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me_irl

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This was me with Linus Tech Tips, it's just not the content i subscribed for all those years ago.
- Yeahh. All the newer videos feel extremely rushed, and low thought. Its sad coming back to it after years.
- writing was on the wall after the overwork allegations, sexism allegations and nosediving quality. ltt was being run like a corporation and it was a matter of time. i left them then expecting it to tank further and it did.
- Same. I was there when he was small, I cheered when he got bigger. Then the channel started going down a path I didn't want to follow. Click baity titles with no info were the last straw for me.
  
  There's a browser extension to replace click bait by user-generated descriptive titles. I always forget the name tho. It also works with Freetube.
  
  That doesnt really matter here, I'm against those practices. I would be ok however, if he had a different channel that posted videos without clickbait, which is not the case so... yeah
  
  They actually do, they do post all their videos with normal titles and separate no clickbait thumbnails on separate channels.
  
  Yeah I know, I just jumped on the opportunity to promote that :)
  
  dearrow
  
  Apropos
  
  Did I accidentally follow a song's lyrics?
- Agreed. It just felt like all paid ads when I unsubscribed a year ago.
  
  Its been way longer than a year
- For a while I thought that he hadn't changed all that much, and while I still mostly do think that, what broke the camels back for me to give them up (and I guess GN and Louis Rossmann as collateral) was when the PayPal Honey thing came up, what was at worst a bullet point in the pre-amble to the main story became the story, they basically all spent a month and change throwing vague jabs at each-other in turn shoving the actual, important story of PayPal Honey scamming customers and shopkeepers that they were supposed to be focusing on out of the way.
  
  I still mostly do think that
  Yeah, he hasn't changed much. We know a little more about him and that changes things.
  FWIW, I think the allegations are "mostly unfounded". I think he does work people a bit too hard, which I don't REALLY care that much about. Him hiring a CEO to manage things he was shit at was probably the smartest thing he's ever done.
  I've seen plenty of people complaining about going up to meet him and him going why are you important and why would I want to talk to you? Self admitting no friends. He's probably either a narcissist or a sociopath in a personality suit.
  I stopped watching regularly after the 17th video of them installing shit in his Mc Mansion turning everything into a write-off. I was still listening to WAN show once in a while to catch up with tech news, even if he has stupid takes, it was still getting me the news. Once the GN stuff started , I just turned off the TV. He's not wrong, but he's an asshole and goes to great lengths to pick small details to be correct. Yes, he should have done a follow up when he dropped honey like he did when he dropped a VPN sponsor. Absolutely. OR he could have just responded to GN and said my lawyers said to leave it alone. Nobody really cared. But the back and forth whining, I don't care to watch either of them anymore.
  Does anyone know any long-form tech news creators? I need something that's about an hour long.
  
  Can't find anything that's like Techlinked, but The Vergecast seems to be a decent alternative, it's a podcast though so it's conversational and they look like they go up to 2 hours sometimes.
  
  Gamer's Nexus does an excellent hardware news segments
  TechAltar does a great segment on Fridays called the Friday Checkout
  
  TechAltar
  Thanks for that.
  I've having trouble stomaching GN these days, he's as complicit with whining on the LTT crap as LTT is :)
- I come back to Shortcircuit (unsubscribed) to see if they let Dan Besser do another video. He's entertaining

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