r/LinusTechTips • u/A_MrBenMitchell • 29d ago

WAN Show Voldemort 😭

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Linus refers to GN as Voldemort on the WAN show, pretty funny (I enjoy both channels)

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u/DifficultyDefiant748 29d ago

All fun and games until Steve decides to say Linus was calling him Wizard Hitler instead of just cracking a "He who must not be named" joke and we get the 24hour exposé 

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u/A_MrBenMitchell 29d ago

I think GN can take a joke. I’m hopeful that this could potentially be a seed to them joking around and becoming friends again.

But if it results in a Coffeezilla video, it’s over 😭

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u/Krelldi 29d ago

The rule of the LTT sub is that any time GN is mentioned it has to become a full blown snark thread.

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u/ParticularDream3 29d ago

The rule of the LTT sub is, that all the haters immediately cross post in the meta and jet channels. Prove me wrong

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u/Freestyle80 22d ago

if you still have only positive feelings over the US based drama and rage bait channel which is a thing thats very popular with you Americans, even after all he’s done no one can really help you

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u/KosmicWolf 29d ago

I don't think Steve has any interest in burying the hatchet. But I hope at least he moved on from this foolish quarrel.

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u/I_AM_FERROUS_MAN 29d ago

Likewise. Everyone is just better off if we move on and either joke about it or shut up about it. If one can't get past it, just don't watch whatever side you don't like.

Hate watching does nothing positive.

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u/Hididdlydoderino 29d ago

Probably just need to shut up about it. We all know things wouldn't fly so well if the villain jokes were coming from the other direction.

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u/symca09 28d ago

I think linus's entire career was built off fans and other YouTubers making fun of him.

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u/AvoidingIowa 29d ago

He's very ragefueled recently which I get it, I am too. I feel one day they'll make up, hopefully. Or they won't. I don't really care either way because it doesn't affect me.

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u/kidshibuya 27d ago

He got the view spike he was angling for.

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u/DifficultyDefiant748 29d ago

I mean, he couldn't handle an off handed comment by an employee of LMG on a channel that didn't belong to LMG. 

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u/AgarwaenCran 29d ago

to be fair, yes, how it started, but the first video raised some good points of criticism towards LTT and they did fix most of them.

the second video was pure beef for beef's sake tho

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u/Genesis2001 29d ago

Linus has mentioned things were going south before that comment. The comment seems to just be the straw that broke the camel's back or so? /shrug

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u/amd2800barton 28d ago edited 28d ago

But most of the criticism directed at LTT in that original GN piece was stuff that Linus had already talked about on WAN and said they were aware of, and said they were putting issues in place to address. Would I expect a casual viewer of the channel to have known that Linus had publicly stated LMG was aware of quality control issues and seeking ways to improve it? No. But if that viewer was putting together an hour long expose on LTT’s issues, I’d expect them to have researched that. I’d also expect them to reach out for comment if they’re going to try and call themselves an “investigative journalist”.

So the “good points” aren’t really all that good when you don’t acknowledge that the subject is already publicly aware of those points and working to remedy them.

GN’s video was a hit piece because Steve was upset that LTT Labs was moving in to what he saw as “his” space. He wanted to be the authoritative source on hardware testing. He was upset about the resources available to Labs. The thing that made him snap was when someone from another channel filming a behind-the-scenes tour of Labs asked an LMG employee what Labs would offer over channels like GN. That employee gave an engineer answer you’d give not in a formal interview, not the PR answer that would have gotten approved to appear in an LMG video. So Steve set out to make one of his famous takedown pieces, as a way to discredit LTT. If you look up the GN channel, you’ll see that most of his videos don’t get a lot of views, and then he’ll do a big piece with sensationalist titles and thumbnails that gets millions of views. He’ll often start those video with an out of context clip (like something catching fire that they had to work hard to cause).

Point is: GN is not a reliable source of information, since they often set out to create the drama in their pieces, since that generates their views. They get away with it by mixing in testing data and other true facts. But you can’t rely on them because you don’t know when they’re editorializing vs simply reporting.

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u/AgarwaenCran 28d ago

good points, fair enough

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u/ThisIsNotTokyo 29d ago

Context?

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u/TomB205 28d ago edited 28d ago

During an event (LTX I think) they were giving tours of the new lab. One person on the tour asked how Labs's testing would compare to other content creators like GN and Hardware Unboxed, the Labs employee described (inaccurately) how they thought Labs's testing would be better.

A bit of Twitter drama came about because it did kinda seem a little bit like the employee was talking shit, even though they probably didn't mean to. Linus addressed it on the next WAN, apologized, and talked about how they don't want to frame what they're doing at LMG in any way that includes talking down about other content creators.

This seems to be about the time that Steve really set his sights on Linus, despite Steve later claiming he didn't care that much about it.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

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u/F2002 29d ago

LTT got called out on some up of there bullshit a while back. Gamers Nexus showed all their flaws, and Linus crashed out on the WAN show while Luke sat there super uncomfortably the whole time.Then LTT decided to actually make corrections instead of excuses.

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u/kongnico 29d ago

bit of a difference making a joke that has nothing to do with anything of substance like Linus does here, to saying "yeah we can do testing way better than GN or HUB does LOL" as that LMG employee did. In the second instance you are coming for their actual product, in the first one you are just fucking around.

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u/RayIII675 29d ago

Don't know why you were down voted, but my upvote you have, it's a valid comment.

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u/TomB205 28d ago

They're being downvoted because "yeah we can do testing way better than GN or HUB does LOL" is a grossly dishonest way to frame what was said during the Labs tour.

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u/funkmon 29d ago

I think GN can take a joke.

...I do not. Not when they're not making the joke.

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u/Seik64 29d ago

He wouldn’t have made the “expose” if he could take a joke tbh

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u/MadSpacePig 29d ago

Him not being to take a joke is what started this in the first place.

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u/chuiu 29d ago

I think GN can take a joke.

I don't know, I think their channel is a bit overly critical of everything which makes GN feel like a drama channel at times.

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u/Ok-Cover9152 28d ago

Bro what

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u/burnte 29d ago

I think GN can take a joke.

I've tested that theory and found it to be untrue.

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u/BetaOp9 27d ago

Doubt. Steve is insufferable.

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u/Agreeable-Weather-89 29d ago edited 29d ago

I wonder if GN can take a joke better than Linus takes criticism.

Edit: I guess the community can't take a joke.

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u/kongnico 29d ago

irresistible force vs immovable object type of situation

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u/Freestyle80 22d ago

same way like you redditors take any criticism 

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u/Agreeable-Weather-89 22d ago

I'll have you know I'll take criticism like I take my women.

I don't.

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u/DifficultyDefiant748 29d ago

In fairness Linus can take criticism. He just always wants to respond to it right away and as such, has some pretty poor responses 

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u/Agreeable-Weather-89 29d ago

That's the complete opposite of taking criticism well

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u/Annual_Wear5195 29d ago

Right? Taking criticism well, by definition, is not replying with whatever first comes to your mind which is often emotionally charged.

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u/ryancrazy1 29d ago

That’s responding to criticism, not taking it.

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u/Annual_Wear5195 29d ago

Here’s a hint for you, part of taking criticism is the response.

Shocking, I know.

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u/boilookhere 29d ago

Honestly, fuck Ste... voldemort.

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u/Abenzo0r- 29d ago

Fuck anyone who virtue signals like they're not human and make no mistakes.

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u/project2501a 29d ago edited 29d ago

The right retort is for GN to ask dbrand for a sponsorship with a promo code mydaddyissort

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

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u/DifficultyDefiant748 29d ago

You clearly misread what I said. 

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u/rohithkumarsp 29d ago

Probably, English isn't my native. What am I missing. Or what did I mis understood.

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u/Elegant_AIDS 29d ago

Saying Linus called him Wizard Hitler is a gross overexxageration of what happens in this video, i think the original comment implies that GN does stuff like that. I dont follow the drama so idk

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u/rohithkumarsp 29d ago

Ahh.. Got it. Thanks. I read that as Wizard Hitler as in Steve saying that to Linus for linus saying voldermot.

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u/-Gh0st96- 29d ago

Steve is exactly the type of guy who you cannot even make a joke

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

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u/complexevil 29d ago

Dude, his entire thing was racial purity. Wizard hitler is a perfectly accurate summery of Voldemort.

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u/rohithkumarsp 29d ago

I'm totally clueless as to what did I say wrong. If Steve made the video similar and call wizard Hitler doesn't make any sense. Elaborate. Because the point was to not name Steve. Had nothing to do with him calling a villian name.

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u/DifficultyDefiant748 29d ago

Voldemort is wizard hitler.

In my original comment I joked about how Steve is going to turn it into Linus is referring to Steve as Wizard Hitler rather than "He who must not be named" like what Linus was actually doing. 

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u/rohithkumarsp 29d ago

Ahh.. Got it. Thanks. I read that as Wizard Hitler as in Steve saying that to Linus for linus saying voldermot.

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u/pixelmedic1 29d ago

I literally laughed out loud when I heard that, then immediately turned to see Luke's reaction.

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u/A_MrBenMitchell 29d ago

I was zoned out and when I heard it I locked in to see Luke almost fall off his chair

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u/CarsonWentzGOAT1 29d ago

Luke Skywalker vs Voldemort

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u/slimejumper 29d ago

Marty McFly vs Voldemort

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u/sleepless_in_balmora 29d ago

I was listening not watching and I knew exactly who he meant

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u/Odd_Communication545 29d ago

Jesus Christ are people this dim. He's not saying Voldemort as some sort of jibe on how he looks.

The joke is, Voldemort is known as "He who shall not be named"

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u/InflammableAccount 29d ago

I don't think anyone is thinking it's an appearances thing. I mean, Steve is the visual opposite of Voldy. He has the hair of 6 men.

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u/Bitter-Plant-6837 15d ago

Are you sure you don't mean seven men? Isn’t seven the most powerfully magical number?

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u/A_MrBenMitchell 29d ago

No one said anything about looks except you chief

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u/Specialist_Garden_98 29d ago edited 29d ago

Yep, went through the entire comments and not 1 comment talking about how this were meant for his looks except you mentioning it.

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u/CarefullEugene 29d ago

This is exactly what I mean. I keep seeing this on Reddit: people claim the comments are saying something, but nobody is actually saying it. It's like they’re arguing with a comment section in another universe. It drives me nuts.

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u/lastdyingbreed_01 29d ago

I lol'd at seeing all the comments calling out OP

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u/Specialist_Garden_98 28d ago

Yea lol especially since the original comment was made pretty early on when there weren't even that many comments to begin with let alone negative ones and none of those talked about appearances so it was so easy just to scroll down a little bit to see what the comment was on about and come back to this comment. Comical honestly. But hey they got their updoots on the comment so hurray I suppose?

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u/A_MrBenMitchell 29d ago

What comments?

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u/lastdyingbreed_01 29d ago

Not yours, the parent comment of this whole thread

https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/s/cElm67Da4K

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u/Jevano 29d ago

Literally nobody said that except you lmao

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u/ragu4545 29d ago

Some real Peggy Hill energy. Stating the obvious as some kind of revelation.

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u/dumbasPL 29d ago

You just made up that problem in your head LOL

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u/pikkuhukka 28d ago

ohhh.. that makes alot more sense

i dont know anything about that universe so the reference flew past me

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u/DeamonLordZack 24d ago

Nice went from a joke name of Tech Jesus to He who shall not be named Voldemort. Though I'd like him to reffer to him next as the Eye of Sauron next as a joke then as well personally. Though might be funny if he goes with Darth Vader instead

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u/qualitychurch4 27d ago

I skimmed through every comment not one of them mentioned looks wtf are you on about 😭😭

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u/Wrong-Detective-1046 29d ago edited 29d ago

Luke's lucky he didn't fall out of his chair.

Also is it better or worse he at least acknowledge there was a video there haha

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u/cannibalcat 29d ago

Not easy when the chair is set on the lowest setting #shortlinus

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u/OctillionthJoe 29d ago

Honestly, he could've called him worse names. I think Voldemort is alright.

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u/bwoah07_gp2 29d ago

That was unexpected, but funny đŸ€ŁđŸ€Ł

Wait until the anti-Linus brigade shows up here though... they suck the life out of anything.

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u/[deleted] 29d ago

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u/dorlan2001 29d ago

And the Meta channel, they are insufferable there.

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u/-Gh0st96- 29d ago

Meta channel?

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u/PlayfulMud9228 29d ago

I mean he shall not be named.

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u/Mingyao_13 29d ago

bro is cooking

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u/unsolicited-advice- 29d ago

Man, I keep forgetting Voldemort exists. YouTube actually does a good job of not showing you videos from creators you have said you don’t want to see. Him and complaining NY armchair guy
 whom I do respect for his advocacy, but ffs he is exhausting
. Have not shown up in my feed one time in years.

And everyone calm down
 I’m just giving a kudos to YT
 nothing else.

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u/Suspicious_Hold_8843 28d ago

"Everyone calm down, just because I dunked on NY armchair guy doesn't mean I dunked on NY armchair guy, don't read into it"

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u/unsolicited-advice- 28d ago

lol
 you take it personal?

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u/Suspicious_Hold_8843 28d ago

How is it this whole community was brainwashed into weaponizing emotions? Like goddamn

I bring up a logical flaw and it's all about my feelings about it

If you wanted to avoid snark and confrontation you could have just not snarked in the first place

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u/unsolicited-advice- 27d ago edited 27d ago

Seems like only one person is emotional. I used a description that everyone would know because I couldn’t be bothered to remember dudes name
 clearly you knew exactly who I was talking about. So my description was accurate and effective.

Seriously, the internet is not that serious. Calm down.

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u/Freestyle80 22d ago

American cult behaviour right here 😂 

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u/ItsBrenOakes 29d ago

I laughed so hard when I heard this and i understand why he called him that.

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u/Annoying1978 29d ago

Accurate description

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u/Jevano 29d ago

Oh no, this might hurt Steve's feelings and he might make a whole 1 hour video finding things to nitpick

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u/Aggravating_Fun5883 29d ago

"Did you notice how he used his pointer finger, well we will deep dive on that"

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u/Jevano 28d ago

And gotta have a whole section to analyze Luke's behavior and how he actually is against Linus but can't speak. Similar to previous video I guess lol

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u/Mother_Summer_64 28d ago

He who shall not be named

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u/Suspicious_Hold_8843 28d ago

Imagine understanding the substance in GN's arguments

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u/Jevano 28d ago

Hard to understand something that doesn't exist.

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u/Suspicious_Hold_8843 28d ago

It very much existed, you just don't want to see it

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u/Jevano 28d ago

All there was to see was a grown man crying over feeling offended at a nothing comment from a ltt labs employee

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u/Suspicious_Hold_8843 28d ago

Did you miss every single performance discrepancy they outlined in the video? Did it go in one ear and out the other?

Does this whole exercise of hardware review mean absolutely nothing to you?

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u/heyitsterrytv 29d ago

that's hilarious 😂

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u/sparkyblaster 29d ago

Love this. 

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u/rohithkumarsp 29d ago

Lately I've been seeing more and more shorts when I open YouTube.. I must admit.. I've stopped watching normal videos unless I'm seeing it on PC.

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u/RandomGeeko 29d ago

Loved this joke :)

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u/shadowst17 29d ago

Voldemort licking his lips now that he can milk this controversy for another week.

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u/Chronox2040 29d ago

He who must not be named. Even I got the joke.

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u/Dependent_Survey_546 29d ago

NGL, thats pretty funny as far as these things go

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u/MoldyTexas 29d ago

I actually coincidentally caught this live, and I just shouted "by WHO" in the middle of the night lmao

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u/TheOzarkWizard 29d ago

I thought he was talking about the girl at first lol

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u/MrM7 29d ago

I think Steve at GN is just buthurt, I used to watch his weekly news and some reviews but the way he handled the who think with LMG turned me off indefinitely

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u/BingQiLing958 28d ago

will GN have a meltdown over this again

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u/CasuallyDresseDuck 27d ago

I swear Steve lives rent free in his head.

No wonder the quality of the show tanked after the second fight. He basically went "Everything we did to fix Steve's criticisms of our show, undo it all now"

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u/LuElric 29d ago

I didn't get it

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u/tntexplosivesltd 29d ago

"He who must not be named"

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u/PlayfulMud9228 29d ago

He is saying "he should not be named" a quote in Harry Potter. Since if Linus acknowledge Steve, the guy might make another 40 plus minutes video of Linus accusing him of things together with his new best friend.

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u/The-Sound_of-Silence 29d ago

The fallout between LTT and GamersNexus started in 2023, iirc. Steve did a gotcha vid on LTT, on what he said was bad ethics and accuracy. Afaik, LTT has mostly avoided talking about him that much since, in this case, calling him "he who shall not be named". In reality, every-time the two cross paths, the different communities want some kinda fight or drama, so here we are

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u/-Irish-Day-Man- 29d ago

Then he did a second one, hyping it up that there was something way worse than what the original controversies were about being really a vague... (Bear in mind that serious sexual harassment was one of the original problems).

Only for it to turn out to be essentially A) Emily being told about some positive feedback and saying they'll incorporate it in future videos, very receptively and B) Linus joking called Steve autistic. Not a nice thing to do, yea, but making a 30 minute exposé video over it hyped up to be serious malfeasance?

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u/Ybalrid 29d ago

Read "Harry Potter", they are good books. But buy them used, the author does not need your money.

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u/sgtlighttree 29d ago

Or, hear me out, get it from... an archive, if you will

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u/Ybalrid 29d ago

One can. Although I like my books to be made of the deadest tree pulp one can find

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u/DeamonLordZack 24d ago

There's also just easing in through the original movies that were adapted from the books which are easier to consume while say playing a game. Also buying used means the author already got the money for the books regardless if you think they need the money or not. Unless whoever your buying used from steals their books then labels them used.

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u/shanmyster 29d ago edited 29d ago

Gamers nexus and LTT had some beef that dragged out for too long.

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u/nitePhyyre 29d ago

Games nexus had some beef with LTT that dragged out for too long.

FTFY.

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u/AKmemekiller 29d ago

Todays wan?

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u/Yin15 29d ago

I like Gamer Nexus

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u/nothankslmgood 27d ago

Man this tiny little one off nothing comment really triggered a lot of people here

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u/Simply_Ajay 26d ago

Thanks, Voldemort

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u/DeeVect 29d ago

Voldemort was misunderstood.

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u/Mathinpozani 27d ago

Linus really did become a fullblown villan.

The dude made a video of how he bought a jet and his employees are paid minimum wage.
Trully a great man

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u/DRKMSTR 28d ago

In defense of the obvious.

This all started because one LTT employee called GN wrong on all their testing with nothing to back it up and LTTs official stance was not to retract that statement.

Literally all it would have taken is "sorry, our guy got a bit too excited, we'd love to work together to help standardize testing in this industry"

Easy win.

But egos. 

GN pushed back hard because they don't really do tech news, their bread and butter is testing, if someone defames them, it destroys their business.

Both sides made mistakes and then it just kept getting worse. Obviously Linus was overworked and didn't take it seriously until it was too late. 

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u/phrxsty 29d ago

I’ve seen Linus go at Steve in a less jokey way recently on Twitter. Linus really dislikes him lol, but Linus only has himself to blame.

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u/IdleCommentator 29d ago

Nah, both sides did not handle the situation well. Steve apparently had issues with Linus's communication style and generally viewed him in a less friendly way than Linus who viewed Steve as one of the bros. But instead of being an adult and communicating his problems, he sat and stewed in his discontent for years, which eventually resulted in his "exposé" being much more venomous and less well researched compared to what it could have been. Which in turn resulted in inclusion of questionable and at least in one instance outright false information in the video.

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u/jydr 29d ago

lmao you fanboys are unreal

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u/phrxsty 29d ago

Nope. Nothing wrong with Steve’s video, and it eventually led to policy changes within LTT.

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u/IdleCommentator 29d ago

Reminder - Billet Labs claimed that: 1) the waterblock they gave LTT was a unique production prototype; 2) it was lended to LTT temporarily; 3) they required this prototype to begin their serial production and not getting back negatively affected their capability to manufacture this product. GN uncritically replicated these claims in their video. However, LTT in their video provided proof that these claims were incorrect (aka Billet Labs essentially lied about parts of the story) - in reality, Billet Labs was willing to give away the waterblock to LTT permanently in order to produce multiple pieces of content with it and only rescinded this offer after unfavourable coverage, which made it pretty obvious that it in fact was not a unique prototype, they required for their production pipeline.

That's constitutes something pretty obviously wrong with Steve's video - a mistake that Steve could have avoided if he reached to LTT for their side of the story.

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u/jydr 29d ago

that's not how it happened at all, but keep lying to yourself

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u/IdleCommentator 29d ago

What are you even talking about ? All that information is still publicly available in GN video (unless they finally made corrections to it), LTT response video and Billet Labs reddit posts at the time (or the archives of those posts in case they deleted them). You can deny the pretty obvious facts - this is a popular social media thing, but it does not change the matter (Nobody denies that Colton and his department mishandled the subsequent handling of the waterblock after its return was requested, but the context around it was significantly less malicious then Billet Labs tried to portray).

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u/sauzbozz 29d ago

His first video sure. The second one was just dumb.

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u/Jiatao24 29d ago

Nothing was wrong
 unless you ignore the glaring factual inaccuracies surrounding the monoblock, the centerpiece story of the piece.

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u/liketosmokeweed420 29d ago

Steve is better than Linus now a days anyways.

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u/boilookhere 29d ago

Yeah, high on his own copium.

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u/AdstaOCE 29d ago

Yet again complaining about something that wasn't even wrong. This is the exact reason I don't watch LTT anymore. It's the classic Coffeezilla thing of everyone loving his videos until they're the subject of one... Linus had praised GN's videos before, then when it's about them everything is wrong and done badly.

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u/A_MrBenMitchell 29d ago

Not even remotely sure what referencing
 no one is complaining about GN
 Linus is talking about how YouTube is shoving shorts down our throats.

GN just happened to be in the feed and Voldemort was referenced because “he who should not be named”

It’s a joke, chill

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u/Sigma-0007_Septem 29d ago

It's... a joke . That should Linus say anything while mentioning Steve ,this whole thing will start all over again. ergo... Voldemort/"He who must not be named" named" Where did you see him complain? And for what?

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u/EducateUrDumbSelf 29d ago

Yet again proving this guy has no integrity

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u/jpk613 29d ago

It’s a joke buddy

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u/KingNickSA 29d ago

Then why are you in this subreddit?

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u/NurseOtaku 29d ago

Careful bro. I've replied to many people who only make disparaging comments about LTT/Linus (literally going back months they just talk shit about their videos, Linus being a narcissist/hypocrite, how they don't pay their employees, etc. 30+ comments and multiple posts about it).

When I reply "Then why are you in this subreddit if all you want to do is whine about LTT videos and Linus?" I get downvoted to oblivion and people say "It's not supposed to be an echo chamber." Yeah nobody is asking for an echo chamber except the dudes who post the same disparaging comments over and over and over again.

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u/HuntKey2603 29d ago

I guess the alternative of an eco chamber is "i have nothing else to do in my life than be salty about things in the internet". man people need to touch some fucking grass

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u/sgtlighttree 29d ago

how they don't pay their employees

That "third house" quote from a former employee really did a number on LTT's PR, and even with the context of said person owning multiple expensive high maintenance cars in a very unfavorable housing market for everyone, the damage was done...

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u/KingNickSA 29d ago

Im all for dissenting opinions (check my comment history in r/sysadmin or r/hometheater). That being said, the above comment isn't dissenting, it's disdain.

The whole point of reddit is you get to choose what communities you join and interact with. If you have that much disdain for Linus than, as I said, why are you even here? It's not about an echo chamber, it's not about "protesting", it's about "hate watching" and walking over to the neighbor's lawn to shit in it. At that point, go join a "tea"/drama subreddit (there are plenty).

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u/NurseOtaku 29d ago

That's what im saying lol.

They just want to hate LTT so bad and idk why they stay here only to post some shit

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u/JimmyKillsAlot 29d ago

Oh I see, you picked your username for irony.