HW News - Linus Tech Tips' Terrible Response, ESMC, & Starfield x AMD GPUs
HW News - Linus Tech Tips' Terrible Response, ESMC, & Starfield x AMD GPUs
News from Gamers Nexus. Including some part about the response from Linus regarding the previous video. Linus really likes to jump the gun and digging holes for himself.
The dude who doesn't let his employees talk about pay is a shit bag? Who would have guessed?
Not an LMG fan but I assumed better of them in this regard, wow.
While calling himself a socialist and virtue signalling about it on twitter, to boot.
Seeing Linus not address about LMG agreed to send the protype back to Billet Labs, plus Billet Labs publicly stating "No, we never agreed to financial compensation, we asked for it to be returned" and Linus saying it was auctioned for charity makes Linus Media Group a thief.
Yes,I'm saying LMG stole the protype from Billet Laps since it was sold and not retuned.
Yep correct. LMG is engaging in criminal activities
Thievery implies intent. I think I'd like to give the benefit of the doubt here and say it not being returned may well have been unintentional, through carelessness or straight up hubris ("I can do whatever I want with stuff people send to me!"). Either way, it's incredibly bad, but one is obviously worse than the other.
Billet Labs asked for it to be returned. LMG agreed the their request and told Billet Labs "Yes, we will return it to you." Then LMG auctioned it off. LMG committed theft. There very well may be a valid legal case for Billet Labs to sue for punitive damages if LMG does not give them a sizeable amount of money.
Whether intentional or not, they stole trade secrets. There might not be any legal repercussions of there wasn't intent, but that's incredibly unethical. Especially given Linus is a public investor in a tech startup, he used his platform to trash another startup and then give away their intellectual property.
I like LMG. They make some decent content, that’s easily understood. That being said, they’re handling this VERY badly. Shame on Linus, and LMG.
Linus has been sticking his foot in his mouth often enough that it's starting to develop in to the persona he thinks he needs to/is supposed to have. The WAN Show is pretty much the only LTT content I care to watch anymore, but it has become increasingly common over the last ~year or more that he has a spicy take that gets embroiled in some mild controversy. But now he's like "well this is the part of the show where I have spicy takes" and is almost actively looking to do it. I see Luke becoming increasingly frustrated with it too. Stepping down as CEO is probably the right call, but this move to "CVO" seems a little too lateral. I think Linus needs to pull back out of the spotlight, for the health of his company. But I really think he thinks his personality is the brand.
He likes and wants to be on camera, and he knows a ton from years in the industry, but I wonder if he wouldn't be better as like... chief script advisor who also teaches other employees tips and tricks on how to compose videos, stage scenes, manage the flow of content, where to splice in B roll, how to read the weave of the youtube algorithm... They've grown remarkably, and I like what Linus states is the goal of the Labs project. But I worry he's both becoming increasingly convinced his personality is an important part of the channel cachet, and also increasingly impulsive with regards to making decisions and spending money in an effort to go fast.
Stepping down as CEO is probably the right call, but this move to "CVO" seems a little too lateral. I think Linus needs to pull back out of the spotlight, for the health of his company. But I really think he thinks his personality is the brand.
If ownership hasn't changed, and he's still essentially the CEO's boss since he selects them, it's rearranging deck chairs. He hired someone to do administrative tasks.
I like what Linus states
I've only watched LMG content for a few months, but this out-of-context snippet sums up my feelings on the company.
Sebastian says that it's a consumer-first, employee-second, profit-third company. But his actions don't always support that.
Sebastian says that he doesn't believe anyone should ever be a "fan" of anything because it's irrational. But then he turns around and dismisses anyone who doesn't show his brand absolute loyalty.
Sebastian says a lot of shit which sounds absolutely amazing if you can assume it's true. And the problem is that you can't assume that the company line is true coming from any company. You can just watch their business practices and make the best judgment on if the company seems honest. And Linus Sebastian, who effectively is the company as the owner and face of it, has increasingly come off as dishonest. It makes it damn near impossible to trust any of the good things he says that he does.
This is probably the most coherent take I've read. He's having trouble taking it from a yt channel to an actual company, and it's kicking his arse.
I’ve called this since the backpack warranty debacle. Linus needs to be pulled back to earth or risk having LTT lose their credibility.
There's credibility in the first place? O_o I always assumed it's like Top Gear for cars; it's entertainment for younger people of its time.
I liked their budget build guides, it provided me with a baseline list of components depending on my available budget for the build. I’ve also based some of my decision regarding setting up my house networking from their videos.
TL:DR On this backpack warranty thing? I keep reading comments mentioning it, but I am not aware of what happened.
my goodness, they need to slow the video output rate so that they can carefully consider the content of responses to valid criticism.
I think Linus is convinced that if they slow down at all, the entire company will collapse because they've grown so huge. They also ran up huge debt to build the Labs which will not start generating revenue for a long time.
I watched some of their videos maybe 10+ years ago. I don't know how they managed to get so big, but I think they should probably get small again.
It gets worse
Madison (a former LMG employee) took to Twitter to unload her experience of widespread sexual harassment, bullying, intimidation and other issues. She's just thrown a whole tanker of gasoline on the fire.
https://twitter.com/suuuoppp/status/1691693740254228741
Linus is about to end up homeless...
Wow, this summary is scathing
Oh. I liked her on the videos. Explains why havent seen her anymore. This is pretty sad to read.
This is a pretty bad look. I think maybe someone head is too far up where it shouldn't be to get that.
He’s an entertainer, but also an idiot
I can only hope for any kind of positive outcome.
I can only hope for
any kind of positive outcomea t-shirt for sale at lttstore.com at 25% off that makes light of the situation.Feels more fitting.
It's about time that this misinformation spreading bozo is stopped. That whole channel is a joke & I never understood why people watch this shit. And the reaction is not surprising.
i'm getting somewhat sick of seeing this posted everywhere..
This is a separate follow up, but I get what you mean
Yep
The fanbois are marching..
This is really stupid. Don't care for either channel owner and don't expect perfection. Again, this is stupid.
It is relevant only insofar that if you rely on youtube reviews for stuff you buy, maybe don't click on LTT videos any more.
But that's not exactly new advise, more from like... 10 years ago or so 😂. Still, they did a really bad thing here.
Well yeah... I just watch it for the jokes
Yeah just YouTube tech reviewer drama. Who cares lol
> Media Company loaned $10k prototype from startup
> Media Company gives scathing review of product after knowingly using it incorrectly
> Media Company also auctions off prototype instead of returning it, now startup cannot continue product development> Other Media Company calls out first Media Company for irresponsible conduct
> "TeCh ReViEwEr DrAmA"