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| Shonky:
The 24/7 stream of old episodes they are running is getting a lot of down votes. Last I looked it was about 50:50. Not sure if or how that affects "the algorithm" but they might have been better off just laying low for a week and then coming back with a proper plan. Socialblade reports a (edit) now 0.2M drop in subscribers. I guess that's plus or minus 0.1M but it's there. This is entirely a pile on that probably wouldn't have blown up without much of the LTT response. GN and his holier than thou attitude irks me though. The fact he started picking on them for using on screen corrections I thought was pretty lame. |
| Microdoser:
I haven't watched LTT for years now. I found their videos shifted over my personal line from 'informative fun, by the way we have some merch over there' to 'we're trying to get you to spend as much money on our merch as possible and that is our main goal'. They seemed partisan, instead of impartial, in their reviews, and that's another line for me. There has also been a gradual development of a dislike for Linus on a personal level, he just seems like the sort of boss that would shout at you for either something that they messed up or for not keeping up with unreasonable time constraints on a job that could otherwise have been easy. I've had that sort of boss in the past, and when I see their traits in another person, I don't like them. As time goes on, my opinion is reinforced instead of being shown to be wrong. |
| rsjsouza:
--- Quote from: EEVblog on August 18, 2023, 09:34:39 am ---I can't help but think the TLDR from this is that Linus overreacted and dug his own hole here. --- End quote --- Precisely. The emotional reaction is something that would have never passed the BS test on a board of peers. The fact it happened gives the impression there is indeed a top dog that deals most (or all) the cards and its minions that are either too afraid, too lenient or simply disengaged. In these times that's where a good PR professional comes in and tames these emotional outbursts. --- Quote from: EEVblog on August 18, 2023, 09:34:39 am ---First mistake was taking the GN bait. He should have just Tweeted "Yeah, we'll do better" or some such and left it at that. --- End quote --- This attitude and response was done in the past, but this time I suspect the cooler block auction/sell and the claims of dishonesty really wound up Linus this time. Of course his first response was disastrous. --- Quote from: EEVblog on August 18, 2023, 09:34:39 am ---As for the former employee Tweet storm, it was clearly oportunistically timed to hammer home the pile-on, as it was 2+ years ago, and most of the stuff is just griping about a job she didn't like. --- End quote --- Indeed. She is very young and really did not figure out the entire ramifications of her actions. These pile ups rarely work in favour of the person doing the piling. |
| rsjsouza:
--- Quote from: Shonky on August 18, 2023, 09:46:02 am ---The 24/7 stream of old episodes they are running is getting a lot of down votes. Last I looked it was about 50:50. --- End quote --- At this point they better buckle up and weather the storm... It is still too fresh in people's minds. --- Quote from: Shonky on August 18, 2023, 09:46:02 am ---GN and his holier than thou attitude irks me though. The fact he started picking on them for using on screen corrections I thought was pretty lame. --- End quote --- Indeed the attitude is an emotional (but tamed) reaction to the spark that ignited this whole thing. And the rant about screen corrections is quite odd. Sure, a massive production team could re-shoot things but everybody does corrections in the Youtube tech space. However, Linus' channel is big enough that they can probably replace a video or two with a new one without having to re-upload the entire thing. |
| Microdoser:
--- Quote from: rsjsouza on August 18, 2023, 11:00:57 am --- --- Quote from: Shonky on August 18, 2023, 09:46:02 am ---The 24/7 stream of old episodes they are running is getting a lot of down votes. Last I looked it was about 50:50. --- End quote --- At this point they better buckle up and weather the storm... It is still too fresh in people's minds. --- Quote from: Shonky on August 18, 2023, 09:46:02 am ---GN and his holier than thou attitude irks me though. The fact he started picking on them for using on screen corrections I thought was pretty lame. --- End quote --- Indeed the attitude is an emotional (but tamed) reaction to the spark that ignited this whole thing. And the rant about screen corrections is quite odd. Sure, a massive production team could re-shoot things but everybody does corrections in the Youtube tech space. However, Linus' channel is big enough that they can probably replace a video or two with a new one without having to re-upload the entire thing. --- End quote --- I sometimes work in video to help out a small production company. It is the rare shoot where we don't have to do pickups (reshoot shots or shoot missing shots) once editing has started because someone spotted an error or missed shot. It is inconceivable that we would not do them simply due to budget constraints, which is the reason LTT gave. Sometimes you just have to suck it up, especially if the error is your fault. If you are a small YouTube channel, it's understandable you might just post the odd correction, but for a company as large as LTT it's a bad sign that they are publicly saying that they are accepting testing errors rather than test properly or reshoot a shot because they don't want to spend the money it would take to do things properly. |
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