Dont even need to watch the whole video. This is all you gotta see.

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    Damn they tried to plug LTT store too. GN made a long serious video with stats, data, no jokes, no sponsors or plugs.

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      Yeah no they’re not salvageable. Linus is a clown. My friends even told me, but I didn’t see it. That’s the consequence of growing up surrounded by toxicity: you think it’s normal and don’t see it.

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        Linus is a clown. Literally. That is his brand of entertainment, clowning around with tech.

        That’s where he fucked up with Billet labs - he argued that he was defending consumers because nobody should buy that thing - but that’s not the job of a clown, a clown is meant to entertain people.

        I’m not saying Linus is a clown as an insult, I mean that’s genuinely his brand and how he entertains people - memes, jokes, laughs, that’s great stuff most of the time but when you arbitrarily switch lanes it better be for a good reason.

        Otherwise, stay in the clown car and make people laugh.

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        I watched LTT videos for entertainment, not product suggestions / benchmarks / as an information source. Clown it is!

        Granted I already unsubscribed from the channels I followed and won’t use him for even that anymore.

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          I find it a little bit hard to enjoy the content, now that I know how to interpret it.

          It’s kinda like when you find a great restaurant around the corner, go there a lot, enjoy the food, and then you realize they abuse their personal, lie to everyone about what is in the dishes (allergens etc), and so on. Can’t really enjoy the food anymore. The taste hasn’t changed, but it hits different.

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            I agree. The content definitely always gave off the impression of being rushed, just didn’t realize it was to such a degree.

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        He’s a very rich clown.

        Big mainstream appeal though. Even to otherwise quite smart tech normies. I have some scientist friends (scientists but very much not computer people. Mac fanboy types) who love him.

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      Yes, but actually no. I think it was rather self aware. And nick whispering lttstore when saying what he does was fine imo.

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      GN did have their merch on display in the video. They didn’t ANNOUNCE it or make any direction to it. But they still had merch ON DISPLAY. Not trying to dampen the shit that is going on with LMG, but I feel it’s an important thing to make clear.

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          It is a good point to consider. Too bad it was made by someone who represents themselves as a 12 year old on the internet. Did you come from Reddit too?

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        GN did have their merch on display in the video

        That’s because it’s part of the set.

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            Not even close to the same. One is something you’d have to put in extra work to remove, the other is something you have to put in extra work to add.

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              It’s the same as Luke saying BYE at the end if every WAN show, it’s just something they do.

              I don’t understand why you’re focusing on completely irrelevant things like this when there’s much worse shit going on, f.e. with Madison

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            They literally used the green screen set with custom backgrounds instead of one of their dozen physical sets around the LMG studio. They could have easily cut out that part as well if they wanted to.

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          There’s a pretty big difference in having something on display as part of a set in a video about issues at another outlet, and calling out a link to a product to be purchased in what is supposed to be an apology video by said outlet. LMG also originally had this video monetised and had links to their store and products in the description before finally removing those. GN did none of this because they understood the seriousness of what they were doing - they even called out that the video wouldn’t be monetised at the start of it.

          I get the point you’re trying to make, but it’s a bad one.

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            Yeah I actually agree it’s a bad one. I completely misread that person’s comment lol. I made so many people pissed off accidently judging by the downvotes. My bad