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

[Slav Power]

The pool in the backyard on Google Maps matches the one in the video:
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The patio also matches:
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And a cozy 20 minute drive to the workplace. Must be a coincidence.

Speaking of the workplace:

If you approach it on Street View from the left side of the building, you'll notice that someone will pop out of it.

One of Linus' ginger neckbearded hipsters.

As the Google car drives by, he keeps looking at it and seemingly takes something out of his pocket.

Though it seems like he's actually holding a stick.

Then he puts his hand on his mouth. Hard to believe an LTT employee would be a smoker.

However, he kept looking at the car and kept his hand on the mouth. Was he smoking?

Eh, maybe. Kinda looks like he put a fag in his mouth, then took a lighter out. But with the length that he had his hand on his face I prefer to think he shat his pants realizing that the LMG building will now be on Street View with his dork ass on it and that's why he covered his mouth like that.

 

[SYN-ACK-ACK-ACK]

One of Linus' ginger neckbearded hipsters.
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With that second picture of the lumberfaggot I thought one of his drones was based and about to pull off a cancelable salute. Surprised they can afford to smoke on their slave wages in Canada, but it does look like hes vaping rather than smoking.

 

[Ed Special]

This nigger has a wife

Imagine being an incel in a world where this absolute specimen has gotten laid with a woman who's apparently close enough to his standards to be worth a ring.

Found his wife.

Spoiler

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She's a bit chubby, but honestly for a Canadian urban/suburban white foid she's still a hair above the median looks-wise. Elijah's definitely swinging above his league here. I reiterate - if he can get with a woman this far above him, there is no excuse for being an incel.

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And a cozy 20 minute drive to the workplace. Must be a coincidence.

Speaking of the workplace:
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If you approach it on Street View from the left side of the building, you'll notice that someone will pop out of it.
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One of Linus' ginger neckbearded hipsters.
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As the Google car drives by, he keeps looking at it and seemingly takes something out of his pocket.
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Though it seems like he's actually holding a stick.
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Then he puts his hand on his mouth. Hard to believe an LTT employee would be a smoker.
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However, he kept looking at the car and kept his hand on the mouth. Was he smoking?
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Eh, maybe. Kinda looks like he put a fag in his mouth, then took a lighter out. But with the length that he had his hand on his face I prefer to think he shat his pants realizing that the LMG building will now be on Street View with his dork ass on it and that's why he covered his mouth like that.

Probably a vape, not a fag. I'd say probably at least 90% of video editor hipsters play the douche flute - especially in Canada where geting blitzed on THC is legal.

 

[0da2]

The “DELL CALL ENDED” in large font makes it pretty obvious they’re not reviewing phones.

The thumbnail is OBJECTIVELY bad by Youtube standards.

A good thumbnail should do exactly two things:
1) Get your attention
2) Explain the premise

You should know what the video is about from the thumbnail alone in under 500ms. The thumbnail should not be a riddle for a me to solve.

The questions you *do* want the viewer to ask should not be about the thumbnail itself. One of the ways to get potential viewers to click is by creating a "curiosity gap". The thumbnail should clearly represent the contents of the video but not entirely. This makes the viewers interested enough to click to resolve this tension. The thumbnail should make people want to know the outcome or resolution. Or, in the case of this video it could maybe be a comparison (before/after, product A vs B, expectation vs reality, etc.). This was explained by Veritasium in this video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2xHZPH5Sng

Linus' thumbnail is bad because I want to ask:
Why are they on the phone with Dell? Why is Linus in a costume? And why is he crying?

None of these questions are about the video itself. And you can NOT possibly know the contents of the video from the current thumbnail alone.

The thumbnail looks ugly and jarring. The technical execution is bad as well. The colors are way off. Color theory? Why is the background this ugly shade of green? Why is the hand outlined in a red glow? And at small scale the material of Linus' costume creates a moiré effect/banding.

 

[Rekieta’s Broken Penis]

The thumbnail is OBJECTIVELY bad by Youtube standards.

You’re saying it’s objectively bad because you didn’t get it immediately but have you considered that you might be stupid? The video is within the typical range you’d expect for an LTT video.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

You’re saying it’s objectively bad because you didn’t get it immediately but have you considered that you might be stupid? The video is within the typical range you’d expect for an LTT video.

Are you trying to imply that the average, avid even, LTT watcher is smarter than the average Farmer? Big yikes, gonna have to give you a downvoterino for that take.

 

[0da2]

You’re saying it’s objectively bad because you didn’t get it immediately but have you considered that you might be stupid? The video is within the typical range you’d expect for an LTT video.

Youtube thumbnails are supposed to be really simple. I even went on Discord for you and asked around, what people thought the video was about (n=7). They either had no clue or thought it had something to do with Dell's customer support. They all said the thumbnail was bad. Not one person guessed that the video is about Linus secret shopping different system integrators.

I have no idea how you're unable to see the very fucking glaring issues with the thumbnail. It's really, really bad. Even we forget the composition and storytelling issues, what are the colors? What is their thumbnail designer doing with the colors? You simply cannot justify the colors.

I don't want to powerlevel too much. But you have zero idea what you're talking about. You're wrong. And you have no taste.

The video is also performing worse than their typical video. It's the second worst video they've released in their past 10 uploads. The only videos with fewer views are livestream VODs or literally ads.

Spoiler: Last 10 uploads table

1	I Can’t Review GPUs that Don’t Exist… RTX 5060 and 5060 Ti	1.78 M views
2	The $1,000,000 PC ruined our server room	1.69 M views
3	Malaysia’s Biggest Tech Mall has EVERYTHING (Even 5090s)	1.61 M views
4	(AD) I made her Upgrade her Husband’s PC	1.38 M views
5	Dell Hung Up On Me – Secret Shopper 4 Part 1	1.25 M views
6	I tried Cooling a CPU from both sides	843 K views
7	(AD) I Got ALL this Tech for Under $100! – Handy Tech Under $100	728 K views
8	(VOD) Sorry America – WAN Show April 11, 2025	561 K views
9	(AD) Who Can Clean a Pool Faster? – Beatbot AquaSense 2 Ultra…	446 K views
10	(VOD) That Time I Almost Got Sued – WAN Show April 18, 2025	433 K views

Spoiler: Current vs previous season comparison (24H)

For comparison, here's how the first episode of the previous season of Secret Shopper performed.

 

[Jeff Q. Anime]

I even went on Discord for you

credentials as not-a-retard highly suspect

 

[AltisticRight]

He did another house video that was so censored that its unbearable to watch (even more so than usual). Another sponsored pool cleaning robot. Be sure to use their affiliate link when you buy your $3,000 pool cleaner for no discount.

Looks like even the ltt reddit hated it:
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Imagine being such a retarded grifter you take sponsorships that are so garbage and bullshit, it gets you phonebooked in a country that doesn't have banks selling your phonebook to brokers within a few minutes. That's an accomplishment.

So what has this retard been up to anyway?

Content farm slop.

Meanwhile, the superior channel by several galaxies.

Oh look, the thumbnail is clickbait! No, it's actually not. There's been so much bullshit flying around. Parts are not exempt, the tariffs aren't a flat 145% and China or wherever would NOT be paying that tariff.
This was honestly one of the best videos they've ever made.

Very cool GN, you turned me into a paypig.


Fuck LTT.

 

[⋖ cørdion ⋗]

She's a bit chubby, but honestly for a Canadian urban/suburban white foid she's still a hair above the median looks-wise. Elijah's definitely swinging above his league here. I reiterate - if he can get with a woman this far above him, there is no excuse for being an incel.

Being okay with his weebism, 100% she used to be a tumblr fujo fatty or got some equally depraved hobbies.

 

[HootersMcBoobies]

Oh look, the thumbnail is clickbait! No, it's actually not. There's been so much bullshit flying around. Parts are not exempt, the tariffs aren't a flat 145% and China or wherever would NOT be paying that tariff.
This was honestly one of the best videos they've ever made.

Very cool GN, you turned me into a paypig.

I watched this last night and it's probably the best documentary on the absolute shit-show state of Tariffs, and it somehow manages to not get political about it as well (the interview guests do talk about the politics, but Steve does a pretty remarkable job of being pretty neutral).

Would LMG even be able to do anything remotely like this? GN has a lot of relationships with a lot of people in industry he's built over a decade. He's gotten in pretty well with these groups by doing factory tour videos. Linus is too much of a retard to even think about covering tariffs to this kind of depth, nor does LMG's quick video turnaround times even allow for constructing something of this detail.

 

[Canard]

I watched this last night and it's probably the best documentary on the absolute shit-show state of Tariffs, and it somehow manages to not get political about it as well (the interview guests do talk about the politics, but Steve does a pretty remarkable job of being pretty neutral).

Would LMG even be able to do anything remotely like this? GN has a lot of relationships with a lot of people in industry he's built over a decade. He's gotten in pretty well with these groups by doing factory tour videos. Linus is too much of a retard to even think about covering tariffs to this kind of depth, nor does LMG's quick video turnaround times even allow for constructing something of this detail.

This sort of video would not hit their algos too well. The GN said that their AI video which was just word AI cut from all the resent presentation would hit their retention metrics and thus affect youtube views somewhat. Like LMG would ever do anything to harm those...

 

[mandatorylurk]

Horrible react style of "Youngsters" playing old games, the youngest is Linus' son who is too busy doing that stupid thing of he knows he's on camera so he's going to be a deliberate smartass to show up his dad. The rest of the people are Elijah, some chynese guy who works on floatplane, and what looks like a bunch of people from the design/clothing division ie gays also ie canadians. Lots of people looking ugly, dressing ugly, talking with vocal fry that I can't tell if it's a generational or gay/canadian thing. Downside to this is it being all PC games, as opposed to console games of the time.

 

[Ed Special]

Being okay with his weebism, 100% she used to be a tumblr fujo fatty or got some equally depraved hobbies.

Or - and hear me out here - she's just a normal woman who's OK with her slightly ugly husband having dorky hobbies. I know this is a bit of an "edgy" forum, but there's no need to slag off people we don't know literally anything about beyond what they look like and that their spouse is a bit of a dork.

 

[𒀭Δημιουργός χάος]

Imagine being such a retarded grifter you take sponsorships that are so garbage and bullshit, it gets you phonebooked in a country that doesn't have banks selling your phonebook to brokers within a few minutes. That's an accomplishment.

So what has this retard been up to anyway?
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Content farm slop.

Meanwhile, the superior channel by several galaxies.
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Oh look, the thumbnail is clickbait! No, it's actually not. There's been so much bullshit flying around. Parts are not exempt, the tariffs aren't a flat 145% and China or wherever would NOT be paying that tariff.
This was honestly one of the best videos they've ever made.

Very cool GN, you turned me into a paypig.
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Fuck LTT.

TechJesus wins again

 

[privateexpediency99]

Or - and hear me out here - she's just a normal woman who's OK with her slightly ugly husband having dorky hobbies. I know this is a bit of an "edgy" forum, but there's no need to slag off people we don't know literally anything about beyond what they look like and that their spouse is a bit of a dork.

It's a bit beyond "dorky hobbies". That Elijah guy is the biggest coomer imaginable. He has multiple Belle Delphine keyboards and various other merch from her. He likely engages with her content and god knows what else he is into, and he's not even ashamed of it. He very proudly showed it all off in his LTT upgrade video. No normal self respecting woman/wife would be ok with her husband doing this.

 

[Chapalapachapa]

Horrible react style of "Youngsters" playing old

Good thing they shitcanned the Fat tranny before this shit

 

[VIPPER?]

Imagine being such a retarded grifter you take sponsorships that are so garbage and bullshit, it gets you phonebooked in a country that doesn't have banks selling your phonebook to brokers within a few minutes. That's an accomplishment. ...

Meanwhile, the superior channel by several galaxies.
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Oh look, the thumbnail is clickbait! No, it's actually not. There's been so much bullshit flying around. Parts are not exempt, the tariffs aren't a flat 145% and China or wherever would NOT be paying that tariff.
This was honestly one of the best videos they've ever made.

Very cool GN, you turned me into a paypig.

Fuck LTT.

I watched that the other night and it probably did more to inform me on tariffs than any actual political video did. I was seriously tempted to get one of those 50$ soldering mats after.

Would LMG even be able to do anything remotely like this? GN has a lot of relationships with a lot of people in industry he's built over a decade. He's gotten in pretty well with these groups by doing factory tour videos. Linus is too much of a retard to even think about covering tariffs to this kind of depth, nor does LMG's quick video turnaround times even allow for constructing something of this detail.

LTT/LMG's content slop pipeline totally precludes doing any kind of serious long-form content; they don't even do proper hardware reviews anymore. But I would be fucking shocked if they(the company) don't have lots of partnerships with mid-size companies and couldn't easily work something out to have linus go and do a few interviews. Linus himself is and probably always has been a slop-churner, but seems to enjoy doing build videos so even something like having a look around a fab plant or design studio is probably something he could do if he had any interest in making content that isn't purely youtube algo manipulation.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

LTT/LMG's content slop pipeline totally precludes doing any kind of serious long-form content

Not to mention that its exceedingly unlikely they could engage in any of this subject responsibly. They know they're an entertainment brand at heart, so they'd have to try and make dry economic bullshit 'fun', and that only really leaves the avenue of political jokes. I doubt Linus is particularly interested in putting out an hour long functional political hit piece to just embroil himself in more controversy, even someone as blind as he is can see that would be the outcome.

From a purely profit motivated position, there's no real win in putting in effort being 'honest' about the situation. The real money is in a series of 'budget build' videos on how to pick out and identify good used hardware, how to make the most of unbalanced machine specs, where you can scrimp and save, etc. Those will get views if he just presents them as general "Tariff Protection" videos and not really touch on the causes at all.

 

[Chapalapachapa]

From a purely profit motivated position, there's no real win in putting in effort being 'honest' about the situation. The real money is in a series of 'budget build' videos on how to pick out and identify good used hardware, how to make the most of unbalanced machine specs, where you can scrimp and save, etc. Those will get views if he just presents them as general "Tariff Protection" videos and not really touch on the causes at all.

but they dont have the people or money to do that! they already have 3 videos in the pipeline on how to build another sponsored pc for some of the faggots who work for them!