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

[neger psykolog]

This does feel pretty likely to me. While I have a very dim outlook for LTT's financials, I doubt they're in complete fiscal freefall yet, we'd see more flailing and projects if that was the case. Stagnancy seems more appropriate. And these talents are burning themselves out to keep stagnant afloat, while Linus fucks off on passion projects and investments one after another. While having his staff work on his home is incredibly meme worthy, it really is incredibly demoralizing that he's out there building extra businesses, buying mcmansions and sports cars, and doing all the things he wants. Meanwhile, he's forbidding his staff from starting their own side ventures and gigs, expecting them to crunch on deadlines for work items they probably don't even have much passion for, and demanding they do the modelling for his merch line and other such things rather than hiring actual models.

Stagnancy is the right word and he and the business simply have no real future prospects. If I were an investor LTT is the last thing I'd throw money into because there's a sea of competitors.

I do think his labs idea was fairly good but he really failed to compartmentalize it and execute it well, if he had it actually could've mattered or he could've partnered with Amazon or Newegg or a big player.

The YouTube/influencer and even "internet website/brand/company" space is infinitely crowded right now and although LTT had a good run the idea a channel like this can continue to exist or even grow off the back of increasingly reductive reviews of products they don't make simply doesn't exist.

I do think there's still space for people chasing the dragon and media catering to them, the actual prosumer space (Freelancers, artists, AI enthusiasts who actually run models etc) are still pushing the capabilities of hardware and want more, but they also can't just take number bigger for granted and actually have to plan competent builds. None of those kinds of people are gonna be using LTT as an information source, they're investing serious money into their builds and very likely have actual returns they expect out of it, so they're going to be looking for serious sources rather than reviews-as-entertainment. A freelance 3d artist who's building a new box to use as a renderfarm is going to be looking for hard performance metrics like blender render tests, not "Does this canadian faggot think he can see a difference in Anno 1800".

This is also true and anything that does cater to them will simply move so slow and be so outdated due to the size of his team that he will be outpaced and outmatched by a single person who is a boundary pusher in whatever space (whether it is cameras,, AI models or whatever) and those creators will just outsource the editing part and make their own footage.
If you compare that to LTT's business model which has 100 cameramen and 100 editors it moves glacially slow.

----

What I'm saying is just reality as harsh and as gay and depressing as it may be. I don't really want to grave dance on him because his channel made some alright videos for a while. The people leaving may seem like they're going to greener pastures but if they're creating YouTube channels or becoming solo influencers then they're entering the same extremely unstable realm of people like DarksydePhil - for sure LTT wasn't offering the best salaries but at the same time Linus was taking the brunt of the risk and (presumably) reliably paying people and paying for their equipment as well as staff to do various parts of the production line.

When it comes to people like that one bald review faggot who I hated and marques brownlee or whatever his name is or ijustine, none of those people feel relevant anymore in today's world (for better or worse). It's simply that its really hard to innovate when tech has already been pushed to the boundary and is so inescapable that people have become tired of it. The best example of that was the attempts at doing hardware AI devices that the market simply had no appetite for because it was basically just smartphones being repackaged.

I think even actually attractive ethots and aspiring pornstars are struggling for likes right now and anyone with any sense is probably trying to run back to the world of stable, decently paying jobs rather than chasing internet stardom dreams anymore.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

This is also true and anything that does cater to them will simply move so slow and be so outdated due to the size of his team that he will be outpaced and outmatched by a single person who is a boundary pusher in whatever space (whether it is cameras,, AI models or whatever)

Which we're already observing in practice, with Gamers Nexus, Level1Techs, etc. Single-digit teams are already beating out the massive headcount businesses. The only thing LTT has that justifies a fragment of its headcount is creator warehouse, because that work is very much a "more hands better" space, up to a much higher limit anyway.

I think even actually attractive ethots and aspiring pornstars are struggling for likes right now

I think we're seeing the long tail of the same behavior train of investment fatigue that Gacha games are struggling with right now, applied to all the "creator" style spaces. We've spent the last ten years of the internet figuring out how to absolutely min/max a persons financial and emotional investment in the system. What we're discovering is that the harder they're invested at the peak, the farther away they go at the trough, and now people are rebounding out of these spaces so hard that they're just straight up not coming back. People who ended up scheduling their fucking meals around LTT slop videos end up bouncing out when he pulls a trust me bro, hard enough that they're not even interested in watching any computer creator when they eat, at all. Just leaves a bad taste in their mouth now.

Same thing applies to ethots playing on peoples hearts only to have a boyfriend, or porn turning into an unsatisfying sad wank in the corner, or any other thing. We've turned all these casual hobbies and vices into fucking lifestyles, and now when people fall out of them, they're not just picking up a new hobby, but basically are forced to restructure their entire world.

The addictions are deeper than ever, don't get me wrong, but now the bounce out for the ones who escape is more or less permanent.

 

[GosuGopher]

I think we're seeing the long tail of the same behavior train

Patreon/subscription numbers are my bellwether for this more broadly, the pool of money turned out to be more elastic than I'd initially conjectured and A LOT of grifters were able to get their bag, but the last 1-2 years have seen a pronounced bleed of passive donators across the entire Internet. And while I don't think there exists public/concrete trend data, anecdotally the observations shared with me have been it's the accounts backing 10+, 20+ different people that are cutting back most.

When you go to reduce your spending and weigh the benefits of any of these grifts individually, you realize that you might as well cut them all out completely, in-line with what you said regarding this investment 180°. Probably also doesn't help that Patreon has largely moved to a FOMO model and have even added ways for creators to DM you directly asking why you canceled to try to win you back. They've made the friction so much higher that you're honestly better off treating it as all-or-nothing.

 

[Dr.0]

You can have fully local smart homes that work perfectly on the milisecond level, with local AI voice assistants and whatever you want. This is easy, go to home assistant's site, follow some middle school grade instructions, boom done

But Linus is retarded. He has no idea what he's doing, he's buying proprietary tech that's slow and not local-first, and he does 0 research into anything other than surface level. MY MONKEY EMPLOYEE DO RESEARCH FOR ME
research is done like shit
WOW WHY IS MY HOUSE SHIT??

Edit: wait does alex no longe work at lmg?
Elijah was fired too?

Hell, a home assistant even has a pre-downloadable hypervisor! It's literally got configurations for just about anybody. Linus is just obsessed with shoving as much chineseium in his McMansion as he can. I used to look up to this fagot back when I was in high school before I got my comp Tia's and knew basic shit. Now that I've learned quite a bit I can see he's just a soulless fucking fagot leaf

 

[0gh]

Hell, a home assistant even has a pre-downloadable hypervisor! It's literally got configurations for just about anybody. Linus is just obsessed with shoving as much chineseium in his McMansion as he can. I used to look up to this fagot back when I was in high school before I got my comp Tia's and knew basic shit. Now that I've learned quite a bit I can see he's just a soulless fucking fagot leaf

Chinesium is not that bad, most of my stuff is chinese, but it's fully local and works wonders. You can even put your own microcontroller to fully take over the device by following a youtube video. It's so easy nowadays you don't need to know what a microcontroller even is!

I have a chinesium xiaomi door sensor that I have never changed the battery to in my life, I got it YEARS ago. Never failed to update the door state.

Well to be fair xiaomi is the samsung of china, but I have nonames too from pet food dispensers to light switches/bulbs/etc

This really is just Linus being retarded and making the worst choices possible

 

[kes8]

You can get vastly different quality from Chinese products. So while it is possible to get some decent quality ones. Its far easier to get junk. Since linus does no research and just wings everything it ends up as such.

 

[TheRaptorJesus]

You can get vastly different quality from Chinese products. So while it is possible to get some decent quality ones. Its far easier to get junk. Since linus does no research and just wings everything it ends up as such.

The problem with chinese products is consistency. You buy something that works good, but a months later they start cheapening out and making it shit after they gained trust.

 

[p1138]

The problem with chinese products is consistency. You buy something that works good, but a months later they start cheapening out and making it shit after they gained trust.

Hell, sometimes you can't even be sure if you're buying the chinesium product from the right vendor.

Find a good working product, cool. 6 months later recommend it to someone else and they try buying the same make/model it could end up being made by some other factory because they'll rip eachother off when they aren't ripping off every other company out there.

 

[mandatorylurk]

They're back to doing ROG rig reboots:

Guy is legit simp, and his hair is weird, it's long but at the same time balding, come on guy. To show how much Linus is checking out he has Elijah carry some of the build and video just because Linus had other more important stuff to do like buy more Chyna products.

 

[mandatorylurk]

New Scrapyard Wars, but just 24 hours in and that view count is weak:

 

[John Ligma]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=t4VGjolTSnY
New Scrapyard Wars, but just 24 hours in and that view count is weak:

Ver archivo adjunto 7771278

Wow this is performing extremely poorly. WAN show performs better than this and costs probably 1/10th to make. Most of their normal videos do 2x this or more in the same amount of time and Scrapyard Wars costs a lot of time, money and planning to execute. I can't imagine Linus is happy with this. Only 600k in 24 hours is terrible for LTT, much more for such an expensive series.

EDIT: I just realized I haven't watched an LTT video in over a month now, maybe longer, outside of WAN show. I watch YouTube all day, every day as second screen material when I'm working and even with that I have absolutely no desire to see what they're making anymore. I've been watching since 2017, the falloff is crazy and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

So next WAN show is gonna have a segment on the algorithm changing and how its hurting creators, I'd bet. While ignoring that its always shifting, and that if anything it seems to be starting to favor longer form content again rather than punishing it.

 

[neger psykolog]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=t4VGjolTSnY
New Scrapyard Wars, but just 24 hours in and that view count is weak:

Ver archivo adjunto 7771278

Scrapyard wars in 2017 had both ifixit and quickbooks as sponsors, they only have a sponsor at the end of this video. I'm confused because the 2015 scrapyard wars seems to have no sponsors - but then again they probably made serious fucking bank from YouTube ads back in those days (which was still the time people like DSP were still making tons of YouTube ad money I think)

As much as I would like to point and laugh its pretty sad how many businesses both online and offline are dying off in the post-COVID world. The same business environment that makes LTT untenable also makes thousands of other businesses untenable and as bad as Linus' management style may be what replaces the LTT style of show will just end up being globohomo reviews from Amazon or whatever website they buy next and then kill off.

 

[El Chacal De La Trompeta]

Nah there will be always some nerd like Daniel Owen with a Green screen or tech Jesus and those faggots who always shit on AMD for some reason if you want mlre production. Ltt Is a monster who actually hurt the tech media space imo

 

[Canard]

New Scrapyard Wars, but just 24 hours in and that view count is weak:

Ver archivo adjunto 7771278

They really can't get even 10% of their subs to view something that should be their "premium" classic series? That is just sad and tells that subs are a poor metric for old channels.

 

[Kuritan Deplorable]

That is just sad and tells that subs are a poor metric for old channels.

Subs is a great indicator of conversion and growth trends, but a terrible indicator for current size. All sub growth should be taken in context of gained views, to see how many of these people express interest in sticking around, as opposed to transient viewers just binging the backlog for background noise.

Scrapyard wars in 2017 had both ifixit and quickbooks as sponsors, they only have a sponsor at the end of this video.

Its also a bit weird that its a completely irrelevant, filler sponsor. Rocket Money is one of those bottom barrel, will sponsor anyone but won't pay particularly well. While LTT's sheer size probably still got them a fairly decent payout, its really weird that they didn't have anyone more relevant at all to step in. You'd think the "Triumphant return of a fan favorite" would be something they could drum up some interest in.

 

[gouffan]

Of the last 5 videos, only one has hit over 1 million.
Whatever algo change happened, it fucked them hard, last time it was this bad is when GN exposed them

 

[Dfackt0]

Of the last 5 videos, only one has hit over 1 million.
Whatever algo change happened, it fucked them hard, last time it was this bad is when GN exposed them

Nay, if anything the current algorithm is more favorable to them, its just a classic case of quality rot, people will leave if they aren't getting what they routinely expect in an LTT video

I've been watching since 2017, the falloff is crazy and I'm sure I'm not the only one.

You are correct, 2013, its been a long, painful road, and the decline has only gotten steeper in recent years
The end of this genre of content creation is creeping in the background, and its only a matter of time before its front and center

 

[Ottowarrior]

This scrapyard wars is great to summarize the entire channel. While they spent entire budget on how the room looks (half of the budget goes to display) For the gaming pc they are using shitty minipc and instead renting the actual hardware and the games .The entire series started as "how to build pc with scraps for long term solution" in the first place

 

[U+200B]

I'm not even 10 minutes in an this SW feels like it's a disguised research to gauge the interest for pod-apartments and little to no ownership over anything.