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

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Johnny Jambalaya said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=m0GPnA9pW8kPreserveTube Archive

In short, they were fired for violating their non-competes when they launched the Zip Tie Tuning channel. This was after LMG put the kibosh on a car focused channel, in part due to a downturn after the Gamers Nexus videos. To quote: "The amount of damage his videos did to the channel cannot be overstated. With lost sponsors, terrible community sentiment, and some really good talent leaving the company because they did not sign up for death threats." He then goes on to be somewhat critical of Steve's videos but readily admits that LMG had "an incredible number of issues."
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The video is astoundingly bad take on the GN segment. He says Steve "missed all the number of incredible issues with LMG Steve didn't hit on any of the real problems" instead he outlines Steve only talked about:
a) Linus's greed
b) No existent conflicts of interest
c) Wanting to screw over viewers

He states the company grew too fast but most of the problems were already identified and being dealt with and would be solved in the coming months. But instead he states they were solved publicly in a week.

If you contrast it with https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGW3TPytTjc the first 26mins of 46 mins simply deal with the rush to publish and the horrible testing and inaccuracies in their tests. The back half deals with
* conflict of interest ~2mins (framework investment, noctua cross branding)
* Billet labs ~7mins
* Pwnage mouse ~2mins
* community ~2mins
* recap ~5mins ( talking about how how the brand on one hand reviewing then the other is accepting sponsorship for conferences).

I think the GN video was a good overview of how you can compromise your standards by accident or maliciously.

So, let's forget all of the coverage you can go see for yourself. Let's just take Alex's coverage at face value, let's even ignore the GN coverage.

What the fuck is going on at LTT that he's implying GN "missed the real problems".
 
WatterBottle said:
What the fuck is going on at LTT that he's implying GN "missed the real problems".
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To be fair, GN didn't touch on the work visa slave farm or the allegations of sexual harassment being somehow even more prevalent at LMG than ActiBlizz. Personally, I have my suspicions that the former is a leading cause of the latter.
 
Whatever any of the recent departures say about LTT and the GN vid should be taken with a massive grain of salt, this is all 100% written to be spicy enough to get views but not to trigger an NDA that's obviously in power here.
 
Ed Special said:
To be fair, GN didn't touch on the work visa slave farm or the allegations of sexual harassment being somehow even more prevalent at LMG than ActiBlizz. Personally, I have my suspicions that the former is a leading cause of the latter.
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What bothers me is Alex is implying there was issues but he never addresses or covers it. It's so transparently implying GN's reporting as some sort of drama or misinformation for the real issues.

Like his comments on how there's no conflicts of interest or not acting in good faith for the audience when the company has a webpage https://archive.is/oTOgo and a ~3min video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knT-HlOzH1o on how they will use their trust from audience to sell any slop via any of their channels/mediums.

It's just so disingenuous vile that continues on outside of the employment of LTT that fans still slurp it up.
 
You has 2 companies: LTT and GN, guess which one is crying about viewer loss and which one isn't. You cannot in your right mind build a 100+ employee company based on youtube and then act surprised when it suddenly falls off. I still see nothing LTT does that requires so many employees, especially so many writers.

I checked the LMG website, this would pull me away as an investor:
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All of the thumbnails are so god awful.
 
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TheRaptorJesus said:
I still see nothing LTT does that requires so many employees, especially so many writers.
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This is what has always confused me the most. They always talk about how big the team is or how many facilities they have, but the quality of videos has not changed positively in like a decade. They have all this testing equipment, all these great writers, yet they can't do anytbing other than slop?
 
mandatorylurk said:
Realizing he can't do anything else to his mcmansion, Linus realizes they will buy a house and show what to do to tech it up in terms of wiring and upgrading. It will be a multi-year project because due to Vancouver housing, they have to keep the home for 2 years to avoid "flipping" taxes/regulations. And by buying the home for the company, it doesn't become some weird situation of selling it to an employee or subsidizing their own renovations and creating friction/animosity which, fucking irony alert in this realization, Linus.
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Who does he think this appeals to? Most people can't even afford a house let alone start upgrading one. And nobody needs all the smart bullshit this guy buys anyway.

What the fuck is this niggers obsession with "upgrading" houses?
 
#lurker said:
Who does he think this appeals to? [...] What the fuck is this niggers obsession with "upgrading" houses?
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It appeals to his bank account. He wants to write the construction and upgrades of his new personal dwelling off on his taxes as business expenses. It's embezzlement, but because he's doing it for a YouTube channel (which also happens to get funding from the Canadian government, judging from the end cards LMG videos), it's technically legal.

THIS IS WHAT YOUR TAX DOLLARS PAY FOR, LEAF KIWIS!
 
I think they are now struggling really hard to find something to do beyond GPU and CPU benchmarking. Scrapyard wars was probably their best "new" content when it was introduced, but the new season of it was abysmal. I also don't want to see a bunch of tech nerds review cars, there are already people in that space that do it way better.

When you compare them to GN, I think they took it to a much more logical conclusion with their hard hitting journalism angle. Investing heavily into equipment to catch airflow, harmonics, and cold plate flatness has really seperated them from the pack. Not to mention the EK expose, the new black market GPU pipeline videos, have all been much more in line with what I would expect from a tech channel.

Or hell, even compare them to HUB, who have a great second monitor review channel alongside their main content, and that's just 2? Guys in Australia.

Also, there is the relatibility problem. I think one of the reasons scrapyard wars was initially so successful is because it takes a simple premise of "how much bang can I get for my buck" and puts it out there. Everyone wants good performance and to save some money. You know what people can't relate to? Putting the 10th mega flat screen/projector in your houses dedicated movie room. Them announcing a new independent house to to do smart shit in just shows they are still so out of touch imo.

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Also I'm glad to hear that Steve's video had such an impact on LTT. However, their framing/pity party shit is misguided. It is not GN's job to run or protect LTT from scandal, that was the owners job. Also, it was obvious people inside the industry had their own problems with LTT and fed that to GN.
 
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#lurker said:
Who does he think this appeals to? Most people can't even afford a house let alone start upgrading one. And nobody needs all the smart bullshit this guy buys anyway.

What the fuck is this niggers obsession with "upgrading" houses?
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You'd think, but e.g. my boss is one of these guys that kits out his entire house with "smart home" functionality. There is a small subset of people that it appeals to, but those are the kinda guys that like to go all the way when they do. Basically whales.
 
Site of Origin said:
Also, it was obvious people inside the industry had their own problems with LTT and fed that to GN.
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Y'know, I can't help but notice other tech channels haven't done as many collabs with LMG as they used to. Jay of JayzTwoCents used to do stuff with them all the time and mention them pretty frequently, but I don't think I've heard him mention Linus's name in any sort of positive light for a few years now. It's almost like maybe Steve and Louis aren't the only tech channel owners Linus has personally burned...
 
Site of Origin said:
Scrapyard wars was probably their best "new" content when it was introduced, but the new season of it was abysmal.
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Because it is still unrelatable. I haven't watched a LTT video in a couple of years now, but I considered watching the series, until I saw it was about a gaming room.

Scrapyard wars is such a good and fun concept even without the "star power" or Linus and Luke that it could be used to promote new faces, with the added bonus of them not being recognized everywhere they go or even their voice on the phone

Returning to what made the series great: low amount of money, best computer you can make. The money must cover all expenses in a day (ie, no booking private flights to buy a computer part for $20 less)
 
Dwarf Lord said:
LTT fans really are the dumbest motherfuckers alive.

Three options were given

1. Close the channel immediately
2. Give LTT the rights to the channel immediately
3. We fire you

And LTT fans ignore 1 and 2, go straight down to 3 and then invent a head canon as to why 3 was "LTT just wanted them to SUCCEED!".

Almost enough to make you want to give a real death threat.
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2 is basically what Roosterteeth did to Ray in achievement hunter. He had a successful twitch channel that RT forced him to hand over while he was with acheivement hunter. He quit not long after and became much more successful twitch streamer on his own.
Similar parallels here with LTT in the death throes and the last few years of rooster teeth.
 
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Called it, i knew there was some drama underneath when Alex left.
Dwarf Lord said:
LTT fans really are the dumbest motherfuckers alive.
1. Close the channel immediately
2. Give LTT the rights to the channel immediately
3. We fire you
And LTT fans ignore 1 and 2, go straight down to 3 and then invent a head canon as to why 3 was "LTT just wanted them to SUCCEED!".
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Yeah, this is annoying as fuck, especially since even Alex admitted that "things were tense," and since he's still trying to be nice to Linus (bet he only does this to avoid losing LTT followers), you can bet your ass things were way more fucked up behind the scenes. And if anything, he was saved by the fact that if Linus hadn’t given them this option, Steve would smell blood from a mile away. Speaking of which, I’m glad it was confirmed GN’s piece actually hurt LTT, though I’m calling bullshit on the death threats, and overall damage was exaggerated for more views from Linus’ simps.
 
Spiral Architect said:
Called it, i knew there was some drama underneath when Alex left.


Yeah, this is annoying as fuck, especially since even Alex admitted that "things were tense," and since he's still trying to be nice to Linus (bet he only does this to avoid losing LTT followers), you can bet your ass things were way more fucked up behind the scenes. And if anything, he was saved by the fact that if Linus hadn’t given them this option, Steve would smell blood from a mile away. Speaking of which, I’m glad it was confirmed GN’s piece actually hurt LTT, though I’m calling bullshit on the death threats, and overall damage was exaggerated for more views from Linus’ simps.
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You show me a person who hasn't received death threats, and I'll show you someone who has never been on the Internet.
 
Spiral Architect said:
you can bet your ass things were way more fucked up behind the scenes
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He said employment lawyers were involved. If a deal where you get unceremoniously cut off with severance was the deal struck after a lawyer got involved, I can't imagine what the original deal was. Linus is such a piece of shit for trying to take over his employee's content, the people on reddit ignoring that are bootlicking faggots.

Alex really shows that to thrive at LMG you must be a faithful member of the cult of Linus. The amount of defense he runs for LMG is unreal, blaming GN for your car channel side project getting killed is just eating up the bullshit excuse that Linus himself gave.

Also death threats, seriously? Kill yourself Alex Clark.
 
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