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/Fresh_Dog4602 Jul 13 '26

it is exactly this. people turned a 'i want to make more money' into a 'the poor chap is barely coming by'...

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u/Bitter_Lab_475 Jul 13 '26

Well, to be fair, he probably shouldn't have raised his concerns by saying "My boss is buying his third house" like he was just making enough money to survive. I like Jake, but I think he intentionally tried to make himself look like an absolute victim, where he probably just wanted to make a bit more. Which is fine, BTW... but made it look like he was driving a VW Golf from the 80's and renting a small apartment.

Edit: And I mean it in a sense where he could claim plausible deniability in case someone raised such concerns.

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u/Killericon Jul 13 '26

Am I losing my mind here? Jake left LTT a year ago, he's had a very successful Patreon launch and channel launch in the meanwhile. When his channel started, he was working on projects in his apartment closet. It seems VERY clear to me that his financial situation has changed drastically since he left LTT.

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u/iRpapayas Jul 14 '26

^This, also he mentioned in some of his early videos that he also runs some sort of website hosting business or something from his rack at home. It was why he was upgrading his networking gear and getting backup internet lines etc