Doubled down?

Yes, doubled down. After being called out Linus made two separate long posts about why he wasn’t wrong.

They also formed a volunteer team of “beta tester” viewers who see each video pre-release

So using free labour instead of just doing their jobs? If they can’t “catch any mistakes internally”, then they’re just bad at their jobs (which they are).

I think they handled it well.

Yes, the PR team they used gave them a good corporate playbook to work with.

“Slowed the upload cadence” is just another way to say “wait for this to blow over”.

I used to watch LTT, mostly because it was interesting from the “let’s see what those guys have to say”. I had zero interest in their technical expertise because, well, they don’t really have any. They’ve always been clowns, but after their storage server video and their Linux “challenge” I lost all respect for any talent or knowledge they claimed to have. After the Billet Labs incident I lost any shred of respect I had for them.

They are clowns.