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

Meanwhile, Alex and Andy already hit 200k subs and >1000 Patreon paypigs, as well as raking in sponsored reviews.


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tehpope said:
That sucks. godspeed alex. I liked you on ltt.
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DΛRK MΛGΛ said:
Meanwhile, Alex and Andy already hit 200k subs and >1000 Patreon paypigs, as well as raking in sponsored reviews.
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His car videos do feel kinda kino. I use to think I didn't like him, but I think it was more LTT than him. The Alex and Andy dynamic really works. I mean, I'm not going to pay $400 for a billet shifter assembly, but watching them install one was kinda neat. His BMW project is pretty fun to watch, and it also seems like an insane amount of work.

 
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U+200B said:
I always liked him and the janky water cooling solutions. I really used to wonder why he ended up at LTT in the first place, but glad he broke free from that hell hole. Watched a few recent vids and it's just fags and zoomies now.
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There's not a great deal of demand for engineers in Vancouver, not ones that actually makes the shit themselves rather than being a design guy that sends files to China. Gotta move to Alberta or the Atlantic coast for that stuff, and even then much of it dried up years ago. LTT was probably his best bet for a foot in the door kind of job, especially with Linus being willing to finance that shop.

Glad to see his success seems to be steady and not a fluke.
 
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Nick Light, the COO of LMG and Creator Wearhouse, has left LMG. He's been with them since the beginning if I recall correctly. He had this to say on his LinkedIn.

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If you forgot what he looks like, he's this baldie. Linus calls him often on the WAN show to discuss upcoming merch releases. He has been extremely dedicated to the company and building up their merch line. LTT is a sinking ship.

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Homoshrexual2 said:
Losing Nick is a big deal. He's the only other adult at the company besides the new CEO.
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Even outside being an adult, Creator Warehouse is HALF their entire revenue, by their own provided breakdowns from a few months back. Considering this guy isn't instantly playing up his new venture or the like, that implies an involuntary departure. Not explicitly fired, could also just be a disagreement about direction or a coming action that he would have no part of.

Regardless of cause, the single most important money printer they have is now headless, in a group rapidly bleeding senior and capable talent. Add this to the fact that the merch business as a whole is kind of on fire with tariffs sending everyone running for new solutions, and its very very easy for this to turn into a shitshow. Whether its a bad merch drop plus bad PR response, bad choice of product, supplier issue, Linus demanding something be made in a weird and expensive way for no good reason, or any other number of situations, a 10% drop in creator warehouse revenue would be comparable to them losing most of their video sponsors. It'd be apocalyptic for their books.

I'd kill to be a fly on the wall with whatever shits going on inside of LTT. While I hope for an apocalyptic collapse, this feels more like the start of a slow decline where a lolcows world falls apart and they start lashing out. Its been too quiet over there for a while, the milks gotta be accumulating.
 
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Kuritan Deplorable said:
Even outside being an adult, Creator Warehouse is HALF their entire revenue, by their own provided breakdowns from a few months back. Considering this guy isn't instantly playing up his new venture or the like, that implies an involuntary departure. Not explicitly fired, could also just be a disagreement about direction or a coming action that he would have no part of.

Regardless of cause, the single most important money printer they have is now headless, in a group rapidly bleeding senior and capable talent. Add this to the fact that the merch business as a whole is kind of on fire with tariffs sending everyone running for new solutions, and its very very easy for this to turn into a shitshow. Whether its a bad merch drop plus bad PR response, bad choice of product, supplier issue, Linus demanding something be made in a weird and expensive way for no good reason, or any other number of situations, a 10% drop in creator warehouse revenue would be comparable to them losing most of their video sponsors. It'd be apocalyptic for their books.

I'd kill to be a fly on the wall with whatever shits going on inside of LTT. While I hope for an apocalyptic collapse, this feels more like the start of a slow decline where a lolcows world falls apart and they start lashing out. Its been too quiet over there for a while, the milks gotta be accumulating.
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You are correct in your assertion that he has no other plans at this time. Looking on his Twitter account, he made a post this afternoon reflecting the same information found in the LinkedIn post. However, one of his former coworkers remarks that they find it admirable that he doesn't have another job lined up and will be spending time with his wife and kids for a few weeks while he works on finding a new position.

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So he quit with no secured job. Not a good sign for internals at LTT. Probably an issue with them pivoting their direction in a way he disagreed leaving to him resigning. Or just overwhelming frustration.
 
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U+200B said:
I always liked him and the janky water cooling solutions. I really used to wonder why he ended up at LTT in the first place, but glad he broke free from that hell hole. Watched a few recent vids and it's just fags and zoomies now.
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He always came off as an Engineering grad who couldn't get picked up at a proper firm; or maybe thought it'd be more fun to frankenstein shit together. Even if he's not doing "real engineer" work, he seems to know his way around CAD and tools. Which is what surprises me, Linus seems to pick up people who seem to have proper training and skills, like that electrical engineer guy. His Engineer team seems surprisingly competent and fairly normal, compared to most of the other talent.
 
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Nick was one of the few employees who actually owned a house (a newly bought house too going by his AMD upgrade). I guess that meant too much to LTT that only he can have a house so he must be replaced with a poojeet who will live in the canadian bugman apartments.

Thinking about the Creator Warehouse, it's not like Nick didn't do everything Linus wanted, so any sense of failures with products comes down to Linus being retarded and thinking there's a market for something he assumed everyone wanted. Like the women's clothing line, did not sell well because the women who watch are trannies. Or maybe Chyna finally copied the screwdriver enough to where they're pushing out copies and sales are going to nosedive completely.
 
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Or maybe Chyna finally copied the screwdriver enough to where they're pushing out copies and sales are going to nosedive completely.
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This is already the default - anything you get China to make is already going out the back door before they even deliver your first batch, especially if its a manufacturer that claims to specialize in "small batch" production.

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so any sense of failures with products comes down to Linus being retarded and thinking there's a market for something he assumed everyone wanted
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So my brain did a bit of a jump around a few things, and has the most retarded idea he could possibly pursue. He's super obsessed with home automation and smart home equipment. He has "highly technical people" and a lot of capital to work with if he scrounged up his company credit. And he, of course, knows best what works and what people want/need.

What are the odds we're about to see a new addition to LMG, the Linus Tech Solutions product line? Its fantastically retarded and a pure money pit, but that's never stopped the man before.
 
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What are the odds we're about to see a new addition to LMG, the Linus Tech Solutions product line?
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This is very biased because while I don't like a lot of home automation, I know a bit about IoT and home automation from friends that likes and works on the area.

But if Linus do it properly, it could turn out to be profitable, a lot of problems with home-automation stuff is that the tools are locked down to it's platform and a lot of times their platform lacks a lot of basic functionality.

If Linus was able to create a platform with full offline support to home assistant, Google and Apple home, without needing bridges or third party integration, he would be one of the only ones doing that on a scale and if done properly(having the least amount of bugs possible and sending a lot of pre-production units to sites like rtings and youtubers) it could turn out to be profitable
 
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Ed Special said:
Fuck it, full acceleration on that trend. An artisinal production-heavy economy will give us better wages, better working conditions, and the option to NOT send half our incomes to a bunch of billionaire kikes on Wall Street.
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The problem with plans like this is it requires a semi-skilled workforce that's also happy to work for sub-par wages. Of course, any new venture like this is STILL competing with mass-produced garbage as well, so this is no small feat to make it a viable business.

The farmers that voted to kick out all the illegals that are now scratching their heads trying to figure out where to get anyone to work their farm are somewhat in the same boat.

America's been away from manufacturing / craft long enough that we are missing the skills, we are missing the materials and we are missing the workforce. To reverse the prior 45(?) years of "offshoring" would require extreme, multi-year effort.
 
Linus sounds like a middle schooler / high schooler with his braces in this intro. Even the editor(s) are roasting him in the edit.
 
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