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Linus Sebastion Turned Down $100M Offer
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EEVblog:
I get the impression that LTT is a very "blokey" high pressure nerd environment (no surprise?), and she seems to be completely incompatible with that environment?
Perhaps there was some resentment by the other nerdy employees that she was hired without the required nerd skills?
Are there any other presenters that don't have the nerd chops? Maybe that's why she was quickly shunted from that to handling the social media account?
Not excusing any of the serious sexual harassment claims of course, but apart from that it seems like a non-compatibility thing I've seen countless times.
EEVblog:
They halted videos:

wraper:

--- Quote from: EEVblog on August 17, 2023, 05:12:45 am ---
--- Quote from: wraper on August 16, 2023, 04:38:12 pm ---There is very little money at TikTok, top 7 TikTokers combined supposedly earn about $50M annually. And the money TikTok itself pays per view is like 2% of Youtube.
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That's because the views aren't real. Shh, don't tell anyone, you aren't supposed to know.

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Dunno how much of them are fake but TikTok is certainly not favored by advertisers. Anecdotally my wife watches that garbage like half of her free time.
Ice-Tea:
0.02$

LTT made mistakes and there's nothing wrong with calling them out. But I'm not sure if, from all the possible ways to highlight this, this was the best.

GN also has a tendency to set high bars for themselves and everybody else and seem to be willing to burn everything below that bar to the ground. Per example: they burn LTT for not reshooting sections of a video when the host makes an error or misspeaks. Is overlaying a not as good as reshooting? Obviously not. But should Linus lick Steves boot to appologise? Erh, no. Same with the Asus thing. Was the warranty disclaimer saga good? No. Did they plan to shaft everyone that used the bios and bricked their PC? Probably not. I also remember the burning PSU thing. As per usual, they had a point but their definition of how a PSU should or should not behave were extremely strict.

Finally, regarding the non-monetization of their video I'm gonna leave this here...

PlainName:

--- Quote ---they burn LTT for not reshooting sections of a video when the host makes an error or misspeaks. Is overlaying a not as good as reshooting?
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Doesn't this depend solely on production values? If you are aiming for Hollywood movie slickness then reshoot as a matter of course, but overlays should be fine and even add value (because you see how it really is as well as how it's meant to be).

Of course, too much of that is tedious and hard to follow, but still massively better than 95% of Youtube videos churned out be amateurs who think they are something.
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