AceThe Problem with Linus Tech Tips: Accuracy, Ethics, and Responsibility
UbermeistersMaybe just me but I’ve been really tired of Linus for like… years now. Typical youtuber clickbait thumbnail open mouth faced bullshit.
Jesus Christ
https://i.imgur.com/nKxiZh4.png
I need to gag.
No idea how they expect to be taken seriously with these thumbnails and titles.
He's said before that he hates it, but including one of those thumbnails boosts viewership by 30%. I certainly don't like it, but it would be really hard for me to resist that too.
vladSteve at GN and also Level1Techs kind of do the same thing a little bit, but not enough to turn me off from their content. It also helps that their content is accurate.
dan1101Money at the cost of credibility though, not a good long-term strategy.
This is the issue this is all about. Linus doesn't care about quality. Just about extra income. Clickbait thumbnails, rushed content that comes in quantity rather than quality, refusal to even invest 500 Dollar into redoing a utterly mistake of the video, no care to auction of stuff that don't belong to them - this is all coming from the same place, and which is why the thumbnails and titles are so bad. They are an indicator of the rest.