Figure at most $3-500 USD and maybe an extra $20-30 a month for additional electricity costs. Linus flipped out and got very angry especially at the additional monthly electricity bill increase. I'm sure this is what spawned the "whole room water-cooling" series since it was his attempt at cooling the room down while trying to make money off of it.

There are other anecdotal stories about him being insanely aggressive and obnoxious to his team during expo's and overseas trips, but my exact recollection of the story is fuzzy so I won't get into that particularly.

I'm glad people are coming out about how much of an asshole he is to his employee's. As someone who treats their employee's very well it made me upset hearing about that story back then and it still does now. Their handling of this entire situation is hilarious to me but well deserved and a long time coming.
 
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CHARizard said:
Their reasoning for the sponsor and store ad.
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>A little humour
I'm sure Billet Labs and their $2500 prototype with likely over $10,000 worth of productivity lost is laughing their butts off at sponsors and cringe boomer jokes about the iluminati.

Smaug's Smokey Hole 2 said:
That happened to the Fidget Cube people iirc. Their product was sold on Wish before they even got the first batch delivered to them.
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It happened to that selfie stick phone case too. Many cheap garbage crowdfunding sensations gets copied immediately in China and then put up for sale. Gotta love the brutality of "le free market" sometimes.

notorietus said:
Incase nobody archived the apology video:
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Sorry if someone did. It’s in 480p.
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cans.wav said:
They're actually braindead that they thought they'd get away with announcing new merch in an "apology" video and cracking 60 shitty jokes
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I think it's the typical "Pretend that business is as usual so they don't notice that we shat our pants here" move, and of course it doesn't work and just makes them look even worse, because their actions clearly convey the opposite.

GN made a fairly polite video without personal attacks that could've been taken as constructive criticism, if Linus wasn't so prideful and narcissistic. But you can tell the longer this goes on, the worse it gets, and more personal he takes this. He probably sees it as a blatant attack now, even though it only got this bad because of his own errors and then refusal to take responsibility for them.
GN just has to sit back now and enjoy the harvest. This is a total corn moment.
 
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NotFatChild said:
It's incredible how many people are wondering if what he did with Billet Labs prototype is illegal.

When you sell something you don't own, that's called stealing. It's a crime everywhere.*

*Except California
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In an earlier comment here someone posted an image of an email between LTT and Billet where they mention that they had agreed to let them keep it thinking it would be used in future builds. That's enough to get them off on any theft charge even if Billet changed their mind later so that aspect isn't really worth pursuing. Billet is getting a ton of positive attention from this fiasco.
 
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Sweeter and Savoury said:
hah Gamers Nexus must be loving this shit. Such a huge exposure for free all at LTT's expense.

Plus Gamers Nexus has a pretty loyal fanbase of far more hardcore types then the normies that follow LTT pretty basic stuff.
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GN reminds me of [H]ardOCP back in the day before Kyle sold out to Intel and had to shut the site down. I miss the [H] crew...
 
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CYKA RUSH B said:
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I will admit her posts are highly entertaining. I haven't been this entertained since the dindus started posting videos on facebook live where shots could be heard in summer 2020, the summer of george foreman
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If this is the "third plane hits the Pentagon" moment, this is the "hitting equal with the ground after a corkscrew turn" bit.
 
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