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

[Kheapathic]

>If you continue to mention the bad things we did, we'll sue you.
Who the fuck wrote this statement

LMG has a mainland Chinese in charge of their HR and if I had to guess, no legal on retainer; I'll give you one guess, she's married to Linus and gave him supreme gentlemen children.

 

[Overly Serious]

How old is she? She was early twenties when she won the competition and then got hired, right? Because I've encountered cultures like the one you can hear in that LTT leaked call and maybe she is mildly nuts (most people in their early twenties are) but that doesn't mean a clash with that sort of culture is all on you. You don't have to be Andrea Dworkin to find people telling you to twerk for them offensive. And my experience with that sort of culture they absolutely will goof around whilst dumping a disproportionate workload on the junior / beta types. And they'll also tend to view anyone female as beta by default unless they have a raging alpha personality (some do). At least, that's my experience.

 

[seri0us]

linus and jake giving me the ick guys, it's like... bad vibes or something... as a woman i can tell when there's a bit of a rape atmosphere going on you know

 

[tehpope]

Emily Anthony wrote this video btw.

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Bruh isn't even trying to pass as a woman.

 

[BulletSpongeRTR]

We all just want Emily to look her best.

Will the mortician have a Patreon?

 

[BullyHunter1488]

Bruh isn't even trying to pass as a woman.

Because its literally impossible even with like 500k+ in plastic surgery with a top god damn global surgeon. How the fuck are you gonna make a fat ugly pig with a male frame fucking feminine. Like god damn when you post a face pic of shamu the whale you can tell its female no matter how fat it is. Facial/skull shape and all that shit, you cant turn an orge into a woman or anything that remotely looks like one. So god damn delusional

 

[TheDataHorder]

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Bruh isn't even trying to pass as a woman.

if he's trying to pass as a whale then he's succeeding.
the vid's alright, could've talked about self hosted options more with a disclaimer that it can be annoying to deal with sometimes.
but to be honest, swaping out Google's ecosystem with another ecosystem doesn't change the fact you're still relying on someone else for your shit.
but I'm guessing tranthony wasn't allowed to include more then what was already there dispite his boss self hosting a bunch of his own shit.

 

[Maldavius Figtree]

You're looking at it as a zero sum game, bud.

I mean this whole thing is incredibly funny and a bunch of dysfunctional people.
The fat autogynephiliac, the rice burning near-incel, his barely human looking mail order bride wife, the army of low performance bench warmers, all that to shit out incredibly bland and generic content that is 80% sponsors.

But why does that mean I can’t make fun of a borderline whore? The moment you bring up shit that happened to you a year ago publicly on social media is the moment you prove there is something wrong with you mentally. This whole „bucket list of grievances that gets pulled out years after the fact, giving no benefit whatsoever, while fucking up future employment prospects by attaching drama to your name“ thing is so fucking insane, the only reason we dont recognise it as such anymore is because the internet is full of insane people.

 

[ZipDisk]

You can't make a Pakled look like a woman.

 

[Baguette Child]

It's YouTube not Hollywood. You can film on an iPhone like Dankpods and nobody will care so long as the content is good.

Dankpods could film on literal garbage and I would still watch honestly. He seems like he's having fun and that makes it fun to watch. Dude's charming as hell. Maybe the only thing I would miss if Australia were nuked off the map.

Linus could never dream of being as entertaining. His videos are just forced and tepid, like a bland corporate mush.

 

[TheRaptorJesus]

His videos are just forced and tepid, like a bland corporate mush.

They always have been, hes been a shill since NCIX.

 

[0gh]

tranthony wasn't allowed to include more

I think it's because he genuinely has no fucking clue. He seems to have just surface level knowledge of things and he feels like a cool hacker for typing apt-get -y upgrade. I put that to the other people on the team having no idea and having him remove linux talk for better views and a more fun video or whatever, but I guess we'll never know with his transition

Surface level knowledge or not, it was nice having a linux man on the LTT team and I liked Anthony before his transition. Hope he wakes the fuck up, goes back and starts doing cool stuff

 

[seri0us]

the vid's alright, could've talked about self hosted options more with a disclaimer that it can be annoying to deal with sometimes.

More? What did they even talk about throughout the video, then?
I imagine there was a really on-the-nose ad placement for Floatplane as the "YouTube replacement" instead of even mentioning Odysee or Bitchute.

 

[Overly Serious]

Surface level knowledge or not, it was nice having a linux man on the LTT team and I liked Anthony before his transition. Hope he wakes the fuck up, goes back and starts doing cool stuff

I don't watch LTT that much so maybe there was better stuff he did elsewhere, but he never struck me as that knowledgeable. It's not a Linux example but there was that in-team competition between him and another to fix a PC and he was missing basic things that I wouldn't have missed and I'm not really that qualified myself.

 

[Kikkoman]

LTT is finally putting the lab to work and has made another channel, this one is an AI edited and narrated PSU review channel complete with sponsor segues. According to them on this week's WAN a human editor only watches the output, All of the raw footage and comments are dumped into a template and processed.
Their reasoning is that nobody really reads articles any more so they need to make these videos and there is no budget in these for human voice or editing (yet. Linus hopes that these will eventually get hundreds of thousands of views so they can "scale it up" once they have momentum.)
Despite them saying nobody reads articles, they still have it as an article on the ltt labs website https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/psu/corsair-rm750e

EDIT: It seems that the plan for labs reviews is to make a channel like this for each product segment due to the youtube algorithm apparently preferring channels with a single focus.

 

[Dante Alighieri]

LTT is finally putting the lab to work and has made another channel, this one is an AI edited and narrated PSU review channel complete with sponsor segues. According to them on this week's WAN a human editor only watches the output, All of the raw footage and comments are dumped into a template and processed.
Their reasoning is that nobody really reads articles any more so they need to make these videos and there is no budget in these for human voice or editing (yet. Linus hopes that these will eventually get hundreds of thousands of views so they can "scale it up" once they have momentum.)
Despite them saying nobody reads articles, they still have it as an article on the ltt labs website https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/psu/corsair-rm750e

What do the employees do all day!?

 

[Gutes Zeug 2.0]

LTT is finally putting the lab to work and has made another channel, this one is an AI edited and narrated PSU review channel complete with sponsor segues. According to them on this week's WAN a human editor only watches the output, All of the raw footage and comments are dumped into a template and processed.
Their reasoning is that nobody really reads articles any more so they need to make these videos and there is no budget in these for human voice or editing (yet. Linus hopes that these will eventually get hundreds of thousands of views so they can "scale it up" once they have momentum.)
Despite them saying nobody reads articles, they still have it as an article on the ltt labs website https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/psu/corsair-rm750e

EDIT: It seems that the plan for labs reviews is to make a channel like this for each product segment due to the youtube algorithm apparently preferring channels with a single focus.

It's literally under 10 minutes to record a voiceover for three of these and they decide to use this grating AI voice

 

[BigGuyOS 6 : Jovial Janny]

LTT is finally putting the lab to work and has made another channel, this one is an AI edited and narrated PSU review channel complete with sponsor segues. According to them on this week's WAN a human editor only watches the output, All of the raw footage and comments are dumped into a template and processed.
Their reasoning is that nobody really reads articles any more so they need to make these videos and there is no budget in these for human voice or editing (yet. Linus hopes that these will eventually get hundreds of thousands of views so they can "scale it up" once they have momentum.)
Despite them saying nobody reads articles, they still have it as an article on the ltt labs website https://www.lttlabs.com/articles/psu/corsair-rm750e

EDIT: It seems that the plan for labs reviews is to make a channel like this for each product segment due to the youtube algorithm apparently preferring channels with a single focus.

Linus isn't even trying pretend he runs anything but a content farm anymore. Fucking sponsor segments in an AI generated video? Get out of here Linus-- if you do that you ought to be paying THE COMPANY. His channels are just SEO slop and he has way too many. Just look at the 'Mac Address' channel he made- it hasn't uploaded a video in months and they didn't even review the 'Vision Pro'. I looked at it last week and it hadn't even made part 2 of a "mac vs pc" video from several months ago.

Also, he doesn't have anyone in the 100+ bench-warmers he employs that could have voiced this?

 

[Steve Pinto]

It would cost them 20 to 30 dollars to get an english speaker from fiverr to narrate this. That's how little your time (as a viewer) is worth to them.

They're right that this type of content is pointless on YouTube, but why are they doing it anyways? Why spend the man hours to test a product, and then cheap out on presentation, when your entire business is about presentation?

 

[GosuGopher]

I don't think Linus likes this PSU channel, he talked really dismissively about it while feigning as best he could to hype it up. I personally think even their prediction of 2000-3000 views a video is overambitious. Linus cited the reason for this information needing to be video, was because younger people don't read articles and that "written media is dying".... which has nothing to do with testing and publishing results for a power supply.

Someone looking to purchase a PSU has a few key pieces of information they are looking for, and want a subjective thumbs up/down and a ballpark "fair price".
If LTTLabs was reputable and widely known (at least as much as something like PCPartPicker is) I believe they could add value. But look at their god-awful Labs website PSU article (same one from the video). Tell me this is useful at all. They're TERRIFIED of making any subjective calls as to the product quality, no idea why, that's the point of their existence.



Both article and video are AI-written (pulling from human entered form data and photos). The only positive to come from all of this was it being funny to hear about how many anti-AI retards they have working for them though who opposed this project on moral/ethical (lmao) grounds.
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Related:

There used to be a community post on the LTT forum that for years was genuinely the only useful comparison of (at the time current) consumer PSUs I've ever found.
I believe the reason it was abandoned was because the maintainers realized how unwieldly maintaining an ordered database for 100s of items, solving this is genuinely hard.

People will often cite lists like Crinacle's IEM Tier List or Joe N Tell's Speaker Leaderboard as good places to make purchasing decisions for headphones/speakers. But as they've ballooned over the years I think they lose more and more value as a place to start, and serve more as a 2nd opinion sanity check before finalizing your purchase.

And then you have google results that are full of AI-generated garbage lists: ___ BUYING GUIDE, TOP 10 ___, 2024'S BEST ___, which are just parasitic ads, attached to some host news site for SEO and to pass boomer's sniff test. An small air-purifier blog; House Fresh, wrote a decent article about their observations which basically says that "the algorithm sucks and entrenches established brands who pump out shitty products and pay4play".

Nothing groundbreaking, but the kind of thing I (at one point) hoped Linus stood a chance of taking on with his product testing enterprise. But for the last 1-2 years LTT Labs has seemed like a failed venture with the wrong people in-charge and a waffley vision.