The Problem with Linus Tech Tips: Accuracy, Ethics, and Responsibility

He's said before that he hates it, but including one of those thumbnails boosts viewership by 30%. I certainly don't like it, but it would be really hard for me to resist that extra income too.

It's been that way for years. I had to stop watching shortly after they moved out of that first house when they stopped putting product names into video titles.

Is this really any better? Or this? Or this?

Put face on thumbnail, big text to sell subject, have some goofy reaction shot. It's not really an exception here.

I don't really care about the thumbnails but the video titles are awful. I'm not going to click on a video if I don't actually know what it's about. What am I supposed to expect when I start watching just about any of these?

The title of the IPhone video just sounds very opinion based instead of a professional video talking about it. But maybe it still shows how limited the IPhone is and still talks about the technically aspect.

(While I mentioned "professional", they have a professional setup, but a hobby channel that has no money could be seen as professional while a professional cut video is not.)

I haven't watch the vid btw.

Every popular tech guru does this to be popular. Same with that Indian dude I forget the name.

There are a few of them and I’d have to go through to really narrow it down mostly just “tone” of it if that makes sense.

One that did stand out to me though was how Linus had very different results compared to other reviewers on I think it was an amd result however Steve said he shouldn’t even consider other reviewers results and should have published his without mentioning that. I disagree. I think it’s fair to point out that you got wildly different results.

Another thing was how he felt that putting annotations on the video when they vocally say something isn’t a good enough correction since people could be listening to only audio. I don’t really think that’s the case when the comparisons they’d be showing are going to be graphs. I think people actually viewing would be looking visually for it and would definitely see those.

How is it ridiculous because like you yourself said they are offering an opinion on the products? And that wasn't the only point they had, it was just one of many and valid criticism.

And it's dumb to call that sloppy editing when the narrative they were trying to build was that they're more trustworthy than other outlets providing same kind of reviews. And that doesn't seem to be the case.

I unsubed from shortcircuit for this and the general low effort low quality of the content.

As big of a fuck up and deplorable action it was by LMG to sell that prototype, there's no reason any sensible business would send out their most advanced prototype to youtube click merchants. massive mistake from them

I’m probably missing a few main points,

LTT will not address the video publicly GN should’ve emailed their complaints instead of going public They paid the prototype guy for accidentally auctioning their prototype Numbers don’t matter as much as the end conclusion for reviews LTT will admit mistakes so the community doesn’t have the right to be mad.