The Fall of Linus Tech Tips

[@MentalOutlaw]

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[@gehenna14]

hi

[@tflsh]

is that the crux logo?

[@handleneeds3charactersormore]

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

[@Margen67]

Penguins need HUGS

[@microsoftpain]

nice shirt 🙏

[@rossmanngroup]

I think the waterblock and the bad benchmarks are a red herring. The inability to take responsibility or accountability without constant deflecting and reversing is the underlying issue!

[@ivanbogush]

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).

[@chell6022]

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.

[@hrr597]

Ayo it's my nigga Louis

[@knghtbrd]

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.

[@AnthonyBolognese710]

Man you’re everywhere.

[@Hiro101]

Real tragedy. Guy ruined his reputation just because he didn't want it invest in a little bit more quality control. Real sad. Keep it up Deepfake Drake

[@Yeezus2K]

That’s Rake bro 💀

[@zrdtc]

was looking for this comment

[@JohnPaulBuce]

whats with that last sentence 💀💀💀

[@Big_D39]

What a zinger 💀💀

[@Alfred-Neuman]

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...

[@janetjane4861]

The waterblock debacle is worse than you mentioned here: Linus COULDN'T be bothered to test it according to company instructions and used mismatched card, the waterblock obviously failed, then Linus completely trashed it and called it bad product and then defended this opinion by implying the company is bad for even trying to make clearly enthusiast grade expensive edge-case hardware for those who want it, because "it's bad for consumers". And then he sold it off instead of returning it. Also, Mister 100 Million dollars claimed that spending 200-500 bucks to test it properly is a waste.

[@peckservers]

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.

[@janetjane4861]

@@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.

[@imblackmagic1209]

@@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

[@peckservers]

@@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.

[@peckservers]

@@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.

[@cariyaputta]

They called people who use adblock thieves, then getting exposed as the biggest thieves. What an irony.

[@andreamitchell4758]

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

[@tom12323456]

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.

[@sipp884]

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.

[@andreamitchell4758]

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

[@spawnofthedead4556]

@@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.

[@yag5794]

Just to add - the Billet waterblock was given to Linus attached to the graphics card it was designed for. LMG willfully removed the waterblock from this GPU, put it on a 4090 which it then did not fit as well due to design tolerances, and then ran the review - and then auctioned it. Last I heard, Billet had not recieved their graphics card back and there was no mention of this as most of the focus was on their waterblock. Imagine if I took the prototype heatsink made by two people off a Ryzen 5 series processor and put it onto an i7-13900k, then complained about the performance, auctioned it off to potentially a competitor, and then only really card about getting it back and returning it (just the waterblock, not the cpu it came with) after the company complained. Oh, and all this after having the prototype for 9 weeks before even bothering to review it - that's basically what LMG did to this two person startup company. He should know better and have more empathy.

[@rockytom5889]

Screw empathy, that's a contract breach.

[@peckservers]

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.

[@schwingedeshaehers]

​@@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

[@peckservers]

@@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.

[@schwingedeshaehers]

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

[@oneshotstudio]

Changing the background behind the deepfake of Drake is a nice touch and makes things more convincing

[@handleneeds3charactersormore]

Drake 💀💀💀 You're wronging him bro 😭😭

[@Ralphunreal]

lol, jason tatum

[@arcwiz]

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

[@megatronskneecap]

LOLLLL@@handleneeds3charactersormore

[@MisterNear]

Drake at home.

[@jonathanbuck2564]

This was going to happen eventually. I get the sense that all their employees are just redditors lmao

[@handleneeds3charactersormore]

Predditors*

[@megatronskneecap]

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

[@HaveanOreshnik]

Somebody play Viva La Vida by ColdPlay

[@presidentirinavladimirovna7054]

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

[@JordanPlayz158]

​@@megatronskneecap*mastadon ?

[@WhiskeyPatriot]

Maybe he should have been cleaning chicken coops instead, really humbles a man.

[@HaveanOreshnik]

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

[@Hypnotically_Caucasian]

There does indeed exist a tech guy to farmer pipeline

[@AttacMage]

​@@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.

[@DanWalshTV]

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

[@TiroDvD]

@@HaveanOreshnik Who is ML?

[@Ironclad17]

For me the cracks started to show around 2017 when Linus admitted on the podcast they delayed releasing a video on Vega gpus for months to let the drivers mature just to protect AMD. That wasn't in the audience interest or consumer advocacy. That was protecting a multibillion dollar company and LMGs industry connections.

[@kosmas173]

Wow, I didn't know that

[@Parv_Not_Perv]

Interesting

[@andrewhooper7603]

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

[@TheCarpenterUnion]

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

[@StrikeWarlock]

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...

[@WellytonNandi]

Less than a year and LTT has gone full circle back to poor quality control

[@saltyjordy]

At this point LTT has become a product advertisement channel. The problem with this is, they have a clear bias for many of their sponsors. The cherry on top of their downfall is their inconsistent data.

[@sophiacristina]

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

[@interstellarsurfer]

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

[@robinspanier7017]

advertisement channel = no watch, no trust

[@fish3977]

​@@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

[@sophiacristina]

@@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.

[@keithmichael112]

this could have been handled well and turned into nothing, they did everything wrong

[@megatronskneecap]

Agree, agreed and agreeing.

[@venykrid]

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

[@duduza1]

You mean Linus Sebastian did everything wrong

[@okjoz]

@@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.

[@oz_jones]

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

[@xHyperElectric]

Linus just stepped down from CEO 6 weeks ago. He still owns 100% of the company (Technically he owns 51% and his wife owns 49%) so even if the new CEO tried to push him out he could fire the new CEO and reinstate himself

[@romevang]

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.

[@FoverosInsanity]

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

[@cowthedestroyer]

Despite only being in 13% of videos

[@xHyperElectric]

@@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

[@xHyperElectric]

@@chasedooley6237 you’re so wrong

[@walrider]

Linus saying to his viewers to hold companies accountable but never assuming any responsibility really shows what kind of person he is. Even his colleague Luke, on the WAN show, had disagreements with him when he was trying to shift the blame for this situation and for the one with the backpack that had no warranty.

[@chillcopyrightfreemusic]

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

[@richardmaccagni8690]

I want to download the image at 3:52 as my new wallpaper: Tech Jesus expelling the merchants and the money changers from the temple, you can also see Linus holding one of his water bottles which is such a perfect detail to include in the picture,10/10

[@stevekullens4898]

You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain.

[@megatronskneecap]

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.

[@HaveanOreshnik]

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

[@HaveanOreshnik]

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

[@fal1026]

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

[@Haywood.Yablomee]

@@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.

[@floppa9415]

The whole Linus Empire has gone down the shitter for years and its wild for me it took people this long to take notice. Its been either crazy over the top PC builds or very surface level reviews. Especially their phone reviews (something I am quite passionate about) are a joke.

[@Tonatsi]

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

[@TheRibbonRed]

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

[@thomasdtrain]

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

[@gachivalantine3792]

@Sh1ft3r1 Literally LTT mindset

[@nickbrowning3270]

Recommend phone pls

[@MarlowPreston]

6:28 It's worse than that, he didn't even test it properly, because it would have cost 500$ to actually use the GPU it was intended for, that Billit also sent and conveniently had go missing, and LTT didn't have a replacement in time for the shoot. Same with the Pwnage Mouse situation, where their professional reviewer didn't remove the plastic cover on the feet before complaining about how rough it is to use.

[@YesHumphreyAppleby]

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.

[@nojuanatall3281]

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

[@73delgado]

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.

[@MarlowPreston]

@@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.

[@walrider]

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.

[@matthias6933]

My biggest redflag were the Gaming on Linux videos where for inexplicable reasons the package manager was suggesting to remove XServer and after executing the removal the video spent several minutes complaining how this is unacceptable this, Linux is bad for users that. It was content equivalent of letting a monkey sit at a Windows machine and let it delete System32

[@WillMoon]

Well the whole "sell the product you get sent for review" thing happens in other industries too. I sent CutleryLover (big knife channel) a free custom made pocket knife that I made that retailed for $750, he didn't even review it, then sold it to "fund his channel" rather than sending it back to a small one-man business. I think that's scummy, considering the size of his channel.

[@kinnikuzero]

I always had a yukky gut feeling towards that guy

[@dakota9821]

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.

[@robqwert2696]

You are a dumbass who thinks youtubers will give a damn about your business. Hope u learned

[@PartyhatRS]

You're the one who sent it to them for free expecting them to do something with it. I have no use for a knife, no matter how expensive, and would absolutely sell something like that due to financial issues.

[@stefankyriacou7151]

It's worth noting, the new CEO literally only stepped in, in the last couple of months; and (probably more importantly), the sexual harassment allegations aren't against Linus himself, they're against unnamed employees in the company (not that, that makes it okay, but it is quite different).

[@Hypnotically_Caucasian]

Shreksual Harassment is my middle name

[@interpol007]

@@Hypnotically_Caucasianlies, it’s underscore

[@sampletext9426]

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

[@Gojoe107]

That's interesting info, thank you for sharing!

[@user-og6hl6lv7p]

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

[@jamesmackinnon6108]

Linus tech tips has fallen, billions must break linux

[@HaveanOreshnik]

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

[@borealisaristocles4825]

Nexus Gamers has raise, billion must switch to BSD

[@IronArmPanda]

@@HaveanOreshnik 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.

[@wqiojekpldlknbwjklopiwojaslKZ]

gem

[@jasonstrange4196]

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.

[@TuriGamer]

Linus isnt the ceo anymore but him and his wife own the entire company Hes the face and name of the whole brand if he goes down the company does too

[@HaveanOreshnik]

Minus Linus brought it on himself tbh

[@TayloredKC]

It sucks that Best Buy did not give their sales associates the ability to read fact or data sheets about the products instead of relying on KZbin videos.

[@one_million_hamsters]

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."

[@arcwiz]

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.

[@ronaldlebeck9577]

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

[@alloounou6900]

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

[@colin0516]

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

[@michaelm1]

Getting big is always a problem and is rarely handled well. I've seen this in FOSS too. When you have a hobby project for a few people, everything can work nicely. When such project grows monstrously big such as LTT, you have to deal with serious issues including people's growing expectations, enemies you'll undoubtedly make, parasites wanting to abuse you for their benefit and competition. Worst of all, with size comes power and power corrupts. People grow narcissistic to the point of malignancy, get delusions of grandeur, lose the ability to self-reflect, learn to take shortcuts instead of doing the work and things start to fall apart fast.

[@Misterjtbgaming]

Little Leopards become big leopards and big leopards kill

[@loucipher7782]

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

[@theguywhoasked0.0]

damn Mental outlaw is using AI to made this dude in the video

[@ChuckThree]

Even comes with Civil War General facial hair expansion pack

[@m_t_t_]

AI Drake

[@marlenamertens1326]

What software is he using

[@m_t_t_]

@@marlenamertens1326 not sure but it’s open source

[@memerified]

8

[@thetrivialone]

Several mistakes here; *Linus was the CEO until about 6 weeks ago. *Linus and his wife Yevonne are co-owners of the business... So no matter what. They are still in charge. *The sexual assault allegations are not against Linus himself (but other "management"). I'm no fan of Linus, but let's try to keep things as factual as possible...

[@seditiouswalrus]

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

[@derpysean1072]

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.

[@peckservers]

@@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

[@thechadbuddha]

bernie sanders, contrapoints, philosophytroon. nice try stalin

[@andrewhooper7603]

@@thechadbuddha It's trying to communicate 🤗

[@noobsaibot2255]

"men live in rooms like this and dont see any issue"

[@handleneeds3charactersormore]

Women suffer from hoarder behavior and explode if you mention it

[@ChaosAtlantis33]

​@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

[@ChaceBonanno]

Linus fans are those types of techies. They have horrible opsec and know nothing about cyber security but love tech and nerd out about it.

[@hevityaus631]

[Sorry.This comment was already auctioned by LTT Group.]

[@da_roachdogjr]

If you pay attention how he talks to his co-workers and how they respond, immediately you notice they're not 100% comfortable around him. I told that to my friend who likes to watch LTT months ago and he started paying more attention to that and he agreed, he must be a colossal asshole behind the scenes. Now all this comes out and we're not surprised at all.

[@maxrburgess]

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

[@sigilhunter3199]

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.

[@BooleanDev]

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

[@peckservers]

​@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.

[@peckservers]

@RAM_845 Yeah that's a fair take, I agree. Most of the things Linus says come from a good place in his heart, but from a PR sense don't work well. Luke (usually listening as Linus talks) will be able to pick up on these where as Linus it talking and cant really analyze the effect of what he is saying as well, whether good or bad. When I talk to co workers they do the same thing, and when they talk I do as well. Its part of expressing emotion when communicating. It still shouldn't be attributed to malice like people are trying to do. I particularly love wan show because it allows Linus to talk openly and I am able to see the true meaning of what he says, but at the same time, its that characteristic of wan show that has made it a PR nightmare. Some people take things so at face value that it becomes hard to talk at all.

[@JanasV]

Talking about mistakes and misinformation, I can't help but notice you rushed your research a little as well. 1. You failed to mention that not only did he auction off the water block that he was supposed to give back, he also used the wrong video card with it (4090 instead of 3090) because "he didn't have the proper one on hand at the time", and then rated it badly. 2. He hasn't been a CEO for like a month, not years, he's still the Owner and main share holder with his wife Yvonne.

[@magog6852]

Thanks Colombo

[@YesHumphreyAppleby]

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

[@ownmicelio]

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

[@maiyannah]

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.

[@venykrid]

@@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

[@HerrBlauzahn]

Honestly I also noticed the decline of quality when it comes to LMG videos. Especially on the channels other than LTT itself. A lot feel heartless and not well thought out without any kind of preparation.

[@crazycoffee]

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

[@SNixD]

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

[@789know]

​@@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.

[@ShadowNick]

6:35 Its also good to mention that the water block used in the video was made for RTX 3090 but then they proceeded to mount it on the RTX 4090 a completely different architecture that the block was not made for. Then proceeded to talk about how it was the wrong GPU in the video and also well after on the podcast about how "we decided it wasnt worth the monetary cost of the man hours needed to retest it."

[@dakota9821]

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

[@JoseSalcido69]

Linus has shown pie charts with their revenue breakdown on the WAN show a few times, KZbin adrev is a chunk, but a small chunk. He only left the CEO position very shortly ago. He and his wife own 100% of the company between the two of them. I feel there were some more things I could correct, but cooking some Libre food rn

[@rhekman]

Linus also took a hit last year (and kind of the start of the whole GamersNexus beef) over the backpack "Trust Me Bro (TM)" warranty. He seems to assume because he sees himself as a Good Guy, therefore everybody else should give him the benefit of the doubt and assume he'll do right by them. I know all the details aren't public, but it does kind of paint a picture after Maddison Reeves' allegations, and then another former employee Collin corroborated part of her story, that LMG has work culture issues. Heck, the leaked audio of an employee meeting from 2022 literally has another "trust me bro" comment from Linus.

[@Alias_Anybody]

Well, the allegations of the former Social Media Manager weren't primarily directed at Linus himself. I mean they made him look like an out of touch jerk as well but the actual bullying and harassment would have mostly been done by middle management. And that seems to be some systemic rot.

[@Dratchev241]

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

[@_shadow_1]

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.

[@BigBossBernie]

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?

[@Alias_Anybody]

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

[@ForgotMyPasswd000]

​@@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.

[@ИгорьКравцов-д4щ]

Gotta love how powerful is Steve

[@beardalaxy]

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

[@likemy]

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

[@phitsf5475]

What's greedier than auctioning off the copper block was refusing to spend a few hundred dollars to do the testing properly. That's insanely obnoxious to me. Mistakes happen at companies all the time and companies pay to fix then, it's part of their costs and that's normal.

[@trashcontent9637]

1:17 LMG changed CEO one or two months ago, Linus is now something like “chief vision officer”.

[@megatronskneecap]

Linus's ability to degrade, abuse, critique and ridicule others that do wrong but completely excludes himself his family and friends is the weirdest narcissistic behaviour I've ever seen. Well I say "friends" he blamed content quality issues on his employees/so called "buddies" yet the people he was trying to blame said they are pushed too much to make vast ranges of content on a daily basis and realised the issues back in like early feb. And the employee sexual harassment claims just add another layer of wtf to all of this.

[@p_serdiuk]

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

[@IT10T]

Nice pfp, pal.

[@megatronskneecap]

Lol@@IT10T

[@hitoridatinao]

Everyone have been talking about this, like.. dang this gotten even bigger and bigger every day every time I look to it

[@justfasial01]

"Literal crackhead behaviour" LMAO 😭😭

[@AnimatedLines]

And there I go thinking all Canadians are just too nice to do anything f'ed up like that. Silly me.

[@theDane70]

Scamming his customers with a cheap screwdriver is what did it for me, he knows nothing about good tools and should not sell tools

[@edwardallenthree]

That's a terrible take. The screwdriver is price competitive with a screwdrivers at the same features, and everybody knows they're paying more than they need when they buy it. It's not a scam. There's plenty to attack LMG about, their content, their horrific culture which ignored sexual harassment, and the repeated lies by Linus. We don't need to make up controversy.

[@MarlowPreston]

Thank You Gamers Nexus. Thank You Steve. Thank You Tech Jesus.

[@HaveanOreshnik]

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

[@TiroDvD]

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

[@ukasz2981]

@@TiroDvD Gamers Nexus

[@canada6618]

babe wake up, mental outlaw posted

[@ABQSentinel]

Maybe this is schadenfreude, but I am absolutely loving watching Linus' world implode, because he so richly deserves it! I stopped watching LTT a number of years ago when he got to about a million subs (basically, the point at which he created LMG). Something changed and his videos had a much different feel to them. Basically, he stopped making videos for run-of-the-mill PC gamers, and started making content to woo corporate sponsors.

[@handleneeds3charactersormore]

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

[@somerandomguywastaken]

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

[@megatronskneecap]

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.

[@crazycoffee]

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

[@ITBlanka]

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.

[@sallysbananenrepublik3740]

Moral of the story: Never trust a weak small men in an high position.

[@beardalaxy]

Not only did all of that happen, but his response was horrible and then he had the gall to try selling shit to people in an apology video already behind the floatplane paywall.

[@jamesreed2888]

Bro is building a lab to test hardware, then admitted that he doesnt care if the data he puts out is correct or not. Hes not a scientist or anything else he fancies himself as. Hes just a kid who wants to play with toys

[@seriouscat2231]

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

[@lorkh4nn]

you know its bad when one of your members troons out

[@cheekibreeki4638]

Linus Trans Tips

[@J0derVIVIVI]

Dayum! for real!? This event is truly diverse,soy abusers, canucks, mee too, asian wife, redheads, manlets..... and now troons.

[@veebeeTV]

Speaking about 'emily' 😂

[@atheopagan]

Your IQ is probably not even 100.

[@lorkh4nn]

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

[@Joerje]

Not only did he give that prototype a bad review but he literally used it on the wrong graphics card in the review and that was the main prototype of that company

[@Finalizor]

he refused to admit it would have made a deference

[@BooleanDev]

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

[@cowthedestroyer]

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.

[@BooleanDev]

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

[@cowthedestroyer]

@@BooleanDev I mean I he was.

[@purplepeeps_]

I miss the good ol days when they did scrapyard wars

[@Adam-tp8py]

They can’t papa John him. He doesn’t have a shareholder structure and privately owns the company.

[@Ozzymand]

This must be a serious video if he brings out the deep fake ai assistant

[@POINTS2]

He could have just said that there was a mix up which caused the block to auctioned and then payed back the company for the prototype. But that would require Linus admitting he made a mistake AND requiring him to give up some money.

[@Universal_Craftsman]

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.

[@KManAbout]

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

[@theskeletalrebel3908]

That has been said and done

[@Qwerty-jy9mj]

​@@KManAbout That's even worse.

[@KManAbout]

@@Qwerty-jy9mj how

[@justinbuckley]

Most of these issues seem to stem from expanding so quickly that they’ve barely transitioned from small company mentality to a more corporate structure. Ironically for a tech company, it appears that they just use a few writers for their server / PC management work. Perhaps they should have had a systems administrator in years ago. Hence why they keep making huge changes to their server. I suspect they don’t get bother with the typical HR / cyber security training that every other corporate company demands of their staff. It’s easy to skip on that when your company is a total 6 tech bros, not so when it’s suddenly over 100 with far more diversity than before. Perhaps this will prove to be the wake up call required to implement a more ethical and sustainable approach.

[@アカシア-w7b]

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.

[@TheBenSanders]

@@アカシア-w7bI 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.

[@justinbuckley]

@@アカシア-w7b 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

[@apolloeosphoros4345]

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

[@MsMegabomb]

It is a bit ironic how a video talking about other channels needing to focus more on content quality can be so badly researched and there are no top comments taking an issue with that?

[@PS3PCDJ]

Linus should have left when he originally planned, that way he would still end on a high note

[@ujjvalw2684]

trueeeeeee

[@-cams.]

look at what linus is holding at 3:51 and tell me that he didn't deserve this fall

[@silviocupica2521]

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

[@WhoLover]

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

[@HaveanOreshnik]

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

[@lilythebluespheresfan2897]

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

[@User_5tjk42gj9]

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

[@chomskysfavefive]

It took barely 3 months before theyre right back to their sloppy daily uploads. Linus is so predictable its unreal.

[@maiyannah]

He's had over a year of controversies and he isn't going to change. I think what most surprises me is it took this long for the tech youtube channels to stand up to him. I'm not surprised it was Steve. He's said again and again he'll get better. He's never stopped talking and started doing. It's all just corporate handwaving and excuse-making.

[@peckservers]

"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.

[@derpysean1072]

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

[@789know]

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.

[@maiyannah]

@@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.

[@maiyannah]

@@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.

[@jasdanvm3845]

I honestly don't see how Linus Media Group could take the company from Linus Sebastian... It's not a public company, it has no investors.

[@ttpechon2535]

One thing you forgot is that they put the water block on the wrong graphics card, so it didn't work, and they knew this, but still said it was trash, even though it wasn't working because of them.

[@thepathnotfound]

Those guys always seemed like clowns to me.

[@handleneeds3charactersormore]

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

[@argylemanni280]

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

[@TheKeirsunishi]

Especially after the data loss incidents

[@megatronskneecap]

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

[@redshirt256]

You might be mistaken, there was controversy about their backpacks warranty. As far as I know there was not much controversy about their screwdriver.

[@noahwithana4149]

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).

[@maxrburgess]

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

[@noahwithana4149]

@@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.

[@pierrot867]

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.

[@notmyregret]

Honestly, with all of this coming out, it has me going back and rethinking anything I thought I learned from them... Sure, I've had multiple sources for learning tech stuff, and sure I've also caught quite a bit of bullshit they've put out... But I didn't realize it was that bad regarding the tests... Usually I would go to Gamers Nexus for actual benchmarks, but LTT usually had really cool industry stuff they would show, so now I gotta rethink most of what I watched to see if it was just an ad to get said company some investment, or just pure bullshit.

[@Finalizor]

same

[@scavanger1000]

Apparently they had sent a 3090ti with the waterblock

[@84Actionjack]

I wouldn't say greed is the motive. LMG has a lot of mouths to feed in a very expensive township.

[@BowDown097]

linus has been an absolute joke for years

[@megatronskneecap]

He fell off back in 2019.

[@HaveanOreshnik]

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....

[@kosmas173]

I can't take his thumbnails seriously

[@hu1zheng]

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.

[@adonisnetworks]

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

[@hehe42069-k]

i like that you cropped out the part of that steve whipping linus pic with techfiona in it lol

[@hehe42069-k]

(Formerly Shrek)

[@handleneeds3charactersormore]

LMAO

[@hehe42069-k]

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

[@foxtailedcritter]

I'm a drugaddict and I still wouldn't auction off someone else's property. It's a shame I do like his (LinusTechTips) videos but man he has some faults.

[@waitandhope]

You said it man, you said it

[@timstutors]

Louis Rossman is a national treasure; we must protect him at all costs.

[@hammerheadcorvette4]

Linus always felt scummy to me. How he's handled situations in the past is indicative of it. More recently the Warranty issue that later became "the Trust Me Bro" , but even dating as far back as the AMD R9 390, Angry he did not get a "Free" day one card, he haphazardly reviewed in with 1 game and acted like a petulant child throughout.

[@guy_autordie]

Someone said it's a sweatshop. And I can't agree more

[@fabiodx2]

And nothing of value was lost

[@AnthonyBolognese710]

The squeaky voiced, male feminist, low T guy ended up being dishonest? Say it ain’t so.

[@Pro720HyperMaster720]

10:49 The change is pretty recently in fact, the CEO change happened in the last couple of months if I recall correctly

[@Thisisadream17]

Those Elon Musk streams are nuts I forgot about that😂 Completely dystopian

[@NordicKappa]

Linus opposed the Canadian trucker protests, and he vehemently endorsed masking at the workplace. And he hates people who ad block.

[@ChetHanks-eh1md]

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?

[@sipp884]

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

[@kkit8629]

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.

[@KraftSC2]

I heard he even took the vaccine, dear lord

[@Rodelero]

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

[@lastremain7867]

LTT always felt like a content farm that had to feed the KZbin algorithm with quality over quantity tech crap.

[@FRANKMUSIKOFFICIAL]

When Linus broke down crying I’m a video a couple of years ago and then carried on like nothing happened a day later showed my how disingenuous he was or how willing he was to fake it till you make it. He’s been able to hide behind the cute Canadian for a long time but I never trusted him after that weird episode. But to be this gross was even lower that I expected.

[@bufordmaddogtannen]

Never trust an adult man who likes to wear sandals and has no clue about how to copy and paste text from a browser into a text document... 🤣

[@8Dataman8]

For me, one of the worst moments was when they reviewed the 3070ti or 3080ti and called it great value. Then I noticed in the video that there was a text on screen saying the video was shot before they knew the prices. How can you ethically call ANYTHING great value without knowing the price?? Too bad Gamers Nexus didn't include this point.

[@HamidKarzai]

The problem is likely with the entire upper management. It's not just linus who created this situation so him stepping back isn't going to fix it

[@cannaroe1213]

I cant imagine walking into a BestBuy and meeting the most based, glock'd & cluckpilled employee, who was recently told to watch LTT for marketplace background info.

[@vert2552]

7:02 I think very important detail abou this story is that first contact between them was about LTT not being able to read attached notes, because the cooler they were testing (AND BASING THEIR OPINION ON) was done on completly wrong GPU (if i recall correctly they used 3090 and it was made for 3080 ti or something like that - thats a big deal in cooling)

[@Samantas5855]

He wasn't supposed to send the block back, he was initially told that he could keep it

[@3isr3g3n]

Steve is goddamn stubborn about doing the right thing, and that's good. The man really helps consumers and hw manufacturers as well, and he has a way smaller budget and people to work with than LMG.

[@matthias6933]

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

[@marcin1337_]

Man, woah. Half a million. I can't wrap my head around this. Congratulations man! You deserve it. I hope LTT will improve, less videos but longer and higher quality is the side I'm basically choosing always when it comes to reviews or tech videos.

[@ent2220]

I used to watch specifically for Linus and him as a character and the comedy. Yes, him stepping away is the most logical solution, but honestly it will still result in the brand dying, just a little more slowly. The only one who had potential to replace him was Anthony, as people loved his character, but he recently came out as transgender (now Emily), so I don't think that would work out with the viewers. The rest of employees are as ordinary as it gets.

[@Layheeee]

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

[@ent2220]

@@Layheeee search Anthony Emily :)

[@OccultDemonCassette]

Love that the auto generated subtitles keep calling Linus - Lioness

[@honestabe411]

The phrase is, “small potatoes”

[@MrVecheater]

Linus: adblock is piracy Also Linus: *sells someone else's property*

[@fredsorre6605]

for anyone wondering how this all came to be It all started way further and it was when good ol Linus said live on Wan show when people asked why his expensive LTT bag didn't come with a warranty and he said by his own words that because it was not what was best for his family and his company GN did a video piece about that as well and called him out which also blew up Hardware Unboxed posted on twitter that they completely agree with GN's findings thus why LTT also have beef with them and it's been brewing for months now this is the reason why they cited both channels on that Lab tour which Linus doubled down on in another WAN show episode he didn't name them but every one knew who he was referring to because he is still so butt hurt about the previous call out.

[@Opusss]

I worked for a tech company with an owner with a very similar personality as Linus. I 100% believe that for all but the 1% public visible employees it is a hell hole to work for. Especially a social media manager position like the woman making accusations. It is so typical for someone like Linus who has lived, eat and breathed his business for a decade to have unreasonable expectations for employees.

[@ashishpatel350]

I doubt her accusations are real.

[@vincentvega3093]

​@@ashishpatel350hypothetically lets say they are. Wouldn't accusing Linus feel impossible to what was basically a child in terms of work experience? Any person at LMG doing this would shock me, but the head honcho. Not saying he did, because prooven innocent until alleged to be guilty. If nobody gets fired, rather somebody resigns, thats the point were suits will have to clean up.

[@ashishpatel350]

@@vincentvega3093 fired? Of these allegations were real she would be able to sue the company and rake in money. Yet she's just accusing someone right at the same time gamers Nexus dropped his video. I call bs she wants attention not to mention she was probably made they didn't use her pronouns

[@vincentvega3093]

Terran (ceo) is having external investigation about the accusations. Would expect the perpetrators to be fired. And yes, if true, she should sue.

[@ashishpatel350]

@@vincentvega3093 yes he is it's paid for by Linus so it makes me believe she doesn't have any proof of the things she says happen. There are multiple cameras in the place I bet Linus couldn't even find anything on those hence the reason he didn't fire him.

[@selfaware7617]

Best guy at that company is the fluffy Linux guy

[@edwardallenthree]

And ever since Emily transitioned, she hasn't been on their screen except for one time. I miss her too. (Emily's deadname is Anthony).

[@selfaware7617]

@@edwardallenthree unfortunate to hear that

[@TheNikoBellicGaming]

people who know what is cropped out of the thumbnail