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The recent criticism of Linus Tech Tips, explained
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Managed to do a screwdriver plug, Floatplane plug and mention dBrand.
My god...
EDIT: and lttstore.com smh
I started boycotting LTT when he had his shit take about blocking ads being essentially stealing.
Well I sure don't steal Linus anymore that's for sure.
And I would be stealing Linus for sure considering the absolutely crazy amount of ads there is on this channel.
Ever watched a WAN Show without any AdBlock or sponsor block ? That's like 40% of the duration of the video if I include the LTT shop.
It's by far the channel on YT that I watched that pushes the most ads/sponsors. And I'm not even accounting for the YT ads themselves.
Fuck LTT seriously, he can push as much ads as possible AND on top of that you have to watch all of them religiously.
If that's the price for his content, not worth it for me.
I unsubscribed and started boycotting it when I watched a video one day and it wasn’t clear to me that the whole video was a sponsored ad until the very end when they dropped a line like “Oh and thanks to our sponsor XYZ for giving us all of the hardware we showed you today.”
I was watching multiple reviews on products I was a shopping for and realized they were an unreliable source if they didn’t disclose this was basically a shill video until the last few minutes.
That's pretty normal in the podcasting/streaming/video world, although usually at smaller scale. Most of these people work with a "subscribe to my patreon to get access to the fan-discord" and questions/suggestions for the show come from the fan-discord.
I can't fault them for the hustle normally - that's the business they're in. But yeah, plugging stuff in an apology video is grotesque.
I'm just a passive observer who's watched maybe a few dozen LTT videos ever, but this here was also my take away and always has been with this organization. I don't know how big this company is but they're clearly at a level where they, as a company, are mostly in it for the money. For me as an outsider, LTT is becoming more well known for the problems it has more so than the service it provides.
This blatant plug to ask people for money in what should be a somber apology video is arrogant and obscene. They're acting as if they're all-powerful and infallible in a video explaining their failures.
It strikes me that they're putting themselves in a position to rectify foundational disorganization because they're more concerned about revenue than they are fulfilling their promise to to their audience - robust testing and reviews / critique that can consumers can trust without hesitance.
Asking people to buy things should not at all cross your mind in the production of this video.
With that said, if they are the mega-org that I presume they are, it's their prerogative to be concerned about revenue more than anything else. As a consumer, I don't find revenue-centric organizations among the top of entities I would deem trust-worthy.