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

[Chug Smuckle]

Linus adjacent: Steve filling lawsuit against honey and paypal. Seems like a waste of a lot of money to me.

@16 minutes in he calls linus out for knowing and not saying anything

 

[Herman Throwaway]

I don't think the average person cares about influencers, or care that they got link jacked as long as they still got their discount.

You'd be surprised how suddenly any normie gives a shit when it is a company they trust with their banking info acting scummy.

 

[Slur Generator]

@16 minutes in he calls linus out for knowing and not saying anything

Linus is such a piece of shit.

 

[#lurker]

Linus adjacent: Steve filling lawsuit against honey and paypal. Seems like a waste of a lot of money to me.

This retard is stretching himself too thin now. He has no legitimate reason to involve himself in this. These moronic "influencers" signed a deal without understanding what they were signing (retards). Most comical is the claim that he is doing this for "consumer protection" when the majority of the Honey scam only effected brainless shills.

 

[Mr.Bucket]

This retard is stretching himself too thin now. He has no legitimate reason to involve himself in this. These moronic "influencers" signed a deal without understanding what they were signing (retards). Most comical is the claim that he is doing this for "consumer protection" when the majority of the Honey scam only effected brainless shills.

I can tell you didn't watch the video.

He covers around the 20-21 minute mark that Honey would purposefully hide higher coupon codes to instead use the one where they got a commission. Which is doing the exact opposite for costumers than what they advertise. Among other things.
EDIT: My concern is that he said he's going to go up to 100 hour work weeks to keep up the normal content while also doing this.

 

[HootersMcBoobies]

the majority of the Honey scam only effected brainless shills.

It literally affects everyone who didn't advertise for Honey. Even if you never ran a single ad for them, if some person had the browser extension installed, and clicks on your affiliate link in a blog or video, Honey steals that commission. That can be anywhere from $2 to like $30 (if it's an expensive part). That's the point of this lawsuit, the Wendover lawsuit and all the rest of them. It's committing fraud against people who have never been affiliated with Honey.

 

[John Ligma]

I'm glad he's doing more work highlighting Linus's extremely inappropriate response to the drama because I feel like it was glossed over by Linus's community and the tech community at large. He had a responsibility to inform his audience what the extension he'd been hocking to them for hundreds of videos was actually doing. LTT was personally responsible for huge swaths of the tech reviewer community having potentially millions of dollars worth of affiliate revenue taken away due to the sheer amount of mindshare his ad spots gave Honey within the tech YouTube audience. Gamers Nexus calling him out hopefully drags Linus back out to reassess his stance on things.

 

[#lurker]

I can tell you didn't watch the video.

Ironically it's clear you didn't. He tries to argue that it hurts consumers because Joe Blow YouTuber might not be able to afford a new camera (via affiliate links) for his YouTube operation, and not having YouTube filled with endless shills "hurts consumers."

Honey would purposefully hide higher coupon codes

As a consumer, you start at zero. If you have zero coupon codes then whatever Honey offers you is a net benefit. If you DID have a better coupon code, Honey wasn't stopping you.
>but Honey claims they offer the best coupon codes, it's false advertising.
This is such a minor pisssant complaint. Anyone dumb enough to take that literally is genuinely brain dead.

It literally affects everyone who didn't advertise for Honey. Even if you never ran a single ad for them, if some person had the browser extension installed, and clicks on your affiliate link in a blog or video, Honey steals that commission. That can be anywhere from $2 to like $30 (if it's an expensive part). That's the point of this lawsuit, the Wendover lawsuit and all the rest of them. It's committing fraud against people who have never been affiliated with Honey.

You said all that to just agree with me in a roundabout way. None of those are -consumers-

 

[Jeff Q. Anime]

It literally affects everyone who didn't advertise for Honey. Even if you never ran a single ad for them, if some person had the browser extension installed, and clicks on your affiliate link in a blog or video, Honey steals that commission. That can be anywhere from $2 to like $30 (if it's an expensive part). That's the point of this lawsuit, the Wendover lawsuit and all the rest of them. It's committing fraud against people who have never been affiliated with Honey.

I was on board the "lol idc" train before, but I didn't realize that such a big part of his income in the beginning came from affiliate links. I never thought about it that way. It sure does suck for people trying to get into the space if they're losing affiliate revenue through absolutely zero fault of their own! I mean, I've never used an affiliate link, 'cuz I never buy shit, like, right after watching a video about it, but I guess I'd be pretty pissed about this too if I were a kawntent kreator.

 

[Roboute Guilliman]

Linus adjacent: Steve filling lawsuit against honey and paypal. Seems like a waste of a lot of money to me.

So much shade being thrown at Linus early in the video without naming him. As for the lawsuit, if it was just the affiliate link switching you'd be correct. With the code withholding for certain stores that they partner with, that is likely not just something winnable, but probably criminal fraud. Rumors are that they are being investigated by the FCC and FTC for it.

 

[John Ligma]

Unfortunately I don't think Linus is taking this very well. Linus bros... I don't feel so good.


For reference, the LinusTech account is his official reddit account. Here's the reddit thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1i1e0e4/comment/m75dk80/

 

[Mr.Bucket]

Unfortunately I don't think Linus is taking this very well. Linus bros... I don't feel so good.
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For reference, the LinusTech account is his official reddit account. Here's the reddit thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1i1e0e4/comment/m75dk80/

How is playing the clip of him saying the thing misquoting him?

 

[HanyuuF]

How is playing the clip of him saying the thing misquoting him?

You just don't get it... Steve isn't slopping on the knob of our epic and wholesome chungus tech lord Linus.

In all realness it's prolly more so to do with him working with his fellow retarded Canadians that don't have the balls to actually call him out on anything, Dude seems to be unable to take any sort of criticism.

 

[Mr. Giggles]

Unfortunately I don't think Linus is taking this very well. Linus bros... I don't feel so good.
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For reference, the LinusTech account is his official reddit account. Here's the reddit thread:
https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/1i1e0e4/comment/m75dk80/

> "Why cut out the part where Linus said that had they made a video blah blah blah people would be pissed at him?"

Have this person even watched the video? At 16:16 there is such a clip of Linus saying that he felt that making such a video would just get the community mad at him, which afterwards Steve explains why such a position is bullshit and that he should've done such a video anyway.

I don't even mind Linus or most of his videos that much, but this is still such a copout from him and his fans.

 

[Demetori]

Damn... I've been watching Linus and LMG content for years (as background noise, but still...). They seemed fine enough and I even sympathized with them once the usual suspects tried to sink them as soon they had a few controversies (like Linus saying the N word in a WAN podcast).

That Twitter shows a side of Linus I didn't expect. As in he is just another moron with terrible opinions, who gets way too fired up when in the "right side of history" and with a spine that might as well not exist.

 

[Ed Special]

Ironically it's clear you didn't. He tries to argue that it hurts consumers because Joe Blow YouTuber might not be able to afford a new camera (via affiliate links) for his YouTube operation, and not having YouTube filled with endless shills "hurts consumers."

No, you knuckle-dragging retard, he argues it hurts creators, particularly small creators, that way. The way he says it hurts consumers is by intentionally obfuscating better deals and assuring consumers that they're getting "the best possible deal".


Anyway, yeah, this just goes to show the difference in personality between Steve and Linus. Steve would climb a mountain, throw down a rope, and tell his fellow climbers to come on up and enjoy the view with him, while Linus is a fucking chink-loving nigger faggot who'd cut that same rope and kick snow at the other climbers because he'd lose $100 from the contract with his sponsor if someone else gets to the top of the mountain at the same time as him.

 

[TheRaptorJesus]

Anyway, yeah, this just goes to show the difference in personality between Steve and Linus. Steve would climb a mountain, throw down a rope, and tell his fellow climbers to come on up and enjoy the view with him, while Linus is a fucking chink-loving nigger faggot who'd cut that same rope and kick snow at the other climbers because he'd lose $100 from the contract with his sponsor if someone else gets to the top of the mountain at the same time as him.

Its funny the amount of hate GN gets on the LTT sub, they call him a drama queen and shit.

Decided to check the sub and I wasn't surprised:

 

[Ed Special]

Its funny the amount of hate GN gets on the LTT sub, they call him a drama queen and shit.

Decided to check the sub and I wasn't surprised:
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It's amazing how many people are sucking Linus's dick here. He really is just a channel for mindless tech consoomers, bros...

 

[#lurker]

No, you knuckle-dragging retard, he argues it hurts creators, particularly small creators, that way. The way he says it hurts consumers is by intentionally obfuscating better deals and assuring consumers that they're getting "the best possible deal".

You're another retard that didn't watch the video or didn't listen to the arguments presented.

40:56: "first off you're right a lot of the little guys are people like you when you started, you're certainly not
a little guy now but back in the early days you might have had a small audience and you needed a new camera or
a new microphone or something else for your studio and you made your income
on referral links or at least some income on referral links and what this is going to do is that if PayPal honey
is converting referral link payments that would otherwise go to the small guy the small guys aren't going to
survive we're going to see a less robust environment and consumers are going to be harmed by that because you're not
necessarily going to get all of the honest opinions you could get..."

tl;dr: consumers will be "harmed" because Joe Blow YouTuber didn't earn enough money on his referral links and cannot afford to buy a new camera.

This goes on, is repeated multiple times throughout the video, and is endorsed by Steve.

Try actually watching the video next time.

 

[Wodanaz]

You're another retard that didn't watch the video or didn't listen to the arguments presented.

40:56: "first off you're right a lot of the little guys are people like you when you started, you're certainly not
a little guy now but back in the early days you might have had a small audience and you needed a new camera or
a new microphone or something else for your studio and you made your income
on referral links or at least some income on referral links and what this is going to do is that if PayPal honey
is converting referral link payments that would otherwise go to the small guy the small guys aren't going to
survive we're going to see a less robust environment and consumers are going to be harmed by that because you're not
necessarily going to get all of the honest opinions you could get..."

tl;dr: consumers will be "harmed" because Joe Blow YouTuber didn't earn enough money on his referral links and cannot afford to buy a new camera.

This goes on, is repeated multiple times throughout the video, and is endorsed by Steve.

Try actually watching the video next time.

consumers will be harmed because if reviewers have less money because of paypal kikery, they will be more likely to do crap shill videos (like LTT does) instead of honest content (like GN does)

seethe.