My personal thoughts

At first it came off a bit whiney, but I watched the entire thing and I'm glad I did. It shows a pattern of carelessness and in some cases complete douchebaggery of LMG.

What they did to Billet Labs is absolutely un-fucking excusable. LMG and Linus, in particular, needs to be mercilessly shamed for that until Billet Labs gets a clear and unequivocal apology and paid restitution for damages. Fucking shameful. What a bunch of pricks.

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This video is not monetized. This video covers our serious concerns regarding the data accuracy of Linus Media Group, including Linus Tech Tips, ShortCircuit, and TechQuickie, particularly as it relates to rushing content out the door to favor -- by staff's own admission -- quantity over quality. As the company continues to expand into its LTT Labs direction, the importance of accurate data increases; however, even as 'only' entertainment, there are still certain responsibilities to the consumer and the manufacturers to report fairly (and to have defined corrections processes in place). We tried to approach this as objectively as possible and hope that viewers are able to listen to the evidence we present, particularly as it relates to significant and frequent data errors that now present in nearly every technical review video.

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[-] const_void@lemmy.ml 116 points 10 months ago

The thumbnails LTT uses tells you everything you need to know about his content and company.

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 69 points 10 months ago

I've always found the titles to be clickbaity and uninformative. If I want to look up their videos again I would have no idea what the title is to look up.

[-] Voyajer@kbin.social 33 points 10 months ago

It doesn't help that the titles get changed a handful of times throughout the release day so even if you remember the name it may not be the same if you want to re-watch it.

[-] pineapplelover@lemm.ee 15 points 10 months ago

Yeah I think LTT content has really declined over the years. They're spread so thin now they're churning out a bunch of low quality content rather than a few accurate and entertaining videos.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 4 points 10 months ago

Nah, it's always been shit.

[-] esther@beehaw.org 12 points 10 months ago

this is a YouTube problem, not an LMG one unfortunately. nearly all successful creators will A/B test various titles and thumbnails until The Algorithm(TM) is happy

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

It's called the Strange Applications of the Magnus Effect effect.

...and, of course, the current title of that video contains "unreasonably effective", a meme, same as considered harmful.

[-] Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz 7 points 10 months ago

Normal title: THE BEST THING EVER!!!

Dearrow title: device XYZ is a bit meh

[-] jawsua@lemmy.one 31 points 10 months ago

To be fair, this is how the YouTube algorithm requires big channels to act to maximize views, ads, and money. They've got way too many people reliant on that income to do anything different than exactly what best optimization strategies work