The Fall of Linus Tech Tips 

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Based Kenny, been following you since the t0rr3tn video days, great to see how far you've come

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Granted, Steve is his biggest competitor, who up until Linus opened his Labs, was one of the only people who had the hardware to do in-depth testing (remember his acoustic testing room).

Hi, man, please talk about the controller drift issue in the ps5 and their stupid "fix" which is a 200$ controller that doesn't even fix the issue, talk about controller drift plox.

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That … but also the whole commitment to personal loyalty. Either you're loyal to him and he'll "treat you well" (by his definition) or you're not and he goes full asshole. He's even said if his employees ever tried to unionize, he would immediately become the asshole boss, because he's got no incentive not to at that point. And you have seen him act that way a few times in different circumstances. I think this could've become a nothing-someone else said so in a comment as well: Linus could've had a meeting with the new CEO and his wife and said to the person, "Hey, Steve made it pretty clear we've been screwing up here kind of a lot lately. Wow, it sucks to see it laid all out like that. We brought you in to make this company better. So we're gonna step back and let you do that." And it could've all blown over by now. They did the exact opposite of everything they should've done until it was a massively huge dumpster fire response, though.

Man you’re everywhere.

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I'm getting discord / masterdom vibes but I see where you're coming from lol. Maybe even Roblox devs.

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​@KGBColonelGeorgeCostanza the proper one or the one about Dicks in enemy asses?

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He didn't ever trash on it, and in the video there was mention that the reason it didn't work is because they used the wrong card. They looked at it from an objective perspective and even didn't use their test results as a contributor to their conclusion. Their take away was that it was a very good product and well built, it was for niche tiny form factor builds, but it was a lot of money and for most people it wouldn't have been worth it. Even if it was the correct gpu, he would have had the same take away that $800 is a metric crap ton of money for a cooler. He was wrong for not retesting the gpu and attributing that to it "costing $500" of employee pay, but at the end of the day this isn't driven by malice, or an attempt to ruin billlet labs, it was just an overview of him building with the product, setting it up, and running a test on it. If it was a performance review there would've been actual data collected and they would've actually used the right card. I think you've fallen into the echo chamber that Steves video has created and like a lot of others are taking little tiny details and making them the end of the world.

@@peckservers Sure, fair point on how that review went. But I consider how they handled the prototype afterwards pretty close to the "end of the world" bit.

@@peckservers they still sold the prototype at auction without permission... they didn't even reach the other company about it until Steve's video... that in itself is damning for me. I couldn't care less for their reviews anyway, i will look at hard data, look at price and decide for myself if it's good enough, the moment they are not doing proper testing any value of that information is lost for me

@@janetjane4861 my original reply to this is magically gone so here's a retake of it. I have to disagree on your opinion on the auction part too. What happened is that there is a department responsible for communicating with companies such as Billet labs, and the agreement was that it was to be sent back. Then an employee from another department who had no idea of this arrangement selected it as one of the items to by put in the auction. After realizing this mistake the employee immediately tried to reach out to Billet to make them whole, because at the end of the day it would be stupid of them to sell it to try to make money intentionally going against billets wish. it was purely an accident. They explained this in a recent video, and it is completely understandable how it happened.

@@imblackmagic1209 They went over this in their latest video, what happened is that due to non communication between departments, there was plans to send the block back, but Colton didn't know of that when he was picking things for the auction. A completely understandable mistake. they actually attempted to reach out before any of the controversy had ever been conceived under the light. That communication didn't make it through however, so when Steve reached out, billet didn't have any record of an attempt to reach out. Taking Steve at face value would paint Linus as an evil greedy bastard. But understanding the whole context of the situation just makes it look like a massive L error. you said it yourself that the data from their review doesn't matter in your eyes, so why are you contradicting by saying that if they don't provide good data then it suddenly does matter. In the original review they made it pretty obvious that the product was good and they just tested it wrong. So basically they said this test doesn't even matter. At that point why are we still focused on it. If they were clear about that why is there a fixation point on it still being wrong. It's just moot, because that wasn't the point of the video, just like the point of their overpowered server videos aren't to get exact numbers on their performance, its just more of a "this is cool" thing. Please enlighten me on why something like that is worth destroying his company over, especially when it comes to the sheer amount of factually accurate content that exists from his company. It, just like the incorrect gpu graph is such a minor itty mistake in a large pool of overall data, 99.9% of which is completely accurate that calling him a sham over it is unfair at best.

Right, this is when he lost all credibiity and then he doubled down recently by suggesting that RU-vid charging for 1080 is a good thing LOL what a fuking shill.

They didn't really do that... They (linus and luke during the WAN show) also said **they** use adblock themselves. Using adblock is a kind of piracy, you are taking content without giving back to it's creator. Ads are annoying and I use adblock, but the statement is not wrong. The dudes talk about pirating or "privateering" all the time on wan and know it is an important part of the internet. What I recall is them basically pointing out: if you like a creator, you aren't supporting them by blocking ads, consider supporting them by **some** means. The amount of people who clearly don't watch LTT commenting as if they know anything is insane to me. Do some research, the whole freaking problem here is LTT not taking their time to think/do proper research/correct themselves and here you are doing the same.

They find their revenue streams one way and another. The whole damn tech sphere is an ad anyways. Excuse me for sparing myself an ounce of mental manipulation.

@@sipp884 right LTT is just one big product placement ad itself it doesn't need more ads between the ads

@@tom12323456 You are ridiculous if you expect anyone to sit through all of his podcasts just to see how he *truly* feels about adblock or piracy. And even you concur that he did say that so what do you mean by "They didn't really do that". The statement is absolutely wrong lmao. Equating not contributing to their revenue as theft is nothing more than gaslighting. >the whole freaking problem here is LTT not taking their time to think/do proper research/correct themselves and here you are doing the same. LTT is a multimillion company operating a business, releasing data which they claim is accurate and influencing customer choices. The commenters here are bored people watching videos on youtube. Yup yup totally the same thing.

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I never really been able to watch an entire video of Linus, this guy makes me cringe heavily. I think the last time I tried to watch one of his videos it was about TempleOS (and Terry Davis) and it just felt like I was watching something like 2 girls 1 cup...

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@@Ralphunreal First helping us tie a tie, now talking about cybersecurity. What a guy.

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Wow, I didn't know that

Interesting

Imagine being stupid enough to say it out loud, lmao.

I've gotten those "selective" vibes from him for a long time, ya

And he proceeds to shit on AMD CPUs by not installing AGESA so AMD's latest CPU looks like trash in comparison to Intel. I guess that's what happens when you stop paying LMG...

Screw empathy, that's a contract breach.

There is misinformation in this take too, yes they did do their testing improperly and used the wrong gpu. that is an obvious mistake, and they are human. To attribute it to malice is where your take kind of falls apart. Doing what they did (considering that Billet said it potentially works on both 3090 and 4090) is like putting a cooler meant for an i9 13900k on an i9 11900k, it theoretically could work so that's what they tried it with. Then when it didn't work they said in the video its cause its the wrong gpu, and didn't base their conclusion on the test result. You obviously didn't give a look into any of the videos released on the topic by Linus about all of the community concerns. There is a very logical and reasonable explanation as to how the block got auctioned off in the first place. That would be asking a lot of his community to do some research on their clams though. They immediately reached out even before Steve's video had even come into existence and tried to do everything in their power to make it right. This shows that they were aware of their mistake and wanted to make it right even before any of the backlash happened. It wasn't about making money from it at the auction, which would be attributing their actions to malice. It was that it was selected by Colton to put on the auction, and Colton didn't know what it had to go back. which is not only understandable, but also is based on actual facts. You basically are just regurgitating what other people have speculated and echo chambered around like a big game of telephone and its a damaging behavior. You can't hate someone because of hearsay, unless you do some proper research on them first.

​@@peckserversthey send a mail, but to the wrong person. Billet only received a mail, after the video Also, they leaked the price of the prototype iirc Not sure, but I think it was said, that billet tried to contact them, and he didn't received an answer

@@schwingedeshaehers Yeah Colton didn't hit reply all, and only hit reply so it only went to the procurement team. There was an attempt made to reach out, and the fact that they did that clears them of any possibility of trying to be deceitful. Billet iirc never specified that the price was supposed to be secret, so there was no expectation for it to stay as such. Billet did reach out and informed LTT of their mistake and never received a response because Colton messed up.

@@peckservers some things should be considered trade secrets, until specified otherwise.

As MO does, Linus should've, farming is the future, always has been, even in our country....unfortunately world war 2 and sanctions crippled us

There does indeed exist a tech guy to farmer pipeline

​@@Hypnotically_Caucasianif you're into tech, you're probably into learning and self improvement, so handymanning, working out, and homesteading makes a lot of sense to be interconnected.

If I'm not mistaken, he literally grew up on a farm. He's mentioned it on WAN show in the past.

@@KGBSpyGeorgeCostanza Who is ML?

He also attacked adblockers... He lost all my respect after that.

It's always been this way. Nothing has changed, other than LTT getting called out on it.

advertisement channel = no watch, no trust

​@@sophiacristinaLTT is a normie tech channel and Linus has had some horrible takes but the AdBlock wasn't one of them. Comparing it to piracy isn't wrong per se and they didn't make a value judgement about it being wrong to the point of even having pihole tutorial on the main channel

@@fish3977 I noticed this "normie channel" vibe from him, but i like some mainstream stuff when it is well presented and have consistency. I was never his sub, but i used to see some stuffs from him. But after the ad-block i noticed he was "too normie". He just danced on words to make it seem as you are talking about, but be honest, behind four walls we know he was angry about ad-blockers, it is just that in public people talk "too well". If he wasn't mad, he wouldn't talk about it to begin with, or would recommend, like Ross did.

luke is so awesome and the whoel level one media so much better than ltt 100%

I always had a yukky gut feeling towards that guy

If you sent it to him for free without any kind of agreement in place.... You're the clown here. It might be scummy, but you're not very smart at all.

Agree, agreed and agreeing.

I think their current response to the content drop is good and reasonable, but then there's the Madison thing

You mean Linus Sebastian did everything wrong

@@venykrid The 'Madison thing' doesn't even seem that bad, and if they addressed it then I feel like it would just be worse for them.

​@@okjozselling a prototype at an auction is a HUGE fuckup

While that's true, it doesn't benefit Linus to do that unless Terren Tong is not a good fit for the job. Especially right now; firing Terren would be horrible optics for LMG. Linus needs someone like Terren with his corporate background in management and crisis management to weather this mess Linus got himself into. Will be interesting to watch play out.

If you pushed out the head of the channel then "Linus" Tech Tips just wouldn't be as appealing no matter what you do its done for

Despite only being in 13% of videos

@@romevang oh yeah I think Terren appears to be a great change for the company. I was just corrected the video and saying that it would be impossible to remove Linus

@@chasedooley6237 you’re so wrong

Little Leopards become big leopards and big leopards kill

the key aspect to a successful large company is the people you hire sounds like Linus just had a bunch of garbage need to get rid of the sexual harassment wasnt even directed towards him unlike this trash channel made it out to be most of the issues are caused by employees anyway like you said, its now full of parasites and enemies trying to sabotage and corrupt Linus should just sell the damn thing for 100mil and enjoy life with his family

That's way more educated than the Best Buy workers I've interacted with, last time I consulted one of them to buy a computer he said "Idk man just get an Apple."

Not to defend a corpo, but it does make sense to give data about a new product, in a way an associate would easily digest.

That's why many of us older IT people call Best Buy, "(you'd) Best Buy (somewhere else)".

You'd Best Buy somewhere else is probably gonna make a comeback.

@@alloounou6900 cant wait what a time to be alive !

Even if Linus and his Media corporation can dig themselves out of this PR disaster with the respective communities, once you bring in sexual harassment and deception into any companies timeline sponsors and monihtazation are completely and utterly out of the window.

"If you're really good at something, never do it for free" - Joker

"I don't make burgers where you work and then tell you how to make burgers" - Michael Scott

It's a lesson continuously ignored for the last decade in every aspect of life.

@@fal1026it’s not a lesson, it’s a platitude to help people make sense of the complex world where people aren’t perfect, and continuously show this on a public scale (hence hero or villain). People don’t call normies heroes or villains, but best believe we are all going through our own arcs same as Linus.

Aren't the Over the Top PC builds like, half of the reason to be this large?

Their "Over the Top PC Builds" have surface level reviews too.

yeah the phone space is the most boring atm lmao imagine blaming linus for that @Sh1ft3r1

@Sh1ft3r1 Literally LTT mindset

Recommend phone pls

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Shreksual Harassment is my middle name

@@Hypnotically_Caucasianlies, it’s underscore

sigh, in the past no one cared about these shexual herassment and now everyone is whining about it

That's interesting info, thank you for sharing!

I wonder if that's why "Emma" came about, as a mean to deflect...

With the mouse they claimed that when they tested it, it had no plastic covering on the feet. When it was pointed out you could see it in the video, they backtracked and blamed the company for not having clear instructions. Sad.

I was surprised GN didn't circle the feet in that original video.

I wouldnt call David (the person who review the mouse) a professional reviewer. hes a camera man for the company but hes also a pc gamer thats why they have him doing mouse reviews in addition to some camera reviews.

@@73delgado - It was a joke. I guess I should have added air quotes to that, though I thought the joke was self explanatory since an actual professional likely wouldn't miss if it has a plastic feet cover or not.

The Pwnage Mouse video was not a review and the guy on the vid was not a professional. The video is supposed to be an unboxing that's why there is no data on the vid it's just the guy talking about it quickly. It doesn't change anything to how unprofessional it is to shit on a product like that especially when it's what they OFFERED AS A GIFT TO THEIR VIPS during LTX. That's so fucking dumb its funny.

The block came attached to a 3090 fwiw. That also went "missing"

Minus Linus brought it on himself tbh

Even comes with Civil War General facial hair expansion pack

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What software is he using

@@marlenamertens1326 not sure but it’s open source

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"had over a year of controversies" what do you mean by that? do you have anything to back that up or is that just something you read from someone else? I've followed his channel and the things he has done for many years now and I cant think of many actual controversies that weren't stemmed from poor wording or a misinterpretation of something he said. You cant just go around saying stuff that is factually wrong, because all you are doing is contributing to the buzz echo chamber of misinformation.

Yep, he has to make absolutely no mistake, or else he will have to taste our wrath!

I think GN and LTT have some differences over the year, but what set it off is what a staff of LTT labs say duirng LTX which throw shade at Hardware unboxed and GN during a showing of labs recorded by other people. Hardware unboxed throws a casual shot back on twitter, but I guess steve from GN takes that statement more way more seriously. It also kind of shows the lack of control LMG has tho. U don't usually allow employee to casually throw shade at ur counterparts in open setting like that especially when u aren't known rivals. Also doesn't help after labs were announced by Linus I think those errors instead become more of a frequent occurrence.

@@derpysean1072You say that as if he's only made a very simple or easy to forgive mistake. Having a company accused of sexual harassment of employees, selling one of a kind prototypes, and constantly antagonizing his own fan base ("trust me bro!") is not one mistake, nor is they simple, easy to forgive mistakes.

@@789knowIndeed, for all the money spent on the Labs, the channels actually become much less reliable, making mistakes the likes of which you could easily find if you spent five seconds reading the spec sheets, or in the case of that one GPU benchmark, just thinking about what you're making for a moment. It's irresponsible. It also won't matter - they're a company that has enough money they can bury detractors if they really want.

Thanks Colombo

Also the hacked musk stream wasn't up for a day and a half it was much less then that.

Exactly, this has a lot of misinformation, ironically ...

Saying he's not involved when he's a majority stakeholder by a landslide is a bit like saying he didn't sell the waterblock, he auctioned it.

@@maiyannah okay accidentally selling something for personal profit is worse then accidentally putting it up for charity. Neither are good but if they sold it outright they would look significantly worse in this situation

I don't know why it's satisfying seeing a company fall....it makes me feel great about my life....and my dislocated shoulder from drunk ramblings

Nexus Gamers has raise, billion must switch to BSD

@@KGBSpyGeorgeCostanza Brother, it sounds like you need some time fishing or something. I don't see the revel in coveting someone's downfall. But there is a lot we can learn about how too much exposure and stimulus can slowly degrade even the most determined of individuals. We all have our limits, you might have hit yours as well.

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I love watching companies fall. It's a beautiful thing. It's part of a healthy market. It creates opportunity and shake ups in markets very fun to watch. When companies don't die and just keep expanding that's when there are issues.

TBH I suspect they’re probably just nerds - not comfortable around humans.

Luke's definitely NOT comfortable with him, should've seen his reactions to Linus when addressing things on the WAN show last week.

I noticed that awhile ago and thought it was just me. Its part of the reason I stopped watching their stuff ( that combined with how shallow and corporate feeling they've become ) But yeah It always felt like there was some weird undercurrent of tension.

It's probably just people being camera shy, not everyone is used to being on camera

​@@RAM_845 They have been friends for years, and hang out on the weekends. Do you really think Luke would do that if he wasn't comfortable around Linus. I don't understand how you can guys can "read emotions" so well but cant bothered to look at the context. It is so easy to quit if you don't like your boss, but they all love the work they do. Its a sad take from you guys. I like the point @BooleanDev Brings up in saying that they are most likely camera shy. When you walk into your bosses office at any job you are most likely not going to be willy nilly around them, you are going to be incredibly professional. Now imagine there's a camera with millions of people watching you through that, its stressful as hell.

It was around 2018-2019 when they left the house to go to the warehouse. When they first went corporate to pump out videos.

Everyone seems stressed out of their minds in almost every single video. Anthony/Emily was the single biggest reason I hadn't already unsubscribed.

​@@SNixDEmily story is sad tho. Once she comes out many attacks her online causing her to withdraw from showing up on video for a while.

Yeah you are! Yeah YOU ARE! WE SEE YOU BUDDY!

With the amount of people reacting to this, "keeping things as factual as possible" is harder than it is, it is great that a lot of people are trying.

@@derpysean1072 yeah the misinformation is really getting out of hand. I've been looking through these comments and so many are just echoed off of someone else's factually misinformative take. I can't type fast enough to even fathom helping spread the truth but its worth trying because Linus doesn't deserve what he's getting right now

bernie sanders, contrapoints, philosophytroon. nice try stalin

@@thechadbuddha It's trying to communicate 🤗

Women suffer from hoarder behavior and explode if you mention it

​@handleneeds3charactersormore its probably a foraging instinct, picking up berry's and food for the tribe way back when. But now instead of food for survival its shitty live love laughing posters

GN has been a total powerhouse lately. Steve is a boss.

he's actually got the integrity that grounded critique / journalism calls for

lol

Sir, this is a Circus.

well they got corporate culture down pretty well then, cause mid management always are assholes.

I think the issue Linus has is that he takes an attack on his channel too personally and he lashed out as a result. It's probably worse than being a careless jerk for anyone working with him because that pressure and urgency rubs off right onto them almost subconsciously and they don't see it as a harmful pattern because that's exactly what their boss is doing and it's not like he's a bad guy or anything.

You don't know that since Madison never disclosed any names - implying Linus is complicit or invovled is wrong, yes. But at the same point, one cannot simply say "oh, he didn't do it because nromally it's middle management doing that stuff" - might I remind you of Harvey Weinstein?

@@BigBossBernie She did describe an event with Linus as well. But mostly he was apparently completely incapable of stopping any bullying.

​@@BigBossBernie Linus, and management as a whole, are all complicit. If the company has no way to anonymously report things to HR which is a basic process in most larger teams, that's a complete failure on the part of management including Linus.

Also easily more knowledgeable about the stuff he covers. Tons of mistakes from LTT in his video were just straight embarrassing.

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Speaking about 'emily' 😂

Your IQ is probably not even 100.

@@atheopagan how would you feel if you didn't have breakfast this morning?

A kid who is used to making up his own rules.

ANTHONY IS WHAT?! Holy crap that’s so sad to hear.

@@layheeee3782 search Anthony Emily :)

The protective film thing was an incident with a mouse, they left the plastic on the feet making the PTFE useless. Naturally they left the video up because LMG hates facts and they enjoy dunking on products unfairly.

he refused to admit it would have made a deference

@@Finalizor his point was that cooler temps would not make it worth buying, though I agree he still should've tested it

They could probably go after him for slander depending how it works up north. He knowingly used it on the wrong card. He knowingly refused to retest and he stated even if it did work he would still not recommend it and that its a bad product With his very large influence you could make the case that not only did he go out of his way to slander them but cripple them by actioning off the prototype which he knew about because its not like your neighbors crescent wrench making its way into your tool box its a very unique item that cant be swept under the rug.

@@cowthedestroyer i doubt it, slander is usually reserved for malicious lying

@@BooleanDev I mean I he was.

That's just normie behavior. Narcissists can't bear being made fun of. Linus can

Well during the hack thing he threw Colton under the bus.

Nice pfp, pal.

Lol@@IT10T

Praise Tech Jesus, let's yodel and play a Colombian Guitar

Who is Steve? I don't fully know the youtube it sphere.

@@TiroDvD Gamers Nexus

With this prototype it might have been the case, that with selling it, critical design information about the product was leaked, which could become a problem, if the competition gets ahold of the prototype, then if the original manufacturer didn't document and patent it right, it could end in a patent fight, which gets the original manufacturer in big trouble.

It was auctioned and the proceeds went to charity he didn't make money from it

That has been said and done

​@@KManAbout That's even worse.

@@Qwerty-jy9mj how

That is exactly my take on this. In the last couple of years the original feel of the channel has been lost. Pure greed took over and it was clear to anyone who was a regular watcher. I'm glad this has come out, it can only be good for the viewers in the end. Anthony is by far my favourite presenter and even he has been under pressure. Slow down, lose most of the advertising and it will come back.

same

Yup I remember those days. Last thing of value I remember was one of the new (probably gone now) employees talking about macro keyboards and QMK, etc And that was in like '18

Agreed, it went from videos that seemed to have a passion behind them, to just factory pumped out videos to hit quotas

Linus completely fell off entirely when they moved out of that iconic house and started adding billions of employees for no apparent reason. LMG needs 15 employees MAX.

Yep I got destroyed over and over for pointing out issues over the years. So I just sat in silence for a month or two until I left. Now I'm hearing his greed won? It doesn't matter. Idiots will still praise him

THIS! I watched all the videos related to their recent bust, but I, for the love of Stallman couldn't remember why I stopped watching LTT. They were more blunt and down to earth, and true. They really got corrupted.

Just curious, who got fired? Was is Dennis?

@@lequack8861 Yes, it was Dennis. I was going to leave this note in my comment, but I felt it made it a bit too long.. (I'm sorry for leaving it out!) -- so ... NOTE: I 'think' Dennis was brought back, but I'm not sure because I couldn't find a video explaining everything exactly, and I am/was just a casual viewer. If so, please note I didn't intend to make Linus look worse for leaving this out, as I did so because I couldn't confirm it and it (imo) doesn't change the fact of what he did do (and if he did re-hire him, I think it's fair to say he wouldn't of without backlash). I felt sorry for Dennis as he is a foreigner that uses English as a second language, so that would have been pretty humiliating, I'm sure. He also isn't a mover. Oh, and I'm pretty sure it was Linus' floor, but it may have been his wall or something similar. -- Again, I tried to find out what happened back when people were talking about it, but the videos were scattered. If I was wrong about anything... or everything! 👀 someone do please let me know and I'll update my original comment... perhaps it was all a big joke, and I was the fool. And after a year or so they finally got me... well that's just another reason to hate them then!! (I kid, obviously).

Also, if you search for "Dennis Linus fired" (or whatever) you can find the videos of Linus sitting there explaining (in my opinion, gaslighting) about how he's the victim and how "bad" Dennis was for messing it up... I personally think it's over dramatic given the circumstances, but of course, people should watch for themselves. 👍

​@@grimslade0 So....found the clip. He did not fire Dennis. He even then made a video fighting him on Channel super fun. He also did used them to move furniture. Context was - the channel super fun wanted to make a prank on Linus in his new home. Then his wife gave them permission to paint a wall, but they moved the bed damaging the floor in the process. He was mad, cause he did not know it was happening but he did not fire, bor used them to move the furniture for him.

Oh and the clip from WAN show is called "This is probably the angriest I’ve ever been at an employee…"

I think the big server changes are purely for content. A lot of people stick around for the server content and they get tons of views every time they mess with it.

@@user-sg1lq8qx7gI got one always loved the server videos lol I am hoping they are able to redeem themselves because I don’t think Steve brought all this to life with the sole purpose of ending LTT.

@@user-sg1lq8qx7g That’s a valid point and I’m sure to a degree it’ll be a bit of fun playing with new kit all the time. But arguably, their audience will be full of aspiring IT workers who may pick up bad ideas from them. I’ve always liked the channels but classed them as entertainment rather than factual

Their server guy is Jake who is like 23 and has never had any other job aside from LTT lol

I mean if yea no controversy around the screwdriver if you ignore all the complaints about the egregious price for something you could get in the same quality at almost any hardware store (I bought a black edition LTT screwdriver).

@@noahwithana4149I suppose you must expect a markup for the brand. Is it any better than what you’d find in a hardware store?

@@maxrburgess I still prefer to use a set of regular screwdrivers more. But it does look cool lol. Just wish I'd realized that I'd be paying for a cool looking toy before buying it, not sure that would've stopped me but I'd be less salty. Turns out I'm just not that big a fan of ratcheting screwdrivers in general.

I think with stuff like the screwdriver like any enthusiast niche there’s people who want to pay top dollar that others might only perceive to have little or no improvement. I’m a huge tool nerd and use them everyday in my job. There are brands that charge well over twice what Ltt are selling their ratcheting screwdrivers, that didn’t perform as well as the ltt screwdriver in some really comprehensive testing. There’s definitely a market for what appears to be egregiously priced tools. I was waiting for the stubby to come out so I could buy both sizes together. I’m rethinking it now after this weeks debacle.

Up until 5 or so years they were kinda good and unbiased, after that? Total clowns

The fat bald one is a woman now, if that helps.

Especially after the data loss incidents

Their servers were about as secure as public local restaurant wifi. @@TheKeirsunishi

I am watching on a crappy phone with a very small, low resolution screen, what is he holding?

​@@silviocupica2521he's holding a LTT water bottle and a tweet talking about the benefits of interracial dating lol

@@WhoLover a slav and an Indian Woman? Does that seem wrong

@@WhoLover But is there anything wrong with interracial? that's how literally how latin america exists

​@@lilythebluespheresfan2897You are not making a good argument for race mixing.

(Formerly Shrek)

LMAO

*Realized theres several edits to that image, but one of the edits has techfiona(Formerly Shrek) and two other people behind steve, shits hilarious.

He fell off back in 2019.

Yeah he started lose in terms of quality, I mean he had some great tech tips, then he fell off, quite frankly oh how the highest have fallen....

I can't take his thumbnails seriously

Dude's a mini musk. Narcissist douche, like he's surrounded by guys to make it work for him. He can dish but cant take it.

It was the evil beard that made him that way 😂😂😂😂 sorta like Michael's knights evil twin... 😂

Trucker protests were a Fox News psy-op. Hospitals and nursing homes had a masking at workplace policy too does that also make them woke?

He runs- or rather only owns (ostensibly) a cog of a global industry, what do you expect? His purpose is business as usual

More like masking up in place is about " Not paying enough & don't want to pay company insurance " . Yes, Linus ego & crony things are there. But hog on masking in a pandemic. Geez still going on about that loser Right wing trumpets level Brain copium.

I heard he even took the vaccine, dear lord

Thanks for the info, NordicKappa , with a lot of his takes and his image he tries to portray that's good information

I agree Unions are bad if you don’t like the job then leave. They ruined whole industries in the UK

Yeah his arguement may be valid for a something like a small neighborhood store where there are 8 employees or a family owned buisness but 110+ people is too hard to keep tract of everything even if we assume he is a good faith boss

I mean I agree that DeFranco would probably be hell to work for but he at least seems more professional than Linus *inhales more copium*. He's also got better videos.

You don’t think they clear 6-8m per year in revenue ? C’mon

@@yourt00bz I don’t have access to their books. Do you?

@@Fuckthis0341 you can calculate the average rate of videos per month and do a median income per video. Times that by 12. They also get sponsor money in the high 6figs , Canadian subsidies et. Etc