Dont even need to watch the whole video. This is all you gotta see.

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175 points

Yeah no they’re not salvageable. Linus is a clown. My friends even told me, but I didn’t see it. That’s the consequence of growing up surrounded by toxicity: you think it’s normal and don’t see it.

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6 points

He’s a very rich clown.

Big mainstream appeal though. Even to otherwise quite smart tech normies. I have some scientist friends (scientists but very much not computer people. Mac fanboy types) who love him.

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35 points

Linus is a clown. Literally. That is his brand of entertainment, clowning around with tech.

That’s where he fucked up with Billet labs - he argued that he was defending consumers because nobody should buy that thing - but that’s not the job of a clown, a clown is meant to entertain people.

I’m not saying Linus is a clown as an insult, I mean that’s genuinely his brand and how he entertains people - memes, jokes, laughs, that’s great stuff most of the time but when you arbitrarily switch lanes it better be for a good reason.

Otherwise, stay in the clown car and make people laugh.

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10 points

I watched LTT videos for entertainment, not product suggestions / benchmarks / as an information source. Clown it is!

Granted I already unsubscribed from the channels I followed and won’t use him for even that anymore.

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15 points

I find it a little bit hard to enjoy the content, now that I know how to interpret it.

It’s kinda like when you find a great restaurant around the corner, go there a lot, enjoy the food, and then you realize they abuse their personal, lie to everyone about what is in the dishes (allergens etc), and so on. Can’t really enjoy the food anymore. The taste hasn’t changed, but it hits different.

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7 points

I agree. The content definitely always gave off the impression of being rushed, just didn’t realize it was to such a degree.

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⚠️ De-clickbait-ify the youtube titles or your post will be removed!

Floatplane titles are perfectly fine.

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