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Who throws shade at LTT? They're quite entertaining.
A lot of people complain about the clickbait headlines or that he's hamming it up for the camera. He does get a lot of hate.
I personally find him entertaining and I like most of the other presenters. I don't mind the clickbait headlines because they're all clickbait, it's like a running joke itself.
Yeah they've openly said that they wish they didn't have to do the clickbaiting, but that the effect it has on their total views/revenue in undeniable. It's kinda just how YouTube is at this point, adapt or die
Veritasium did a video about it, with data to back it up. They took old video and reposted them with and without clickbait titles and images. The difference of views is staggering. People just like it o suppose.
There's always option c, which is not pursuing a media empire... lots of small channels that are successful without the clickbait crap.
A lot of what they want to do and do in fact do wouldn't be possible at a smaller size. Their new lab uses equipment worth hundreds of thousands of dollars a piece.
Not to mention the hundreds of staff they now have that need to be paid
Aw, that's unfortunate. Clickbait by itself shouldn't ruin a creator for someone. Gotta look for the positives, not the negatives.
I'M SO ANGRY. I WAS BAMBOOZLED INTO WATCHING A VIDEO I ENJOYED.
I don't go out of my way to throw shade at LTT, but I unsubscribed a few months ago, and there are multiple reasons.
There were a few topics over the last few months that just were either poorly researched or I assume misrepresented purposely to appease the YouTube overlords. These topics were on Android TV boxes and also blocking advertisements. I mean, I get it, don't bite the hand that feeds you, but I really hate they have such a large audience and then misrepresented things. Just don't cover it. Their coverage of anything Linux when it involves Linus himself is also, absolutely atrocious. That entire Linux gaming PC challenge was so badly done. I think Jake and Emily were the only two people who I respected on the channel when it came to a tech opinion. Then there is the, "don't discuss pay," policy.
I realized that I never learn anything from it, and if anything I disagree with it quite often. And it also lost the entertainment value for me, when is the last time they have done something fun like one of those build-offs? Seemed like most of the videos before I unsubscribed was just Linus adding stuff to his house. Anyway, I haven't missed it since unsubscribing.
I thought the Linux gaming pc challenge was fair. You have to remember that most users are not technical at all and that's where Linux falls down.
The only thing I disagreed with him majorly on was his complaint about the GitHub interface not downloading files you click on by default. I get where he's coming from as a non-dev, it's jarring and confusing but as a developer that's the last thing you'd want. His complaint about GitHub's interface really should have been directed at all those people using GitHub as a place to store files. But that's so intrinsic to Linux, it's hard to get away from yet it's something that does prevent Linux from appealing to the mainstream.
Don't get me started on the reliance upon the terminal and bash scripts to achieve anything. I cringe every time someone says "just go here and copy/paste these commands", not just because it's unintuitive but because it's also a major security risk. Not that windows is innocent of this either but it's much more common in Linux.
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Spoken like an average cancel culture enjoyer; especially since this post hasn't had any activity in like, what, a week? Digging up an old comment to do something like this is something people enjoy for some reason, and I don't get it. Look for the positives, not the negatives, for God's sake. There's too much negativity in this world (which probably won't change, but I can hope).