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Linus blatantly displays his mistreatment of employees on his various shows. Outright calling them to task while live streaming.

FirmwareBurner 3y ago
Yeah, Linus Tech Tips has become the Andrew Tate of tech reviewers. Greedy, sleezy, exploitative, too full of himself. At least in the past he wasn't pretending to be professional reviewer, and was just having fun with his goofball friends doing crazy experiments in his garage like heating your house with your PC, or daisy-chaining the maximum number pf PCI-E extenders for fun experiments, or water-cooling their Red cinema camera, and those were entertaining. But now he doesn't even do content like that anymore and became just an influencer farming out low quality click bait content ("I'm reviewing the cheapest junk off AliExpress") from his media empire built on the sweat of exploiting gullible young people who look up to him and aspire to be like him, while pleading poverty and pretending to be an accurate source of information because he now owns a lab and testing equipment, but has no qualified staff on hand because qualified technical staff costs real money and doesn't like being exploited for peanuts just to get followers on their Instagram accounts. I feel sorry for their staff and for the younger viewers who will grow up with such junk as their source for tech information.
- soupbowl 3y ago
  This is a funny take, Linus Tate lol, a little unhinged though.
- MichaelZuo 3y ago
  I've noticed this happens quite a lot even with folks that seemed moderately likable when they were younger, they become sleazy prima donnas when given even a small amount of fame or fortune.
- Apocryphon 3y ago
  Hey wait. LTT’s specific in-organization sins aside, isn’t their content a common YouTube tech genre? Are Austin Evans, Dawid Does Tech Stuff, the Toasty Bros, etc. also to be faulted for making reviews?
slikrick 3y ago
He had one of them hold a monitor for him during a video, literally used his employee as a table stand

FirmwareBurner 3y ago

Yeah, Linus Tech Tips has become the Andrew Tate of tech reviewers. Greedy, sleezy, exploitative, too full of himself. At least in the past he wasn't pretending to be professional reviewer, and was just having fun with his goofball friends doing crazy experiments in his garage like heating your house with your PC, or daisy-chaining the maximum number pf PCI-E extenders for fun experiments, or water-cooling their Red cinema camera, and those were entertaining. But now he doesn't even do content like that anymore and became just an influencer farming out low quality click bait content ("I'm reviewing the cheapest junk off AliExpress") from his media empire built on the sweat of exploiting gullible young people who look up to him and aspire to be like him, while pleading poverty and pretending to be an accurate source of information because he now owns a lab and testing equipment, but has no qualified staff on hand because qualified technical staff costs real money and doesn't like being exploited for peanuts just to get followers on their Instagram accounts. I feel sorry for their staff and for the younger viewers who will grow up with such junk as their source for tech information.

soupbowl 3y ago
This is a funny take, Linus Tate lol, a little unhinged though.
MichaelZuo 3y ago
I've noticed this happens quite a lot even with folks that seemed moderately likable when they were younger, they become sleazy prima donnas when given even a small amount of fame or fortune.
Apocryphon 3y ago
Hey wait. LTT’s specific in-organization sins aside, isn’t their content a common YouTube tech genre? Are Austin Evans, Dawid Does Tech Stuff, the Toasty Bros, etc. also to be faulted for making reviews?

slikrick 3y ago

He had one of them hold a monitor for him during a video, literally used his employee as a table stand