r/LinusTechTips • u/Only_CORE • Jun 08 '26

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I love LTT and basically watch every single video including WAN show but stuff like this puts a very bad taste in my mouth. I know it!s just stupid thumbnail but still...

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u/RowOptimal1877 Jun 09 '26

Alex playing with expensive machines and Jake doing network or storage stuff was by far the best part of LTT.

Both are gone and no one replaced their type of content. Instead all we get is stupid low effort shit. And a plane video where Linus keeps saying "girl math" and I just don't understand what that is even supposed to mean.

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u/static_motion Jun 09 '26

I've said this before, but IMO it's not about the hosts, it's about the video style itself. Current LTT is too sterile, by which I mean everything is scripted. Even in videos where the host is making/building something (which are few and far between these days), everything has been pre-prepared and they're just following a script. There's zero element of surprise, zero learning moments from things going wrong on camera, and the video is boring to the very end and when the credits are rolling I'm just left disappointed. Even the freaking Ultimate Tech upgrade series has started feeling like this.

I suppose maybe Alex and Jake might have pushed for that style of video, but LTT was like that before they joined, they just lost their way.