Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership
tomkatt@lemmy.world 2 days ago
I stopped watching LTT years ago. His channel is crap. He’s a tech personality who seems to barely understand technology, so most of his videos are just over the top bullshit. Not to mention his awful annoying vocal fry. He’s like the male Fran Drescher.
It’s actually worse than that.
He does know some stuff about technology and his team knows the stuff that he maybe doesn’t know.
But in the fight with GamersNexus they basically admitted that they don’t have time to properly fact check stuff because they would make less money if they released less videos.
That’s from way back when. They shut production for a week, reassessed how they make things, and came back with the promise to be more thorough and not release a video when it’s just not done that day. And they have “missed” some days since.
Oh Linus is a giant child.
He once got pissed off, because they got called out by an actual scientist. They were creating videos promoting fake products. Then they played victim and pushed it instead of, ya know, taking the high road.
Hes an emotionally stunted 13 year old, that thinks its funny to keep dropping/breaking things that most normal people could never afford to even touch, who is quick to criticize the wrongs of everyone else, but acts like a goddamn martyr as soon as you criticize him and his behavior.
his response to GamersNexus “being mean” by reporting facts backed up by receipts and evidence is only the tip of the iceberg.
I agree with most of your points, but vocal fry?!
That’s such an asinine thing to care about.
I just find his voice very irritating. I know not everyone feels that way.
I know you.
You are a asmr type of guy, aren’t you?
Had to look up what asmr was. No, I don’t think that’s me. I don’t think I’d dislike it, but I don’t seek out that sort of content.
I also don’t hear any, and neither does Fran Drescher have one? I mean my ears were ringing too much from all the fapping to notice it on The Nanny.
he rubbed me the wrong way when he created drama with employees like last year. people were being sexist towards a female employee how she wasnt in tech, and she should do anything on the "show.
I never watched that channel very much, but in the several videos I’ve seen (maybe 10-12 total?), he seemed to know exactly what he was talking about.
I’d be interested in hearing what specific complaints technical experts have with the channel.
its that Nasal voice right? like lois from family guy
Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz 2 days ago
His complete lack of self awareness and ability to own up and apologise when they’ve dropped the ball put me off the channel entirely.
That, and Emily was the best thing about the channel and she left so…
tomkatt@lemmy.world 2 days ago
That’s one of the things I was referring to. GamersNexus did an expose on the Honey thing and filed a class action suit over it because they were essentially stealing money from creators. Linus was complicit and aware and said nothing.
Let’s also not forget the time Linus literally received a prototype cooler from Billet Labs for testing, was supposed to return it after review, and he not only reviewed it poorly (and used it for the wrong hardware), but then basically stole it and auctioned it off, later referring to this as “a small mistake.” Supposedly he only offered to pay for the prototype after this was also exposed by GN.
Dude’s just scummy. I’ve no idea why people will defend him to the ends of the earth.
fatalicus@lemmy.world 2 days ago
About the Billet Labs thing, they have shown, and Billet Labs verified it, that the original agreement was that LTT would keep the cooler.
It was only after the bad review they asked for it back, and at that point there was miss communication between the person Billet Labs talked to and the logistics department at LTT, so the cooler wasn’t set aside as it should.
tomkatt@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Shown where? I’ve seen no evidence of that anywhere, and I was following that controversy when it happened.
echodot@feddit.uk 2 days ago
Your information is out of date.
That was massively overblown and turned out not to be entirely as claimed. I would really like it if people would attack him for things he actually did rather than making up accusations. it just makes you look like a bad actor.
LTT only knew that they were stealing associate links, Which is something that only affects content creators and was already being shared between various content creators. That aspect was not something that affected users. The information was made available on the channels that content creators use. There was no need to highlight it to the general public in a video as it didn’t make any difference to them.
The thing with Gamers Nexus was a completely different event where they were accused of changing the associate links so that users wouldn’t get good deals. That did affect users but that was a different scam and then GN deliberately went out of his way to conflate the two incidents.
dev_null@lemmy.ml 2 days ago
And the Honey thing turned out to be a dud, the accusations false, and the lawsuit went nowhere. So good on them not to jump on the lawsuit train I guess.
fatalicus@lemmy.world 2 days ago
About Honey, they didn’t find out that Honey was scamming viewers until everyone else did.
What they found out earlier, at the same time as many other youtubers, was that Honey was “scamming” the youtubers themselves by replacing the youtubers reference codes.
At the time they thought the viewers still got discounts, so they didn’t announce anything about it since it would seem like they asked the viewers not to take the discounts so that LTT could make more money.