Linus Tech Tips Almost Ruined His Career

[@Sound_Tech]

Linus accidently knocked his career off the counter, and Luke caught it before it shattered on the floor.

[@ev304]

Not really. Why can’t he talk about past content? Is that just a bailable offence?

[@Sound_Tech]

@Ev I agree that someone can improve themselves and talk about past mistakes. But the group think of the internet would absolutely destroy someone over casually talking about how they used to shamelessly throw out hard-R N-words.

[@DaddyFrosty]

I mean he’s known for dropping things lamo

[@TestTestGo]

@@ev304 given the choice of person to idolise, you have: Person who used to be a massive racist, at a time when that was not socially acceptable, but who later realised the error of their ways Vs Person who has always been disgusted by the idea of racism. A bad past can be rehabilitated, but you're never going to completely get away from your past. You have to admit it, own it and accept that it is going to be part of how people assess you as a person. Linus would not have been served well by being saddled with a racist past he didn't actually live through purely through a euphemism confusion.

[@PhiccLIVE]

@@TestTestGo neither, you shouldn’t idolise any KZbinr that’s unhealthy.

[@viijackiiv9713]

Luke genuinely just saved the entire LTT brand, if Luke didn't ask Linus to clarify what he meant right there in the moment literally no one would have believed that excuse.

[@ZombieBacon13]

Facts tho if they didn't clarify it during the show and waited till after the damage would have already been done. I can already see how some people will just see the one segment and not the entire clip. Hopefully he doesn't get too much hate for it.

[@suluchemo840]

This point isn't gonna get enough attention.

[@arakwar]

@@ZombieBacon13 People see thi one segment because creators everywhere are sharing it. They all says shit like "oh he's a great creator" and all, but they are quick to talk about cancelling anything...

[@Tavishburn]

idk, even in the 2000's i dont see american dad using the 'hard R' i understood what meant what he meant though i see why people could confuse his terminology

[@McBlazington]

That's Luke's job on WAN show.

[@PlungerPapi]

you can tell he genuinely had no idea what he was actually saying 😂

[@ThisGuyDannyyy]

Ikr. He reminds me of Pinko from Toy Story over the “N” word.

[@Apupv]

I know right bruh

[@Apupv]

Also, how come all these huge verified guys are commenting??

[@Xylkamela4ter]

he just saying shit

[@skyrevanvalor2128]

​@@Apupv because it's penguinz0

[@jordanvanderzalm8512]

Bro his co host single handedly saved the entire business, by verifying what he was talking about, give that man a medal

[@dominicjarrell283]

If I saved the company and my boss gave me a metal and not a raise I would devote all my free time to discovering time travel.

[@KingDogelll]

​@@dominicjarrell283 Just sell the medal.

[@israel9325]

Plastic medals​ don't sell for much @@KingDogelll

[@subarashiikylox]

@@dominicjarrell283 our little comedian

[@lathrael7152]

There aren't enough walls to put all the medals Luke deserved.

[@NotProbablyKam]

"I dropped my fair share of hard R's" had me cackling like an evil witch

[@donovanberserk4993]

Haven’t we all?

[@s..a893]

@@donovanberserk4993yup, it’s sort of lost its meaning now

[@afif1406]

​@@donovanberserk4993I prefer the one that ends with a but okay

[@ZS1736]

We talkin about the n word or retarded?

[@cryohazrd]

Real gamer

[@knightwing4073]

Linus almost dropped his most expensive thing yet

[@plasmasack]

💀💀💀

[@noobiii]

LMFAOOO

[@max954]

KEKW

[@racker5108]

iykyk 💀

[@corporatebaddie685]

dropped the entire ltt

[@ItsAZues]

An entire action movie in 2 minutes. Everyone in that room collectively lost their shit, saying their goodbyes preemptively, and collapsed in relief. What a joyride it must've been.

[@GuilhermeDiGiorgi]

Do people really do that? I see people not wanting to be canceled because companies cancel sponsorships. What I don't understand is why they cancel sponsor to appease vocal minorities that might not even buy their products. I understand not wanting ti associate yourself with hate speech, racism and such, but most of the time the canceling is over something so minor or out of context I'm just amazed they continue doing that. Or companies trying to do games and series target at those vocal minority and the product flops. It's like they want to actually lose money just to make a point.

[@jonathankitchen2202]

@@GuilhermeDiGiorgi it definitely doesn’t look good for your company when the ceo actively says they used to regularly use a slur

[@GuilhermeDiGiorgi]

@@jonathankitchen2202 yes, in the case of the video, if it was the n word he used to say, it would be bad, even if it was more common in the past, it shows racist tendencies of the person using it. What I was saying was that context matters and even if they slipped a bad word regarding gays on an online game (a place where rage takes place), people just assume you are this monster for saying something once (most of the time others showing your line without context) and don't give you time to explain yourself.

[@joema500]

@@GuilhermeDiGiorgi UUEEEEEE

[@anakisshunter]

@@joema500 You alright?

[@codywhatshisface7220]

“I don’t remember any shows just casually dropping the hard R” The Boondocks: 👀

[@morgboat744]

and still praised to this day lmao. The Boondocks is just built different 😎

[@MattSmith-il4tc]

There have been a fair number of hard Rs dropped in It's Always Sunny in Philidelphia.

[@morgboat744]

@@MattSmith-il4tc i’m 10 seasons in and can only think of 2 uses so far tbh

[@wyleFTW]

​@MattSmith-il4tc what eps

[@isaiahromero9861]

It's always sunny and south park: 👀👀

[@albertgore7435]

Honestly the fact that he didn’t even know the proper usage of “Hard R” probably speaks to his innocence lol

[@legomenjj]

What proper use that is the correct proper use. why have 2 different thing for the same word.

[@lamywater]

@@legomenjj The N word ending with 'a' and ending with 'r' can have very different connotations

[@ddjsoyenby]

he's a hero for all of us.

[@legomenjj]

@@lamywater If you think the hard r is for the end of a word is crazy

[@JannyBesmircher]

@@lamywater Not all A's are R's. But all R's are A's.

[@alexyew17]

Luke just saved Linus' life, his empire, his legacy, lukes own job and the job of every single employee at LTT with one question. God fuckin bless man.

[@OldSchoolDudeGaming]

This is more of a reflection of the current cancel culture more than Linus.

[@alexyew17]

@@OldSchoolDudeGaming if by cancel culture you mean "consequences for saying the nword" then sure I guess the consequences of his actions would be detrimental!

[@danielakbari3447]

Facts, it’s crazy that we can’t even say a goddamn word without any bad intent, even when we are explaining shit

[@alexyew17]

@@danielakbari3447 I don't agree with you and there is never a time where you need to say that word and not a stand in

[@CapTainBPMT]

actually though bc nobody would believe him if he didnt clarify in the moment

[@iamcrash5525]

Dodged a bullet? No Luke, you 2 dodged a tank shell

[@LifeWithYourMum]

He was so casual with throwing it around lmao. Poor Linus, you can feel his innocence when it was explained to him 😂

[@EEEEEEEE]

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[@seraasteria]

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[@subliterate8729]

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[@FiroNebule]

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[@omegalol]

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[@FlpDaMattress]

This isn't the first time Luke has saved Linus by asking clarifying questions. Luke is the glue holding Linus Media Group together.

[@esmith2k2]

Yeah... there has definitely been quite a few moments where Luke has had to come to the rescue. Thank god for him lmao

[@PanoptesDreams]

Luke and Yvonne..

[@TachibanaTengoku]

Luke grew up in America, so he is more familiar with shit that only Americans care about.

[@Americum]

Linus just says things that he thinks mean something completely different to what they actually mean.

[@mk810]

He’s just trying to save his job

[@Geegs]

The sheer power of the words Linus uttered caused Luke to morph the structure of his entire skull several times.

[@DxrkArtz]

MY CONTENT IS BETTER!!

[@selveneleven]

@Patrick39 shut up

[@commenter621]

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[@commenter621]

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[@commenter621]

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[@CramcrumBrewbringer]

There needs to be a software that delays the stream by like 10 seconds, and gives a window for the streamer to hit a button which blacks out the screen and audio. News agencies do this to try and stop gruesome footage from going live.

[@henryordish]

there is. a lot of streamers use it. it wouldn't have been relevant in this scenario

[@franklind.roosevelt7416]

@@henryordishit definitely could have been, I guarantee Linus of all people has one at the ready. I feel like the fact he didn’t black out the stream speaks volumes to how he didn’t even realize how what he said sounded.

[@NippyNep]

@@franklind.roosevelt7416 i mean its stupid how americans think hard R is for a word where r is used at the end instead of the first letter

[@trenthulbert3573]

@@NippyNepdo you even know what hard R means? It refers to the harsher "er" sound at the end. No one said it had to be the first letter of the word 😂😂

[@SkateBake4Life]

@@NippyNepit’s because there’s the N word and the hard R. Hard R is the slur, N word uses the A

[@cubbleshasreturned6968]

Linus's co host single handedly saved so many careers in just one second. If the podcast had just ended with him saying he used the hard R often. Twitter would have wrecked Linus and no "sorry i did'nt mean it that way" tweet could save him.

[@ahmadaimam]

didont :3

[@pirilon78]

​@@nerfret "why give words power" mfs when they have to communicate using a common language where words have connotations and are meant to communicate good and bad things:

[@Just_Reading_Comments]

@Adam you wrote that whole essay without finishing the video huh?

[@thatonedude6267]

@2freeIvX I mean that’s only cause it doesn’t sound as cool as n*gga. Like saying “what is up my homie” vs “sup homie” it doesn’t roll off the tongue as good.

[@Jokervision744]

​@@pirilon78 I think it's stupid. In some sense people never are going to lose their license to carry guns, if the words are worse than bullets. I'm never going to understand fully what or why it is like that, so that people can hurt themselves? If it's going to hurt others then people are going to come up with something that hurts others anyways. How many millions of years it takes when no words are left, because everything has been used as a weapon. I just find it stupid. Just take the freedom of speech away, and lets dedicate our conversations to fill out forms and such. Way to avoid pain. I understand, but oh my god... At least let it lose its potency and meaning, but keep the history of stupidity of humanity intact. I don't know. I kinda feel scared for it.

[@Rucarlos]

Kinda heartwarming that this is so removed from his mind he didn't even know wtf was happening

[@Sporomaniacos]

I didn't understand either tbh, I though he was talking about the R word the entire time and couldn't see what the big idea was until the very end

[@kittenburger_prime]

This is all dog shit. Only because people participate in social media cancel culture is this a problem. Normal human beings would go “huh” and that would be the end of it. But everyone buys into a shared reality where this dumb shit matters.

[@KingNedya]

@@Sporomaniacos Yeah same, I didn't even know that there was a distinguishing difference between different pronunciations of the n-word. The whole time I thought he was talking about the r-word and wondering what the big deal was considering he was correct in it being a more recent cultural change XD

[@Apav1x]

I also had no idea the hard-r actually meant that. I did always wonder why some people called it that instead of just the r-word. Now I know, and it only took Linus nearly destroying his entire career to find out. Thanks Linus!

[@kennethM]

​@@diomedes7971 I've never heard it referebd as "hard r" and i grew up with causal use of the r word.

[@MrPaPaYa86]

The scary thing is, had Luke not raised the question in that moment, any clarification coming from them after the blacklash would have felt like disingenuous PR jargon

[@tylociraptor8131]

blacklash omg

[@officialANON001]

Blacklash 💀

[@MIB_95]

I was thinking the same at first. But the fact that he mentioned older shows and specifically American Dad would have saved him in the eyes of anyone with a brain capable of realising that early 2000s shows did not in fact use the hard R casually.

[@myujmes]

you can't say blacklash 💀

[@jerryborjon]

@@MIB_95 - You might be surprised by this, but not everyone in the world watched American Dad back in the early 2000’s

[@NextGenGamezz]

"I've dropped my fair share of Hard R's back in the day"

[@OfficialR3M1X]

Linus attempted a trial by fire and Luke had a bucket of water literally prepared in that moment

[@nhojlagap6222]

Bucket? Luke literally force opened a fire hydrant.

[@Toastyy887]

shouldn't even be a big deal, no word was actually said and even if it was said, it's a word. Our generation needs to grow up. Literally if it was such a huge deal for people to say "hard R" then it should be illegal for everyone. No more rappers using it, black people can not use it. So RETARDED.

[@stonethebone9608]

i was the 1000 like

[@Djuntas]

I though Hard-R was always the word for what Linus also said. I though the N-word was the only way to...Well, okay a word can have 2 shorts.

[@combatmp01234]

OMG..Poor Linus lol. Admitting to dropping the Hardest of R's lol.

[@EliteSnake]

Linus is too genuine man, I would hate to ever see this guy fall. He is such a solid dude. I'm glad he clarified himself cause he would've been crucified on Twitter and all over the internet.

[@recruitlegionary9747]

I met him in person hes cool

[@iantrolington6594]

No one cares about twitter, you are a nerd if you do.

[@gerardford9706]

Except when he was telling everyone why they should race mix. He's a casual racist

[@moRaaOTAKU]

well North americans being snowflakes yeh

[@denis2381]

We used the nword hard r casually 20years ago

[@SlavicPanda]

"That was very 'hard R' of you, linus."

[@nickcunningham6344]

Imagine if his cohost never questioned him and Linus just never clarified what he meant, holy shit that was literally a career saver 😅

[@DeusExNihilo]

Doesnt this just outline the hypocrisy of our modern politically correct culture? That the "hard r" is career ending but the "r word" isn't?

[@Eduardo-ji1eh]

Tbh his audience would probably understand. It’s not like he’s just a mainstream influencer. His persona and target demographic keeps him in the clear. I’d believe him.

[@q6x]

@@Eduardo-ji1eh the thing is he’d probably lose sponsors very fast if he didn’t clarify immediately so it probably did save a lot

[@MegaHAZE21]

​​​​@@q6x This is exactly what People constantly forget in these situations. It's advertising money that sends you into 7 and 8 digit figures in content creation environments, unless you're making material for direct subscribes (and even making that kind of money in that way isn't remotely easy). Without that advertiser cosign doors stay shut. It doesn't matter if you have a million eyes on you, unless they're the ones paying you, which often isn't the case. It's companies paying to have a million eyes on their product or service. When you work in this sector the end game is to be a billboard, and no one wants their ad on a billboard in the wrong side of town lol.

[@Boarderrr]

@@MegaHAZE21 That's a great way to put it. Totally agree

[@Paul0Grech]

Linus better give Luke a huge bonus; that dude just saved his whole career

[@curtis1552]

After Yvonne (Linus' wife), Luke's probably next in line in terms of who's the boss. So he's very well paid😂

[@Shitposting_IHMN]

I use it casually, the nword with hard R I mean. Its not racist to use it, its racist to call someone by that word, because of its skin colour

[@Nightwishmaster]

@@Shitposting_IHMN ... Also try to go out and find an activity you enjoy so you can make some friends. There are better and healthier ways of getting attention from other humans than trying to bait people in random KZbin comments.

[@scarecloud2741]

@@Nightwishmaster 👍

[@Zenith_Star69]

​@@Shitposting_IHMNself report

[@menburst579]

the sentence "I've dropped my fair share of hard Rs" is one of the funniest things ever said online in hindsight

[@bootlegjunk]

And Luke’s response of just “hmph” 😂

[@DertyMike]

The greatest 2 minutes of internet history.

[@makw8148]

whats he talkin about tho? I'm a noob

[@JacketVI]

He's talking about saying retarded

[@bootlegjunk]

@@JacketVI we know

[@mr_raus]

in minute 7:29, we can clearly see Luke using a rare form of bending used by Avatar Aang: Soul Bending. By clarifying what Linus said, he reverted, at that moment, souls that leaved the building back to the users body.

[@THE-X-Force]

"What? .. NO" So instantly obvious how sincere he was. Of course. Linus is a good guy.

[@Ryfael]

Who pays his employees a fair wage, right?

[@Smile.911]

@@Ryfael lol yeah he does

[@xin4424]

*Clueless* I know him personally he's a good guy☺️👍

[@biochemicalvegan8972]

yes, because dehumanizing black people ever makes someone bad, but dehumanizing down syndrome people in the year 2003 is completely acceptable

[@TheOneAndOnlyPotato.]

@@biochemicalvegan8972 Username checks out.

[@henrikhumle7255]

My word, Luke's genuine state of silent shock through that whole thing was so painful to watch. He clearly couldn't believe a word of what was coming out of his boss's mouth right in front of him.

[@toll5320]

I think the fact that they've been extremely good friends since not long after the time period he was discussing also added to it

[@henrikhumle7255]

@@toll5320 Well, haven't we all had "that" conversation with a close friend or relative at some point? You know the one. The one where they go: "Remember a few years ago when everyone wasn't so uptight and it was okay to say the n-word?" Where you go: "... Excuse me, what?"

[@krusher181]

@@henrikhumle7255luckily no, but that’s just because my family is so small. I’m due to have one of them soon, won’t be fun.

[@kamikazeraider]

@@toll5320 I think that's part of why Luke shut down briefly after Linus admitted to "using the hard-r" casually. I can imagine his brain just firing all synapses at once, replacing that hamster in the wheel with a roadrunner, frantically trying to recall a time where Linus was ever even implicitly racist, and then finally going "fuck it, I have to get clarification. This is either going to drive the knife all the way into the collective heart of our careers or there's some weird misunderstanding and Linus is too pure for this world." Lucky for them it was the latter, but the relief on his face when he confirmed that was so palpable.

[@NutkeyDoesMinecraft]

@@henrikhumle7255 Based

[@johnmecca9008]

Linus needs to give Luke a raise; like he literally saved Linus’ career by interrupting and having him clarify. Had the stream ended and backlash came, recovery would have been too late.

[@therealringo1128]

yeah fr he saved him so much right then and there.

[@hellboundsnewscast6753]

I think his job being on the line is enough to interrupt and clarify

[@johnmecca9008]

@@hellboundsnewscast6753 heck yeah!🤣

[@TempleTips.]

Let’s be real his career would have been fine. Simple apology video or some shit and that’s it

[@tuttifrutti8576]

Yeah, I hate how these days you can’t even make a mistake or people will instantly make the worst possible claims about you

[@Twobraid]

I watch this every few months and I don't think it will ever get old

[@TheMinecraftReloaded]

Luke literally saved a 9 figure company from absolute disaster right there

[@crunch9876]

No he didnt. A company can’t be stopped by being “cancelled”

[@RHIOfficial23]

@@crunch9876 Tell me you don't know anything about the current state of the world without telling me you know nothing about the current state of the world

[@awsomestleaperd78]

​@@RHIOfficial23 he is not wrong.

[@shrewdon]

Yea but the entire business relies on the public opinion of them. So them being cancelled would be detrimental to the company

[@bl0ssum143]

@@crunch9876 when it's a company that relies very heavily on its brand image (which is centered around linus) it can actually have a pretty significant effect

[@benjaminallison4973]

As an Australian it took me a while to figure out how hard R referred to something racist, my mind immediately went where Linus's did.

[@prohanta9360]

what linus means was not that word apparently, he used the old mocking words and it was popular back in 9gag meme era back in 2010, what he meant "hurr durr" which used to mock people for being/saying idiotic things. it sounds similar actually, that's why people shocked

[@daraotl5187]

@@prohanta9360 he DIDN"T mean r**ard? what else could it be

[@Zeenobae]

@@prohanta9360 im pretty certain linus was just referring to the r-word. hurr-durr is definitely not really known anymore, only people that i know who use it are usually in their late 20s or 30s lol. but since linus was talking about shows from the early 2000s, im sure he meant the r-word in the way of derogatory term for intellectually disabled people.

[@gringoboy701]

Ya but calling it hard R makes zero sense. He simply means R word.

[@jessipanda]

i'm canadian and the context he used it in was immediately obvious he meant the r word and not the n word how was it not obvious lol

[@Tommy-gu6yb]

imagine this isn’t the first time he’s told someone this without them correcting him 😭😭😭

[@KeKKi]

😂😂

[@TRAKE734]

I went years of my childhood replying to people don’t ask don’t tell, when asked why I don’t open up much. Didn’t find out what that meant till college.

[@gentlesandladymen]

@@TRAKE734 😭😭😭

[@ninuvids]

Imagine Luke didn’t step in there and the audience was left to assume what he meant. If he said he didn’t know what hard r meant after backlash it would come across like such a bullshit excuse to anyone who doesn’t know Linus Luke deserves another raise

[@p0k3mn1]

Luke saved his ass

[@JosephSirkinov]

But Wait, there's More.

[@ahsaasinator2840]

What more is there ? I am late to the drama

[@ciaojay7025]

The miscommunication within the company resulting to selling a gpu cooling solution that should be returned to the start up company that made that​@@ahsaasinator2840

[@gastonsepulveda9187]

Luke saved LTT. Give that man a raise. And Linus saw his whole life flashing before his eyes when he realized his blunder 🤣

[@HRM.H]

Linus could sell the company and retire today. He aint worried.

[@StrikeWarlock]

Multiple times, even. Luke also was the guy who called him out on his behavior during the warranty debacle as well.

[@magnuserror9305]

The company is beyond failure from twitter "canceling", hogwarts is proof of that.

[@ZiggityZeke]

No one getting raises if no one can talk about their salaries

[@shihabhossain4364]

Luke don't work for LTT

[@x3dfritz0]

Luke went from mentally updating his Linkedin to a sigh of relief only a man whos just found out his wife and child are fine after she gave birth 🤣🤣

[@zachsmcl]

Exactly my thoughts as soon as he started his 1000 yard stare. I thought "yeah he's definitely thinking how to update his indeed and linkedin"

[@Bynming]

Can you imagine if Luke hadn't caught it right then and there in the live stream and Linus tried to give that explanation after the stream. It would've been disastrous and no one would have believed it.

[@S_O_O_C]

Luke came in absolutely clutch right there

[@SPARTAN-KD21]

@@S_O_O_C Dude may have single-handedly saved LTT and LMG.

[@kass_G59]

Forreal!

[@nickcecil3510]

Maybe a top 10 play of all-time. He better be getting paid well

[@SilverMystes1]

​@@nickcecil3510 oh he is. He is basically number 3 in LMG

[@StarManGmod]

The hard R was invented for video game voice chats

[@dantebrown6692]

To think if he wasn't corrected on stream in that moment, it'd be a KZbin apology from Linus that most people would think is a lie to save himself

[@Jartran72]

No he has evidence. The N word was never usee on american dad. R word pretty often

[@392redienhcs]

Oh so true. So true.

[@valyshknee4203]

I mean Linus is right, Humour from the old 2000´s was way better since it wasn´t woke whatsoever, Take for example "Air Afrikaans" A old south african comedy where they made jokes of black people, vegeterians, karens and terrorists, Today this would not be accepted and instead be cancelled, So i dont see why he would need to make a apology

[@AMan-xz7tx]

for real, this shit was a nexus level event and we live in the timeline where linus's company DOESN'T implode over the "hard R" incident, just a few words different and we'd be in that timeline

[@TimothyGod]

​@@Jartran72 fair point

[@jhgfdsalk]

Linus: "I dropped my fair share of hard rs back then" Luke: Well its back to working at starbucks for us

[@willortiz7341]

Luke actually saved poor Linus here. If he didn't get the chance to explain himself live , that wouldn't have gone down well. Even if he tweeted after the stream saying it was a mistake, he'd still be pretty fucked 🤣 he comes off pretty well here bless him

[@handikappad]

Yep exactly what I thought. Nobody would have believed him lmao.

[@marlaqfromyearone6951]

Linus better give that man a pay raise 😂😂

[@UnsungAces]

@@exalexal5003 no he didn't "get his fans to harass them" lol that's a big accusation and probably a defamation

[@fiercelypolygons3696]

Unfortunately he can't save him from people who are questioning Linus with how much he pays his employees.

[@UnsungAces]

@@exalexal5003 also linus did say he can have it, this was when linus was busy dicking around when the button was auctioned. Oh and the guy was botting subscribers because he had 20-30k views when he has 1 mil subs lmfao, that's why KZbin refused to send his silver plaque

[@Andertheil]

I missed this. This spotlight was stressful .I couldnt remember it. I never took it this way - but my wavelength was along with Linus. So hearing you lead the perception really shows how easy misinformation can spread when in the absence of Luke.

[@StoneMountain64]

That would be a mistake Linus would make 😂 he so friendly

[@Apupv]

Yeahh

[@Apupv]

I know right?? And wait a minute.. IT’S YOU AGAIN!

[@ThisGuyDannyyy]

@@Apupv who is he?

[@ThisGuyDannyyy]

Who is StoneMoutain64?

[@Apupv]

@@ThisGuyDannyyyhe has a comment on this channel that has 18k likes

[@averagecontentenjoyer9937]

I can't believe we live in a universe where Linus has said the words "I dropped my fair share of hard Rs". Luke had to do a hard reset on his brain after hearing that

[@Freekymoho]

If they hadnt recovered RIGHT when they did it would have been OVER

[@justaweeb14688]

There nothing wrong with saying retard, gay or nigga R (yt deletes it)

[@Graeko]

Funniest shit i've seen in a week

[@GodsDissapointment]

Bro I laughed my ass off at Lukez visible concern while trying to figure exactly what the fuck he was talking about, followed by a complete mental reboot after the "I dropped my fair share of hard R". Whole thing was hilarious

[@ethanwok]

it wouldn't have been the first thing he's dropped

[@BoozySZN]

Luke is that one friend that ALWAYS, gets you out of trouble and making stupid mistakes you'll regret massively!

[@flimermithrandir]

Unfortunately he cant Catch Stuff Linus drops Kappa

[@picayuneambedo5929]

i need one of these

[@kenosabi]

Or gets you into it by going on some political diatribe he knows very little about but insists on bringing up on a show geared towards tech.

[@JasperPeters]

5 months later and Linus finally managed to do it for real!

[@hamhimstudio]

It's so sad because he could still be a great dude, continuing his already excellent work, but we all know what happened.

[@tylerdaniell2270]

Wait he actually said it?

[@hamhimstudio]

@@tylerdaniell2270 No. Haven't you heard? He's got controversy related to accuracy with the ltt labs and some other saddening stuff. The OP was talking about how he actually managed to ruin his career (possibly), not about him saying the hard r.

[@JasperPeters]

@@tylerdaniell2270Not saying it, but he managed to ruin his career fr. Tbf it likely is recoverable. At least the accuracy stuff is. The workplace abuse stuff depending on how things turn out, might be harder to recover from.

[@tylerdaniell2270]

@@hamhimstudio oh i havent heard about that, thanks!

[@thelemonninja]

Linus: “I dropped my fair share of hard ‘r’s back then” Luke: *bows head down in despair*

[@kaidowell3416]

The range of emotions that crossed Luke’s face was fucking hilarious

[@Apupv]

Ok

[@DxrkArtz]

MY CONTENT IS BETTER!!

[@bearpatrick9112]

I need more cheese on my cheeseburger but I won't yell the hard G word

[@h-disconnected6612]

The Neo line had me dying

[@luxemier]

i actually thought of "retard" since the n word doesnt start with an R. i dont know how people misunderstood him

[@jig7885]

Imagine if they stopped the stream & Linus had to explain him self afterwards, no one would believe him if it wasn't uncut.

[@20IA]

Unexpectedly i would. Because i had the same thought for the hard r. Im also not in america so i suppose thats one reason, while he is.

@@20IA same here, I was thinking he was refering to sexual assault, I had no idea of hard R was also code for the N word.

[@himanbam]

Nah it would have been fine. It was pretty obvious from the way he was talking that he wasn't referring to the n word. Basically all the points charlie made that the n word was not in casual use on tv in the 2000s and the word he's actually talking about starts with r. Most people would have believed it even after the fact.

[@gemz172]

@@20IA Can agree, i’m in Canada and a lot of people I know over the age of like 30 call that the hard R and just think the racial slur is the N word

[@CrabSully]

Yeah, I think a lot of fans would - I'm not really a "fan" but I'd believe Linus to do something goofy like that. But they'd definitely lose a huge portion of casuals

[@samvortex2802]

Took me about 10-15 seconds to process what he actually meant by hard R after he said he dropped his fair share of them. Omg this is GOLD

[@mfaizsyahmi]

Luke deserves an immediate raise. He saved the Internet tech-o-sphere from nuclear meltdown.

[@ThisWillCharacter]

Well that’s up to him now. He doesn’t work for linus, he’s head of floatplane

[@Kordikk696]

@@ThisWillCharacter actually this very stream they announced Luke as CTO of Linus Media Group

[@Shahkakon]

@@Kordikk696 yup

[@airassault1151]

He’s done that multiple times for Linus lol

[@janisarbidans8931]

I feel like he made the situation worse lol. Like is nobody listening what Linus is even saying ? Gay humour tv shows dropping Ret paladin in middle of the sentence. N word has never been ok to say with or w/o hard R. So what is the next word that has become not okay to say in public recently but was widely spread before ? Ret**d. Dunno feels like every1 only head the hard R part and not the rest of what he was saying

[@AverageThinking]

As a looong time viewer of LTT, Luke shouting “I’M FREAKIN NEO OVER HERE DUDE! WE’RE DODGING BULLETS!” was the greatest internet moment I’ve ever witnessed. The adrenaline was palpable

[@dariusfilip4695]

the bot's back, damn

[@AchedSphinx]

probably felt that way. that was a close call. luke was in panic mode during that segment.

[@KooriGraywolf]

In a way Linus saved himself by mentioning that he said it to his kids, that prompted Luke to ask for clarification

[@DrillOnABeat]

Thank goodness he said that

[@Sacra898]

no Luke was going to bring it up anyway, you can tell by how quick he asked it after Linus brought up his kids.

[@raynmanshorts9275]

He didn't say that he said it to his kids. He was trying to say that to his kids, that would be unthinkable.

[@abacus7087]

I mean him saying it was used in tv shows kinda showed he wasnt talking about the n-word because not many tv shows would have been using that

[@CheckTMOW]

He was saying how 2003 doesn’t feel like that long ago, but to his kids it is before their time.

[@0grdt]

That innocent „what???? No!!!!!“ makes me thinking he realized in what kind of water he stepped into

[@Speakzzz]

Linus either pulled the biggest practical joke of all time, or he is genuinely that wholesome💀

[@Cjaiceman]

As someone who has been watching Linus since he was still an NCIX employee making reviews outside on a campus bench, he is genuinely that wholesome.

[@CrowClouds]

I don't get what the big deal is. All he said was that times have changed. Like, just kind of an obvious thing to say. Not sure how it's offenseive. He's right, people used to say retard and gay right and left.

[@KingKaiTheElite]

@Cloud11 bc hard r racism was never accepted even in early 2000's and linus made it seem like 15-20 years ago he was saying it casually all the time.

[@pickledblowfish6178]

​@FlyKai it's accepted now. Just not on Twitter.

[@pocketstoosumo]

@@pickledblowfish6178 what the fuck are you talking about

[@Rjas_Strongman]

linus is so powerful, he actually bent reality into an early 2000s skit that moment. All because he missed that type of content

[@slomnim]

Straight out of It's always sunny xD Linus is charlie and Luke is the gang trying to figure out what he means

[@TestarossaF110]

@@slomnim LMFAOOOOOO for reeeaaaalll I can see that whole episode unfold I'm my head right now.

[@eee1200]

His a God

[@802Garage]

Def a real like Key & Peele skit.

[@Somebody9666]

I bet he WISH he had autism so he can say retard/retarded (I have autism so *I* can say it). It's the same thing with 'fag' or the n-word.

[@OccupiedMuffins]

I genuinely hope Linus appreciates his employees because theres been PLENTY of times when he had his ass saved by a number of them, especially Luke

[@nosirrahx]

Mr. no filter needs Mr. filter as a co-pilot.

[@justaweeb14688]

They aren’t allowed to talk about their salary.

[@laynesobczak5818]

@@justaweeb14688 are you a bot or is this fr

[@justaweeb14688]

@@laynesobczak5818 what do you think?

[@northwestclasspnw7974]

Linus would be out of touch were it not for his staff who are still average people with (closer to) average wages

[@mypeeps1965]

Luke is the only grown up ay LTT THEIR FANS ARE JUST AS TOXIC. SEEING THEM NOW FEEDING ON THEIR OWN IS PRICELESS!

[@deathstroke-sl5jo]

I never liked the LTT crew but I always liked Luke. He was always the most reasonable person on screen

[@MichaelGarrity]

This is the type of thing where nobody would believe him if he tried to explain himself after the fact, Luke genuinely saved him by asking for clarification there

[@OneMomentPls]

Yep exactly, that's why Luke is there. To cover his ass in case something like this happen. Linus is a bit too trusting of his audience

[@LOL_MANN]

hi cyclop

[@saladgreens912]

Eh, given the other details, 2003 American Dad. We know those didn't happen so even in the clip alone you can tell that something didn't ad up.

[@Catboy_Riku]

You could clearly tell he didnt know what he was actually saying, and the fact that the reference he was talking about could be linked back to his actual thought. If would have been cleared up eventually.

[@JJAB91]

Its still wild to me that the internet has become so sensitive now that the word retard is considered a slur.

[@poppyharlow4448]

The fact that Linus didn't know what Hard R meant goes to show just how innocent the guy is.

[@1986fritzthecat]

i feel like im old, as my mind immediately went to the word for developmentally disabled people.

[@evanforst7272]

@@1986fritzthecat Me too. Took me until charlie saying racist that i thought of the n word with hard r.

[@tamari1127]

@@1986fritzthecat Same and I'm black, lol. But I'm in my twenties so idk why I didn't realize.

[@slsthewriter1299]

More like naive. Lol. But yes.

[@slsthewriter1299]

@@1986fritzthecat I immediately knew what he was talking about just from his tone, but hard-r is used to distinguish the n-word's two forms: more or less the softer reclaimed version, and then the hard-r. xD R-word would be the disability slur. Or it'd be hard-d I guess. Which wouldn't fly at all either.

[@kevinshaw7670]

Luke needs some sort of “you saved this entire company” bonus.

[@Trekzity]

Yh

[@joshua41175]

It's his "never have a bad computer" garuntee

[@RoPEK123xd]

He sure does Clearing this misunderstanding right on the spot and saving the day before it's too late to convince everyone it was just an honest mistake

[@TechSupportDave]

"you almost killed the company but then you saved it"

[@piranhalettuce]

This isn't the only "silly blunder" Linus would commit.

[@gamingterrain3703]

Imagine if they never clarified what linus meant for the whole rest of the stream and only tried to clarify after people started freaking out online. No one would've believed linus at that point, and he would've been canceled for sure. Luke totally saved the company right there🤣🤣

[@jamesflames6987]

Damn. You're right. I didn't think of that.

[@legomenjj]

Why for the fact that people don't know the the Hard R is. Nowhere did I ever think it was for the nword. The nword is the nword. The Hard R is kinda what it is

[@ocarinadude762]

@@legomenjj what most black people say is the n word that ends with a soft ‘a’ sound. This is commonly understood as acceptable to say among black people. Ending the n word with a strong ‘r’ sounds is something mostly done by racists and ignorant people in order to be demeaning and rude to black people. The strong ‘r’ sound is also described as hard, hence “hard r”.

[@AirzGD]

@@ocarinadude762 well put dude

[@fl3m1n9o4]

​@@legomenjj"Hard R" has always meant the version of the N word ending with an R, as opposed to an A

[@mr_0n10n5]

That was the greatest recovery of all time. Luke just won his spot in the hall of fame. This play will be studied for years to come during practice and labs

[@schqrr]

😂😂

[@728GT]

Poor Linus 😂 As careful as he usually is with almost everything they do, this was hilarious. I'm sure his heart almost left his body once he realized what people interpreted him saying. You could see how embarrassed and flustered he was afterwards.

[@Trekzity]

Fr

[@solar3057]

His reaction is more real and genuine than all content creators apology videos combined

[@TheEudaemonicPlague]

It wasn't carelessness. At the time he was referencing, it meant retarded. I guess you're a bit too young to remember.

[@kingghidorah8106]

he was embarrased that he is going to be criticized, not that he did something bad.

[@ConeTheBoss559]

@@kingghidorah8106 Or it's that people just like to misunderstand, and want to make a villain out of everyone.

[@markosmywords9202]

Ah goddammit it happened for real

[@illi183]

Bro I laughed so hard at his friends initial reaction to "I've dropped my fair share of hard R's in the past." The misunderstanding makes it so much better. Top tier content.

[@AliChowdary]

good comment gone bad with terrible bot replies. stay strong Illi humans still exist

[@Actual_Gabe]

sorry about your replies bro

[@kawardt6784]

Not gonna lie when the music video about the N word came out back then the whole school was singing to it. I still dont when when retarded became a slur because it was thrown around even til this day. Retard is a medical term that I used back then and no one was offended in anyway.

[@darkithnamgedrf9495]

@@kawardt6784 Wdym, people call others thr r word all the time to insult them, that like the definition of slur dummy

[@neoordwell]

​@@kawardt6784 the n word used to not be a slur either, according to most people. word connotations change. wildly. don't be a dick, okay?

[@Trident_Gaming03]

Linus is so innocent, he didn't even know he wasn't innocent, and then turned it innocent

[@liquiddiflin]

​@_Real_Clipswhat are you waffling about

[@PalpatinesPlumber]

There ain't a person who hasn't said the hard R ever.

[@SarahSoupster]

@@PalpatinesPlumberyes there is? I haven’t, it’s called the bare minimum.

[@ricky4673]

He isn't innocent at all. His show constantly slips in leftist communist propaganda. I don't watch it anymore.

[@snoopdoggthecertifiedg6777]

@@SarahSoupster Good for you.

[@ExileBiohazard]

he is the most accident prone human to ever be documented on the internet

[@theinquisitor18]

I thought that was Chris Chan, lol.

[@ThePhazed]

@@theinquisitor18 I dont think anything about chris chan is accidental unfortunately LMAO

[@edug3853]

@@theinquisitor18 no chris chan is just the most documented human on the internet, none of what she did was an accident

[@grantwilliamson100]

I LOVE LTT but can someone please explain what he was talking about other than than what we all thought?

[@chemrot931]

@@edug3853he*

[@kartgal]

Linus acting like oh yeah oh yeah I understand.

[@MINETURNNOWGamingRblxOnYT]

Bro I laughed so hard at his friends initial reaction to “I’ve dropped my fair share of hard R’s in the past” The misunderstanding makes it so much better. Such a top tier content.

[@terenceokane]

I havent doubled over laughing like that in a long time. My face is sore from laughing so hard. It was so apparent as to what he meant, but obviously so easy to think the other way.

[@nev12345678910]

That is the best soundbite ecer

[@skeletonbuyingpealts7134]

4:25

[@sulrich70]

I had to look it up. I had no idea either

[@mitchhirt]

I'm used to Linus dropping expensive electronics but I never thought I'd live to see the day when he almost drops his whole damn company

[@j.s.t.6515]

This

[@luizcastro5246]

Which he admitted to receiving a 9 figure offer for like a week before lol, could imagine destroying 100 million dollars in like on sentence 😂

[@lesslighter]

I mean his company is surrounded by expensive electronics...

[@Allen-R]

Has to keep evolving, you know.

[@_.Dylan._]

He also dropped some hard r’s

[@Drarjunmenon]

Having known Linus over the years, I always knew he'd destroy himself to oblivion over something trivial. Thankfully, today is not that day.

[@tommygunrz]

Gonna destroy him when he drops a 4090 ti

[@TreX0578]

Linus drop tips babyyy!!

[@Garbarrel]

I thought your pfp was skydoesminecraft

[@syalda0001]

Pewds got away with saying the hard R while crossing a bridge so… um yeah 😅

[@vanbogan3712]

​@@syalda0001lol he did not get away with it.

[@icouldntfindafunny5688]

5 months later but i dont think hes going to fix it this time

[@thiccomniman]

Luke was genuinely relieved when he realized that Linus was very severely mistaken.

[@pauliussipavicius4658]

@@JohnDoe-ws4iu How that yall think about nigger if he clearly says hard R wtf?

[@v0HaVoK0v]

@@JohnDoe-ws4iu I guess it's not uncommon to think it meant that, this video is the first time I realise that meant the n word

[@iffyfox9749]

​@@v0HaVoK0v It doesn't, people are trying to make it mean that but the original context for "hard R" was referring to a slur against the mentally impaired. Idk how "hard R" caught on to refer to the N word, but it's honestly just confusing and stupid

[@MichaelDeHaven]

​@@iffyfox9749I guess it all depends on who we hang around with and what we watch. Still, I'm certian I've known "the hard R" as the N word(as opposed to ending in an a) for at least 3 years. At least no one was harmed and it ended up being kind of funny, in a weird way.

[@iffyfox9749]

@@MichaelDeHaven True. I was watching the video wondering what the big deal was, then they brought up racism and I was just confused. Glad Linus didn't get the internet execution though

[@Fay7666]

That whole segment was just _peak_ Linus Drop Tips. Dude was dropping his company like it was nothing, confusing "R-word" with "Hard-R" is definitely something that's on-character for him.

[@CyanZone0]

@Dream ⸜⁄ Shush bot

[@DadsCigaretteRun]

Now that I understand what he meant it’s fucking precious 😂

[@mile4809]

well i was on the same page as linus 😅

[@MCXL1140]

Funnily enough a bunch of people in Canada seem to think that hard R is in fact the R word.

[@filiperosa7496]

I dont know the diferente is like R is for ret*** and har R for ra**?

[@Jhoofnail]

If anything it’s borderline adorable that he’s so unfamiliar with the slur that he’s completely clueless about that aspect. Never change Linus

[@20IA]

@@kp1x what

[@ThePrimeEvilDiablo]

​@@kp1x ?

[@astraiarune3026]

I honestly thought it meant the same thing I feel so silly lol

[@DemonSaine]

he was so innocent about it I was like dude he CANT be talking about the N word lmao

[@dedwood424]

​@@kp1xwhat are you on about?

[@variadi]

Linus being oblivious to the fact he's about to get cancelled is the funniest thing I've seen this week.

[@Shitposting_IHMN]

I use it casually, the nword with hard R I mean. Its not racist to use it, its racist to call someone by that word, because of its skin colour

[@AaronSmith561]

​@@Shitposting_IHMN We are not your therapist or confessional. No one asked if you used the N word with the hard R. Go away.

[@just1nt1m3]

As an European, I never heard hard R. We use the n word

[@wicked5999]

@@Shitposting_IHMN are you white?

[@nezzled]

@@Shitposting_IHMN (4chan user)

[@rrramon]

here we are 5 months later, and yes, he just did ruin his career.

[@jkacvbhijfn]

I’m sorry what were you saying?

[@BusDayHeadz]

The fact that Luke hits him with a stunned, "Oh, really?" and is immediately reevaluating his entire relationship with Linus is everything for me.

[@beni5149]

I don't think good friends would re-evaluate their friendship because of a word that was used. He was just extremely worried that Linus is saying something that will ruin their careers

[@cupofoats]

​@@beni5149 everyone can end friendships because of any reason. Don't project what you would have done to others. If that's important to them, it's in their own right to decide what to do with that info if it's something they can or can't align with

[@TimothyGod]

​@@beni5149 if you find out your good buddy is horribly racist and doesn't seem to mind sharing it, then hell yes there's decent reason to reevaluate. Are you kidding? Hating a group of people for something ridiculous is a pretty fair reason to not like someone

[@Connection-Lost]

@@cupofoats Waaaaah. Waaaah. words hurt my feelings, waaaaaaaaah.

[@Connection-Lost]

@@TimothyGod Mommyyyyyy, my fwend said mean words, i dont want to be his fwend any mowe

[@StockA4]

This is exactly how I felt when I dropped my keys over a sewer grate in the street, and had them land on the grate without falling in. The fear was palpable, and the relief came in a delicious wave.

[@gm0x653]

such descriptive words A+

[@good-tn9sr]

use “overwhelming” instead of “delicious”

[@neondemons]

@@good-tn9sr Why? It fits, makes sense and gets the meaning across.

[@sm_stormzy1075]

@@good-tn9sr no

[@steven95N]

This is so fucking wholesome. He misses swears so much he doesn't know what they're even called anymore. Protect Linus at all costs.

[@davidpadilla2029]

Doesn’t deserve protection

[@Music-gw4qf]

Linus is a clown.

[@jorder]

​@@davidpadilla2029 that felt personal

[@sunbleachedangel]

Me too apparently

[@llccrrr]

@Detector ⸜⁄ bro

[@PlayerPaul]

5:35 WHAT THE F- Uh... I'm pretty sure that's a more shocking plot twist than the "Luke I'm your father" from Empire strikes back was

[@Maddin1313]

Luke deserves a bonus for saving Linus and the whole company.

[@Shitposting_IHMN]

I use it casually, the nword with hard R I mean. Its not racist to use it, its racist to call someone by that word, because of its skin colour

[@elscruffo2264]

@@Shitposting_IHMN no, it is racist to use

[@LizZard1988]

@@Shitposting_IHMN nah, it is totally racist to use it.

[@ryanbaker2762]

@@Shitposting_IHMN this is bait

[@infer2311]

@@Shitposting_IHMN Bro ain’t no fuckin way I really hope your black

[@amsf1]

That was like watching astronauts open a hatch and all the oxygen getting sucked out of the ship before Luke miraculously hit the close hatch/repressurize button with 1 second to spare.

[@Moracher]

I need to see this as an animation

[@originalusername6971]

🤓

[@justaweeb14688]

There nothing wrong with saying retard, gay or nigga R (yt deletes it)

[@strictlyrudeinhd]

im laughing so hard at this whole situation. It's like a new genre of comedy or something

[@EliteProductions3129]

This was one of the funniest blunders I've ever had the pleasure of watching. Luke trying to process what Linus was talking about was absolute gold

[@mtbrdly]

@logan_Floor your mom should've aborted tho

[@matthewjalovick]

The casual “…oh” when Linus finally realizes.

[@da1trugamr]

Everyones talking about the save but no one's talking about the reaction itself... Bro just had to reevaluate his ENTIRE friendship with a man LMAO

[@chadywood]

It's absolutely comedy fucking gold. Like you couldn't have written this as a bit for a podcast or tv show. It's PERFECT, the delivery, the reactions, the reveal. Perfect, its PERFECT.

[@megasuperiordude]

It feels like he took the American Dad bit and ran with it himself. Stan continuously talking about how "Back when I was a teenager we dropped the hard R like it was nothing, it was a much simpler time" and then at the end of the episode someone asks him if he means the slur, and he goes "What? No, I'm talking about the word we used to call people stupid, the hard R"

[@rikittu]

Midway through the video I realized what he probably meant by hard r. I would've lost my shit if I had seen this live😭

[@roahnosh]

Its perfect like his combover

[@buttadog5073]

Honestly I think Linus' reputation is to good that most people would know that he never means wrong. Very genuine dude

[@FREQQLES]

Saw a tiktok the other day where hard-R was mention and my Australian brain defaulted to the R-word in my head. Watching the WAN show I immediately knew he'd made the same mistake. Honest mistake if you're outside of the US, like Linus.

[@lemon66111]

@@FREQQLES which r word

[@buttadog5073]

@@FREQQLES well when he says "Yeah I used to say hard R all the time" that's when I instantly was like "Oh he's definitely not talking about the N word" Linus definitely ain't about that lol

[@cfvgd]

Have the US really fallen that low? How degenerated are you guys now days?... it's just words. Linus is obviously a genuine nice guy. There is noone denying that

[@buttadog5073]

@@cfvgd are you asking me? Cuz I'm Canadian just the same as Linus lol

[@MrMaxim]

Pro tip: Get a panic key (stop stream without delay) and add delay on OBS for like 5 seconds. That will at least give you 5 seconds to turn off stream before disaster.

[@yeahhh4911]

source 2

[@Hunter-po8jy]

H3 moment

[@Uncleharkinian]

Hi I work in radio, we have been doing this for almost a century! This is hilarious tho gotta love Linus what a goof

[@caimanaraujo479]

Had the stream stoped, he would have been cancelled.

[@b__c7538]

@@caimanaraujo479 Obviously they mean BEFORE he said he used the hard r

[@coldtech06]

4:39 This is the perfect reaction to the Madison's allegations that just dropped

[@CkBr]

I guess not really after that third-party investigation that just concluded

[@brunoyudi9555]

comment didnt aged very well lol

[@noah2765]

fake

[@WhoIsGoLDENRaTi0]

I've never before witnessed such an act of heroism in my entire life

[@phantasticmrphasma9874]

I thought it was hard ER. When he said hard R, i knew exactly what he meant but i must be as unaware as he is

[@WhoIsGoLDENRaTi0]

@@phantasticmrphasma9874 honestly, Linus was just having a boomer moment. And it was absolutely incredible watching the range of emotions in his co-host lol

[@sapphanna]

this had more tension than most recently modern horror movies

[@Ham.V0]

my guy, i crapped myself

[@Moop666]

It’s sad how society put so much pressure on a word

[@dokorege3097]

@@Moop666 its sad how those who don't feel the weight of the word comment on it

[@sugabopp]

​@@dokorege3097 you give the word its weight

[@heyryanisonx3141]

now i want to see a full-length movie where some public figure is on livestream continuously about to say something career-ending only to save it right at the last second

[@RyanSoltani]

Linus is such a friendly guy that him making a mistake of this magnitude was basically bound to happen. He’s used to dropping technology, not his entire company, my goodness

[@nekyal]

not u stealing another person's comment

[@NewBornMilk]

@@nekyal not you thinking your original

[@SomeBotOfficial]

bruh, he was right, that's how we joked back then. It was gamer talk. We didn't really mean it. lol.

[@Neo-fq6vc]

Only Linus Tech Tips fans understand this🤣🤣🤣

[@Kyuuwai]

Linus literally 1 fart away from getting blasted to the atmosphere

[@notawesomebread]

I think the funniest part is just imagining linus being a regular "hard-R" user

[@night00glider]

What R stands for ?? is it rhyme with mustard? or is there any race slurs with R ?

[@napoleonbonafide4185]

I can imagine him saying retard for sure but I just can't hear the other out of his voice lol

[@Tactiducky]

@@night00glider the n word using the R at the end instead of an a

[@night00glider]

@@Tactiducky I genuinely don’t know hard R can still be related to N-word…. Like, if someone said hard A, I will assume asshole, and not N word ending with A, and hard R as Mustard Re.. and not N word with R….

[@bigman9854]

@@night00glider it’s to do with how racist people say it with a hard R while African Americans say it with a soft A

[@DemonzHouze]

after Linus clarified himself everyone in that room must have sighed with so much relief they entered a new plane of existence

[@christopherdavis3517]

No, because it's extremely rare to confuse the R word with the N word. I don't think anybody in the studio was in any doubt. I'm terminally online and i never heard of this being confused.

[@TriniAjo]

@@christopherdavis3517 I was literally thinking what is the hard R word he’s talking about that’s a mental disability? 😭😭😭

[@SPlompie]

@@christopherdavis3517 hard r’s*, not just r word

[@thepaco27bruh99]

@@christopherdavis3517try again

[@TyDieMusic]

Thats gay

[@Vienna3080]

“I dropped my fair share of hard Rs” NEVER LET BRO COOK AGAIN💀

[@Quasiguambo]

What insult is a 'hard R' rtard? I'm confused? I don't have the greatest of imaginations but I can't think of any insult that starts with an 'r' except Rtard. Nope. Is there a way of me learning this without it being explicitly stated? lol Edit: Nevermind it was explained obviously. Thats a stupid way of phrasing nothing lol.

[@Suhmstank]

What is hard R

[@chadstrong7714]

I think he means r*tard not *iger

[@newchild5161]

@@Suhmstank how to dehumanize black people

[@hikarinopower8090]

@@Suhmstank I know you ain't talking dumb with a name like SOMESTANK420

[@sajjan_kumar]

Well. I wonder why this is coming in my feed.

[@jasonjansen9831]

Linus didn't even know what hard R is. I see this as an absolute win.

[@katliit9442]

He knew what it was, but the word retard can also be considered as the hard R

[@CyFr]

He only knew what he thought it was, which is retarded in a way.

[@evilcow2114]

I thought it was for disabilities, until charlie said it was racist, then I realized it was the N word.

[@yurifan2537]

@@evilcow2114 same, I thought it was the re word, not the ni word

[@gigaleader]

​@@yurifan2537same here. And that one did use to be commonly used as an insult or even just to tease your friends... Not that different from calling someone "stupid"