[POLL] Do you watch LTT's content?

[dizmo]

4 hours ago, MrFixitBlankFace said:

Perhaps you mean this one.

 

No. I mean all of them. I don't like him as a content creator. Period.

3 hours ago, corrado33 said:

*Cough cough cough cough*

 

"Selling out" is a common idiomatic pejorative expression for the compromising of a person's integrity, morality, authenticity, or principles in exchange for personal gain, such as money.^[1] In terms of music or art, selling out is associated with attempts to tailor material to a mainstream or commercial audience.

 

*Cough cough cough cough*

 

Money vs. authenticity.... money vs. truthfulness..... money vs channel integrity. Looks like money won! And don't give me the "linus has to support his family." He was doing that just fine when LTT was like 8 people. He chose to hire a shit ton of people to produce more (and shittier) content. They've gone full sell out. No one trusts their reviews anymore, at least no one that also watches GN or Jayz. 

 

Their original core audience was techies. The audience they tailor to now is kids/non techies, because there are more of them on youtube than techies. 

 

Prime examples: Gaming bedroom Setup. Will techies find this interesting? No. It's something we've done a million times before. Will kids find this interesting? Heck yeah. Hot tub gaming setup.... will techies find this interesting? No... it's just a tv near a hot tub. Will kids find this interesting? Definitely. 

He hasn't compromised his integrity, morality or authenticity though. He still makes videos as he sees fit. He still critiques things, as he sees fit. It's not like he's telling you horrible products are awesome. So, no, he's in fact not selling out, regardless of how you're trying to define it.

 

It's shittier to you. Clearly lots of people love it. I don't understand what you're failing to comprehend about that. He wasn't making content solely for you.

[MrFixitBlankFace]

22 minutes ago, dizmo said:

5 hours ago, MrFixitBlankFace said:

Perhaps you mean this one.

 

No. I mean all of them. I don't like him as a content creator. Period.

He improved.  When you compare today's videos vs. the old ones, he improved.  I actually watch almost all of his videos now.

[Jtalk4456]

20 hours ago, drinklime said:

I understand it to mean you can change the setting in 30 seconds or less. So both of you are incorrect.

changing the setting in this example would be using the app which was the point of the video, so i was not incorrect. You might want to take another look at the video again, also please attempt to do device side changing of the dns server without the app in 30 seconds. Usually that's the time it'll take to type in the 2-4 lines and make the selections alone, not counting the time to get to that point in the settings

 

13 hours ago, Geography said:

The title says faster Wi-Fi in 30 seconds, but I can tell you that it will take longer than 30 seconds to get faster Wi-Fi (to download an app, change settings, watch the damn video, etc.).

I don't want to argue or nitpick, but for the sake of being informative to those considering using this solution, I have to disagree. While the downloading of the app is highly dependent o the internet connection, I can say for myself that I was able to download and install and enable this app in less than 30 seconds. The app is small and took maybe 2-3 seconds to download, another 5 to install, and then took about 10 seconds or so to open the first time. Once it was open, I hit the switch and it was on. I actually did this not long before the video came out.

[corrado33]

1 hour ago, dizmo said:

No. I mean all of them. I don't like him as a content creator. Period.

He hasn't compromised his integrity, morality or authenticity though. He still makes videos as he sees fit. He still critiques things, as he sees fit. It's not like he's telling you horrible products are awesome. So, no, he's in fact not selling out, regardless of how you're trying to define it.

 

It's shittier to you. Clearly lots of people love it. I don't understand what you're failing to comprehend about that. He wasn't making content solely for you.

So someone who clearly makes sponsored videos can be considered as authentic as someone who doesn't? Let me ask you this, if you had two people, one person who was paid by business A, and one person that was NOT paid by business A, who would you trust more to give an unbiased opinion? More importantly, if someone is paid to give a review, sure, they can say SOME bad things about it, but do that too many times and the company won't send them samples anymore. So exactly how honest do you think Linus is in his videos? 90% honesty... 10% keeping good business relationships? 80-20? 70...30? 50-50? I'd say their integrity has 100% been compromised. I don't trust anything I hear unless it comes from tarren's mouth, because his stuff is always super useful.

 

They have definitely compromised their authenticity. They used to be an authentic tech channel, now they're a media company that makes "tech" videos. Big difference. Think Jayz vs the verge on building computers (in an extreme example) Jayz is a tech channel, the verge is a media company. 

 

The very large majority of reasonable people here don't take LMG videos for truth. Most people (including many of the highest post count people here) say go elsewhere if you want truthful, unbiased content. They watch LMG as entertainment, not infotainment. 

[Ja Krispie]

5 hours ago, drinklime said:

Linus the message is clear, we don't want clickbat we want informative videos. Please take this into consideration especially given the fact that you ADMIT the Samsung Bedroom TV was sponsored, yet you chose a VESA mount and decided not to use it despite the fact that it is the proper way to install a flat screen TV at a raised height, this ensures safety and security. A curved back is very common on today's TV's and therefore it was an important aspect that you skipped entirely. I have posted instructions and they are available in the Home Theatre Section of the web site.

I've never seen someone so upset from someone choosing not to use a mount. It's not that big of a deal

[dizmo]

13 hours ago, corrado33 said:

So someone who clearly makes sponsored videos can be considered as authentic as someone who doesn't? Let me ask you this, if you had two people, one person who was paid by business A, and one person that was NOT paid by business A, who would you trust more to give an unbiased opinion? More importantly, if someone is paid to give a review, sure, they can say SOME bad things about it, but do that too many times and the company won't send them samples anymore. So exactly how honest do you think Linus is in his videos? 90% honesty... 10% keeping good business relationships? 80-20? 70...30? 50-50? I'd say their integrity has 100% been compromised. I don't trust anything I hear unless it comes from tarren's mouth, because his stuff is always super useful.

 

They have definitely compromised their authenticity. They used to be an authentic tech channel, now they're a media company that makes "tech" videos. Big difference. Think Jayz vs the verge on building computers (in an extreme example) Jayz is a tech channel, the verge is a media company. 

 

The very large majority of reasonable people here don't take LMG videos for truth. Most people (including many of the highest post count people here) say go elsewhere if you want truthful, unbiased content. They watch LMG as entertainment, not infotainment. 

You think people aren't sponsored? Like Jayz2Cents? Cuz they are. Where do you think they get a lot of their funding from?

Guess what. Everyone has a biased opinion, in some form or fashion. You can't be human and not be slightly biased one way or the other.

Let's take the Samsung sponsor spot as an example. The gaming bedroom set up. How many times did he push Samsung's product? Not many. Most of it was just setting it up, showing what could be done. Sure, he mentioned a few features, as one would do on any product they were including. It really isn't as bad as you make it out to be.

 

Post count has absolutely nothing to do with anything other than the amount of time the person has spent on the forum. To think of it any other way is simply idiotic.

[Automobili3XF]

Only from the main channel for entertainment.

[drinklime]

It comes down to respect. We are not going to get information from an entertainment channel and visa versa. It has to be clear otherwise it is misleading

[Brolo]

Yes I do.

[SGBudgetGamer]

I watch LTT because of linus not info he reminds me of a 15 year old trying to play adult

[Loote]

This topic is funny for me because I don't really know the old LTT, I saw a video long ago describing DVI and DP standards, that mentioned pins responsible for analog output and was much more thorough than most Youtube videos, but I didn't subscribe then. Few months ago I saw LTT studio tour with iJustine and thought that the way LMG do things is cool and since then I saw every new video plus many older ones, some were better than others, most I watch at 1,5 speed to get full chipmunk effect and more content in less time and the worst thing I could say is, some sponsored subject was a little less interesting than I'd like, but you can skip it no problem and I didn't feel I had to.