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

[guiltyspark85]

Well Linus does have a reputation of treating smaller creators like shit.

At 13:08 discount Daniel Craig talks about his personal dealings with Linus, one particular case at a tech event (Corsair party) stands out where him and a bunch of other smaller PC building youtubers approached him only for Linus to snap out "Who the hell are all of you, leave me alone peasants".
But also, In Rossmann's case with LTX I understand that Linus was willing to pay for travel and expenses BUT* for Louis only, not his GF too. But I guess for MVG... not enough subscribers bruh sorry.

Is there a clout level that will get both YOU and your HO a free trip to the reputable and exclusive event that's motherfucking LTX???

I'd forgotten about this guys video - thanks for reminding me. What notable is his positive experience with Luke and Steve said he'd only be willing to deal with Luke, so Luke does actually seem like a good guy. Luke seems to be extremely loyal to Linus - I can respect that, but would be good to see him go out and do his own thing.

 

[Mr.Bucket]

I'd forgotten about this guys video - thanks for reminding me. What notable is his positive experience with Luke and Steve said he'd only be willing to deal with Luke, so Luke does actually seem like a good guy. Luke seems to be extremely loyal to Linus - I can respect that, but would be good to see him go out and do his own thing.

Luke is the only watchable part of WAN show.
The downside is that he's like 15% of the content on that show.

 

[batigol]

Over the last few years Luke's role in the WAN show is to tard wrangle Linus then make a face which screams "I want to crawl out of my own skin" when he valiantly fails.

 

[Drama keen]

If Wendle from Levelonetechs makes a comment shitting on Lunix

Although your stroke here gave me cancer, I recall that Wendell does business with LTT, so that is very unlikely.

I even found the post! What I remember getting from this is that Wendell got paid to recover stuff, and maybe install it the first time, too. Or maybe he installed after the incident, I don't know, he had been in LTT videos a bit. Wendell is not stupid, I doubt he did all that for "exposure". I doubt he makes good bank from LTT, of all places, but, from what I remember, it would not be like him to go after Linus.
I'd love to be wrong, of course.

 

[batigol]

This is basically a big chunk of tech YouTube abandoning and shitting on him, with now two big, respected, and influential names being open about his true nature. Hell, I would argue Rossmann is even more influential than GN, especially outside of tech YouTube with his advocacy for right-to-repair. And as many people here have pointed out, all Linus had to do was shut the fuck up again and his small role in the Honey clusterfuck would become a thing of the past, just like what happened with the 2023 shit. Instead, he kept doubling down, and look at what happened.

Not just the advocacy he's been doing on his own, remember his actual day job is the Director of FUTO which has billionaire capital (Eron Wolf - Yahoo, WhatsApp, and other things) behind it funding FOSS through grants and political lobbying. Rossmann's influence is like an iceberg, a lot of it is under the water where you can't see it.

 

[Pill Cosby]

I want Trump to make an executive order into revealing the real reason why Emily "Gorlock The Destroyer" Young was sacked.

 

[Lisa forgive me]

I think Linus' image would honestly look better if he actually just owned up to what he did.

I stand by the fact that Linus' initial response was taken out of context, but that's about all I can really defend him on. His response was bad, yes, though I think it did get framed to be a little bit worse than it really was. Though I don't really believe it was malicious, and the full context doesn't really include too much to change the entire story, it was enough that it should have been included, even if to just make the viewer more aware of his stance. As others pointed out in this thread, he has made multiple videos about dropping sponsors, and even if it's just on the WAN show or whatever, that still gets a lot of viewers, and it will get clipped and circulate at least to hundreds of thousands of people. He should have showed what they found with the Honey stuff when they did find it, and he shouldn't have made excuses when people called him out on it.

Seeing more and more of his private correspondence with people, especially Louis, one of the YouTubers, no, one of the people that I have the most respect for, honestly disheartened me about his character a lot. I think Linus was in the right place when he first made his channel, and looking at the content that he used to make when it was just him and a few friends working in a tiny office - you can tell it's a lot different. Now, he pushes out corporate slop with sponsors every video and he doesn't give a damn about what he pushes, he just cares about his kickback. He has mistakes in pretty much every video, is too lazy to redo minor parts of voice-overs, and hell, wasn't he considering using an AI voice-over of himself to read the Labs pages instead of just taking 5 minutes of his day getting paid millions a year? He has to do pinned comment edits and retractions on nearly every video - it's really sad to see. I actually did have a bit of hope for him when the original GN video initially came out and he did his response, and I figured that it truly would be a wake-up call for him to get his act together and stop acting like the slew of insults that many of you have thrown at him, but honestly, this is pretty indefensible.

I think that every single response he has made has been pretty bad and he's trying to take moral high-ground in this when really he has almost zero room to talk. I think there are some invalid criticisms of him from you guys, GN, and Louis - but it's so obvious that he's in the wrong on this one. This is honestly going to be more of a wake-up call for the casual fans that don't really have brand loyalty to him the way that a lot of the people on the Reddit do, as I think most people can reasonably look at this situation and see that Linus is kind of just taking L after L on this.

And also, the whole sending to the wrong phone thing, he did mention that he just switched phones and doesn't have his old contacts and texts so that could be a factor, however unlikely it is, I try to be charitable towards people I disagree with, and I think that genuinely could have just been a mistake he made. I think he would have mentioned it if so on the most recent WAN show, but it also seems like he has zero intentions on continuing this unless his hand is forced. Also, I do think it's kind of shitty on GN to try and pull out the lawyer shit, but that's just my personal opinion and you all can disagree on that. From what I've seen, Linus at least goes out of his way to settle things mano a mano, even if he goes about it in a retarded way.

This is the 2nd highest upvoted comment in the thread:

I think a lot of the Redditards are misunderstanding the point about reimbursing travel - perhaps intentionally, but I'm not sure due to the average IQ of a user on the LTT subreddit, or any Reddit user for that matter. It's not about not having the money to go, and they are 99% likely to be intentionally misrepresenting the situation (the 1% is because I know that sometimes Redditors will genuinely believe the shit that they spew). It's about the fact that the creators that they wanted to come were literally getting nothing out of it besides meeting a few fans, which could be good for audience engagement, but canceling your plans and traveling a huge distance to go to some random event is just not worth it to them, and him taking personal offense to this and then digging up quite menial and trivial things that happened in the past to guilt them was the nail in the coffin for me.

 

[Administrator Flotsam]

The WAN after TB's death was Linus bashing TB for a while, it was really in poor taste.

Check your sources man, I was about to get MATI at Lunix but decided to look it up first. I know he won't do the same for anything but even accidentally false claims will dilute his real mistakes.
The WAN Show after TB's death was handled by Luke and some other guy (timestamped):

They just mention his death and move on in 2 minutes. The WAN Shows after don't seem to have anything either since Lunix is going to Computex.

I don't think it happened since I don't think he'll bring it later since he seemed to be ADHD back then as well.

 

[Mr.Bucket]

Check your sources man, I was about to get MATI at Lunix but decided to look it up first. I know he won't do the same for anything but even accidentally false claims will dilute his real mistakes.
The WAN Show after TB's death was handled by Luke and some other guy (timestamped):

They just mention his death and move on in 2 minutes. The WAN Shows after don't seem to have anything either since Lunix is going to Computex.

I don't think it happened since I don't think he'll bring it later since he seemed to be ADHD back then as well.

That's not the video I'm mentioning.
And I'm too lazy to dig through the slop to find the one that has Linus doing some TB bashing in it.

 

[TheRaptorJesus]

Its funny how he titled this shit "I just wanna do tech tips" , when was the last time he gave a tech tip and not some sponsored shill video?

 

[Gunlance]

Also, I do think it's kind of shitty on GN to try and pull out the lawyer shit

Nigga, Linus was the one who pulled the, well actually I could totally sue you for defamation, card. When someone is threatening to sue you, and that someone is clearly a grudge filled faggot with more money that brains, you lawyer the fuck up. Stop sucking your edaddy's cock. 2013 isn't coming back.

Also yes, he tried extensively to Deepfake himself a few years back so other people could do his part in videos. Basically it was too much work and expense to do, so he gave up on that for the time being.

 

[I'm Really Feeling It]

And also, the whole sending to the wrong phone thing, he did mention that he just switched phones and doesn't have his old contacts and texts so that could be a factor,

That wasn't at all a factor, and you did the same thing Louis mentions in his video: hear the same thing as everyone else yet interpret something utterly retarded. Linus knew Steve changed phones because 1) Steve told everybody he could about the change at the time, 2) Linus had already contacted Steve on his new phone a number of times, such as when LTT got hacked.

 

[Vampirdžija]

Reddit as predicted, hiding in spoiler cause there will be a few:

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Looked at reddit and they were also calling Rossman a right-wing grifter, that he's gonna influence poor little Steve with his politics, and that he's single because of his personality

 

[biggacracka]

Looked at reddit and they were also calling Rossman a right-wing grifter, that he's gonna influence poor little Steve with his politics, and that he's single because of his personalityView attachment 6903285

"Right wing is when accountability!"
t. redditor who's more correct than he thinks, unfortunately

 

[ZipDisk]

I'd love to see the response if some con told Linus to leave his wife at home.

 

[AltisticRight]

Linus sycophants are fucking imbeciles. I can perhaps understand why someone would defend an ethot, video essay type or gaming channels, but this content farm slop? Really? No wonder they're Redditors. They're so worthless and smug, everyone outside of their Reddit hugbox sees nothing but a bunch of useless cretins whose death would be a net positive to the world. Redditors are literally worthless garbage. Your edaddy sucks, his products suck and his brand is trash. You're not going to become one of his surrogate children by sucking his leaf cock online.

DiperAU doesn't know what he's talking about. He should go back to crying about Among Us games and whining about reaction cockroaches like Asmongold.

 

[Gunlance]

For reference, Linus regularly does "long term phone reviews" where he swaps phones for a month, sometimes more, to talk about how the experience is with the phone, be it a new gimmick phone or a different ecosystem like apple. In these videos he talks about they systems he uses to get all his phone contacts, emails, etc, to move from phone to phone with him, but he always goes back to his old Samsung Galaxy Note 9 or whatever the hell it was. This is not 2008 where someone looses a phone or it gets wet and all of a sudden they need to get everyone to text them their phone numbers again. He isn't running a business where 2-3 times a year he looses everyone's contact information, and to pretend otherwise is retarded.

 

[Combustion Engine]

Its funny how he titled this shit "I just wanna do tech tips"

This is the sort of stuff Rossman was talking about in his community post and video. It's no coincidence Linus started the latest WAN show saying he "didn't want to discuss this any further", but now he's making them do this. It's all your fault, you're making me do this, I didn't want to, it's not my problem, it's all your fault. Most people with experience dealing with narcissists and such will immediately read between the lines and shut this behaviour down, some others might also associate it with trauma from having to deal with this sort of stuff from an abusive person. I suppose the old adage "they cry in pain as they attack you" suits him perfectly, too.

 

[Dfackt0]

And also, the whole sending to the wrong phone thing, he did mention that he just switched phones and doesn't have his old contacts and texts so that could be a factor

Steve has stated that he has had multiple conversations with Lienus on the new phone, and that the swap was not in fact recent
Nothing about how Linus has handled this has been anything less than deliberate, He will not own up to anything because he believes its in his best interest to not own up to anything, it is not profitable to his viewership and by extension to his wallet
Linus is profit oriented, his passion for tech vanished once it stopped being his avenue of being appealing and getting what he wanted, He can and will complete his malign metamorphose into tech Mr Beast
I find your abundance of charity towards him to be retarded, make no mistake, Linus was an Internet father figure to me and it is sad to witness the person he has become, but he has indeed become said person and you would do well to see the writing on the wall

 

[Susanna]

Steve has stated that he has had multiple conversations with Lienus on the new phone, and that the swap was not in fact recent

There is a plausible explanation, ie that he stored Steve's number, then added the new one as the default to the contact. Then he cloned his contact list over to a new phone he was reviewing, and that somehow swapped which number was default around. He sent the message to Steve from the demo phone, then switched back to his regular phone, restoring which number he uses to contact him.
The incriminating part isn't the scenario, the scenario itself is plausible if a bit circumstantial, it's how very convenient it is that the one message he would be able to use as ammunition against Steve happened to be lost this way, and only that one message. I think Rossman is correct in pointing this out as a ploy Linus came up with "just in case" he eventually ended up in drama with Steve.