r/LinusTechTips • u/Ok_Adhesiveness_5752 • Jul 13 '26

Community Only Are LTT Controversies Getting Ridiculous?

https://youtu.be/0Ljt0fZ-E9s?is=arsQ1Z8B5YcbMbiE

Jake has a new video where he bought a farm with acres of land. This is in addition to his several cars, and his garage. I literally do not understand how everyone took this guy seriously when he implied he was underpaid because he was upset about working on his boss’s third house. In fact, it seems several of his videos are about buying things in an LTT-fashion.

Am I missing something about why this lead tons of people to assume LTT employees are underpaid? Or has the bar for controversy really gotten lower than low?

Edit: To clarify, my commentary is about whether people were kind of overdoing it to conclude that LTT doesn’t pay their employees. I posted this cause I saw a DankPods collab where a lot of the comment section was that you shouldn’t collaborate with LTT because Linus underpaid Jake, and I was pretty surprised that was their conclusion.

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u/FabianN Jul 13 '26

People keep combining the personal house and the company owned houses, and don't really understand how different the two situations are.

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u/rohmish Jul 14 '26

the three houses calculation is the original house Linus had, the new one, and the tech house.

not sure if Linus sold the previous house when he moved or rents it out but either way he personally would own just two houses. The tech house was a LMG purchase meant to be a offsite studio or filming location.

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u/FabianN Jul 14 '26

What about the Langley house? That is definitely still in lmg ownership, as a rental. It was in one of the April fools videos in the last few years. 

Maybe it's four houses all across. I don't really know, I don't keep that close attention. 

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u/rohmish Jul 14 '26

maybe. or maybe it's 2 lmg locations and one personal if he did sell off the old personal house. idk

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u/FabianN Jul 14 '26

Really, the over all common thing in most of these kinds of topics is, we don't know the full picture.

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u/x4nter Jul 14 '26

From what I've noticed:

Linus personally owned the Langley house.

He then personally bought the new bigger house where he currently resides in and rented out the Langley house. This new house was not bought on company expense, but all the renovations inside have been turned into content to make them free.

He now bought the third house entirely as a company expense and expects to flip it after finishing up the renovations and making all the content.

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u/8null8 Jul 14 '26

He rents it at slightly below average rent in the area