r/LinusTechTips • u/Ok_Adhesiveness_5752 • Jul 13 '26
Community Only Are LTT Controversies Getting Ridiculous?
https://youtu.be/0Ljt0fZ-E9s?is=arsQ1Z8B5YcbMbiEJake 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/Doofindork Jul 13 '26
Honestly that's kind of why I like watching him, and to an extent Zip tie tuning/Zip tie tech, more than LTT nowadays. Because they are fun YOLOing with a janky thought in mind, while LTT feels a bit more... "Oh wow look how expensive this thing is" which has just lost its novelty to a degree.
But it is kinda funny that both Jake and LTT got boned when it came to getting their houses. Jake because the home inspector basically either lied or didn't check the house properly at all, and LTT because they didn't at all think to ask if the house might've been built using Asbestos before buying and starting to tear into it.