A corpo LinkedIn Indian had Linus on his podcast.
Linus desperately wanted to look cool, so he swore a lot, threw his phone across the table, and he also manspreaded like an r-slur throughout the video (but I think that's unrelated). This all came off as fake. Maybe it's because I've heard him say these exact things in exactly the same manner before on WAN Show, but there's also a dissonance between what the channel actually is and the way Linus talks about it.
Linus is delusional. He fucking compares himself to Steve Wozniak!
He mentions LABS, editorial freedom, and being critical in his reviews, even toward the brands that sponsor LTT. He presents sponsoring LTT as a badge of honor because LTT holds brands accountable! LTT isn't afraid to "criticize the hand that feeds them." LTT "speaks truth to power"! The sponsors that LTT does have are all from brands that aren't afraid to hear the brutal truth from Linus himself. They have "integrity" and take "accountability for the errors that they do make." If only Linus was more like his sponsors lol.
There's a dig at his "peers" (Gamers Nexus?):
And I think that an extremely dangerous space that some of my peers seem to have ended up in is believing that they are impervious to conflicts of interest.
He's then asked by the Indian, how he keeps the "quality" of his videos up, considering the quantity of videos LMG produces. To this, Linus responds with another dig at Gamers Nexus, of course he doesn't name-drop, but he does say that the criticism was malicious and "full of mistakes and false assumptions." Then he says that they have double-digit staff of writers writing for LTT alone, with two writers per each script reviewing and fact-checking it before the video goes live. They also have the amazing "ECC squad" who are responsible for community-based fact-checking. Yet despite all this, there are constant mistakes in his videos.
This is just from last month, where Linus didn't realize that the MacBook he was reviewing was in low-power mode, so he shat on it because it couldn't run Cyberpunk 2077 lmao.
Thankfully though, LMG does have complex and in-depth error handling procedures for mitigating mistakes in videos that have already been released. It's actually a
Google doc called "LMG Error Handling for Videos SOP." I do wonder what severity tier warrants
deleting critical posts from the subreddit? Hmm...
It is also revealed that they've got a lot of people are possibly quitting because LMG is a bureaucratic nightmare:
I mean, I can tell you that burnout on our team is way worse now that we have these, like, endless checks. [...] [
Dan] created a
flowchart of the process, start to finish, of creating and ideating an LTT video and pressing publish. And it was, I kid you not, like, like, like 10 pages long... with all the different departments and all the different checks that need to be done.
On why Linus started LTT LABS:
Someone has to do something about the enshittification of trying to buy stuff. Like listicles that are written by people or, realistically, AI bots that have never actually touched the product, right?
LABS articles are written by AI bots, but, to be fair, there are at least a humans involved somewhere in the process, because someone had to stick the keyboards into the ridiculous X-ray machines or whatever.
The second part of the podcast is Linus yapping about NCIX and how he started LTT. He also gives his honest thoughts about his fans. He thinks they're suckers:
Um, but most consumers are, quite frankly, not very discerning. And the only proof you need of that is back when we used to have a like-dislike ratio on YouTube. You know, you look at the like-dislike ratio on some of the most just totally unbelievable apology videos. It's like that ain't even good acting, bro. You know, and you'll have, you know, two-thirds of the community rallying around this, like, crocodile tears, like, fake ass apology and you look at it and you just kind of go, like, you realize it's a decision to cry on camera, right? You could do another take where you're not crying. Live stream, that's one thing. Yeah, you might like break down on a live stream, but when you record a take, put it on a timeline, cut it up, and export it, you made a decision to be crying, right? Um, and so, you know, I think that's something that just... people are just... they ain't that savvy.
BVSED socipath Linus