Any time I was about to make a big purchase on computer tech, I used to check to see if Linus Tech Tips had a review about it before purchasing. Nowadays I don't even bother since it seems like he's been out of touch for a while. Can anyone pinpoint when it all started going downhill for LTT and their reviews? I was excited when he showcased that he had spent millions in lab testing equipment to really put tech to the test, but then decided not to really use it in any videos. What was the point of spending millions in lab equipment to not end up using it in the end? Is it all just a tech grift for LTT Media Group now? Pop out as many videos as you can to slap a sponsor ad and drive off smaller youtubers by flooding the market with secondary slop channels? Is Linus Tech Tips out of touch? Who do you guys watch instead of LTT now?
>>109232316>Pop out as many videos as you can to slap a sponsor ad and drive off smaller youtubers by flooding the market with secondary slop channels?yes, theyre to big to spend significant time on a video, so its all surface level junk>Is Linus Tech Tips out of touch?yes, all talent left. they only have clueless zoomies nowWho do you guys watch instead of LTT now?only the WAN show.also linus is legitimately retarded when it comes to software, and its pretty annoying
>>109232316>watching hardware stuff on youtubei stopped doing that about a year agoreading websites like notebookcheck, techpowerup or gamer's nexus(website) is enough and most of the 'new' types of hardwares are gimmicks that i would feel decent consooming for like about an hour and that's it, no need to bother let alone buy>software stuffalso better reading stuffbesides security news or personal projects, nearly all of them are like 'which is better? gnome or kde?' and i dont want nor need to watch that shit
>>109232316I think they put up some of the diagnostics on their forum, but really the reason they don't make videos with all that diagnostic equipment is because1. They are now an entertainment channel2. They probably realized they would break some eggs with manufacturers whose sponsorships they want. Notice how any criticism is always followed by rationalizations. They were super proud during the covid cancel culture period for being tec, so they never got demonetized and nobody got cancelled, but shortly after people started leaving after 10 million subs, for toxicity etc, since then they changed to entertainment. There was this cute funny redhead who everyone screamed hire her (she won a computer), then she left after she was basically demoted. They had a fat troon who "came out" as a troon, the moment he did, he was immediately taken off any new video. If anyone does absolutely anything, they get taken off the camera forever. So I will watch from time to time due to some clickbait, but its pretty useless. I like them pushing Linux gaming.
>>109232316He's always been retarded. I assume people only ever watched it for mild entertainment. I don't know how he has any credibility left after his Linux fiasco
LTT is a low effort business to fund linus's real goal which is real estate investment, specifically commercial real estate now that he has the income to afford that.>the house they used to shoot in>the first warehouse they moved into>the creator warehouse/labs warehouse>the badminton center/gymlinus knows that all youtube channels fade into irrelevance eventually, he has actually had an excellent run by youtuber standards, but like all the others his channel will wind down one day. but this really won't be a problem for linus because he has hedged against this by purchasing tens of millions of dollars worth of commercial real estate in vancouver. keep this in mind the next time you wonder why his videos are such low effort trash for retards, it's because he doesn't care. the goal is not to make "good videos" it's to get retards watching slop and buying merch so he can push all the profits into his real estate portfolio. when he sells that influencer air plane after he's had his fun fucking zoomer ecelebs on it you can expect him to invent another retarded reason to buy an additional warehouse. people mocked him suggesting that the 100M offer he got for LTT was fake but he owns a lot of commercial real estate that he purchased outright. you nerds seethe about him not being as good of a tinker tranny as you but linus won.
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>>109232316>Any time I was about to make a big purchase on computer tech, I used to check to see if Linus Tech Tips had a review about it before purchasing.lying retard
>>109232390oh ya the jewish blood is crazy in this one
>>109232390Linus I need you to get back to posting paid advertisements thinly disguised as informational videos and low effort racemixing propaganda, you worthless subhuman.
Half of his videos are sponsored and the other half are videos of him buying or building stuff for himself, his family or stuff they needed to do anyway in the office. Making it all tax deductible and making a big profit of purchases and projects that are for personal use and/or gain (this includes his private jet). This guy makes bank not by informative reviews, but by using his channel as a tax haven to make his life even more luxurious, while his employees slave away.Deplorable.
>>109232316>What was the point of spending millions in lab equipment to not end up using it in the end?The idea was to automate testing as much as possible.So they get something like a power supply, plug it into the tester, and half an hour later the computer shits out a "review" of the unit to their website. Then they'd take like a minutes worth of video of the unit sitting on a table, add an AI voiceover reading the website article and they're done.Unfortunately it turns out that all this information is essentially useless. Anyone interested in how much ripple the 12v rail of a PC PSU has under a 50% load will also want information that can't be automated like who actually built the fucking thing and wire gauge of the cables.They also failed at reaching a casual audience. If you're googling random power supply models, you're unlikely to reach the LTT Labs website so nobody's gonna go there who isn't already sucking off Linus. Their Youtube channel is is doing even worse as PSU Circuit hasn't posted a video in six months and averages at under 6k views each.So instead of even trying to be a serious review channel, LTT is rebranding back into being purely for entertainment. Which also means all that highly expensive lab equipment and testing personnel are now basically useless. He'd probably have sold everything by now but there's not much of a market for used uncalibrated industrial test equipment.
>>109232316>What went wrong with Linus Tech Tips?The channel relied on PC Gaming and PCMR culture, now that PCs are outrageously expensive they had to broaden the type of content they make which opened them up for more scrutiny.Also the controversies don't help.People will at some point realize this about the other channels like gamer nexus too just far more in the future.
>>109232316>I used toYou grew up and became less stupid.
>>109232316hardware isn't for poors.
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>>109232316>What went wrong with Linus Tech Tips?That fat tranny. He was an eyesore to see on screen even before his mental illness was allowed to flourish.
>>109232316Why do these pseudo look at me mommy I am an investigative journalist edrama tubers all use the EXACT same thumbnails? Forget the China is over collages you can make one 20 times as big just with >ITS OGRE FOR LTT thumbnails. Fucking Christ.
>>109234576the fat tranny was a savant and getting rid of him just shows that linus cares more about palatable entertainment than quality information.
>>109234618The guy was a typical NES nostalgia troon. The only person with tech knowledge that's ever in LTT videos is Wendell and he doesn't even work for them.
>>109233015Yeah, my understanding is that affiliate links for any sort of consumer PC hardware is basically dead. Shit, even affiliate links for any other product, because people can't afford that crap right now.I have no idea WHY exactly affiliate marketing and sponsorships on youtube are still taking place. It feels more like institutional momentum than anything else, or perhaps a fear from these companies that if they don't keep doing it, some other competition will come in and do it. At the same time, the numbers just can't be playing to their favor in this market.
>>109232316Nothing went wrong. He was a sociopath the entire time. It just took awhile for normal IQ people to spot it.
>>109232316I still watch him before buying something but only as an extended advertisement. I only have a few keywords that if said I wouldn't buy the product.
>low effort clickbait youtube thumbnail with aislop image>low IQ post that proves the OP doesn't even watch what he decides to talk about>thread filled with the same kiwitroon unsubstantiated rumors and whinges as always>the /pol/tranny will inevitably come in and post the same copypasted images for the billionth time
>>109232316Another factor that people forget is that prices for computer parts are abysmal. Why the fuck would I want to watch a show about computer parts, get excited about computer parts and computers, and then realize that I can't even afford anything, notwithstanding some of his insane projects he made?>>109232378>They had a fat troon who "came out" as a troon, the moment he did, he was immediately taken off any new video. If anyone does absolutely anything, they get taken off the camera forever. So I will watch from time to time due to some clickbait, but its pretty useless.I remember that whole debacle. They gave him a platform to tell everybody about his struggles, and frankly, I just didn't give a fuck, and it showed me that they wanted to look progressive. Funny thing was he just looked a normal fat sysadmin linux wizard type, he could have just stayed that way.
>>109235236>t. fat wendell impersonator from LTT
Wasn't there a female LTT employee who got sexually molested at work and had male employees making weird sexual comments at her?
>>109235866Story was made up by her because she's clinically insane apparently.
>>109235866>>109235876I can't believe Emily would do something like that... BAKA
>>109232378>he was immediately taken off any new videoNah he was still in a few videos before he quit.
>>109232316It's a situation where now the rot is obvious but the signs were always there. For me the first signs were when in some WAN thing he said he doesn't support unions because he thinks "if people make unions in his business that means he's doing a bad job", and then there was the whole "adblocking is piracy" shit. Also that whole interracial eugenics thing was cringe.
I don't watch him anymore but one of his videos appeared on my feed and it had like 1.3M views. I think he'll be fine for a little while longer. He hasn't needed to come up with his own video ideas for years now. What actually surprises me is that people watch WAN show. The entire thing is just Linus talking about himself or his latest "struggles".
>>109234618>savantAre we for real right now?
>>109237191>his face is a circlelmao
like most things, it was cool when he was starting out and hungry. But once he got established, he just shekelmaxxed and all the soul went away.
He's always been a queer influencer all I needed was one look at his earring and I knew he was a faggot. The fat an ugly youtubers are the people I tend to trust more because they tend to be autisticly obsessive when it comes to tech.
The only source you should trust.
>>109232390Land has been the only worth while investment since the beginning of time. Every church (including masons) knows this. Gates knows it, Musk etc.
What went right? He's a Canadian eceleb married to a chink.
Linus is the problem. He's out of touch. He's had to give up a lot of control and all he cares about is selling merch. LTT ads are all over the internet if you go into tech sites and don't block ads. He's got a big cult of followers but zoomers don't have money to buy his shit. Nobody knows what the LTT main channel is even for anymore besides shilling LTT merch.
Gamers Nexus fucked him in the ass and he hasn't recovered since. He never will.
>>109232316>spent millions in lab testing equipmentI have set up automated testing for PSUs at work (manufacturer of industreal PSUs). What he is doing is below amateur hour. I don't know how it's possible to spend so much for basically nothing. Eihter he is lying about prices or just stupid. Also, non of his "engineers" seem to have any experience at all. Maybe get someone who knows how to do things instead of just buying useless equipment. It just hurts to watch his "lab" stuff.t. 10+ years of electronics designe and testing
>>109238323did you ever see PSU Circuit the automated AI channel made to create reviews of all PSUs that come out?It got shitcanned after Linus found out none of it was automated, in fact 1 guy was making every single video by himself and he had a spend a bunch of time fixing all the shit the AI got wrong lol
>>109232316I stopped watching when he made the video about setting up satellite internet in his parents 3-story lakeside wilderness cabin. What a useful tech tip, Linus!
>>109238277Kinda crazy, the failure of his channel(if you can call it that pretty sure he still pulls views just everyone hates him now) is entirely on him alone at this point. All he would have had to do was slow down, give his team more freedom, maybe take advice from them, take a pay cut and hire an extra 1 or 2 people and it could have just worked in perpetuity forever. Youtube shills him so hard it's unreal, I don't think he could fail at all they way they shill him. The only other channel I have ever seen that gets shilled as hard as him is lex friedman. The type of shilling where you can be watching a cooking video and a video about yoga or the stock market and youtube will just re-enable auto play on you and boom the lex friedman video which was auto cued up for you is now playing and now top priority in your personal recommendations now Linus had lex Friedman level astroturfing from youtube and I'm pretty sure that guy works for the CIA. I fI even clik on one of his vids by accident my entire acc is fucked and all his 15 channels will just be everywhere all the time for weeks, I had to install blocktube literally for him and lex it got so bad kek.
>>109238342No, I did not watch much besides the labs videos. Didn't really know the channel before, watched for a while and lost interest. So you worked there? Did you ever have another job to compare it to? Is there actually anything behind the testing or is it just for show?
>>109232316i fell for his Asus gaymer phone review, well, not the one he reviewed, i kept an eye on them and waited for their 5th gen at the time to release.Overpriced and "high spec", really the best thing about it was the dual-battery, which is also its achilles heel as it makes the screen more vulnerable to impacts. Asus only let their own repairguys touch asus phones, and there was only 1 repairman in the entire country, i got fucked soo bad.Never watched linus much after that, he shilled the phone shamelessly and never covered a single one of the many issues with it, overly frail design, bad ballast, extremely frail screen, can't find decent phone cases, replacement parts rare and expensive, etc.Gamers Nexus are the polar opposites, extremely critical of often irrelevant shit that doesn't matter, but at least you know exactly what you're in for if you buy a product they reviewed. I got my antec flux pro because of their review them, quite nice once i modded the mesh with an extra layer of pvc dust filters.
>>109236792>What actually surprises me is that people watch WAN show. The entire thing is just Linus talking about himself or his latest "struggles".its an entirely parasocial show, the only people that watch it are paypigs and haters.
>>109232316Buy an ad Linus
>>109238342>PSU CircuitWatched some now. The information is in the perfect sweetspot where it is too complex for normal people to understand, but too high level to be intesting and go beyond the normal datasheet. And I hate the AI voice.It's a schame. It would be cool to make this kind of testlab content more mainstream
>>109232316idk when, but he got too big for his britches. All YouTubers do it. I see it all the time with "car guys". They get jew money and start making new friends in the upper class, think they're too good for the people they worked with that got them there, and start to despise their plebian viewers. These type of "artists" (if you can call them that) have very fragile egos and while they could ignore 5% of the comments on YT being negative, when you hit 1M+ subscribers that ends up being a lot of people calling you a faggot within the first 10 minutes of a video release. Their content gets increasingly out of touch with their viewership and then they stop or make half-hearted algorithmslop (LTT: You Are Here).
>>109232354You nailed it.
>>109238323Sure, and moot is the queen of england.
>>109235866Nope, the story went somewhat like this:>ltt does competition where the viewer who wins gets a job there>crazy chick wins (probably just because she was cute)>after she starts clocking in they quickly realize that she's a insane bitch>they reduce her on-screen appearances to the bare minimum and wait for her contract to run out>crazy chick has a meltdown and accuses random employees of harassing her without proof the moment she left
>>109239962crazy chick was like maxed outits not like cute anymore
>>109237952Trust in Jesus!
>>109232316Buy an add nigger. I don't care some slop YouTuber made a video on the other slop YouTuber you used to watch.
>>109232316>What went wrong?Nothing was ever right in the first place. He's retarded, and his viewers are even worse.>Any time I was about to make a big purchase I used to check Linus Tech TipsYou should have killed yourself instead.>Nowadays I don't even botherGood.>Can anyone pinpoint when it all started going downhill?The moment he was born.>I was excited when he showcased that he had spent millionsRetarded slop addict.>Is it all just a tech grift for LTTAlways has been.>Pop out as many videos as you can to slap a sponsor adHas been his goal since day one.>Who do you guys watch?Literally no one. I make informed decisions based on direct experience and independent synthesis through self-guided, unfiltered research.
>>109232316I don't care about the money, I just want justice for Madison.
>>109240869>Any time I was about to make a big purchase I used to check Linus Tech TipsThis, that's so fucking scary that people purchase shit based on what tech tubers (paid) recommend, it's no wonder Nvidia Kepler cards sold more than GCN even though it was inferior, it's because of YouTubers, look how much damage control JayzTwoCents was running when the 970 was found out to only have 3.5GB of VRAM and they fucking lied about the specs of the card.
>>109240880that was ten years ago anonhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvpOi2KgU54
>>109240880she randomly appeared on a jonathan horst video recentlyhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JYJoETDh4ZU
>>109241806How is there a whole cinematic universe of youtubers out there that all hate him and will never work with him again lol
>>109232316>What went wrong with Linus Tech Tips?They haven't shown me Luke's penis, that's what has gone wrong.
>>109237952I can’t handle his nasally ass voice and his coverage of Intel’s Raptor Lake problems was pretty ridiculous.
>>109240919>normies make purchases based on what they're toldNot surprising, they're all too retarded to do the thinking on their own when buying anything so they rely on shit like ads and jewtubers to do it for them.
>>109232316>What went wrong with Linus Tech Tips?
>>109232316He's a baizuo salesman.
>>109232316the worst thing about him is, he already made so much money, that he'll never live in the poverty he deserves. Unless he goes to prison, which I would celebrate.FUUUCK that guy
>>109243608You hate a dude for being an annoying loud liar making thinly veiled tech videos and shitty merch? I don't like him but that just seems excessive.
