Is LTT Making YouTube Unfair? 

He isn't stopping anyone from trying, he's just doing his own thing. If he was buying out channels or trying to stop other channels from succeeding is when it'd be a problem.

One thing people will fail to understand is that "smaller" tech channels also don't have Linus himself which is a big part of the reason that LTT can be simultaneously informative, entertaining, and repeat-watchable. There's a reason that LTT is as big as it is and it is in no small part to the monumental effort that Linus and the entire team put into making the videos entertaining AND informative. Smaller channels will also often look down at using "RU-vid-meta" titles and thumbnails when it has been shown time and time again that it helps to bring viewers in. Those viewers would not stay unless the content itself was great, which it is.

Exactly. It's harder to become a massive channel but there's more niche corners of RU-vid to fit in now. Some of those niche corners are the size of mainstream youtube 10 years ago.

3:50 Luke and Linus just told the competition their weakness. I love these guys not a bad bone in them.

Linus and his band of merry nerds are role models not just for the tech space here on YT, but for YT creators in general. I have been watching since the days of old and LTT has always felt like good, helpful and honest content.

Linus Sigma: Do tech content that is so good that other tech channels complain.

My instinct in what the asker was saying is that you guys put out _so much_ content between all your channels it kinda saturates the market. And for real y'all are the only hardware tech channel I watch. Partly it's because I vibe with your vibes the best, but yeah also there's no much other space in my "RU-vid diet" to fit another creator from this category in

I've been watching LTT for a long time, and I've never seen another content creator start from scratch and work their asses off nonstop to achieve this level. LTT has defined and improved tech content like no other, and they continue to do so. Linus, Yvonne, and Luke are the definition of self-made, and they do not deserve the constant hatred they are receiving, so instead of whining git-gut plebs.

LTT isn't the issue, it's the smaller channels not wanting to be diverse in the content that's the problem. There are only so many review channels that can exist.

This is really just how reviewing in general is.

Because of LTT ive watched a lot of smaller ones like dawid does tech stuff and tons other. The things that make the smaller ones unique are that they show much more hands on and random things that LTT doesnt do anymore. LTT has changed a lot and it gave the smaller channels an area to take over themselves

I'm a smaller Chanel and I have never seen it that way. LTT brings more people into the space. With more people comes additional roll off for new viewers. Yes a big sponsor might focus only on LTT but the small up and coming companies will reach out to the smaller channels.

I bet this kind of mindset plagues the platform as a whole and some people are just more quiet about it than others. It’s easier when you’re stagnating and not growing as fast as you envisioned to blame the guy that’s already made it than to accept that you may need to re-evaluate things. Sure, I could’ve blamed big league streamers for me not growing on Twitch, but instead I realized I just needed to change my streaming time to cater to an audience that I have stuff in common with and suddenly growth started up again. Remember to always look inward first before you blame anything outward

If smaller channels can't keep up they should find a new buissnes model and stop chasing the shadow of LTT. This is the basics of a free market.

I think the question came from a place of : instead of out competing the smaller creators with your advantages, lift up the rest of the community or leave a space for other niches to survive instead of steam rolling them (not saying you do but it may feel that way to bystanders). Similar to work together to get rich instead of against each other. together as a category instead of being grow grow grow whos successful and how can we make that ours, it runs the risk of deterring creativity or cannibalization.

The world is just unfair, either you get luck either you don't, but you can''t blame those who have luck for having, you just need to accept and see if what you are doing is substantiable if it is in any meaningful way keep going, if not pivot it

while I agree with the VAST majority of what Linus said I think their approach to the scheduling and "weekends" thing to be monotone or not well thought out. Simply being a "large company" doesn't exclude you from working weekends and hitting on those notes you say that you miss, this was just the choice he made in how he wants his company to operate. In reality, there isn't much stopping him from changing schedules, besides maybe employee pushback, that would prevent him from covering weekend things or hot topics on the weekend for a quick news release segment. So with regards to that topic, the only reason a small channel has that really small one up on you is just because you choose not to do it rather than your size preventing you from doing it like he is portraying here.

The problem is that the RU-vid algorithm pushes certain channels and drowns out others. Not LTT's fault, but they do benefit from the algorithm.

Trying to copy any successful business is more than likely to not work. But no company on Earth does everything. There are unexplored and untapped niches within every industry. Just because a supermarket exists dies not mean normal markets have ever stopped existing, they just moved locations and their business models naturally shifted as such is competition and capitalism. Tis the beauty of it.

I have seen LLT come to the defense of other channels when in trouble, I've also seen them help/colab and expose smaller channels. Do they cast a shadow on others, yeah but they don't owe anyone anything and already do more than they need to.

I am surprised they didn't bring up simple over saturation as a problem as well. Tech channels used to be rare, now there are literally thousands of channels competing to provide their audiences with very similar content. If you search for a review of the latest Ryzen CPU you will find hundred of different channels attempting to get your attention. They usually all have the same set design, RGB computer in the background, GPU's on display, a plant for some color, boom arm mic, etc. There is a formula set in the early days that everyone is copying. So it come down to how many different tech channels is someone going to subscribe to, and what separates them? Its going to be the quality of the content and the personality of the channels main 'character'. If someone already follows Linus, Jayztwocents, Paul's Hardware, Gamers Nexus, Hardware Cannuks, Hardware Unboxed, the list is literally endless, why are they going to follow more creators in the same space? That's not even to mention general tech channels like Marques Brownlee, Unbox Therapy, Austin Evans, etc.

I mean anyone trying to get into this space is entering a super saturated area of content with well established channels with huge followings and high production values. It’s going to be tough for anyone, same with gaming news etc.

You don't need to apologise nor do you need to justify yourself. You worked your butt off for years. People these days want instant gratification. They don't wanna hear you gotta bust a gut for the next decade to get to the point they wanna be at. You are way more patient with these people than I would be.

Spending millions and millions of dollars on high tech equipment to test PCs, fans, headphones, GPUs, and all the rest of it doesn't exactly make it fair for smaller channels to compete when they can't afford such crap.

You guys have been kicking ass and working hard for years. No shame in being better than others and doing what they can't/won't. You even make Canada look more awesome than it already was. Still RR selling Mint gave you guys a black eye. Shame on you, Ryan. Keep up the good work, LTT! I''m gonna order that screwdriver soon!

I know so many people that work in tech, including myself that I’ve been so inspired by Linus. Many of us are nerdy outcasts and Linus‘s team just makes me feel like I’m hanging out with friends when watching LTT videos. Linus also has been very open about his Neurodivergence and we don’t see that very much from people as well known as he is.That said, take my money! I’d love to see a calendar with all the fellas in scantily clad attire and tech themes. Lol Thank you LTT team

One of the best statements I have heard referring to this conflict is "you have earned the right to be lucky". Through hard work, being genuine to your community and much more you have earned the right to continue to be successful. If you have the viewpoint that any creator is the reason you fail you are a famine thinker and until you realize that you will very likely continue to be jealous and not succeed.

One thing for sure is LMG Clips channel is such a success. I started watching LTT back on these little nugget sized video, which is taken from a one hour long WAN Shows. Its kinda emulate Tiktok I guess? Shorter interesting clips > Longer videos with fillers. Then it could translate to maybe watching their more longer videos which generate ads revenue? idk.

In the past, LTT has done some good work showcasing and highlighting worthy up and coming RU-vidrs and other tech personalities. That is something I highly respect. "I made it cool to fill videos with tons of ads, so thank me for making monetization more intrusive" is not the best argument for LTT as a force for good. Their charity and visibility work is much more beneficial.

I'm struggling to get ANYTHING done these days on my channel. Watching you all, especially the behind the scenes stuff, has helped me not give up on it entirely. Linus being open and honest is incredibly helpful to smaller creators. Not to many people in such a position are going o get in front of a live audience and talk business like that. There is a lot to be learned from watching LMG. I find it's best to take what LMG has learned over the years, and apply it. It can be quite easy for people to get discouraged though.

He's also helping smaller channels just by being so large. I randomly got recommended LTT and it pulled me into the tech side of youtube and eventually brought me to find smaller tech channels too.

I don't think LTT harms smaller content creators because LTT is barely a tech channel anymore. They are more like an entry level tech channel. LTT will bring to your attention a concept or product but give you only a surface level review of it. You still have to find other channels who do a deep dive into concepts or products.

I also don’t think other channels should hold themselves to the standard of LMG. If you are a 1-5 person team, expecting to have the same influence, scope, and pull as LMG is almost impossible. Idk how big MKBHDs team is but even still, he’s not uploading nearly as often as LMG so it’s no real comparison

Not just ads in the tech RU-vid world. LTT was one of the first channels on the entire platform to run integrated ads in the videos. Now it's the entire business model of millions of creators.

Linus had the same troubles starting out as new creators do today. Even more so I would argue because youtube barely was a thing for tech stuff back then. So really, if you want to become somewhat of a name in this space you got to work hard, it helps if you get friends involved somehow and really follow what kind of format really works. Currently short-videos are doing reaaally well. Even I got one of my videos to 38k views just because it was ~35seconds long and got to the point. I normally get like 50views on my videos.

If you own a large business everyone cries unfair.....Ridiculous, people don't understand all the work put in. Plus, no person remembers the beginning. Don't ever apologize...

LTT has always helped out smaller creators, for example when Hardware Unboxed got put on the Nvidia blacklist.

This is true of any industry. After the novelty has worn off and standards/best practices/procedures/stati quo have been established, there's only a few left at the top.

What smaller tech channels need to realize is you can't just look at LTT and say "I'll do that" You need to offer something new and unique, this goes for all forms of business, because that's what being a youtuber is, running a business, it may be a small 1 person business, but it's a business none the less, and just like if you opened a fast food burger joint right next to McDonald's and your burgers tasted just like McDonald's for a similar price, people aren't going to go to your burger joint, their going to go to McDonald's

The fact that “I got the house and the car” is now the mark of “I made it” rather than the starting position is the real problem, I feel.

As a smaller tech creator, I have an instance where this kind of happened with me and LTT, but why I don't see it as a big deal. I mostly work with Apple, and I wanted to tackle why Macs aren't seen as viable gaming machines. Certainly part of it was due to Mac being a smaller platform, but I wanted to know if there were more technical reasons I started digging in, and, long story short, there were more reasons than just userbase size. Some of it was Nvidia and Apple's bad split where Nvidia was getting in lawsuits with Intel then attacking mobile graphics and culminating in Apple deciding to cut them out of their hardware and software support. Some of it was with Apple supporting OpenGL for graphics initially rather than Nvidia's proprietary stuff, then Apple switching to their proprietary Metal and not supporting Vulkan. The list goes on and on. After I did all my research and started writing the first draft, I see a video from LTT talking about gaming on the M1 chips and going over many of the same points that I did in my research. I admit, I was kind of bummed by this. Part of me that felt like if I had made that video and posted it on my original timeline, it might have been seen as me copying LTT's video. So I shelved the idea and moved on. With that said, I don't hold it against the LTT team. For one, it was just coincidence inasmuch as the M1 chips were a hot topic at the time. The performance improvements made people want to push the chips and see what had or hadn't improved. For another, there's time in the future where I could pick it back up again. Maybe revisit the topic when newer processors come out or maybe I dig deeper into the historical or technical side of things. There's nothing stopping me or anyone else for that matter from doing that. Something that I picked up from Google Search of all places helps me keep it in context. According to Google, one of the most consistently searched query every year is "how to cook scrambled eggs". Do a quick search and see how many videos and websites have recipes showing you how to make scrambled eggs? Some are very similar but some talk about making it spicy or adding different ingredients. The fact that someone else made a guide to making scrambled eggs, even larger cooking sites/channels, hasn't stopped anyone else from posting their own. Just because LTT, Snazzy, MKBHD, or any other channel does something similar doesn't mean we smaller channels can't have our own takes and perspectives. Just my two cents.

9:05 there it is, that's the reason llt managed to survive, never assuming the "highs" are sustainable and the channel wouldn't dip back down

I'm proud of your progress never stop growing and improving - cheers

Honestly the point about how slow they can react to topical news and releases and whatnot is a huge one for smaller tech channels. Depending on their attitude of course and how they approach it, but generally speaking a one person channel can just immediately make a video and has a huge advantage in that sense. Now, wether you tap onto it well enough or not is another question. There are disadvantages of course. People simply won't be as likely to click on a strange video with tiny view counts on anything where you are supposed to trust the author about something, like educational stuff or even reviews etc. Small creators will also not get preview builds and early access to things or things sent to them otherwise, so in that sense you will always be one step behind. It's also much harder to churn out videos at a high rate alone than with a group of people, and in that regard RU-vid standard of quality has risen to a point where crappy videos are probably not going to make it so each video is likely going to take more time. Still, at the end of the day, if you put in the work and are good at editing, writing, etc, there is nothing to stop you from succeeding. Will it take time? Probably yes, but some of that time will likely be you learning the job as well. New channels come along all the time, and when they do they are probably doing something right . If you can also do that, then you have a good chance of growing. You still need to give it time to get the little bit of algorithmic luck too, but stay consistent and keep improving and you are giving yourself the best chance of success.

I also feel like the big mega channels do actually help smaller channels simply in virtue of the fact that if the mega channel does a video, and the smaller channel does a similar but slightly different and intriguing video, you have a much higher chance of having your video being noticed in the suggested videos by the algorithm than if that mega channel simply didn’t exist. It might not be the thing to make you into a mega channel, but I’ve seen far more channels able to at least get a functional, consistent stream of content and some of my friends who started doing that when the analytics could tell you got most of their early successful stream of views off of theirs being suggested content.

Best example of tech channel doing great is “Dawid does tech stuff” - unique, funny and great content.

Monopolizing tech channels?

Linus has worked hard and gotten lucky, and worked hard. He plays the game and plays it well but has proven his integrity and worthiness of his role he not only makes helpful and entertaining content for us, but he also acts as our representative in the tech world, If he wasn't the size he is than he wouldn't be as able to hold companies accountable for ripping off consumers Mad respect Linus

Skill issue

Luke saying "Barbeque 🥺" at 5:58 in Linus' "list of important things I own" is hilarious 😂

I think small creators today are bitter because the algo’s so stacked against them. Clickthrough rate has an outsized influence on how many people see the videos. Like, if the algo throttles the vid after serving it to 100 people because of poor clickthrough, this means the next 1000 that may have been interested won’t see the vid at all. They woukd have to depend on search which is another beast to overcome. That’s why it’s very discouraging for somebody just starting out. Also, for us who forced out a niche and are making a small living, we are in turn forced to stay in the niche because of clickthrough. Which is part of the reason why the days when creators could go from 0 to 1 million subs is over. Having a small channel myself, I don’t have that same angst because I know RU-vid now is a lot more competitive than in 2011, and YT does have an incentive to keep large channels happy on this platform. The rising tide is real and I did benefit from having brand sponsorships thanks to the flak you took. (I rarely comment, but as a small creator doing this for 7 years, this video resonates.)

Power law distribution. The first group to achieve the largest share of a distribution will tend to maintain that proportion of the distribution indefinitely.

what you **can** do to make it easier for smaller creators is occasionally doing shoutouts to smaller channels. that's honestly one of my favorite things to see a large creator do: finding and shouting out small channels with sometimes only a few thousand subs who are doing awesome work for you guys, since you're more jack of all trades master of none, as you said, you could shout out channels that go very in-depth on a certain topic when you touch on it a bit but not really in a lot of detail, as a "hey if you wanna learn more these guys do great work check em out"

My actual only criticism of LLT as a concept is that LTT became the HR department for OTHER tech companies. It feels like that all other tech businesses just flat out don't do anything good until LTT makes a big stink about it. And the entire tech culture is basically: "what financial move can we make before we show up on "HR's" (LTT's) radar." The same benefits of LTT being the voice of the people are the same drawbacks as a Union. And if LTT ever gets corrupted (highly unlikely) I feel we will all see a dip in ethics in tech.

As someone who's helped produce media for television in Canada, I can tell you for a fact that the CRTC is a huge reason Canadian content producers even existed in that realm and weren't just swallowed by their much larger, richer and more well-equipped American counterparts. While the RU-vid landscape may appear more fair, juggernauts exist who have more staff, higher production budgets and who's hours of content produced can exceed the number of hours there are in a day. That is a significant barrier to be faced by a new content creator in the same space. I see comments saying other creators just need to "pull themselves up from their bootstraps". However, when those creators do deep dive videos that took months of work, were paid out of pocket, and had no sponsorships or free gear only to get 1% of the views that a daily TechQuickie skimming the headlines does, I think the little fish might have some justifiable grievances with the whales monopolizing all the eyeballs.

Sure, it's not good for the small guys to have a channel of the size of LTT dominating searches, getting all the news first, getting all the inside information, etc. but there isn't really anything Linus can do about that. That's just what happens when you're early and can keep producing high quality content. You can't really blame Linus for his size, all he did was produce videos. RU-vid isn't fair, you can't be when there's millions of creators trying to get ahead, someone will be favoured.

Barrier to entry exist in every industry, the more profitable and stable the industry, the higher.

People are too focused on monopolies and not enough focused on monopolistic behavior. Trying to force out or absorb competitors is bad whether there's one firm in a market or 1000. But getting all the market share solely by virtue of having a better product than everyone else is not a bad thing.

The only thing unfair advantage that LTT may have over a small creator is recovering from something like a stream hacking. LTT has direct contacts with RU-vid and was able to be back up and running in about 24 hours. It can take a small creator months (or never) to be back up and running

Blaming the success of others for the lack of your own is a doomed mindset!

Being at the right time in the right place and taking the opportunity. Same as everything in life.

Once a company is big enough, weekends don't necessarily mean no one works; you can have rolling weekends, everyday is weekend for some employees, sorta like having multiple daily shifts with some overlap to allow for smooth seamless transitions.

RU-vid doesn’t owe any small (or larger) creator anything. You have to come into this willing to work for your slice of the pie.

I've actually almost never really been able to find LTT reviews for the products that i bought. It kinda changed after they made ShortCircuit, but its still kinda the same, as they've primarily only covered the flag-ship models of the items i was looking at, which were out of my budget anyways. Instead i found alot of small tech-youtubers, who focused on these "niches", may it be monitors etc. which are less "popular". As i think Linus said, the maneuverability that the small youtubers has, is a large advantage to them, and makes them able to do things LTT cannot. The small creaters just have to be creative about doing something new and different.

This is a literally just a case of “just get good lol”

That's crazy. Anyone can go do RU-vid and make it. I saw all these young kids killing it on RU-vid and started my channel at the end of 2018. Terrible production quality and I'm about 500k subs. It's all about the content. What you put out there. If you don't have good videos with great content you aren't going anywhere. If you have something of value that is helpful to others... You will! It really is that simple. Most of the difference is the grind and work that goes in to it. It's a rough, long slog churning out videos. It isn't easy and most simply burnout before the next person. Linus is where he is because he has grinded for over a decade producing at least a video every single day. That is insane! He obviously just loves making videos beyond anything else. If you are doing RU-vid for money... just find another job it isn't worth it. I'm still not sure I can sustain myself and family, so I still work a day job. Not that I'm complaining, I love my work and look forward to splitting my time between RU-vid and a "real job".

Being a content creator is much harder than people think. I come across plenty where the person has an awful sense of humour, they are boring or just struggle to flow. Talking on camera is actually surprisingly hard. So many people won't make it to the big time. The media has always been like this.

1:28 Canadian refuses to apologize, LTT making history once again

I think what that person was looking for was "sorry that it's so hard buddy, it is genuinely a different space now that we're on top, and new tech news channels have a very hard time making it today for sure, but there's not a lot I can do about it. Your just gonna have to find a right way to make it through, get lucky, or curtail to a niche." NOT "I'm not gonna apologize. I won't revoke my success, what are you crazy? You just need to get good >:(" Give pitty, not defense.

I think is grand that he is able to do everything that he did, but I think is complicated to start in technology and it's been like that from the beginning (that's why him working for NCIX helped a lot)

Luke Barbeque is out of nowhere, lol i died laughing

The one thing I can see from the other side is that the size of LTT is "problematic" to smaller tech channels because people tend to follow the larger number because they believe its "better" a way to compare that is when buying an item online, people look at reviews of two very similar items, theyll pick the one with the more reviews despite because if everyone buying it why not? That translates to "why watch the smaller creator when LTT exists? The audience isnt spread out, everyone watches them" theres no need to apologize for the success of LTT thats the dream goal to reach to be that big but I can see from the other side how it would feel that LTT is disruptive to smaller non associated channel growth

LTT could start giving shout outs to the sources they get their content from??? I've seen dozens of niche content over the years when building gaming arcades, retro consoles to modern TV's, sim racing, projector related stuff, etc. Then your channel come out with similar content, miraculously knowing how to build these niche setups without a hiccup. We know YOUR team searches these smaller Tech channels when trying to make content for YOUR channel. But ya'll play it off as if it was ya'lls idea. Just give a shout out from where you got the idea is all we're asking. I mean if these smaller TechTubers die then how will that help this channel grow? You would want then to keep making content and discoveries so that YOU the bigger channel can share them. Instead you have your goons go out on the internet and pick the fruit from the field and bring them to us as if you put in the work and discovery of that fruit. Yet LTT is like. "Well what do you want us to do". Give credit!

no. over the years with all the hard work put in, self examination to balance family and work life more, success is deserved with hard work. i'm 52 and i couldn't be prouder of some one from the younger generation that takes into consideration the people employed under their care as much as Linus does.

RU-vid is really easy like it’s hard to come up with good ideas but if you can produce a quality video that people would wanna watch it will succeed

I wonder if Linus would make the argument that apple being so big would prevent other competitors from entering the phone market? Or would Walmart perhaps put farmers markets at a disadvantage? Or would amazon put mom and pop shops under pressure? When you achieve a certain size, small people get pushed out. It’s not really a debate. I’m not telling him to stop growing, but it seems intellectually dishonest to not acknowledge your size makes it hard for other content creators to break into the platform.

Maybe the problem isn't that a single channel has as much coverage that they do but rather the creative space is so commercialised and financialised that the conditions for "success" on youtube isn't creating good content but rather having to enagage in a competetive market driven by metrics, determined by a fastidious obsessions with analyitics and held at the whim of a totally obfuscated algorithim. capitalism, the problem is capitalism.

Being big isnt inherently bad. How you got there and what you do when you're there is what determines if your good or bad. RU-vid being more established now means you need to compete with very high production quality, which is tough, but I bet it was also super tough trying to make a youtube channel a career when no one even knew it was possible or was going to be a thing long term.

Even the seedlings strangle under the shade of the tree that made them, this is just how nature works. There is absolutely nothing to apologize for!

theres plenty of space for tech videos on youtube. creativity is key.

The problem with monopolies is not that they are evil or that they may not be influenced by the outside world, but that they exist at all. When one fish grows to the entire aquarium, it is more humane to evict it from there and it doesn’t matter how it ate this weight. Yes, this is not fair, but it's like with the trolley problem - most often we saves the life of the majority.

A smaler Creator can specialise in one subject that Ltt can only briefly cover. Like RetroGaming, Linux, Programming, Hacking( Cyber Security), Servers usw. Things that are irellevant for a broad audiance but are relevant for the smaler subcomunities

There are so many other niches for tech, to say nothing about all the subjects out there. And we haven't even seen the impact of applying more advanced language models to prototyping or analyzing trends. It's likely the biggest channels in ten years don't even exist yet. LTT isn't obnoxious, which is appreciated.

People are upset that they're having a hard time finding their niche in a saturated market. Plenty come into it with an "easy" expectation where they've set themselves up to fail since they are unprepared to put in the necessary effort required to grow. Some (most) will also point a finger outward instead of looking inward to improve or adapt what they are doing. It has absolutely nothing to do with the success of LTT or anyone involved in that success. Keep doing what you're doing.

The best way to formulate it imho : "If LTT is why you are not growing, why are you copying LTT ?" You need to find your own voice. If you have the same ideas, the same vehicle and the same type of message, you are going to blend into the mass. "Do not re-invent the wheel", if you do, do it better. If you don't, people will just use the wheel.

I watch Paul's Hardware, Jay Two Cents, Gamers Nexus, Craft Computing, and Serve The Home all pretty frequently. There's room on RU-vid.

I remember the over exposure camera in the sideroom when LTT was in a public house

While I see the point of not being able to stop, but isn't this excely what is happening to those big tech companies, and Anti-Trust Law is suippose to stop that.

RU-vid is a union to itself, but it doesn’t want us to unionize outside of our channels all the time. Meaning, you can have a secondary channel with someone with someone else as host, but you can’t have your own channel and go years and years being co-host in the same channel. It is channel that is being paid and not the crew that is in it. Since you have 7 channels to yourselves, each channel is being paid very well for the content that is uploaded separately. Each of them has their own analytics, but it all comes your way the same compared to one channel. It is so rare to collaborate with another person and another channel in the same physical room than having individual rooms with each their own channel’s made for each individual person or group. And that is where people struggle to actually understand to manage their money as more and more channels are being made by one person or a group of people in a broad scale. Because if everyone has multiple channels that pays, everyone would be rich off their multiple channels, but each and everyone of these youtubers starting off in life would struggle with finances in more ways than one as a lot of people start off very young and inexperienced in the platform. And do know that times when you guys have started your channels are not the same as what people nowadays are starting with. The policies were not as hectic in the late 2000’s than policies that contradict themselves today.

I completely agree, but you still need to acknowledge that because you are so big the small channels are just a ripple in a storm. and you can do that with out apologizing.

LTT is one of the OGs in the "tech-tuber" sphere, and pretty sure a lot of new creators were inspired by them to start their own channels. Saying that they take the limelight from smaller creators is a bit unfair, I think. I mean, sure, they have the budget and people that work hard to produce their content, but they don't tackle/do content on all tech-related products.

It's kind of like when humans expanded into a new area, life is rough for the early pioneers. They have to build things up from scratch, trying out different things to find out what works. Once one of them finds the right recipe for success, and starts to really build up a community, it's kind of natural they are the ones reaping the majority of the benefits of their work. Then you have new people come in, seeing that all the hard work was done, and think they can just take over a chunk of the land the pioneers built up and get all the profits off it. It doesn't work that way, in many ways it's harder for a new person to force their way into an established space than it was for the original pioneers to build it up-you basically have to wage war on the established group(s), or else find something they didn't do well and find out how to do that better. It's innovate something better than already exists, or find some ground that was left untouched (meaning, don't think you can get into the tech blogger sphere doing the same thing as established groups have been doing for years and somehow build up a community of your own). The first companies to start building settlements on mars are going to be the de-facto rulers when later groups come in and want to utilize resources that were developed by the first groups. Unless the other groups can find a suitable patch of land that's untouched and start their own colony without any help from the first settlement, they are going to have to suck it up and deal with not having control/power

Channels like Lon Seidman also tackles tech all the time, it's a smaller channel and it's successful, tech isn't monopolised on YT because your channel has 100x the subs of other channels. You're right in saying that reactionary channels will be able to cover stuff quickly as opposed to some of what you tackle.

Do the full quote Jack of all trades master of none. But a Jack of manny is often far better than a master of one

I'm sitting here playing a game that's causing my internet to run slow, so RU-vid's "Auto Quality" has put this video at 360p quality right now. But honestly? Ever since that video about the new function Nvidia has for upscaling or whatever it was called, and I turned that on, I often find myself - like now - actually preferring the final image of a lower quality than the higher quality one, cause the new function makes it look so much smother and better. It also makes it look unrealistically smooth, of course, but I like it ^^

these people weren’t around when linus was running everything out of a cluttered house with video quality not even being a 1/4th of what it is now. people forget he was in the exact same spot and had to work harder for what everyone has now bc he was one of the first

as someone that has literally started only in the last year as a tech youtuber, and wants to continue it, I can say I don't think it is LTT's fault. The biggest thing about making it is just keep trying cause you never know what video is gonna make it for you. Don't get me wrong the amount of effort sometimes doesn't match how much the return is at all, I say this as a college student who does this on top of being a full time retail worker. But the biggest thing is trying your hardest and that if it ends up not working out then don't blame others, just realize you gave it your best and it just didn't work out.

4:18 As the old Roman saying goes: "Luck is what happens when preparation meets opportunity" For all they know they've already had many oppurtunities in whatever endeavor they're on, except they didn't or couldn't capitalize on it due to their lack of preparation 🤓

I just realised, that i never bought a tech because linus said it was this and that. I dont watch the ads (i press double skip after the ad announcment and dont watch the end)

I mean as a veiwer I understand why people say it's hard to compeet with LTT because LTT covers so manny bases. Like if you want reviews, tech news, product announcments, podcast, tech projects, even apple spesific news LTT does it better than anyone else because they have a more money, industry connections and people they can dedicate to making a video to the highest quality.