Big Head Tech

Hey Linus,
 
You may or may not recognize me but I've been a follower since 171k subscribers. I always loved watching your videos because you have a lot of the same likes and biases I do. To be honest, I never really used your testing at the gospel but I also always did my own testing when I was a reviewer. I loved your personal takes on many products because it feels genuine.

With that said, I think you should have waited to respond. Maybe just a simple post stating that you saw the video and want to take some consideration and feedback from the team then responding. The reality is, and you may not agree with it, but this won't just blow over. This is not something that in 2 weeks everyone will forget. This will impact future sponsorship deals (afraid of being exposed for favoritism) or just negative PR. When the whole "Hard R" incident happened, everyone including me felt you were genuine, and even I had the same thoughts on its meaning. This won't be like that.
 
Are you wrong about Steve not checking with you regarding the block issue? No, but you phrase it in a defensive way. Yes, your brand is being questioned but look at the backlash. All of Reddit, well 90% is against you atm. The reality is, a shorter response would have been better. Acknowledge the water block issue, issue a correction, and acknowledge that you agree with Steve that you have much to improve and will put policies in place after consulting others in leadership. Then reach out to Steve and have a serious conversation and see if you can pick his brain as well. Work WITH the media not against them, embrace feedback don't reject it. You know deep down, you're going too hard too fast and it's a problem. Rome wasn't built in a day nor was it built by 1 person.
 
Thanks,
Stevie

Hey Linus,
 
You may or may not recognize me but I've been a follower since 171k subscribers. I always loved watching your videos because you have a lot of the same likes and biases I do. To be honest, I never really used your testing at the gospel but I also always did my own testing when I was a reviewer. I loved your personal takes on many products because it feels genuine.

With that said, I think you should have waited to respond. Maybe just a simple post stating that you saw the video and want to take some consideration and feedback from the team then responding. The reality is, and you may not agree with it, but this won't just blow over. This is not something that in 2 weeks everyone will forget. This will impact future sponsorship deals (afraid of being exposed for favoritism) or just negative PR. When the whole "Hard R" incident happened, everyone including me felt you were genuine, and even I had the same thoughts on its meaning. This won't be like that.
 
Are you wrong about Steve not checking with you regarding the block issue? No, but you phrase it in a defensive way. Yes, your brand is being questioned but look at the backlash. All of Reddit, well 90% is against you atm. The reality is, a shorter response would have been better. Acknowledge the water block issue, issue a correction, and acknowledge that you agree with Steve that you have much to improve and will put policies in place after consulting others in leadership. Then reach out to Steve and have a serious conversation and see if you can pick his brain as well. Work WITH the media not against them, embrace feedback don't reject it. You know deep down, you're going too hard too fast and it's a problem. Rome wasn't built in a day nor was it built by 1 person.
 
Thanks,
Stevie

Hey Linus,
 
You may or may not recognize me but I've been a follower since 171k subscribers. I always loved watching your videos because you have a lot of the same likes and biases I do. To be honest, I never really used your testing at the gospel but I also always did my own testing when I was a reviewer. I loved your personal takes on many products because it feels genuine.

With that said, I think you should have waited to respond. Maybe just a simple post stating that you saw the video and want to take some consideration and feedback from the team then responding. The reality is, and you may not agree with it, but this won't just blow over. This is not something that in 2 weeks everyone will forget. This will impact future sponsorship deals (afraid of being exposed for favoritism) or just negative PR. When the whole "Hard R" incident happened, everyone including me felt you were genuine, and even I had the same thoughts on its meaning. This won't be like that.
 
Are you wrong about Steve not checking with you regarding the block issue? No, but you phrase it in a defensive way. Yes, your brand is being questioned but look at the backlash. All of Reddit, well 90% is against you atm. The reality is, a shorter response would have been better. Acknowledge the water block issue, issue a correction, and acknowledge that you agree with Steve that you have much to improve and will put policies in place after consulting others in leadership. Then reach out to Steve and have a serious conversation and see if you can pick his brain as well. Work WITH the media not against them, embrace feedback don't reject it. You know deep down, you're going too hard too fast and it's a problem. Rome wasn't built in a day nor was it built by 1 person.
 
Thanks,
Stevie

Hey Linus,
 
You may or may not recognize me but I've been a follower since 171k subscribers. I always loved watching your videos because you have a lot of the same likes and biases I do. To be honest, I never really used your testing at the gospel but I also always did my own testing when I was a reviewer. I loved your personal takes on many products because it feels genuine.

With that said, I think you should have waited to respond. Maybe just a simple post stating that you saw the video and want to take some consideration and feedback from the team then responding. The reality is, and you may not agree with it, but this won't just blow over. This is not something that in 2 weeks everyone will forget. This will impact future sponsorship deals (afraid of being exposed for favoritism) or just negative PR. When the whole "Hard R" incident happened, everyone including me felt you were genuine, and even I had the same thoughts on its meaning. This won't be like that.
 
Are you wrong about Steve not checking with you regarding the block issue? No, but you phrase it in a defensive way. Yes, your brand is being questioned but look at the backlash. All of Reddit, well 90% is against you atm. The reality is, a shorter response would have been better. Acknowledge the water block issue, issue a correction, and acknowledge that you agree with Steve that you have much to improve and will put policies in place after consulting others in leadership. Then reach out to Steve and have a serious conversation and see if you can pick his brain as well. Work WITH the media not against them, embrace feedback don't reject it. You know deep down, you're going too hard too fast and it's a problem. Rome wasn't built in a day nor was it built by 1 person.
 
Thanks,
Stevie

Hey Linus,
 
You may or may not recognize me but I've been a follower since 171k subscribers. I always loved watching your videos because you have a lot of the same likes and biases I do. To be honest, I never really used your testing at the gospel but I also always did my own testing when I was a reviewer. I loved your personal takes on many products because it feels genuine.

With that said, I think you should have waited to respond. Maybe just a simple post stating that you saw the video and want to take some consideration and feedback from the team then responding. The reality is, and you may not agree with it, but this won't just blow over. This is not something that in 2 weeks everyone will forget. This will impact future sponsorship deals (afraid of being exposed for favoritism) or just negative PR. When the whole "Hard R" incident happened, everyone including me felt you were genuine, and even I had the same thoughts on its meaning. This won't be like that.
 
Are you wrong about Steve not checking with you regarding the block issue? No, but you phrase it in a defensive way. Yes, your brand is being questioned but look at the backlash. All of Reddit, well 90% is against you atm. The reality is, a shorter response would have been better. Acknowledge the water block issue, issue a correction, and acknowledge that you agree with Steve that you have much to improve and will put policies in place after consulting others in leadership. Then reach out to Steve and have a serious conversation and see if you can pick his brain as well. Work WITH the media not against them, embrace feedback don't reject it. You know deep down, you're going too hard too fast and it's a problem. Rome wasn't built in a day nor was it built by 1 person.
 
Thanks,
Stevie

Hey Linus,
 
You may or may not recognize me but I've been a follower since 171k subscribers. I always loved watching your videos because you have a lot of the same likes and biases I do. To be honest, I never really used your testing at the gospel but I also always did my own testing when I was a reviewer. I loved your personal takes on many products because it feels genuine.

With that said, I think you should have waited to respond. Maybe just a simple post stating that you saw the video and want to take some consideration and feedback from the team then responding. The reality is, and you may not agree with it, but this won't just blow over. This is not something that in 2 weeks everyone will forget. This will impact future sponsorship deals (afraid of being exposed for favoritism) or just negative PR. When the whole "Hard R" incident happened, everyone including me felt you were genuine, and even I had the same thoughts on its meaning. This won't be like that.
 
Are you wrong about Steve not checking with you regarding the block issue? No, but you phrase it in a defensive way. Yes, your brand is being questioned but look at the backlash. All of Reddit, well 90% is against you atm. The reality is, a shorter response would have been better. Acknowledge the water block issue, issue a correction, and acknowledge that you agree with Steve that you have much to improve and will put policies in place after consulting others in leadership. Then reach out to Steve and have a serious conversation and see if you can pick his brain as well. Work WITH the media not against them, embrace feedback don't reject it. You know deep down, you're going too hard too fast and it's a problem. Rome wasn't built in a day nor was it built by 1 person.
 
Thanks,
Stevie

Hey Linus,
 
You may or may not recognize me but I've been a follower since 171k subscribers. I always loved watching your videos because you have a lot of the same likes and biases I do. To be honest, I never really used your testing at the gospel but I also always did my own testing when I was a reviewer. I loved your personal takes on many products because it feels genuine.

With that said, I think you should have waited to respond. Maybe just a simple post stating that you saw the video and want to take some consideration and feedback from the team then responding. The reality is, and you may not agree with it, but this won't just blow over. This is not something that in 2 weeks everyone will forget. This will impact future sponsorship deals (afraid of being exposed for favoritism) or just negative PR. When the whole "Hard R" incident happened, everyone including me felt you were genuine, and even I had the same thoughts on its meaning. This won't be like that.
 
Are you wrong about Steve not checking with you regarding the block issue? No, but you phrase it in a defensive way. Yes, your brand is being questioned but look at the backlash. All of Reddit, well 90% is against you atm. The reality is, a shorter response would have been better. Acknowledge the water block issue, issue a correction, and acknowledge that you agree with Steve that you have much to improve and will put policies in place after consulting others in leadership. Then reach out to Steve and have a serious conversation and see if you can pick his brain as well. Work WITH the media not against them, embrace feedback don't reject it. You know deep down, you're going too hard too fast and it's a problem. Rome wasn't built in a day nor was it built by 1 person.
 
Thanks,
Stevie

Okay sorry had to do the clickbait. But with Taran departing and now Jono, I think it's a good time to point out why.
 
LMG has been around for about a decade at this point. They have around 60 employees and 3 people are the C-Level. Outside of being on the C-Level the highest out can probably go is a segment or department manager/supervisor.
 
What I think many people don't realize is that now days people don't want to do the same thing forever. They want personal growth, new skills, new roles and responsibilities. Now we know that LMG tried very hard to supply that for everyone. But not everyone is going to become the head of a department.
 
Some people also want to go a different direction. After being a write or editor for years, maybe you want more editorial control of the content. So maybe a startup is a better fit. Maybe you want to create your own content (we've seen that a few times now).
 
One of the pros to LMG has been that they are really big on creativity and growth. But being 60ish employees your growth potential is somewhat limited. Just the nature of the beast. And to be clear we aren't talking about $$$, I'm sure people are getting paid well. I saw $50-60k USD a few years ago for positions and I suspect it's gone up. If I had to guess, their payroll is north of 4M at this point.
 
But I expect to see more OGs leave over the next few years, short of Luke and Nick Light as they are on the board they are less likely to leave. Some may stay, say Brandon and Edzel who I think have families, being comfortable on a long term position is also something you can see as well. I think the younger and less committed people are in their lives, the more likely they would leave for the next opportunity after 3-5 years.
 
I also think LMG is really good at giving people opportunities to grow and learn but I think sometimes it works against them. Like for Taran, he wants to focus on his videos and channels between his extensive editing and on screen work, he now has the tools to focus on his channel. But that goes to show you the compassion LMG has for their employees.
 
So no, nothing is probably happening at LMG. I suspect it's a great place to work and people are treated fine. OG people leave, it just happens and many times it's no fault of the companies. So please don't think LMG is anywhere near dying.
 

So when I say I thought I've seen everything I really thought I have.  Since 2009/2010, I have built over 850 PC's and worked on thousands of others.  Many XP/Win 2000 systems when I worked for a PC Shop in 2010.  I've used every single Consumer CPU since the Phenom I/Core 2 era and GPU since the 9000 NVidia Series and 4000 AMD Series.  So when I saw this gem today out of a customers PC, I was blown away.  Even my dad who has been working on computers since the 90s didn't believe me.

So when I say I thought I've seen everything I really thought I have.  Since 2009/2010, I have built over 850 PC's and worked on thousands of others.  Many XP/Win 2000 systems when I worked for a PC Shop in 2010.  I've used every single Consumer CPU since the Phenom I/Core 2 era and GPU since the 9000 NVidia Series and 4000 AMD Series.  So when I saw this gem today out of a customers PC, I was blown away.  Even my dad who has been working on computers since the 90s didn't believe me.

As you've already pieced together, there are a lot of different types of sponsorships (affiliate programs, direct video sponsorship, product placement, pre-rolls, etc) but honestly speaking, you should be in channel building mode rather than worrying about any of that right now.
 
At a couple hundred views per video you haven't broken through the threshold where sponsors will want to talk to you, and even if they do, it could negatively impact your growth. 
 
Think of it this way: at a $3-4 CPM, even if a sponsor paid for mentions in 10 videos a month on your channel, that's like $5. They would spend more paying someone to fill out the cheque and mail it than they would be paying you. 
 
Keep at it, and good luck though. 
 

Being a fellow Tech Tuber going to have to help you understand.  Our passion is technology, we love innovation and we want to share it with people.  Sure, a different crowd/audience watches those videos, but Linus doesn't just do videos for pure views.  He's a 30ish year old guy who loves tech and sharing it with people.

Being a fellow Tech Tuber going to have to help you understand.  Our passion is technology, we love innovation and we want to share it with people.  Sure, a different crowd/audience watches those videos, but Linus doesn't just do videos for pure views.  He's a 30ish year old guy who loves tech and sharing it with people.

Being a fellow Tech Tuber going to have to help you understand.  Our passion is technology, we love innovation and we want to share it with people.  Sure, a different crowd/audience watches those videos, but Linus doesn't just do videos for pure views.  He's a 30ish year old guy who loves tech and sharing it with people.

Being a fellow Tech Tuber going to have to help you understand.  Our passion is technology, we love innovation and we want to share it with people.  Sure, a different crowd/audience watches those videos, but Linus doesn't just do videos for pure views.  He's a 30ish year old guy who loves tech and sharing it with people.

Being a fellow Tech Tuber going to have to help you understand.  Our passion is technology, we love innovation and we want to share it with people.  Sure, a different crowd/audience watches those videos, but Linus doesn't just do videos for pure views.  He's a 30ish year old guy who loves tech and sharing it with people.

Being a fellow Tech Tuber going to have to help you understand.  Our passion is technology, we love innovation and we want to share it with people.  Sure, a different crowd/audience watches those videos, but Linus doesn't just do videos for pure views.  He's a 30ish year old guy who loves tech and sharing it with people.

Being a fellow Tech Tuber going to have to help you understand.  Our passion is technology, we love innovation and we want to share it with people.  Sure, a different crowd/audience watches those videos, but Linus doesn't just do videos for pure views.  He's a 30ish year old guy who loves tech and sharing it with people.

Being a fellow Tech Tuber going to have to help you understand.  Our passion is technology, we love innovation and we want to share it with people.  Sure, a different crowd/audience watches those videos, but Linus doesn't just do videos for pure views.  He's a 30ish year old guy who loves tech and sharing it with people.

Being a fellow Tech Tuber going to have to help you understand.  Our passion is technology, we love innovation and we want to share it with people.  Sure, a different crowd/audience watches those videos, but Linus doesn't just do videos for pure views.  He's a 30ish year old guy who loves tech and sharing it with people.

Being a fellow Tech Tuber going to have to help you understand.  Our passion is technology, we love innovation and we want to share it with people.  Sure, a different crowd/audience watches those videos, but Linus doesn't just do videos for pure views.  He's a 30ish year old guy who loves tech and sharing it with people.

Being a fellow Tech Tuber going to have to help you understand.  Our passion is technology, we love innovation and we want to share it with people.  Sure, a different crowd/audience watches those videos, but Linus doesn't just do videos for pure views.  He's a 30ish year old guy who loves tech and sharing it with people.

Being a fellow Tech Tuber going to have to help you understand.  Our passion is technology, we love innovation and we want to share it with people.  Sure, a different crowd/audience watches those videos, but Linus doesn't just do videos for pure views.  He's a 30ish year old guy who loves tech and sharing it with people.

The thread on reddit can be seen here: 
The Micro Center that I visit also confirmed that while they will have Ryzen 3000 & X570 boards, RX 5700/5700XT's are not confirmed.  This is a bummer because since I am a smaller YouTube channel I don't get review samples.  So not only will I be a day late, I planned on benchmarking with the 5700XT as I have sold off all of my inventory other than a GTX 1080/Ryzen 5 2600 build my wife uses.
 
 

Rumor has it, PC Budget Solutions is going to benchmark the 3600x vs the 9600k and and the 3900x vs the 9900k.  Cannot confirm or deny it yet.