• FonsNihilo@lemmy.ca
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    8 months ago

    Linus is a money fan boy.

    He doesn’t upload videos from passion anymore. He uplaods them for money now. From doing weird and funny stuff to reviewing products and benchmarking. Maybe if we’re lucky he will get someone else to build a cool PC.

    Shortly after LTT moved into a proper production studio the videos became less of LTT and more of generic corpo ad garbage.

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      8 months ago

      Reddit has such a hard-on for LTT, but I’ve found their videos kinda insufferable for… 10 years? Then after the GN/heatsink selling (sorry fans, ”AUCTIONING” …) I knew they were poo.

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        8 months ago

        I find the more success Linus has, the more of an insufferable asshole he becomes.

        From being a dude who would watercool an entire room in a house and dunk on any tech company who tried to rip off customers, to do a dude who activity misleads audience for view %.

        You either die a hero, or live long enough to become the villain

        Edit : die. My s24 doesn’t like bad words yet.

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          8 months ago

          Sorry what? He still does the first two and I have no idea what you’re referencing with the view% comment.

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            8 months ago

            No he doesn’t. I mean the videos LTT makes now are not in favor of the consumer, but in favor of the corporation, and will mis lead the viewers with false/clickbaity headlines, or exaggerated information to make the sponsored device look better then it is.

            Did I break it down enough for you?

            Edit: spelling

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              8 months ago

              Fair enough, I don’t watch their sponsored videos and am not going to to check this, so I can’t comment on how misleading they are. I just don’t like how many they do of those and how hard it is to tell them apart from the regular content/reviews. That said, I’ve never seen it affect their videos or opinions outside of the sponsor spot. Linus will still say whatever he wants in other videos, especially on WAN, and if there is an issue with a company then they cease sponsors with them. They’ve demonstrated that with Anker and their Eufy products.

              I was primarily confused in your original comment because you mentioned watercooling a room. They still do big/stupid projects like this, such as Linus watercooling via his pool, it’s just hard to find amongst the filler garbage. You also mentioned dunking on companies, which he still does when they do stupid shit, though rarely via a dedicated video.

              Thanks for explaining your point, I was fully expecting to be ghosted after the first downvote…

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          8 months ago

          You either die a hero, or live long enough to become the villain.

          This is why I would never do anything like that for money. I either do it for the fun of it, or don’t do it at all. I can stop at any time. Hey, it’s been a fun ride, but I’m over this 🤷. I’ve made an archive of the videos, in case this channel gets pulled down some day. Goodbye and fairwell 👋.