I Ripped Up My Sponsor’s Check - Israel Design Center Tour 2

[James]

You've waited long enough for a follow-up. It's what we're calling the "overview tour" of the giant Intel fab I visited in Israel. The place where the CPUs are made. It's amazing.

 

 

[Quackers101]

wut? um, okey? (was thinking it was related to some tweets too, nvm)

[Hunter259]

Alright I've put up with it for years but these last few titles + thumbnails are just absurd. This one might be the worst of three. Subbed since the garage. Sad since this is a good video

[IkeaGnome]

Ripped up sponsor's check. "I could have paid them for this tour."

Sponsored by NZXT Bld?

[darknessblade]

Check timestamp 4:26, its quite ironic for intel to say that these types of brackets are bad for the CPU while they use them themselves

[Zodiark1593]

47 minutes ago, darknessblade said:

Check timestamp 4:26, its quite ironic for intel to say that these types of brackets are bad for the CPU while they use them themselves

For that, I defer to the classic Linus catchphrase: “Do as I say, not as I do.”

[AnonymousGuy]

1 hour ago, darknessblade said:

Check timestamp 4:26, its quite ironic for intel to say that these types of brackets are bad for the CPU while they use them themselves

Need some context but that socket is labeled as ICL-U so a mobile icelake part.

 

And engineering != end users.  Everything there ends up scrapped eventually.  I've seen BGA parts rubber banded together like a stack of cash.

[cat milker]

Cool, interesting video, but clickbait title. 

[MultiGamerClub]

This is truly something i really want to see..

 

But the title man, haha.. Oh well, gotta trick the algorytm to get you i guess.

[darknessblade]

23 minutes ago, AnonymousGuy said:

Need some context but that socket is labeled as ICL-U so a mobile icelake part.

 

And engineering != end users.  Everything there ends up scrapped eventually.  I've seen BGA parts rubber banded together like a stack of cash.

This topic would answer your question

 

 

[VicBar]

Gimmicky clickbaity title aside... I actually wonder why he "tore up the check". Usually if you reject a sponsorship it's because you don't want to be held to the conditions, like if say a product is bad and you want to talk about it freely. But... then.. Why did he reject the sponsorship?

 

It's not like he uncensored all the critical info on the machines or outed them in any way so (obviously, it'd be a huge dick move and maybe even illegal.... what's the rationale then? What is he gaining from tearing the check? Did he actually tear up the check? Like did he fly to Israel with it and then...? No that's dumb..

 

Anyway for real, what is the point or rationale behind it?

 

Awesome video btw, I had no idea it was coming and I'm excited to see the next one!

[Neamow]

Why is this just 10 minutes? I'm sure they had heaps of footage.

 

I simply don't understand this trend of making hyper fast-paced videos that just breeze through everything, especially if it's about an incredibly interesting topic like this, that you don't really see often. I feel like the team really missed an opportunity to make a nicer, more documentary-style video in the range of 30 or 60 minutes. That would have been amazing.

 

This really felt like barely scratching the surface and I also feel like I retained ZERO knowledge because they just blazed through everything so fast with little context...

[VicBar]

4 minutes ago, Neamow said:

Why is this just 10 minutes? I'm sure they had heaps of footage.

 

I simply don't understand this trend of making hyper fast-paced videos that just breeze through everything, especially if it's about an incredibly interesting topic like this, that you don't really see often. I feel like the team really missed an opportunity to make a nicer, more documentary-style video in the range of 30 or 60 minutes. That would have been amazing.

 

This really felt like barely scratching the surface and I also feel like I retained ZERO knowledge because they just blazed through everything so fast with little context...

Well... the most obvious answers are that 1) You can make more videos if each part of a long trip is short (this is the second of, afawk 3 videos) and 2) low attention span of the regular yt viewer.

 

It must also depend on the type of channel.. some channels make hour long videos but since they keep it consistent the viewer knows what they're getting into. If LTT suddenly releases a 2 hour documentary when the viewers are used to shorter videos it might hurt the vid's performance. Also maybe since the title is so clickbaity it's meant to reach a larger audience outside of regular viewers/subscribers so not hitting them with a 20+ min video makes sense..?

 

I for one do not watch a 3+ hour vod of a livestream of Linus building a PC. I do tune into the WAN show every week though. It's expectations I guess.

[Ultraforce]

9 minutes ago, VicBar said:

Gimmicky clickbaity title aside... I actually wonder why he "tore up the check". Usually if you reject a sponsorship it's because you don't want to be held to the conditions, like if say a product is bad and you want to talk about it freely. But... then.. Why did he reject the sponsorship?

 

It's not like he uncensored all the critical info on the machines or outed them in any way so (obviously, it'd be a huge dick move and maybe even illegal.... what's the rationale then? What is he gaining from tearing the check? Did he actually tear up the check? Like did he fly to Israel with it and then...? No that's dumb..

 

Anyway for real, what is the point or rationale behind it?

 

Awesome video btw, I had no idea it was coming and I'm excited to see the next one!

I can't find it but I believe there was a clip from LMG Clips at one point in time where he said that he did that because of the fact he wanted to not have to worry about NDAs and was just so excited and interested in seeing it.

[crazzp]

Those who complained about the title being clickbaity, were you expecting Linus to literally tear a piece of cheque or something? I'm really curious. Like is everything literal in your world? 

[Ultraforce]

15 minutes ago, Neamow said:

Why is this just 10 minutes? I'm sure they had heaps of footage.

 

I simply don't understand this trend of making hyper fast-paced videos that just breeze through everything, especially if it's about an incredibly interesting topic like this, that you don't really see often. I feel like the team really missed an opportunity to make a nicer, more documentary-style video in the range of 30 or 60 minutes. That would have been amazing.

 

This really felt like barely scratching the surface and I also feel like I retained ZERO knowledge because they just blazed through everything so fast with little context...

An LMG Clips video talked about how they need all videos to appeal to at least 1 million people to keep the company afloat so they can't risk doing something like that especially for non-consumer focused stuff. Honestly the reason I'm not actually subscribed to I think any of the channels is that while I might watch it I really don't particularly care much about most of the consumer electronics that they talk about.

Given the team size and costs they can't trust the viewer base and algorithm that the writer, host, camera person, and editor are able to make longer videos that will be popular for the most part I guess. Which is also why they skim the surface to the point that sometimes there's discussions of is it maybe almost misinformation or the talk of how we really didn't see much of what actually happened during the Linux challenge.

[VicBar]

5 minutes ago, crazzp said:

Those who complained about the title being clickbaity, were you expecting Linus to literally tear a piece of cheque or something? I'm really curious. Like is everything literal in your world? 

Well the click-bait titles and the thumbnails are something that old subscribers will periodically complain about.. This must be the ... 4th or 5th time this has come up again that I've seen? Those of us who watch almost anything else on youtube have just gotten used to content being presented like this, I'd say. We've just learned to accept it. Doesn't mean we have to like it. Doesn't mean we have to keep complaining about it either. I don't.

[Skipple]

Man, I'm really not one to complain about clickbait titles, but this one is really egregious. Dear Lord.

[Ultraforce]

1 minute ago, Skipple said:

Man, I'm really not one to complain about clickbait titles, but this one is really egregious. Dear Lord.

really since it's extremely minor I'd say in comparison to the tuesday video that has both the logo and the word uTorrent on it as well as the Steam Deck neither of which are actually relevant to the video. Though the way it was edited and the way that people talked about Linus having talked about making the video months back makes me think that it's very possible that people are right that legal ended up dissuading him and they made it be technically fine whereas the original would have included what would likely be deemed violations of Canadian copyright law.

[Hunter259]

1 hour ago, crazzp said:

Those who complained about the title being clickbaity, were you expecting Linus to literally tear a piece of cheque or something? I'm really curious. Like is everything literal in your world? 

It has nothing to do with the video. At all. It's only related to the intro bit. There has to be several other click baity crap thumbnails and titles that would actually describe the content. This makes it look like Intel tried to sponsor them for something they didn't like and were going to rant on it.

[crazzp]

2 minutes ago, Hunter259 said:

This makes it look like Intel tried to sponsor them for something they didn't like and were going to rant on it.

I think I kind of get it. People assumed and imagined a lot of things when they saw the title but were disappointed when the content is not what they imagined and that's why they were so upset. I see...

[poochyena]

3 hours ago, crazzp said:

Those who complained about the title being clickbaity, were you expecting Linus to literally tear a piece of cheque or something?

yes

[Luscious]

How about instead of tearing up the check you cash it and donate all of the money to a charity??? Do something noble.

 

Having click-bait titles is one thing, but I get the feeling Linus really is a man who treats money poorly - that is not sound business practice. It's nice that at the end of the day he can put food on the table.

[crazzp]

12 minutes ago, Luscious said:

How about instead of tearing up the check you cash it and donate all of the money to a charity??? Do something noble.

Cashing in means would have to accept the sponsorship and thus Intel would have a say in what goes into the video, which was what Linus is trying to avoid here.

[VicBar]

30 minutes ago, crazzp said:

Cashing in means would have to accept the sponsorship and thus Intel would have a say in what goes into the video, which was what Linus is trying to avoid here.

Is he though? What did he say that Intel would disagree with? Everything is still censored, maybe the contact was just for one visit so he changed it to be able to stay more and that voided the "check"? I kinda want to know.