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where do we stand on this? i dont like linus at all so i'm gonna go with the long haired guy
Long haired guy is what young me would have liked to look like when older, plus he's got the job I would have dreamed of when I was a teen long haired nerd obsessed with computers.
I never liked Linus because of how normalgay and "corporate friendly" he looked.
Before this drama I had never watched an entire Linus video, still haven't, and didn't even know who long haired guy was btw. I got my hardware news from WRITTEN articles on toms hardware, xbitlabs (rip), anandtech, and I still like it that way.
>I got my hardware news from WRITTEN articles
based.
Society wastes so much collective time with video articles it's unbelievable.
I only learned about GN at all because at the time they did proper written articles of every video they put out. i stumbled upon the written reviews/reports way before learning they had an actual youtube channel
Toms is pozzed, only anandtechs's good in that list.
linus has always felt disingenuous to me, everything he says about the products he talks about sounds like he's getting paid by the maker or their competitor
I'm with Tech Jesus
Linus is a shill that says whatever you want as long as you pay him. You watch his channel to see him drop shit on camera and buy dumb aliexpress shit.
>inb4 Linus releases a video titled
>Im Getting Audited
he's not paying taxes?
charity fraud from auctioning off the stolen prototype.
plus tax fraud for using said charity auction for tax write off
Also possible industrial espionage
yeah corporate sabotage, possible industrial espionage, theft over 1,000 dollars, defamation and slander
yeah, it's from litmus's post on his forum
because he defrauded a charity by donating the proceeds from stolen goods. in canada charity fraud is in the tax code
linus claimed the money from the ltx auction went to a charity, extralife i think
Yeah, they did it since they knew the guys were too broke to take any legal action.
If someone hears it now from being blasted as bankrolls their legal fees he could be fricked.
>proceeds from stolen goods
ah thanks, makes sense
>in canada charity fraud is in the tax code
actually i might be wrong on that, not from Canada. anyway point stands about the charity fraud
and it's technically not charity fraud but charity defraud. semantics i guess
it's pretty crazy how being dumb cost him 100 million dollars.
>defrauding a charity by donating the proceeds from stolen goods
Holy shit this is worse than I thought
based
Why don't they just solve it in a MMA fight?
i dont wanna watch 45 minutes of sperging. someone give me a one sentence quick rundown and ill take it as gospel
Linus test methods are trash. Linus does some shady shit. At least listen to the water block fiasco, it is amazing how a 100 million dollar company can be this incompetent.
Thank you sirs
>LTT made shit videos with shitload of errors, large and small
>Incompetent reviews
>LTT "review" a prototype cooler, use it with the wrong GPU, blame and trash cooler maker, sold said prototype cooler even when the company ask for it back, company is now more or less fricked
Don't forget
>Review gamer mice
>Shit on mice
>Turns out he doesn't remove the protective plastic on the feet
>Company tells them they are moronic
>Doubles down and says WELL YOU SHOULD HAVE MADE IT MORE CLEAR
Ironic. The plastic covering being clear is what caused the error in the first place.
They said the company was wrong and that they removed the plastic- THEN keen-eyed viewes noticed theyre full of shit and absolutely DID NOT remove the plastic.
And then they double down and said the company should have made pull tabs to make it clear to remove the plastic.
down and says WELL YOU SHOULD HAVE MADE IT MORE CLEAR
Linus is a fricking idiot. I figured this was clear enough, but ironically he's "right" in the sense that companies should idiot proof their shit against him if they're sending stuff to him to test.
It is probably in the manual but imagine thinking Linus would do anything probably reading on the product.
Linus going "BETTER THAN LINUX™!" in the AtlasOS video while Emily is behind him staring murder daggers (and then a quick 0.2second flash of downsides toward the "distro"/fricked up settings they put on Windows to where it's a GOATse level gaping security nightmare) because he got BTFO in the terminal on a public video was the canary in the coalmine for him being a moron.
This is just the stale air in the coalmine.
I didn't know Linus shilled atlas
The thing is, the average person is moronic about stuff like that. If a youtuber whose job it is messes it up then grandma is definitely going to get filtered by it. For every youtuber complaining there is going to be a boomer shitting up the Amazon reviews, either way it will hurt the product.
Read the fricking manual.
Also don't call yourself a professional review if you can't read the fricking manual. People watch you cause you are "professional", not because you are an average person trying to review stuff.
>Reviews shit
>Gets paid for it
NoT a PrOfeSsIoNaL ReViEwEr
Nowhere does it say the tips are accurate, you're the moron for relying on a single source for accuracy
I also expect my reviews to be not moronic. There is subjective reviews and then there is "I didn't remove the plastic wrap so I call it bad" reviews.
You know you can just watch another channel right?
The issue is LTT is trying to shill his channel as an accurate review site. I never watch his shit in the first place.
>grandma is buying gamer mice
If you’ve got unexpected friction and two brain cells to rub together you look at the bottom of your mouse
That the packaging was confusing or difficult to remove would have been a valid criticism, given that it wasn't idiot-proof enough for the LTT staff, but that's not what they said.
thats pretty much the point.
Joe Schmoe watches LTT say "MOUSE BAD NO BUY".
Meanwhile a good company should've said:
This mouse actually glides fantastic, just make sure you remove the protective cover - we initially didn't so ooops 🙂
Yeah, no.
Linux Sebastianstein is an unapologetic jackass that thrives on a media empire that has systemic lab data issues and working conditions that effectively treat staff like slaves.
also the guy who runs the lab said "unlike GN or HUB our testing is legit"
>that effectively treat staff like slaves.
This has been known since he pays MINIMUM in Canada to even the fricking "CTO"/Luke. Luke is in a goddamn apartment with 2-3 others (his Girlfriend living with them, IIRC?) while Linus is in a multi-million dollar house (as a tax write off doing videos of working on it/house) and the lower ones are probably even in a worse situation than Luke.
Linus better thank his fricking lucky stars that Luke and Anthony and Jake fricking like him. Because they could leave and the company would be even more fricked not having their tech knowledge for videos (which are rushed and not checked by them and the writers because of Linus CAH-CHINGING the business).
If I was Luke, I'd have left after the MitM incident where Luke couldn't gain control (and had to beg Yvonne to get Linus off which Linus wouldn't do because he was panicking about the company. Understandable... but if your CTO says "I know what it is, let me fix it" you STEP THE FRICK ASIDE.)
>probably even in a worse situation than Luke.
i dont know how people didnt see the red flags in Anthony's little apartment tour, sitting a few feet from his HDTV with furry plushies all over the TV stand.
thread reminder that Luke is on a contract that is completely performance based so he would only make six figures if he turned floatplane into the next youtube.
>oh thanks goy, you made me billions heres your six figures ehehe
And has to put up with Linus not having redundant hardware to replace shit like the hardware that was trashed when it was infected by Malware during the MitM attack.
>Luke on video
>Oh yeah, some of us are using Steam Decks right now.
Where the frick is the millions that Linus owns going from the company?
his houses
Well, obviously. But it's baffling he would straight up say:
>Oh, it'd cost up to $500 and frick that
While living in a goddamn multi-million dollar house while his "CTO" and lower-level employees rent in Vancouver.
>it's baffling
It's not. All his employees willingly put up with that shit because 1) Linus is so powerful that he could completely blackball all of them if they try to get away from him and 2) it's a PC tech/youtube channel job that lets them all frick around as much as they want and treat their work like a big adult playground every day, and that is way fricking more than the majority of Ganker posters are allotted in life.
>working conditions that effectively treat staff like slaves.
Lol welcome to the BC Media Industry. Only two people I know in it, one is a broken man, the other is a trust fund kid who knows he will always get bailed out.
Reminds me of Ben Sharpio being forced to watch Barbie by his producer.
Linus literally got his start hawking products for a computer store and has been pretty open about how aggressively he has sought out sponsorships and financing. I never disliked him though, he seemed hungry for success.
LinusTechTips was legitimately, 100%, not even a meme, don't mean this in a smartass way, was ALWAYS a shill channel from the very first episode. You didn't watch it because he was unbiased. You watched it because Linus always somehow managed to have the latest thing in his hands before anybody else, and later on because he just had the scale to do things nobody else could.
Steve was always the one with integrity and a holier than thou attitude and a much more boring channel.
Oh also Linus is far from the worst when it comes to worker exploitation. A lot of film sets in BC are outright fricking dangerous AND pay shit.
LTT has been recklessly posting sloppy data with obvious errors that they would catch if they just slowed down a bit (or had more expertise), including misstated specs and inaccurate test results for GPUs, CPU coolers, etc, and when (if) they catch the errors, they just put a quick asterisk instead of actually re-editing the video or taking it down and reuploading. They have also botched several reviews including saying a mouse was rough when it was just because they failed to remove the plastic cover (and later doubled-down on it and deflected blame onto the manufacturer), and when they reviewed a combined CPU/GPU waterblock while fitting it with a GPU that they knew was incompatible and then reporting on the poor performance that resulted from the incompatibility — to add insult to injury, they auctioned off the review prototype instead of returning it to the company like they said they would.
>didn't proofread
Rushed videos resulting in errors. But the biggest "frick you" from Steve to Linus is the fact that not only did Linus misrepresent a PROTOTYPE cooler for a GPU (by using it on a newer one that the company that made the prototype DIDN'T have at the time), but they promised to *SEND IT BACK* to the company and didn't... and *SOLD IT TO SOMEONE [possibly another competing company] AT LTX*.
Luke needs to bail (and start an only fans. *cough*), Jake needs to bail. Emily/Anthony needs to bail. Hell, the less tech-inclined should bail at this point because it's clear Linus has no idea what the frick he's doing and the "CEO" is going to be beholding to him and Yvonne.
>dont wanna watch 45 minutes of sperging
video speed controller extension 0.05x increments, set it to something like 2.5x and slow down for juicy parts for full effect
your welcome
summary
Comments for what? Linus already gave his comments. He just doubled down.
Where can I view these comments?
>auctioned it for charity to use as tax credit
>pretending he's not gaining from it
What an absolute douchebag.
All I see is an admission of wrongdoing
Where?
He didn't deny anything
And he didn't apologize for anything either
>proper journalistic practices
lmao, he keeps holding GN to a higher standard than his own company
He is not wrong regarding journalism, Steve didn't ask either LTT or that heatsink company for comment.
Nor does he has to.
That is a privilege. Not a right.
If you're doing shoddy testing and telling everyone a product sucks when it doesn't, that is legitimately defamation.
If you want to pretend to be a proper journalist, which Steve is trying to be, he should've asked for comment from everyone involved, LTT, that mouse company, that heatsink company, ASUS, Noctua. He questions LTT credibility, asking their partners for comment in regards to their business relationships is just basic journalism.
He didn't question their credibility.
He gave us outright evidence their credibility is dogshit. What is there to comment when everything Steve mentioned was 100% facts? Linus is free to dispute these facts AFTER the video drops.
LTT sponsors and partners have nothing to do with him fricking up even the most basic of tests. If you can't even keep correct graphical setting between game testing instances you should just stop testing period.
>is just basic journalism.
Frick you
You know how journalists reach people for comment? They call you ONCE right before publishing, ask only loaded questions and if you somehow still manage to defend yourself they won't quote you just say "when contacted so and so denies wrongdoing"
Well actually, Steve's video was not a review, and therefore had no obligations regarding journalistic standards
You really think you're going to get a comment from LTT about moral judgement...
So many qualifiers
he will be audited, charity and tax fraud is actually taken quite seriously in Canada.
if his israelite lawyers get him out of the charges i'd be amazed, but the audit itself is going to happen and will be highly damaging to day to day operations.
wait wait linus is a israelite??
WHY THE FRICK WOULD ANYONE INSTALL LINUX AFTER THIS
LTT is for entertainment
GN is for actual reviews
Whats the problem here? It's a nothingburger.
LTT spent literally millions on labs to try to get into the space of actual review. And they said that said lab is better than hardware unboxed or GN. Which is why GN dropped this nude on their reviews which will ensure that labs will never be taken seriously in the near future.
at the end of the video steve said that they used to tip toe around the faulty review of ltt and i guess that the arrogant frick saying "unlike GN our tests are legit" was the last straw
Imagine them trying to rent out their lab to make money back from it like they said they would, after selling a companies fricking prototype. Then having the gall to say nothing would be changed about SOP and that this has only happened once. I cannot even begin to imagine a company taking their lab seriously for testing early products at this point, shot himself in the foot with a fricking rpg
watch the video, moron. the billet labs treatment shows linus is a genuinely malicious prick.
The problem is lmg does plenty of tech reviews and there are millions of people that take them seriously
psa that sexycyborg naomi wu is a racebait psychopath with a white husband who writes all the content for her videos. she was a noname prostitute until a white man came along and said hey I've got an idea to make us both a ton of money. she used to be insane on twitter pushing NED propaganda against her own people lmfao
forgot to add that her and linus are made for each other. both of them were trying to out sexually accuse the other
LTT fired shots first, and his response made me lose the last shred of respect for him I had
> To Steve, I expressed my disappointment that he didn't go through proper journalistic practices in creating this piece.
So he basically wanted to resolve it behind closed doors?
This was just the last straw, I already barely watch the videos anymore, it's slowly been going the way of quantity over quality for a while, and he's targeting younger and younger now, it feels like I'm watching bill nye the techy guy.
Steve was addressing LTT as a company, and Linus takes it personally, firing back at his person.
To be fair, that is what most people would do. It is not a must but it is a courtesy thing. GN will still publish this piece but they would include LTT comments at the end or something. Not that it matters since this is a clear takedown by GN since LTT shat on him.
>but they would include LTT comments at the end or something.
Linus would deflect with his rabid fanbase (which Leddit is turning on him right now). He did it with the mouse until eagle-eyed viewers called his bullshit out.
Linus is a moron. He has gotten too big off Youtube bucks and can not have perspective. What would his comments in response be if GN did that before release?
>...Well, that's just like... your opinion, man?
What could would that do to the video? Nah, GN putting him on blast, especially with the prototype GPU cooler being auctioned off (hope Linus has records for who owns it and gets it back because he's fricked if he doesn't) is insanity.
And at the end of the day Linus will STILL think he is in the right.
Which is the problem and why not going to him in the first place was the smart move. Because you just know Linus would have Yvonne's lawyer on retainer get a puff-piece PR push as soon as GN's video launched.
I think the journalistic practice is different with YouTube. With a newspaper, there's no comment section. On YouTube, if Linus has a comment he can just *comment* on the video.
He made a comment of it in his forums and said he won't address it on the WAN show. Aka he wants this to blow over ASAP.
I believe what he's looking for is to be interviewed or asked about said material before it is published. To possibly adress things GN could have gotten wrong and editing the video due to that. Rather than try to explain what has already been irrevocably fed to millions of people that will see any comment as pure damage control and cope.
This sounds fair but I have no idea if LTT would abuse the fact to shit on GN or something before they post it. Also not a legal requirement so.
I don't think a newspaper changes their article once they get their facts straight. They'll reach out for comment, but nothing they say is going to change the story that they've already established and are going to publish.
>I don't think a newspaper changes their article once they get their facts straight. They'll reach out for comment, but nothing they say is going to change the story that they've already established and are going to publish.
That's doubtlessly how it often works, but it's not how things are SUPPOSED to work. If you're doing an article on a corporation and you reach out to them for comments, you're supposed to include their side of the story as well even if you then proceed to explain why everything they just said is clearly bullshit.
>I don't think a newspaper changes their article once they get their facts straight
>what is a retraction
then again it's current year so you probably don't even know what that is
Ironic when the water block makers basically said the same to Linus after his botched review. Karma
When Linus himself doesn't extend any courtesy to anyone and is in fact very much malicious, he is not entitled to said courtesy. GN did the right thing because he forces Linus to own up to his mistakes, which he won't because he's the ACTUAL definition of entitled (not the average use of it nowadays) and prideful to a fault. His group deserves to crash and burn and only Luke should make it out alive imo. Guy has been carrying Linus' ass out of troubles way too many times and he's actually doing basic research unlike the racemixer.
I don't like Luke, I don't know why. Hope he ends up sleeping on the side of a road.
Fair enough, we all have people we just instinctively don't like. But the guy is not Linus. So there's that going for him. Very low bar, tripping hazard even. But still.
Anon, that’s kinda mean 🙁
> the ACTUAL definition of entitled
the actual definition of entitled is that you are actually entitled to something.
The proper wording is self-entitled. crazy how no one actually knows there's a difference anymore. Not even the fricking google dictionary makes the distinction. An absolute disgrace.
What are proper journalistic practices anyway?
>What are proper journalistic practices anyway?
something something gamergate
Primarily here he's referring to the right to respond to allegations before they are reported and have your response included in the article. It's why you'll often see 'x was approached for comment but did not respond' and similar messages in news articles. You can look up 'The principle of natural justice' for more info.
So is the LTT lab more or less a worthless money sink? If they can't even do simple shit like making sure settings are consistent when testing GPUs, putting the wrong specs onscreen... How the frick will they properly use said lab?
>So is the LTT lab more or less a worthless money sink?
Always has been.
So was floatplane for the longest time.
That lab exists so Lonus can tax write-off
>That lab exists so Lonus can tax write-off
same reason for the charity auctions at ltx
checked
Fricking Lonus. What a israelite.
Steve and the der bauer guy are the only tech youtubers I trust, it's all data and technical rather than clickbait shit like LTT does.
Mind you, Gamers Nexus are the channel that saved the 4000 series with their investigation of the cards and figuring out it was 100% people having loose connectors causing them to melt/fail. And they did it with shitloads of data/testing. Meanwhile, Linus is sucking off $8000 Apple Pro "computers".
I lost respect for der baeur when I learned he was a cuck. I guess I shouldn't be surprised to hear that a kraut is a degen though.
>source: my ass
HOWEVER his company is a scam. You can get the same liquid metal from china for $8.
maybe i don't want to wait for my product to arrive from china
good goy
: my ass
>not knowing about the literal tech cuck when he's been doing it for years
kindly provide research material fellow scholar of overclocking jimmy neutron (research material also known as "proof" or "evidence")
https://desuarchive.org/g/thread/91140200/#91141070
HOLY FRICK
hats off for keeping the archives, this is peak Ganker
not the guy, but here is a video where he talks about his gf doing porn.
unfortunately it's in german because it is a response video to igors lab who basically called him a cuck.
here is the booking page for his gf
https://www.model-kartei.de/sedcards/model/564833/marryfox/
here is her doing a "casual" interview in the shower with two dudes
and i know it's reddit but here are videos of her fricking other guys and stuff
https://www.reddit.com/r/marryfox/
that homosexual took the video down
wayback it you worthless homie
whats he say, I dont speak german, but am debating whether or not to spend the bandwidth on marryfox's torrentpack
Igor's Lab
Actual electronic engineer
>NO NOOOOOO YOU HAVE TO BRING THE STORY TO THE PERSON FIRST AND GET THEIR RESPONSES BEFORE YOU PUBLISH
>JOURNALISTIC INTEGRITY! JOURNALISTIC INTEGRITY!
why
Linus is a fricking loser and that is the best deflection he has. Noticed how he hasn't addressed the other point other than deflect.
To be fair, that's what real journalism should be; you have a story and you try to represent the facts, including what all involved parties have to say about it. The GN video wasn't journalism, it was LTT throwing stones in a multi-million dollar glass house.
Something Steve touched on a little and I hope he expands on in a future video is the connection between LTT/LMG and high ranking Youtube employees.
someone post the tech reviewer tier list
tl;dr
LTT = Big Bang Theory
GN = IT Crowd
IT Crowd was a bunch of losers, GN is BASED(on factual research and test).
more like GN = Silicon Valley (SS1-4)
LTT = sensationalized normie slop
GN = Actual tech info
I don't know what to feel right now. I love his other channels run by his employees like shortcircuit and Mac address (don't own anything Apple but Jonathan is bloody good). I chose to ignore his incompetence when he failed to use Linux as main OS. now how he responds to this will determine whether I will continue to watch his video or not.
I already unsubbed.
Emily/Anthony, Jake, and Luke are the only ones there that seem to have clear tech knowledge. I don't know the MACAddress dude, but a lot of the "hosts" just read scripts off and don't write/test the stuff themselves.
I'd honestly watch a Luke, Jake, and Anthony channel. But it's clear Luke doesn't want to do that, Jake probably would if had following, and Anthony's transition would have /misc/chuds bombing it before it was able to make money.
>Ever being subbed in the first place
I unsubbed three years ago over the 8k 3090 video, the writing was on the wall then they were paid shills.
He already did respond. He doubled down.
>Linus does a whole bunch of stupid ass shit
>Complete silence
>One of his troony yes men makes an off-handed comment about how much better they are at "LAB WORK" than your channel is
>Unleash 45 minutes of concentrated autism to destroy as much credibility Linus Media Group had built up since their founding over a decade ago
Was Steve really that mad?
the billet labs shit took him over the edge.
Yes. I would do the same too
straw that broke the camel's back
it was likely the result of having to sit there looking at the multitude of risks to your career if you speak up, irritation building and building until the business keeping you down effectively spits in your face
this was the youtube video equivalent of shooting up a school, as such
it's more like the equivalent of beating up your bully. A net good
this phrase might not get used on Ganker much as it comes from a completely alternate sphere of thought.
but some would say "talk shit, get hit"
The Billet Lab segment legit made me angry and want to punch Linus in the fricking face. I already knew only moronic drooling apes and kids watched his garbage, but that took it to a whole new level.
For a certain kind of people who take their job seriously, you can make stupid personal attacks at them, and they will just ignore you. But if you criticize or rise some kind of doubt about their competence of expertise, they will start fuming. That applies to many technical professions, and if anything it just proves that linus nerds are a bunch of kids instead of real pros ano take their job seriously.
which one of his yes men made the comment? when?
Watch the GN video
Discontent had been brewing, but can you imagine some moron basically calling you a homosexual when they themselves gargle wieners?
The Labs Guy flexing on HardwareUnboxed and Gamers Nexus isn't what caused Steven to make the video. It was when Linus doubled down on the WAN show in his usual smug, condescending manner that tipped Steve over the edge.
See this part of the video (timestamped):
?t=28
the way Linus is annoyed that he can't just settle this in private suggests that that's what he's used to doing
Linus taking shots at Steve might be the dumbest thing he has ever done to date.
Ironically, it wasn't him. It was an employee (who was paid by Linus to say it because it was in a script [written by someone else]).
There is an editing process, if it made it through that means LTT approves the message, and Linus. Still, of all the criticisms to make, testing? Literally no channel does as much testing as GN.
literall in first minutes of gn video theres a clip of linus talking shit about him
so LTT is worth billions yet Linus said no to a $800 GPU to be used for testing on a video?
is he cheap or is the valuation a lie?
Yes
The valuation is possibly real (he is in a million dollar house in a million+ housing market as Chinese investors skyrocket even shitty houses in Vancouver and the area surrounding it).
But he could have lied about the potential buyout like Lowtax (who did have one but not others) and Evilore of NeoGAF (who apparently did, but neve concrete info on that) did when saying why they didn't sell when they did.
*$100 million. And the answer is both. Corporate valuation is mostly based on things like how much the would-be buyer imagines the brand to be worth in the future based on current trends, not on how much it has on hand or in assets. But it's not like he doesn't have cash in hand.
>But it's not like he doesn't have cash in hand.
Between Labs and the badminton centre he actually perhaps doesn't.
The valuation was 9 figures, not 10.
>agree over email to send the prototype back to billet labs
>auction it off instead
pretty fricking scummy
I dont buy the charity talk either, they're just greedy pieces of shit
christ, it was obviously just some logistical frickup. you really think he'd do something so obviously immoral in public just to make a couple hundred bucks?
>it was obviously just some logistical frickup.
>Has 120 employees
>Not even ONE (1) of them goes "uh isn't this flagged to go back to the company?" during the LTX auction inventory check pre-show
LMAO.
>>Has 120 employees
yes, this is the problem asswipe. there's too many cooks in the kitchen, mistakes happen. linus is stubborn and egotistical as frick but he isn't dumb enough to willingly throw his company under the bus to sell a single waterblock
>there's too many cooks in the kitchen, mistakes happen.
>120 employees
>Not a check-balance system among them.
See: Again, LMAO.
your argument was that it was an act of greed and evil that he sold this waterblock. you've yet to prove that or show ANYTHING to back that up. it's way more likely that it was a massive frickup. you are moronic.
I'm sure it was an accident but there's a point where, like the sloppy data they're posting in their reviews, it becomes negligence and is unethical.
>immoral
pretty sure "illegal" is the right word here btw
that word works better, yes, but my point still stands. it obviously wasn't some malicious act of greed by linus that this thing got auctioned off like this dumbass
is insisting
yeah, miscommunication does sound more likely. would be interesting to know how it happened though, as they were allegedly contacted a couple of times and even promised to send it back
Yes. Dude lives in a million dollar house while paying his employees minimum wage because they should be working for PASSION and not money. He literally says this.
oh boo fricking hoo, that's how literally every company on the planet works.
So you agree Linus is a cheap frick?
i never disagreed to that. i'm just saying it's much more likely that it was auctioned off by mistake. why would this greedy CEO ruin his company's reputation over something so pointless? he fricking wouldn't because that's just dumb, it was an accident
no it was intentional, they said multiple times they would give the prototype back to billet, then they auctioned it off.
it was clearly not an accident
I will be laughing if the cooler gets cloned.
it's already being clones as we type
>be so big you frick up that badly
maybe slow the frick down, linus
Expecting them to be on Alibaba in a month or two.
here's a mindblowing possibility, try to stay with me on this one:
the person who sent the email saying they were going to give the item back was not the same person/people running the auction, and there was a miscommunication somewhere in the chain
Or he could be a greedy frick.
Just trust me bro
Because he is greedy. You literally agreed that he was greedy. Also he would have gotten away with it IF GN didn't call them out on it.
>Also he would have gotten away with it IF GN didn't call them out on it
No, he wouldn't have. It's in writing that he would give it back. He's not fricking stupid. It was obviously a logistical error.
No. Based on Linus's own words, he hasn't paid them back yet. Probably only paid them back now that it is a big deal.
>Based on Linus's own words, he hasn't paid them back yet
How does this argue against my point at all? He's not going to risk his entire legacy and 100+ jobs just to sell a single waterblock. If you can't wrap your head around how a logistical error might happen with 120 employees working on a tight schedule, maybe you are just not that bright.
Or he is just being a greedy frick.
Linus has shown time and time again that he is a slimey greedy frick.
People say the same stuff about Trump. Oh, he would never be so greedy or stupid to do this. No, he is, he just thinks he'll get away with it.
>bringing up Trump
Now bring up Hitler, you silly b***h.
Linus LITERALLY said, in his own words that after catching the 3090 and 4090 mixup, he wasn't going to redo the review video because it didn't justify him spending 100-500 dollars in his employee's time to redo it. So yes, he would be stupid enough to think he could get away with selling a off market prototype waterblock.
>i don't want to spend more time on this video
==
>i'm going to commit charity fraud to raise a few hundred dollars
When GN sends their fanboys, they aren't sending their best...
Or Linus is a greedy frick that penny pinches.
Except that the company agreed in writing that they were giving the item back. It was OBVIOUSLY not their intention to auction it, because they said so themselves. Are you living off only a brainstem? Think for a fricking second
Lmao. Imagine defending Linus for being a greedy frick. Yeah, they agreed to give it back, so where is it now?
Not that guy but you're genuinely a very stupid person. I'm sorry this is how you turned out.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criminal_negligence
Have you read your own link?
People attributing pure malice to the block are just crazy and are missing the grander point of the whole video. It’s a terribly run company that is bursting at the seams with bad practices and no responsibility. The simplest explanation is that the frick up happened because multiple people at the company were involved and they each had different information or no info. Like many companies, the people at the top aren’t immediately involved in every decision such as micromanaging inventory and planning charity auctions.
So, people should instead be complaining about how bafflingly badly the company is run that something like this could have happened with no one realising what they were doing - not that Linus is some sneaky greedy israelite. If they were doing it for “””corporate sabotage”””, they wouldn’t be auctioning it at their own convention……
Regardless of the frick up, it is a piss poor response to the entire situation.
Remember them selling the block wasn't their only frick up in the review.
Even after they sold the block, they didn't make any amends till GN brought it up and their response was to throw money at it.
Disgusting.
I agree that it sucks all round but I think they are so badly run, Linus probably didn’t even know they sold the block till the video was posted
Linus did know that the review was done on the wrong GPU and when it was brought up said he wasn't going to waste more money redoing the video. So we already know Linus is acting maliciously towards this company
except that of all the digitally managed items in their inventory it just so happens to have happened to an item that was the center of the latest LTT drama where linus was publicly, visibly agitated by the response of his community and the startup to the fiasco.
it was malice until proven otherwise
he did a terrible review of the product because he installed on a different hardware
he doubled down on his review and torched the company and product
if he was that malicious with the two previous things why do I have to expect that he's not malicious enough to auction off something he is supposed to return but is under no actual legal obligation to return
I don't think it's fair to call it malice when it could just be gross negligence and lack of communication.
Bruh LTT is an entertainment channel
I don't know why Steve is expecting any level of fairness or integrity from Linus' "reviews"
His employee said Steve doesn't care about testing, so Steve said "well frick you, you're wrong and here is why"
This. An LTT employee flat out said "the difference between us and somsbody like Gamers Nexus [...] is we test new components, new tests, everytime." and GN rightfully said "kindly go frick yourself after further shots were fired on the WAN show
Anyone saying "they should have contacted them first" is beyond naive. Tech Jesus is 100% in the right here, did everything right, and Linus continues to do everything he always done, even in response to this video: deflect criticism through a victim complex and technicalities.
linus called them out, so he went full autist on them
They invested tons into their lab and are trying to enter the rigorous-review market, and one of the employees said in a video they uploaded that their testing is better than GN and Hardware Unboxed.
>They invested tons into their lab and are trying to enter the rigorous-review market
>mfw build medical RF equipment in what used to be a pre-school building
>Bruh LTT is an entertainment channel
exactly, so they shouldn't build a big testing lab to get "objective data", fail to use it correctly, and then tell others how great they are
but they did, so everyone is shitting on them because they're obviously shills with zero interest for making objective reviews
I was already getting really tired of all the corrections and annotations in literally every single LTT/shortcircuit video for the past like year. Terribly run company, just going for quantity over quality.
Of all the bears to poke he picked the one channel that most people have 100% faith in, he could have taken a shot at any other channel, but he said GAMERS NEXUS testing is bad. They literally spent weeks and used multiple test methods/labs to figure out the 12VHPWR connector problem.
>Linus
>Objectivity
If you're buying a tv, gpu, headphones etc. do you really go for linus tech tips for guidance?
You'd look at actual review sites right. Hardware unboxed, rtings, hdtvtest, GN.
LTT is like "well this product is a bit niche and no other reviewer has a video up but LTT produces 1000 videos a year so they have a video about [the product] so might as well get their ppinion on it"
dont shit on other content creators for accuracy, when your company makes horribly inaccurate videos.
Nobody on Ganker takes Linus serious. The problem is that he influences a good chunk of normies, and a bad review can break good companies.
Reminder that Linus orchestrated a dox campaign against a young teenager for buying his NCIX Silver Play button from the bankruptcy auction. This drove him to commit suicide, and his mother proceeded to commit suicide too.
Whats the father doing? At this point you put a bullet through his son's skull and then some into his wife.
I don't believe it. Surely nobody would do such a thing.
See
He wasn't explicit about it, but what exactly do you think he was trying to achieve by publicly naming and shaming MindChop?
Just frick my shit up
>1.5 million already
and this is why you don't try to shit on Steve for a dumb reason
It's the beginning of the end for LTT isn't it
this man brought an entire thesis on how linus tech tips is shit lmao
this is the cliffnotes version of Steve's takedown.
He even hinted at the end if Linus didn't fire first, he would have danced around this issue.
>44 minutes
And to be frank LTT gotta go. It's only function is to be "oh this hardware exists" channel and even then it's whole value is questionable.
Probably the most thorough video I've seen of someone getting shit on. God damn that was savage.
>there are enough errors that we can't fit them all into a full length video
don't poke the bear
I always watched Leenus tank tops as entertainment and not tech. I sometimes like to see stuff that I wouldn't hear about otherwise or catch up in general, but I am a filthy casual with anything I do. If I am about to buy something, I always end up someplace else, though.
Disgusting.
imagine being a fan of Linus and harassing people for him... for free. Who are these fricking losers, lmao.
Holy frick, i actually remeber that auction video where linus talked with this guy and his father. What a patethic display of redditgays that go harrass some guy for fairly buying shit at auction.
>300% improvement
Even I knew that was bullshit, and I haven't even been following GPU shit. I actually paused the video and stared at it for several moments before Steve even began talking because it was so ridiculous.
I am reminded of randomfrankp's reaction to Linus reviewing his mouse where he kept pausing the review every so often to school Linus on various aspects of gaming mice
If Emily leaves. Ltt is dead
Linus is cheap as frick.
So the waterblock was designed for a 3090 and big brained LTT used it on a 4090 and called it shit and refused to do a proper review afterwards. Then they sell the fricking thing off? Holy shit they're scum.
Yep and he's like
>guys... I'm not sure that I can apologize for not spending another hundred, 2 hundred, 3 hundred, 5 hundred dollars of various peoples' time sitting and engineering a workaround to a product that no matter the result, nobody should buy.
1. The parasocial "guys" is irritating
2. Complaining about not even real dollars, but his own employees time measured in dollars
3. Doubling down to completely shit on the product without even bothering to test it.
The cooler thing is so moronic that either he has a overblown ego and can't fathom that he can be wrong or he was paid to sink the startup and peddle off the design for reverse engineering.
He's even getting torn to shreds in his forums and reddit
Good. Can't wait for his half assed apology video tomorrow.
>to shreds
Oh dear, tsk tsk tsk
The sad part is that it doesn't matter if Linus gets cancelled or even deletes his entire platform. At the end of the day he's still set for life and will be living in his multi-million dollar mansion and fricking his asian wife.
depression hits no matter how much you've made
unless he gets done for tax fraud
>and fricking his asian wife.
the goblin?
Also his goblin son put his cat in the dryer and killed it.
>Also his goblin son put his cat in the dryer and killed it.
How does this even happen? I've heard of stories of people shoving their pets in microwaves and dryers, like it is the most basic thing you understand at early age that hot = bad when you burn your finger from touching a stove or a hot kettle. Or people are just psychopaths and can't project their feeling into other creatures?
hapa
enough said
You cook your meat before eating it.
What? Really?
>Also his goblin son put his cat in the dryer and killed it.
wait whats the actual story about the cat? i already hated his guts for this incident but its even worse than the official story???
He admitted the maid didn't actually kill the cat, but refused to elaborate on what did. The video was linked here yesterday.
It does not take a genius to figure out what really happened.
I'm going to need a source on that
it's fun to kick someone in the balls when they deserve it but lying on the internet?
He confirmed it wasn't the maid who killed the cat, but refused to explain who did.
His family consists of asian genes. It's not hard to figure out what happened.
>will be living in his multi-million dollar mansion and fricking his asian wife.
You are aware of existence of property tax, right?
What of it?
anon, it's not like mr linus has an empty bank account either
tax and charity fraud is going to hurt that big house.
charity fraud is the worst part, you frick a charity like that, and it's far more serious in Canada than anyone realizes.
> you frick a charity like that
you can't frick a charity like that
what charity fraud? i didnt see anything about that in the video
>steal billetlabs monoblock
>auction it off for charity
>commit charity fraud
>claim charity for tax
>commit tax fraud
Oh I must have missed the part where the auction was the charity.
why is it charity fraud instead of just theft?
they didnt actually give the money away
>fricking his asian wife
I'm still not convinced that he's fricking her and not the other way around.
Why should linus get cancelled? One frickup, a couple shoddy reviews and a big ego doesn't undo YEARS of good content, advice and good reviews. Stop acting like a manic leftist. You shouldn't get your shit taken away from you for life over a few non-criminal mistakes.
If it was GN being raked over the coals here instead of a guy you personally dislike would you want everything to be taken away from them too? Frick off.
>One frickup
It wasn't one frickup. It was COUNTLESS frickups that harmed many companies and brands. The ones Steve pointed out were just the tip of the iceberg of frickups.
>manic leftist
The hell does this have to do with politics? Are you a fricking troll?
>YEARS of good content, advice and good reviews
years of linus shill tips was good content?
>YEARS of good content
>One frickup
Per video
>>One frickup
>Per video
Minimum
if he is so rich why did he say no to $800 for a GPU for a review?
>1.6m views
The entire PC building community needs to see it. All sponsors need to drop him immediately.
What a terribly anti-Semitic video
well I'm disappointed pro max
If people are wondering why Gamer Nexus dropped the nuke. This is why.
Linus will settle any lawsuit from Billet out of court, if anyone is even brings a suit forward, but the potential charity fraud is not something you walk away from.
That Billet labs incident. A outcome is that they 'auctioned' that prototype to a certain company, not surprised tho because of their corporate ties.
I honestly can't support him after this fiasco
Guess I'm installing Windows Server on my NAS now...
I'd still trust Linus over Steve. that guy is so boring I'll fall sleep before I get his point.
I'll take boring and based over bufoonery head-assery any day, no cap
Also checked
NPC take, prefers shallow low IQ fake dishonest money grubbing bullshit to the real thing because muh entertainment value and attention span deficit
Email Steve about it, maybe he will edit in a Subway Surfer clip just for you.
I think occasional "Thanks Steve" is enough for zoomers to be amused.
>call mouse shit because they didnt remove the fricking stickers off the feet
>tell all 15mil of their viewers that the product is shit and not to buy it
>realize mistake
>dont apologize and still claim it wouldve been shit anyway
>get their underage kids to harass the company and tell them its the companies fault for not making the stickers obvious
lmao what the frick is this clown shit
The guy that did the review is also such an annoying twat. I remember when he first started appearing in their cringe B roll and thinking yep he's a twat alright.
LTT is an entertainment channel not a tech review channel anymore and hasn't been for years now
This shitflinging and seething by different parties including Linus himself is entertainment
Therefore Linus won
Owned
>LTT is an entertainment channel not a tech review channel anymore and hasn't been for years now
Well then you missed how they bragged about their lab being able to deliver better results than GN.
See? It's entertainment
They're funneling money into a blackhole because they hired incompetent people
I'm thoroughly entertained
you are an idiot. The GE video getting so much attention when they're proving Linus uses bad data is a commercial nightmare. Sponsors are now going to have second thoughts about signing any deals with LMG, especially with all the newfound negative press surrounding his character.
>Sponsors are now going to have second thoughts about signing any deals with LMG
> Sponsors are now going to have second thoughts
Nah. They don't care as long as his channel has millions of views.
Noctua are an official partner and they incorrectly reported their cooler underperforming.
It's not just about views. If anything, having a lot of views with bad data is actually a very bad thing.
>am an idiot because [thing that's entertaining]
nope I'm correct and you just proved me right
told you, entertainment channel
I am entertained by this mess
No, you're a moron, sorry.
not at all, sponsors will keep on using them due to massive npc following, that is how all of those scamsters work.
techno jesus is not without faults, however he tries. handful of them try.
and for most part, not always, but for most part they are ok to use as a second hand input.
especially in this case, exposing that leaf cuck as a turbo scamming salesman with "muh experience".
tards like that leaf and 90% of others are just salesman - and salesman sell stuff to ignorant npcs.
>look at this gold plated polished turd - it is amazing BUDGET gpu for just $500
>OMAGHWAD I MUST BUY THAT GOLD PLATED TURD AND UPDOOT MY HALF A YEAR OLD COMPONENT!!!
simple as.
Linus will most likely throw a few staff member under the bus and blame everything a few bad apples. Funny this whole thing happen when one member of his team member decided to troonout
LTT's Floatplane subscriptions have dropped by 1250 over the last few hours. That's costing them >$6000/mo, over a decision to save $500 instead performing accurate testing.
>https://laws-lois.justice.gc.ca/eng/acts/c-46/section-380.html
Linus is going to go to jail.
linus fricked up but i highly doubt anything is going to involve legal action.
>needs to exceed 5k
>one off prototype value is way more than 5k
see
defrauding a charity is a serious crime.
he's been reported to the mountie feds.
He's gonna throw employee under the bus and keep doing shady shit. Still hope yall autists are reporting it to whatever IRS equivalent in Canada. At least it will give someone a motive for revenge.
Lineys response. Might have been posted before cba to check
The thread on their subreddit has like 5000 replies and 99.9% of them are absolutely shitting on LMG. It's definitely going to be a big segment on the WAN show and they might even be forced to make a main channel video on it lol
So, linus is a shill, thief, fraudster and a killer. Never doubted it for a second. Dunno how this guy or his family is still alive.
>tech testing jesus
>vs
>"tech" entertainment israelite
Tech Jesus chasing the money changers out of the Temple.
did he really take a prototype and sell it instead of giving it back?
how the frick does that happen? thats trade secret shit.
Either it was genuine malice or just complete mismanagement and lack of communication within LTT.
Shit is frick either way.
They showed malice and incompetence.
right now that design might be getting clones in China, you dont just sell off stuff that a company says "hey, this is for review, dont sell it"
so how long before next thing and forget
>goofy meme man fricks with an ancient autist
>gets destroyed
lol
I've trouble understanding one thing, does the manufacturer of the water block paid LTG for a coverage of the block ?
Why didn't they sign a basic contract explaining both parties their contractual obligations, like giving back the water block after review ?
While the startup might not be aware of the importance of a contract, LTG having a sponsored segment in EVERY video has to be well versed in contract management, or they would get fricked on every sponsorship.
They claim to have had an contract.
Linus and the new CEO simply ignored it since they sunk everything into their product and had no means to pursue legal action on their own.
They weren't expecting millions of people to hear about it.
Steve never picks fights with anyone unless they shit talk his channel, why the frick would you consider this at LTT when he is so good at exposing how shit companies can be?
Remember when Linus caused a kid to kill himself?
That douche has always been a shady douche, can’t even take responsibility for causing a kid to ff himself
No real source, I mean other than a possibly doctored reddit image?
The reddit thread is still up bro, enjoy
https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/t1e1if/you_destroyed_my_life/?rdt=62420
>zero
>actual
>proof
>it's still up and not expunged
hmmmm boggles the mind
oh please, if they deleted this post you would use that to prove your point as well
>ltt uploads a video
>gets ratio'd
>comments all about the billetlabs and gn video
wow kek
dislike negated, sorry sweaty
how's the seethe today?
This isn't a L for them. It's just engagement for the youtube algorithm
More people are unsubbing than subbing mate. Also this stuff reflects very poorly on their sponsors.
all the sponsors care about is the reach they get from a spot in one of his videos
not if their products are getting negative press on the back of bad data, moron.
damn
nothing like that's ever happened in LTT history
this shit is crazy
it's joever
>lack of evidence
>anon cant understand
Doesn't matter. Could be a fake Linus account or even one that was hacked. Until an official reddit mod with proper snoo flair chimes in, I'm gonna have to put a big yikes on this.
kys baiting moron
Linus literally responded in the thread lol
To be fair it does seem like it wasn't his fault the guy offed himself
>To be fair it does seem like it wasn't his fault the guy offed himself
No, he absolutely indirectly caused it.
This kind of dispute could have easily been resolved privately, but Linus publicly named this kid's channel, and he knew damn well his deranged fanbase would harass him, which is exactly what happened. Linus is a petty, spiteful prick, this is how these "people" work.
Not only that, but Linus 100% undermined the poor guy by claiming his "stupid cat channel" can easily get another Silver Play button anyway so its not a big deal. That came across as incredibly shitty and made Mindchop guy feel worthless.
>Not only that, but Linus 100% undermined the poor guy by claiming his "stupid cat channel" can easily get another Silver Play button anyway
Can't anymore, because his son killed his cat by throwing him in the dryer.
I wonder if knowing he imploded a family by being a careless prick ever keeps him up at night. Probably not.
not a chance, he wouldnt be a multi millionaire if that was the case.
Linus is a narcissistic psychopath. Not way in hell he gives a shit about that family.
The Linus simp is in cope mode lads:
There's a video where he literally talks to the guy
it starts off very poorly with the "that's my plaque" shit, but when he stops asking for it is probably the first time I've seen mr linux seem genuine about something
It would've been genuine if he didnt ask any further questions after being denied.
it must be difficult to understand emotional investments for an autist
t. underage
Respect boundaries. No one handles a situation like that unless they have their head completely up their ass. It takes some nerve to even ask to buy it off of him. It takes a lot more to keep asking questions, and then to upload a fricking video of it.
As much as I hate Linus for this I think even worse of the father.
If someone was directly responsible for my son and wives suicide I wouldn't fricking write a reddit post about it.
I would kill them
>If someone was directly responsible for my son and wives suicide I wouldn't fricking write a reddit post about it.
>I would kill them
But the guy was Canadian, it's behavior tracks
Honestly at this point he has NOTHING to lose. His entire life and family has been taken away from him. Would have bombed the LTT HQ or mass shooting in his shoes.
I never understood why we don't see this more in society. Same for people who have a loved one killed where the murderer gets off on some technicality, or people who get tossed on the streets because of banking frickery or from their employer etc. People with nothing to lose, and who know and have physical access to the people directly responsible for their situation. But instead they seethe or kill themselves instead of lashing out and taking real action. It's weird to me. I would assume that if someone pushed another person into having nothing left to life for, that they would have created a very dangerous person, but time and again people just roll over, take it, and drink themselves to death or just suicide out
because you wouldn't have let things get that bad if you weren't that much of a pussy in the first place
perhaps true in the case of the dad here, but though some people get walked on over a long period of time, just as often (or moreso) people get rugpulled/backstabbed all at once, and then choose to roll over rather than see red
I wouldn't have an answer to that, but it is still pretty common for shitskins, poors and other shadier groups to murder others in cold blood for these reasons
If you look at history people submitting to a false authority instead of one earned through righteous actions is seen as a moral societal degradation on the path to civilizational failure.
You will go from people removing false authorities to people quietly secluding or ending themselves in desperation until there is on one left with the will to keep the status quo going.
>DAMN YOU LINUS TECH TIPS! YOU"VE DESTROYED MY FAMILY! I HATE YOU!!!11
>people actually believe this happened
he responded to it
you can read if you click the link
of course he responded to it, someone claimed their son and wife died because of him and the dumbasses on the subreddit upvoted it to the front page. that doesn't mean that actually happened, it's probably one of you homosexuals that made that post to stir shit up
he really should watch that video
all his staff just need some time to breathe and focus on quality they want it more than anything
Linus just needs to put his foot off the gas so hard
it's not like he can't do it
when it came to that screwdriver he took a whole extra year to get it correct. He cares about merch releases and puts a lot more effort into making sure those are flawless but his youtube content is just fast food trash to be churned out as quickly as possible
It seems like his creator warehouse and engineering staff have the luxury of taking time to get things right
i guess the simplest solutions would be LTT moving to release less videos or hiring more writers to give them actual time to work on something
And also putting an actual engineering autist in charge of testing and not an ASUS marketing executive
>i guess the simplest solutions would be LTT moving to release less videos or hiring more writers to give them actual time to work on something
I think they are in a rat race of "we need to shit out more videos so we can pay our staff". Hiring more people would only make it worse.
>and not an ASUS marketing executive
yeah, that one's a really baffling move
maybe he shouldn't have made 500 channels that churn out nothing of value
who even watches that crap
LMG has undergone a serious ossification. I think it's just something that happens to companies that reach a certain size. The profits become more important than the product. When I was younger, I wanted so badly to work at LMG. A few years ago, they actually approached me, and I learned that the culture there seems to have drastically changed. They ended up not wanting me anyway, so maybe it's just sour grapes on my part.
>A few years ago, they actually approached me
FRICKING NORMIE
Last I talked to insiders about LMG's internal tooling, it was still pretty fragmented between different channels/brands. I was told about e.g. multiple internal QA systems because one channel didn't want to rely on the other, so they both built their own little review/editing stacks. That's a bit different from what I've heard about Hardware Unboxed/GN/HDTVTest, who seem to be more open to running centralized internal services.
>I learned that the culture there seems to have drastically changed
Please explain
Also checked, kek
I won't go into detail, as I don't think it's helpful. But in a nutshell, I don't think that someone like me would be very welcome there. There are pluses and minuses to that in terms of the quality of the channel. I am certainly not God's Gift to Tech, so they may well be better off without people like me. They certainly are making a lot of green.
>I won't go into detail, as I don't think it's helpful.
Wouldn't it be helpful to other people who are interested in working there?
No. This is a professional venue, and I don't think slandering companies is a particularly professional thing to do. I like LMG, and wish them the best. I have zero interest in throwing shade on them. When I do say less-than-positive things, I find it best to stay vague, so Sneeds can easily write off what I say if they so choose. I think the anons here are perfectly capable of making their own decisions, and that I'm best off letting them do so, unencumbered by my opinions. Unfortunately I just learned the Der Bauer is a cuck. I don't think any stones need to be thrown by me today.
>This is a professional venue
>Ganker
???
u wot m8?
This is a PR disaster, hopefully those clowns kick the bucket.
Kinda, the disaster is the copper cooler situation, because it means companies will be discouraged from sending him samples. It might also have legal repercusion.
About the rest, people won't give a shit about and they will still give him monitors and stuff.
Note that I say this hoping he gets sued to hell and back.
>About the rest, people won't give a shit about and they will still give him monitors and stuff.
You are misunderstanding something here. The people (specifically his audience) might not care, but the companies absolutely do care, and will get extremely concerned if their products are being associated with bad/faulty data.
They literally have a partnership with Noctua, but still incorrectly published a benchmark showing their cooler performing far worse than it should. Everyone is focusing on the Billet Labs drama, but the bad data stuff is actually going to cost them a lot more. The fact that so much attention got brought to this is nothing short of a PR disaster.
I don't see why they would care about wrong data when they do it themselves.
Unless this has is viewership dropping, nothing much will change.
Why do you think he invested so much money on his "lab" and markets it on accurate, unbiased data? This stuff absolutely does matter for PR mate. If they are going to pan products citing inaccurate data, it's going to draw their credibility into question.
>Why do you think he invested so much money on his "lab" and markets it on accurate, unbiased data?
To expand LMG, making it worth more if he wants to sell it later. To be able to create more content, and expand his audience to include people who care more about data and less about entertainment (like how they have multiple sub-channels with a more specific audience).
Also probably because he wanted to do it, deep down he's still the poor kid who missed out on cool technology when he was a kid and now is overcompensating.
Think Bud light, when a brand does toxic shit it becomes toxic. And then partners start running for cover and the money tree stops bearing fruit. Things can snowball extremely quickly and once a brand becomes soiled, and Linus is the brand and he is covered in shit right now, well bringing it back is often impossible.
Integrity is everything, Linus has none. The companies that have leveraged his reach for financial gain will turn their backs in a second if the tide turns.
Bud Light's mistake was not knowing who its consumers were + politics, it's a whole different story
I think this is worse, we are talking about misleading their customers, posting fake data that ALWAYS favours the product being reviewed, leaving it up long enough for a million consumers looking for information to see it, then slyly replacing the video in place, which means nobody knows there was an error, the video is simply switched out.
Bud lite was just a dumb move, this is more sinister, so yeah, bad example.
Bud Light was a story of incompetence more than wokeism. I really don't know how anybody who did basic market research would think that marketing their beer to trans influencers was a good idea.
It's not some fricking secret that Bud Light drinkers are a bunch of working class conservatives, it's who they've been marketing to for years, alienating that huge beer guzzling demographic to appeal to trannies on TikTok who either don't drink or drink hard liquor straight from the bottle hontrapoints style was a good idea.
put a hot girl in a bikini, literally the easiest fricking job for selling alcohol.
and they managed to put an ugly dude in a dress to ruin their brand. amazing.
People always harp on the guy who killed himself and the backpack shit and the racemixing shit and soon to be this shit, but I still fricking despise that little weasel rat just for the shit he pulled during the covid+crypto clusterfrick.
>gets sponsored by a coin exchange and tells his moronic audience how to get into mining
>responds to people calling him a hypocrite for doing this while always going on about e-waste and environmental sustainability, like when he shills his laptops, by being all "lol dude it can replace a heater in the winter lol"
>all his reviews start telling people to just go out and buy every extremely price gouged gpu that comes out because "frick you you're going to buy it anyway lol"
>starts including shit about hash rates in videos
>responds to people calling him a shill sitting on his throne of free gpus (almost certainly in rigs dedicated to mining in their off time) by saying crypto is unironically a good thing for the gpu market, because there will be a bunch of cheap used cards once it crashes and higher prices definitely won't be normalized
>responds to people saying they don't trust used gpus, let alone ones used for mining, by making a video where he "proves" the concerns wrong by cherry picking like 8 cards off ebay and testing for performance degradation, as if that's what people are fricking worried about
It'd be one thing if he had just been an out and out crypto shill, but his disgenious horseshit all throughout that saga and how it propagated through the mouths of his moronic viewers and miners made it infinitely worse. Stop pretending you're in this for anything but money and using your employees as free tax deductible labor for your mcmansion.
>1.6 million views, already
it's ogre.
you're delusional if you legitimately think this will end them.
I didn't say it would end LTT, but they need to remove Linus and replace him with Luke or someone else.
not even LTT shills can defend this.
When GN started to gain traction they realised that the quality and efficacy of that content highlighted how hollow and fake theirs is.
They began by faking a Gamers Nexus
approach, but that shit needs to come from deep within, it's a philosophy, a mindset. But they aren't really interested in facts and accuracy, only with money and pleasing their advertisers.
So, as an attempt to purchase the appearance of integrity they built a lab and copied GN graphics, but theirs no depth to it, it reeks of in authenticity, the thin veneer of professionalism is already wearing away.
can't we all just agree that paul's hardware is to blame for everything?
God I love internet drama.
God I'm pathetic.
LMG really do put out way too many videos to ride the algorithm. I didn't even realise they had more channels than just the main LTT one and I thought even that channel puts out too much to stay interesting. They're the epitome of quantity over quality.
How is it uninteresting every company produces the same shit to unbox or review. sounds like you're just mad at capitalism and too dumb to realize.
ouch touch a nerve did i? i'm sorry i didnt enjoy a 10min video on how using a second monitor consumes a little more power, or about a usb stick with an antivirus on it.
You vill spend 30 minutes of your life watching 4060 go 10 fps faster than 7600 on final cuck 14 and shadow of shit raider like a good boy.
God i hope that FtM troony Linus fricking offs himself.
Generally the defense in cases like this are that you are too stupid and incompetent to even dress yourself and should be given a lighter sentence because you are just too dumb to have done a repeated history of malicious actions intentionally.
>LTT shills arguing about "journalistic integrity" when their channel is a fricking video cum dump
Lol
Lmao even
LTT shills exposed finally you love to see it
grab your popcorn