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Because I am watching on my TV, and I don't mind supporting the channel as long as the ads don't get too annoying.

For those interested, Zero Punctuation 2.0 is now live. 

They already got almost 100K subs~!
 
Also people found the patreon even before they had even officially anounced it haha
https://www.patreon.com/SecondWindGroup/posts
 
The livestream was nice and I was glad to hear that they are really hitting the ground running with everything!

It was good. I hope they can get through this with their heads above water. 

Nick and Yahtzee are doing a livestream to introduce their new channel.

Yup that's exactly what it seems they'll do, continue doing it just somewhere else..!
 
I know what you mean about ZP and Yatzhee being all there was, but since Nick took over honestly it has grown a lot more. I was there for his first community post and saw all the people slowly shifting from "Shut up we're only here for Yatzhee" to being really appreciative of the clear and transparent communication he brought. Also he always gave Yatzhee his place and even encouraged him to do more which is how we got Dev Diaries, Extra Punctuation, Slightly Civil War, Adventure is Nigh etc...
 
There is actually a lot of stuff they put out that is great, ngl. It's not just Yatzhee anymore and you can tell because after Nick was fired the others "resigned" to join him, Yatzhee being one of them as well as the guys from Adventure is Nigh, 3 Minute Reviews, etc... even Cold Take which has great opinion videos that are different and fresh from Yatz's while bieng great in his own right.
 
I'd say check them out but FK The Escapist, maybe check them out to see if you like them and we'll see what they start next!

UPDATE:
 
Nick Calandra, former Editor-in-Chief has announced their new project:

 
Yatzhee retweeted it, so he's sure to be involved as well as all those who resigned after his firing:
Jack Packard (Adventure is Nigh (DM and creator), Slightly Civil War, more)
Amy Campbell (3 Minute Reviews, and Adventure is Nigh)
Marty Silva (Slightly Something Else, Adventure is Nigh, more)
KC Nwosu (Adventure is Nigh, 3 Minute Reviews, more)
Darren Mooney (Movie Reviews, more)
Parkes Harman
Matt Laughlin
Will Cruz
.. and more
 
 

-Topics merged-

And every character gets a fake mustache 

Its a gaming media. Zero punctuation is a very popular long time running show, with view pro vid usually clocking in somewhere between 400k - 700k.
Whether you personally care, well, that is up to you.
 
Oh, I totally agree they sound like they just try to moneyfarm rather than actually conducting journalism. Especially with their conduct in other of the outlets they own. My personal belief however is, that this AI bubble and money farming will collapse at some point. Maybe there are still years left in it, but it is unsustainable. We will probably see a decentralization of the gaming media with smaller outlets shooting up here and there while the older crumbles, and the cycle of decentralization and consolidation starts a new round

i hope he makes a new series called "Some commas" and the only difference is the background is blue.

Damn, the news has made it to BBC 😲
 
https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-67348861

Summary
Yesterday Nick Calandra, editor in-Chief  of The Escapist announced on Twitter he had been fired. Subsequently Ben "Yatzhee" Croshaw  of Zero Punctuation fame also tweeted that he'd quit and didn't presently hold the rights to his long standing IP Zero Punctuation:
 
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My thoughts
This felt like a huge bombshell to me... I've been watching Yatzhee since as long as I've been watching LTT. Yatzhee's take on video games and what he later taught me in his Dev Diaries was as insightful and valuable as the late TotalBuscuit's reviews.
 
If you don't know Nick Calandra, he took the reigns of The Escapist a few years back bringing it from nothing but Yatzhee's vids with a small core viewership that only cared about him and nothing else, to a vibrant community that was excited for every knew effort they made and series they launched. Nick had a excellent  communication with the community and they responded to him and really engaged with him. They expanded on ZP's style and created a ton of cool new things like, Slightly Civil War, Slightly Something else, a show where you could hear Yatzhee in a more casual setting discussing with creators, Extra Punctuation which changed the style of delivery and Yatzhee could talk about other topics, and most notably (for me ig) Adventure is Nigh, which was a D&D campained played by him and other from The Escapist and Dm'd by Jack Packard who is also great! Cold Take was also a great new addition with a great host and they all have left!
 
Nick really turned stuff around always communicating clearly and openly with the community and something just happened that they fired him and he didn't accept a Severance Package so they couldn't silence him (they wanted him to sign an NDA). Yatzhee promptly quit right after and so did a TON of members who Nick had brought on and given a platform...
 
They say to stay tuned for more, they have a plan to get back together and keep doing their good stuff but we'll have to wait and see for now.
 
Sources

Yeah, I tuned in weekly for Slightly something else, and Frost was just nailing it

Welp, nobody watched anything on the Escapist except ZP! after Sterling stopped doing work for them.
 
 
Yahtzee is old school "two guys on a couch make a webcomic about video games" old.  Y'know Penny Arcade and PvP old.
 
I can't say I'm surprised though. The only value "The Escapist" has had for the company since Sterling left was Yahtzee's Zero Punctuation, and without him, ZP is dead, and so is the Escapist. They already lost "Extra Credits" by not paying them earlier. So there was basically red flags all around about contracting to the Escapist. You might not get paid, and you might get screwed at some point.
 
So I guess we are at 'at some point' now. I'll miss ZP, but there's nothing really stopping him from basically making the same content a different way. Like if Yahtzee came back as a PNGtuber and did exactly the same thing in a different art style, I'd be game for that.
 

I honestly don't know who those people/channels are. I mainly subscribe to software related stuff, LTT, HUB, and a couple of Apple related channels.
 
I'm not opposed to LTT doing ali express videos and such, nor am I opposed to buying stuff from China, but Temu and Shein appear to be 2 very shady companies, especially Temu.

It doesn't matter if its paid promotion/sponsor or not. It's promotion for Temu. People will now know about Temu, go there, poke around, and buy something. Temu wins regardless.

I never said Temu was paying them, I said (or meant) just because the sponsor (seasonic) is paying you..

Exactly, and ontop of that one of your moderators replied 'The video is sponsored by Seasonic, not Temu. They're "making fun" of Temu as the subject.'
 
REGARDLESS of making fun of Temu, you're (LTT) still promoting there website and buying from it! So just because your sponsor is paying you to make fun of them you're inevitably promoting a company that has linked to forced labor and promoting E-waste.... 

"wtf is temu" is in my mind when i see the title of the vids - searched using "temu" and instantly seeing a lot of bad thing about temu.
 
https://time.com/6243738/temu-app-complaints/  >> one of the example
https://apnews.com/article/temu-shein-forced-labor-china-de7b5398c76fda58404abc6ec5684972 >> well?
 
and from what i read it seems like the pyramid scheme promotion is real, where people get reward from promoting and make others to join.
 
but what im curious if LTT team even consider if temu will produce controversy if i by searching a little bit using search engine can yield a lot of fault for temu, or did they just dont care because ltt have affiliate link to temu?

Hey Team, 
 
First time writing on this forum but i've been a subscriber ever since the Linus team was working out of a bedroom in his house. I wanted to express a few things about this video and how much in it contradicts your environmental and ethics values.

Temu has now popped up across most of my favourite tech reviewers with some already calling them out to have ties to forced labour industries in China. The fact that there is an Investigation already underway with the US Congress prior to the release of this video, why would you then go promot it on your channel? 

ontop of this, it comes down to e-waste! You openly criticise many large companies for having plastics in the unboxing but then go publish a site where you know the products are garbage and most of it will be thrown out into the bin. Even if you have an in-house system that the products are passed down to people or given away the company itself is being promoted through your channel for consumers to buy complete garbage that will break or be thrown away quickly. 
 
pretty disappointing when you Linus Tech Tips want to be the authority in good products and honest reviews and calling companies out....
 
 
References:
 
https://apnews.com/article/temu-shein-forced-labor-china-de7b5398c76fda58404abc6ec5684972
https://www.uscc.gov/research/shein-temu-and-chinese-e-commerce-data-risks-sourcing-violations-and-trade-loopholes
https://selectcommitteeontheccp.house.gov/media/press-releases/select-committee-releases-interim-findings-shein-temu-forced-labor 

I hate these e-commerce platforms that just peddle shit to oblivious uninterested people. They have terrible business practices and are just pushing consumerism to a whole new high. So much garbage come from exactly these business models.
 
Wish was a joke and everyone laughed... But everyone also kept making CONTENT surrounding it and the "joke" has been on anyone but them, they get HUGE free publicity and now the same is happening.
 
Sad to see LTT use their platform to keep these guys in the public eye and consciousness... Just what makes them so successful. It doesn't matter that you detail what's good and what isn't. The thumbnail alone gives them a level of "genuineness" and authenticity as a Brand. Same as Wish..

I'm expressing an opinion, not menacing anyone. 🙂

I would be very careful around TEMU I have heard several reports of spurious transactions on the credit cards after buying from TEMU. I'm not sure if it is their website or their payment processor. Keep an eye on your credit card accounts after purchasing from TEMU.

There’s also a good chance these goods were made with forced labor: https://www.bbc.com/news/business-65990529.amp
 
Whether that includes PC parts I’m unsure. Personally, I don’t think they should include links to them at all.