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πŸ–• Fuck PayPal

And fuck Linus Tech Tips for intentionally keeping quiet about this after they found out.

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[–] [email protected] 246 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

I said it in another post: if you see a bunch of influencers all suddenly peddling the same stuff, stay away. All of them can be bought.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 14 minutes ago

See also: RayCons headphones, which appear to be unilaterally bullshit but were on absolutely every video for a couple of months, touted as being the very best.

[–] [email protected] 115 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Or, just don't trust ads period

Do your own research

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Or just don't buy shit you don't need.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 21 hours ago

(You don't buy Honey.)

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Do your own research is the famous last coherent phrase of the QAnon crowd. Idk what the answer is but that phrase will forever make me uneasy.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How long are we going to let the far right keep stealing our words? It's a proud respectable cryptocurrency term.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

Grifters all the way down then

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

It's also something leftists famously tell each other Β―_(ツ)_/Β―

[–] [email protected] 37 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Okay, all of these customer reviews loved this product!

Weird how formulaic they sounded though.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Didn't say anything about site reviews either :p

But ya finding good sources can be hard

[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Especially anything from Linus, they’re a very scummy group.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

What annoys me the most is since his last drama, Linus HAS to be the face in every video now! Wtf it used to be a bunch of them took turns making videos, and it was fun seeing everyone work on different things. He has to be front and get all the attention, it just feels weird now.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 19 hours ago

Side effect of him stepping away from the CEO role, I guess.

[–] [email protected] 42 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

Am I the only one who, upon seeing his videos for the first time, immediately thought he was an annoying little pinhead?

Like, I've watched his channel(s) surge in popularity over the years, and this entire time I've just been wondering why, and the issues that have come out about his little empire since have only confirmed my initial prejudice.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Their entire video is an ad filled experience of shilling not only their sponsors but themselves. Incredibly obnoxious and cramming in every YouTube stereotype from begging for likes and subs to clickbait titles and then insisting they have to do it so they can have their cake and eat it makes them even more obnoxious than if they just did it without wanting to be forgiven for it.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (4 children)

It's getting worse, I can't remember who but I was watching a video just the other day and their ad segment was the fucking ltt ratchet driver. You know, the one they supposedly made because they were tired of the market and the low quality rip-offs all the companies were just trying to make profit off of (it's a shitty plastic screwdriver for 70$, link to pic and it's being sold at fucking walmart now). They sold it as such a heart string story in the beginning, it's just another mini-wannabe corporation.

I don't particularly feel bad at this point for their continued reputation downfall and the people responsible. Everyone has their own personal story of their favorite company which has turned to complete shit (Blizzard is one of mine). They didn't come out strong but doubled down corporate style when everything started. That's fine, but anyone staying and putting up with the stressful workplace knows what they've gotten themselves into.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago

That's actually a very nice screwdriver. Nice ratchet screw drivers do cost that much. I have one, but given where LTT is these days as a company, I don't recommend buying it.

I would be very happy if creators were able to fund their operations off their own merch rather than outside advertising. That seems to be what Gamers Nexus does, or at least heading that way. What LTT does, though, is use it as an additional revenue source on top of their other advertising sources. Doing it right means resisting the urge to consume more and more, and LTT is not capable of that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago)

Oh please attack them on actual grounds rather than a made-up nonsense. The screwdriver is actually decent product if you care about that sort of thing. No one's getting scammed there, It's an actual product that's of relatively good quality.

If you don't care about screwdrivers then you're probably not interested in the product anyway and if you are a frequent screwdriver user you probably understand why it's a good product.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I have a few gripes with LTT but the screwdriver is legit good. A bit overpriced because of the branding sure but definitely not a throwaway product

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

I used to think the importance of leadership at the top of a company to be overblown since they succeed based on the work of all of the employees, but it is pretty amazing how fast a change to shitty leadership can run a successful company into the ground.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago

They event have the stupid thumbnail stereotype

Soviet Womble expressed the feeling I have against channels like that very nicely: 7:56, in case link with timer doesn't work

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Because of his name, I thought he was a pro-Linux channel. I was swiftly disappointed.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 3 points 23 hours ago

I have nothing clever to say here, so normally I'd let my upvote express my feelings, but that feels inadequate in this case. I just wanted to use my words to let you know that this comment amused me a great deal and to thank you.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

He once bricked his OS during a "run Linux for a week" challenge. He tried to do apt install steam or something and ignored a bunch of warnings. Of course he then bashed Linux because he didn't pay attention

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago

Yeah, I didn't see that video, but I recall reading about it. Apparently the package manager warned him that something would be potentially destructive and he ignored the warning, then blamed Linux for it when it was destructive.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

I mean the easiest name so you can't really go for him for that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 23 hours ago

I'm not exactly sure what you're saying here, so I apologize if I'm misinterpreting, but - while I have many potential complaints about Linus - I don't blame him for his name resembling the word "Linux."

[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

I’m with you. I heard of him on Reddit forever ago and couldn’t get through a single video.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

I got that creepy feeling from him the first time I saw a video of him. Every photo of him I saw set off alarms. I've also never understood why anyone even likes the guy.

This was years before all the issues came to light.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

But I really enjoy watching Techlinked :(

[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 day ago

I have a built-in spidey sense that hates any product that gets peddled simultaneously by a bunch of YouTubers.