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What I thought was interesting about this is that apparently not only me, but tons of other people have all kinda felt like LTT has seemed off the past year or so, and this video kinda explained it all
It's not really new. LTT initially was breaking the advertising standards laws by using undeclared sponsors for videos without telling anyone. It started as an advert for companies products with paid placement. Many people didn't care, the Canadian ASA told them to stop by which point they were already succeeding. The fact they deleted evidence of that shows what type of person Linus is.
At no point has LTT throughout its existence shown any regard for the law let alone ethics, morality, integrity or accuracy. Now it's bigger and throwing out a lot more content it's showing this at a frightening pace.
As the old adage goes, behind every great fortune is a great crime. I consider Linus at the very least unethical throughout his entire YouTube career. There is probably more going on than we can see, he seems more than willing to just lie openly so at this point any statements about anything he has said regarding framework and other investments and impartiality should at least be seen as highly questionable.
I'll have to watch this review to have a knowledgeable opinion, but from the LTT I've been watching over the past few months, my initial feeling it is must suck to constantly have to come up with new content and to have the it's core business at the whim of the YouTube algorithm (where quality of content doesn't seem to be weighted much anymore). I've read a while ago that a thumbnail with a person's face weighed more than a thumbnail without in the algorithm, that's why all the LTT videos have the stupid face. It's small dumb shit like that (to play by the algorithm's ever changing rules) that can really chip away at a YouTube series
It's been a consistent decline over many years, which makes it more noticeable the longer it's been happening.
I just can't get myself to care about the majority of the content anymore. They make so many videos that the topics just end up being about some goofy and dumb stuff that I don't really care about. The ratio between serious reviews about serious products and some goofy random stuff is just worsening all the time on the main channel and it just pushes me away.
I mean I will never get why people actually watch graphics cards reviews. Just set a budget clock through 20 reviews and take the one that was mentioned most of the time. Watching a video with graphs and benchmarks is so boring
My own conclusions was that their lab building took so many resources.