The Cyanide and Happiness video a few months back talked about how they were scaling back as well, and they actually displayed real revenue numbers. The ad return looks like shit now
If you remember back in 2017 when they made a deal with that one app Blackpill to create the show Purgatony which was exclusive to that all at the time. The writer was in the comments for the announcement trailer arguing with fans and saying it had to be on that app because YouTube wasn’t paying enough to fund their cartoons, purgatony is interesting because they tried really hard to make it a hit.
Blackpill first where it bombed, then it aired on the Syfy tv channel and bombed then they uploaded it to YouTube and it bombed again. Odd because their three other shows, Channelate, Blubburbs and The Stockholm’s never got a similar push. And now thes make shorts they are more as than short
Opening a badminton center for a "tech" Youtube channel is running it like a business?
I was curious about the subreddit's opinion on the layoffs (if they're even aware) and ran across this:
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Stop looking at ex-employees LinkedIn accounts, chuds! It's parasocial!
It’s Amazing how these fanboys are so brainwashed that they don’t seem to realize that LMG isn’t a YouTube channel, it’s a corporate entity, are all the video game industry layoffs also people just being parasocial creeps? Lol
Luke has got to be sweating right now: there's no way Floatplane has ever been profitable - it has barely any users and must cost a fortune to run.
The exclusive videos are all shit since they know any worthwhile video needs to be on YouTube(a reason why all YouTubers with their own platform fails) but more importantly, the name has always been awful. Why the fuck is it called Floatplane? That name doesn’t describe what the product is, it doesn’t roll off the tongue, and it isn’t memorable. No one uses floatplane because nobody knows what the hell it is.
Good god. I never fully understood the hate boner that people had for LTT and specifically for his house which frequently gets mentioned, but this video is so frustrating to watch and eye opening for me.
I suppose it is "interesting" for people who are looking into home automation and fringe technologies in that arena, but the whole house setup is totally shit and its frustrating to watch this. Whatever credibility LTT had as a "nerd/geek" has totally gone out the fucking window and he's doing nothing more than buying off the shelf chinesium and adding to the world's pile of ewaste.
It's such a massively over the top setup for a fucking house, and you would think if you were spending that amount of money you'd at least get an expert to come in and do a consultation before buying all of that shit but of course the comments are filled with input from electricians who say that his choices are retarded.
The house looks completely devoid of personality and is so fucking overkill. I guess the only redemeeding value this has is to prove that smarthome stuff is still dogshit and people should totally avoid it.
I really hate that nerd/geek stuff and gayming got commercialized - I hope Linus' paycheck was worth it.
Really sad to see this, I lad hiked Doubt up until now.
there’s also the distaste of a multi-millionaire getting everything in his house for free and getting it installed for “free” by forcing his employees to install it all while simultaneously being paid ungodly amounts of money for installing it in the process. Most big YouTubers keep things modest for a reason. Unless you’re the Paul brothers or Mr. Beast who entire content genre is “we’re rich douchebags come watch out life” most audiences have a distaste for the idea of someone getting rich off them. Linus fans often say the kitchen era was the best, and Linus even rebuilt a kitchen set initially in the studio to call back to this. People liked the kitchen era because it mixed high quality content with modest settings, it felt real and not corporate. These videos of him showing off an expensive house filled with expensive stuff kills the “I’m one of you” facade and makes Linus look like a greedy wealth flaunting youtuber, which again, only works if you’re the Pauls or Mr. Beast.
or growing his vibrant badminton side hustle.
You know, I thought it was retarded that 8-bit guy opened a barcade pizzeria. But even that seems like a better business model than a fucking badminton center. That sport is far too niche to be a main attraction. What’s next? A Squash court?
Linus flew Mighty Car Mods to Canadastan to do a near total remake of Plouffe's Civic.
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I like car renovations but this car has probably already been stolen. And I do hate all that new stuff but such a shitty Linus paintjob.
I hate that they decided to ruin the transmission by making it a manual without even asking if that was okay. Yeah, manual cars *can* be better, but only if the driver is actually capable of taking advantage of that. Which Plouffe is not. The shitty screw driver shifter also makes me rage. Also, the video makes people think a K-Swap is simple and easy and not a tens of thousands of dollar ordeal that completely changes the way the car was designed to work and feel. Not to mention that doing this absolutely tanked the fuel economy, the one benefit of a Honda civic.
Plus, all these rice rocket mods just made the 2004 civic pretty much useless. You’re never going to find someone who wants this exact kind of set up for a 2004 civic. If plouffe ever wants to sell this car, he will be forced to tear it apart and sell it piece by piece.
I don't think i've ever seen a single person using a dbrand skin.
Due to the fact that they shill so much money at Linus, I know a ton of people who refuse to ever use their products. But even without that, fheir designs suck ass.
I think they put the food out because they started earlier yesterday, to a point eurocucks could watch the show live, hence the british goods on the table. I think James is the current temp show writer.
As I wrote that previous post it seems there's ANOTHER stupid home theater thing Linus did for his setup, making a 3D theater that took almost 2 years and it's just as tone deaf as a liberal politician acting like things are fine in the world, dude desperately needs some humility check. They already changed the title of the video, when I first looked it said "A 3D transformation in my basement theater" or something to that effect.
I love how his son doesn’t give a damn and disrespects him. On one hand, he’s every rich douchebag child. On the other hand, he’s well aware his dad is a bitch and he’s acting like the alpha male and embarrassing him on camera in front of millions
How is it possible that Linus always seems to do things in the most expensive, confusing, and complicated way? This has been an ongoing project of his for two years and he spent over $8,000 USD on this? He could have put together a comparable setup in just 1 afternoon for 1/5 the price.
hell, he could have gone even cheaper and bought a couple Quest 3’s, set up a big screen server , connected the host quest to a Pc and then used any 3D movie file to watch even better quality 3D movies in VR simulating a private imax theatre
Steve at GN blasts NZXT and their rent a system scam, even gives up NZXT ad accounts. The pressure is now on Linus to ignore as much as he can.
he ignores everything, he’s the biggest corporate shill on YouTube. Kinda like how the CEO sat down with Jayztwocents and all the LTT fans are claiming that it was better because steve is “sensationalist”
Linus gets called out by Palmer Luckey for not doing even basic research on his autistic game boy clone project before covering it.
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Not saying this is the most egregious error ever, but it's just more proof LTT never ditched the "fuck research, just go film something and say whatever you want" mentality that got them in hot water during the Gamers Nexus drama. Being too lazy to even read the documentation that came with it isn't a good look.
I like that his defense was “I doubt your product is gonna be successful enough to justify your tech”
Like, dude, way to be a massive dickhead. You know nothing about the financials, the vision, or the standards of quality. This product has always just been a stupidly high end gameboy clone, and stupid high quality niche products usually go beyond what would be logical. Maybe don’t accuse people of lying and then mock them publicly when called out for it. It’s not like your company is meant to research and review…oh wait, it is.
I've been around for a while, but not sure how far back the dysfunction goes. Regardless, doesn't take coordination for a writer to decide to take that cue.
And I wouldn't be surprised in the slightest to hear that his personal wealth was probably far more stable than Linus (Dunno about Jay but cars are a huge sink) - Dude doesn't really seem to flex anything, never looking for an excuse to show off some new gadget he's getting to 'test drive' or the like. Strikes me as the kind of guy to just sit on what money he's made, conclude he's set for life, and just focus on doing the same shit he likes to do anyway instead of trying to live up to the wealth like Linus and his mansion.
from what he’s shown of the GN studio, it’s modest and the team is only as large as it’s needed. They have a lot of major tech, but it’s all stuff meant to be used for their testing, like they bought a sound chamber that Apple previously owned so they could do the best sound profile testing, they bought thermal cameras to test heat, but none of that was meant to be flashy or cool. It makes their content better because their numbers are most accurate, similarly, the only flourish their office has is a small room that was turned into a gym for their employees to exercise. It’s not a huge gym, but it has some weights and a proper floor.
They’re also in North Carolina, far cheaper than Vancouver. I think the best irony is that when Linus bought the lab, he claimed it was to be a true competitor to GN because “competition is good”
JayZ2C had a surprise interview with the NXZT founder. It's kinda interesting. He claims he owns most of the mistakes, but does dance around some of it. The rentals were contracted out to another company (Fragile), but the program was all NZXT branded. He claims some of the price increases Steve saw were due to sales tax changes, and that Steve should have gotten an e-mail about the increase with an option to cancel.
It reminds me of the NewEgg people meeting Steve (I never finished that one; couldn't stand all the fucking masks. I never had a problem with NewEgg, never buy referbs anymore and hate Amazon, so it didn't change my buying habits).
I wonder what the other side of this will be. Will Steve expose how this owner/CEO is lying and provide more proof? In the original GamersNexus video, I distinctly remember them not going into the cancellation fees. They briefly mentioned it and it was what I wanted to know more about.
I like GamersNexus, but I do wonder if their due diligence is going to fail them at some point.
I don't own any NZXT stuff. I bought a single NZXT case from Microcenter years ago because it was the cheapest case and one I had crowd funded wouldn't arrive for another month or so. I finally sold it on craigslist last year. I went back through my e-mails and it looks like I've never ordered any other NZXT stuff. For those who have some NZXT gear, you think this will change your purchasing in the future?
Steve uploaded a video tearing down all the lies(and bringing up that NZXT casually dropped that he used an AMEX card. He is now saying in both this video and in community posts that he had a new lead about more shady NZXT stuff that will take time to investigate
https://youtu.be/DAANNGvMANM?si=0Rip3zQVAMX_J_FI
