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Seems to me that everyone's behaving exactly as expected - a company doing slightly shady things with an NDA and an adult Youtuber is acting like a child for clicks and likes.

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Linus might have a valid point, but jesus christ I can't stand the style of his videos in the slightest. We don't need this "drama" style of YT nonsense with tech videos, thank you.

I agree. Linus even made a video about his own clickbaity thumbnails. His basic message was "sorry, I know it's dumb, but clickbaity stuff makes more money. Simple as that". If anyone wanted to see what a race to the bottom looks like, it's called "YouTube face".

So in what sense should we give him a pass for that and not give Intel a pass for things that make them money?

I think you can walk away from this hating both Linus and Intel if you so choose.

I don't love everything about LTT but I am impressed with the company Linus has built.

Idk, this is one of the things that don't get me upset. It seems overacted but then again it makes the message pretty clear, which I find interesting for a full time YouTuber that reviews stuff. Usually they try to play nice with everybody and everyone to not ruin potential future sponsorships. Or risk not getting invited to exclusive release events/press conferences. Or not getting those review samples plus NDA ahead of time anymore.

His videos keep popping up in my feed and I keep ignoring them because every single one has a breathless title and click-baity thumbnail. I've seen buzzfeed ads that were less irritating.

> We don't need this "drama"

Speak for yourself. I don't mind when reviewers use emphasis.

Intro

Sponsor aka AD

"Review" of product he got for free aka AD

LTT store merch AD

Another sponsor

You've just experienced 95% of LTT content

I suggest the SponsorBlock browser add-on, the creation of which was, from what I hear, inspired by LTT videos:

https://sponsor.ajay.app/

I 100% agree, there's a valid point to be made but the performative outrage is juvenile and frankly embarrassing

(note for downvoters: it's Linus that I was calling out in this comment, not the person who replied to me!)

We are not Linus' audience.

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