Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership

• fatalicus@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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• tomkatt@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  For example they found out one of their main sponsors Honey were scamming their viewers and essentially stealing from people, they just kept it quiet rather than owning it.

  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.

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    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.

    I’ve no idea why people will defend him to the ends of the earth.

    Your information is out of date.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.

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  • dev_null@lemmy.ml ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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  • fatalicus@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • tomkatt@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

      Shown where? I’ve seen no evidence of that anywhere, and I was following that controversy when it happened.

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      • fatalicus@lemmy.world ⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Here is the post from Billet Labs themselves where they verify that they only asked for the cooler back after the video had been released: www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/…/kcfmcnz/

        Now, i’m not saying that LTT didn’t do Billet Lbs dirty in regards to this whole situation.

        They did not test the cooler correctly, and Linus was less than resonable in regards to retesting and such (something he has adressed himself here: linustechtips.com/topic/…/16/#comment-16078641 ).

        But people keep hanging up that they sold when they were supposed to send it back, when there was no such agreement beforehand.

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