- HellAwaits ( @HellAwaits@lemm.ee ) English44•11 months ago
Good to see, but I don’t think LTT is going to lose most viewers. At least not anytime soon. They still have an insane amount of views per video and all they really have to do is look like they’re sorry and most of the internet will forget about it. I think LTT, if they continue down this path, should be defunct.
- youthinkyouknowme ( @youthinkyouknowme@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) English10•11 months ago
I don’t watch or follow their content and was impressed that they get at least a million views for every video, and they post almost everyday I guess. Holy shit
- GreenMario ( @GreenMario@lemm.ee ) 3•11 months ago
Not to mention they have so many channels that act as “fluff” that (lack of a better word) normies view casually and move on.
- NoiseColor ( @NoiseColor@startrek.website ) 22•11 months ago
Emotions are high right now. It’s not a trend. I bet most of their subscribers don’t know about what’s going on and wouldn’t care either way. If lmg promise to do better and nothing big comes out, this will be forgotten in two weeks.
- Freeman ( @freeman@lemmy.pub ) 3•11 months ago
I’m curious if findings do come out. Would YouTube cancel or demonitize them?
- nonearther ( @nonearther@lemmy.ml ) English19•11 months ago
Let’s see what happens in a month or 3.
Even Reddit lost viewers, but they are almost back to original.
People will forget and carry on with LTT subscription.
- golli ( @golli@lemm.ee ) 1•11 months ago
You are absolutely right that this won’t lead to their collapse. But i would still say that in both reddits and LTT’s case, even if the numbers revert back, it will have an affect longterm.
For reddit the content quality has likely gone down and suddenly there is a viable alternative in Lemmy, which might have never gotten the chance to get of the ground otherwise. Within a month Lemmy suddenly has a decent amount of content, some communities have migrated here, and we have a number of high quality apps to choose from.
With LTT i think this does also have the potential to hurt them, even if the subscriber numbers come back up. They’ve been in a process of rapid expansion for a while now, so merely getting back to those numbers or slightly growing won’t cut it. Additionally i think with floatplane and the lab they’ve been heavily investing into their image as a reputable and trusted company for consumers. Particularly the lab where they’ve heavily invested. Even if ultimately the average less informed consumer is their target market, for that they will also need enthusiasts to recommend them to those.
- amphy ( @amphy@lemmy.ca ) English18•11 months ago
happy to contribute to the unsub count
- Sensitivezombie ( @Sensitivezombie@lemmy.zip ) 14•11 months ago
The thing is, although LTT is important to Linus, his wife, and with direct ties, the viewers have many choices today with regards to the tech YouTubers of different nature. This makes it easy to just move one. LTT is a mass marketed channel, not particularly niche in any area of tech and there are many like it.
- ThePac ( @ThePac@lemmy.ml ) English2•11 months ago
Maybe, but with their size LTT can do crazy shit like water-cooling an entire server room with a pool.
- Snowcano ( @Snowcano@startrek.website ) English14•11 months ago
I was never subbed anyway, but I also made sure to find a LTT vid and click on “don’t recommend channel” on YouTube.
Nuking from orbit is the only way to be sure.
- Slyme ( @Slyme@lemm.ee ) English12•11 months ago
OOTL, what’s going on here?
- Syo ( @Syo@kbin.social ) 12•11 months ago
Being transparent about your business, comes with pros and cons. Right now a female employee shared her end of the story to the web on why she quit, and you’re seeing the reaction to it.
Edit: This amplified the ongoing issue about LTT and their information integrity, which is very likely due to root causes that Linus repeatedly ignored, or worse, believed he was right and everyone was wrong.
- pumpsnabben ( @pumpsnabben@sopuli.xyz ) 1•11 months ago
Didn’t she leave about two years ago?
- Gamma ( @GammaGames@beehaw.org ) 7•11 months ago
Yeah, but she hadn’t talked about it publicly because of fear of harassment, death threats, etc from the community
- sadreality ( @sadreality@kbin.social ) 2•11 months ago
Sounds like a great community if true…
- Steinawitz ( @Steinawitz@kbin.social ) 10•11 months ago
I had to look it up myself. These two links seem to cover the controversy pretty well.
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-recent-criticism-of-linus-tech-tips-explained/
https://fandomwire.com/the-linus-tech-tips/
Edit:
Found this one too which is straight from the horse’s mouth: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1691693740254228741.html - Bombastic ( @Bombastic@sopuli.xyz ) 4•11 months ago
Drama
- iHUNTcriminals ( @iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee ) 2•11 months ago
No doubt lol. There’s bigger fish to fry. I’m so glad I’m learning to not participate in trendy drama. Especially when the activists won’t even take time out of their super righteous elite life to tell you what’s going on. It must be huge! Lol
- Poggervania ( @Poggervania@kbin.social ) 6•11 months ago
Nah, nothing big outside of it being LTT and Gamer’s Nexus calling them out.
In a nutshell, LTT was given a prototype of a product that they basically said was shit due to testing the product outside of the specified parameters that company told them to test in and, instead of sending the prototype and other stuff that the company sent to LTT for testing back to said company, LTT auctioned the prototype off. Gamer’s Nexus made a video calling out stuff like this happening as well as the inconsistency of LTT’s testing lab data to point out that LTT is basically doing rush job videos for money and is starting to do more harm than good. Linus himself gets involved and shifts blame to everybody else except himself and his staff. On top of all this going on, a former LTT employee started going off about workplace harassment with some pretty serious accusations (but no hard evidence).
There’s a lot more stuff going on with the nitty-gritty, but that’s more or less the gist of things.
- iHUNTcriminals ( @iHUNTcriminals@lemm.ee ) 1•11 months ago
Thanks for the info, I appreciate it.
Shitty of him to sell the device but that’s the biz if you don’t put every little thing in fine print.
Them’s the breaks.
- Saik0 ( @Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com ) English9•11 months ago
What needs to be in the fine print of LTT confirming they’re going to return it… to then turn around and sell it after confirming they’re going to return it?
- eskimofry ( @eskimofry@lemmy.ml ) 4•11 months ago
You must have an elite life too then, because the links to what happened are posted everywhere.
- roguetrick ( @roguetrick@kbin.social ) 1•11 months ago
Hobbydrama, which is always enjoyable.
- Altima NEO ( @altima_neo@lemmy.zip ) English11•11 months ago
These things are always temporary. They’ll lose subs for a moment, but then it’ll bounce back like nothing
- terminhell ( @terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 9•11 months ago
Well, it seems like they’ve finally admitted to a lot of this from GN (thanks Steve). But, can we at least give them a chance to correct?
- Darkassassin07 ( @Darkassassin07@lemmy.ca ) English20•11 months ago
Have a read through the pinned post in this community, then ask again.
/edit: https://lemmy.ml/post/3412121 (it’s not pinned anymore)
- terminhell ( @terminhell@lemmy.dbzer0.com ) 2•11 months ago
Uh, wow. Was not aware of this, at all. I was aware of some previous workplace stuff from what, a few months ago. But dam.
- orntar ( @orntar@lemm.ee ) 20•11 months ago
Little behind, eh?
- slugbones ( @slugbones@lemmy.ml ) 6•11 months ago
- ViktorShahter ( @ViktorShahter@lemmy.ml ) 6•11 months ago
Who is this Linus Sex Tips and what he did?
Okay, now seriously, I know who he is but I’m too lazy to check what he did.
- drcobaltjedi ( @drcobaltjedi@programming.dev ) 7•11 months ago
Well on monday it started off with another channel pointing out that their data is systemically crap, overworked crunching empolyees, and they robbed some indie startup company, and now it’s all about how they have an incredibly toxic work enviroment and sexual assault alligations.
- VanillaGorilla ( @VanillaGorilla@kbin.social ) 5•11 months ago
Thanks for the reminder.
- ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻ ( @unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ) English4•11 months ago
Good to see I’m not the only one, I kept my TechLinked and GameLinked subscriptions because those channels are actually alright
- UlrikHD ( @UlrikHD@programming.dev ) 8•11 months ago
Aren’t those run by the same people?
- ⸻ Ban DHMO 🇦🇺 ⸻ ( @unionagainstdhmo@aussie.zone ) English2•11 months ago
Yes, but it is some of their better content which I think we should support
- HankScorpio ( @HankScorpio@aussie.zone ) 3•11 months ago
I unsubbed a couple of weeks ago because they released that always live video thing and it gave me the shits seeing the icon