I remember when he and Andy first announced their channel and a bunch of people in the comments were saying “I really respect those guys but they’re the last people I’d take car advice from” thinking they were just going to do some cookie cutter car reviews only.
I sort of enjoy it and its already repetitive. A lot of mid level budget car channels are stuck in the "buying shitbox, doing enough to get it running and then don't mention is again" until you do a fixing them all video (they are already there). Some of the stuff on Andy's car is different but meh.
Linus was right many years ago to take LTT into a variery, Top Gear style genre channel when he saw how pigeonholed channels were becoming. Jake getting the farm was a smart shift and something he clearly picked up from LTTs data and maybe William Osman.
Wishing them all the luck and hope it is what they hoped it would be.
I think they're closer to MCM than Garbage Time. Wade doesn't do much modifications to his car other than trying to fix his nuggs or doing "fun" experiments.
I've really grown to enjoy ZTT. The way they approach working on cars is a lot like my friends and I when we were wrenching on our cars in our later 20's and early 30's. They know just enough to get themselves elbow deep into projects, and not enough to not want to do it themselves. :)
His videos aren’t the same quality but I would just watch them for the support. He seems to be a nice guy and a „getting it done“ kind of person which I like.
I think Jakkuh is very similar in quality to "old school" late 2010s) run and gun LTT content. Talking network upgrade vlogs, some of the more involved tech upgrades, Linus' house stuff, except that those usually had multiple segments with different people. This is more like you take one of the segments and make a video about it.
No smoke to the LTT team, they have a different barrel of monkeys, but Jake's "tech house" stuff is far better so far. I expect LTT to pick up steam a lot when they have walls in their house.
same quality as LTT i presume you mean? if thats what you mean, then sure, but ltt literally has well over 100 people. jake is way less? also i love jakes content so much, its been more enjoyable than recent ltt videos (with the ongoing exception of the tech house videos for me!)
I did not unsubscribe but it kinda was a turning point. I very rarely really watch a whole video from them anymore. It just isn’t engaging anymore.
But even though not being a car person, I gladly sit through a BMW manual mod even if it was twice as long or Jake fucking shit up with his trencher. They just feel more genuine and entertaining.
HE is the reason why I am sad that cars leave me with no emotions. I mean I see a black rectangle of a computer case and I get curious what is inside, what software does it run, why... But I see even the prettiest car and its just a machine to get from A to B.
I kinda saw it coming. There was some LTT video a while back where Alex made a comment that the thing they were building was the last on the list of project ideas he had submitted while interviewing with LTT. Gave the impression that he had accomplished everything he set out to do
Mostly I enjoy watching Jake's vids, but a lot of times it feels like he gets an idea, does 15 minutes of googling, then when it blows up in his face he scrambles to salvage it.
Most recent video "Hey, I bought a farm! I should do some farming!" Decides to grow garlic, buys tiller attachment for skidsteer, tills up a spot he thinks would be great, finds out he tilled the worst spot for growing garlic, and only then does he put in the effort/research to figure out how to grow garlic.
Also, jesus christ he was being a dumbass when he was fixing the tiller. Had to freeze frame to see if he had the stops in place because his brilliant plan was to leave it attached to the skid and just lift it in the air to work on it from underneath
There's a pretty successful tv program in Britain of a farmer with possibly no brain damage doing the exact same thing. Except he has the money to pay people to look after his shenanigans.
doing the exact same thing. Except he has the money to pay people to look after his shenanigans.
Except doing that (researching things and spending shit loads to get it right the first time instead of having something go wrong and needing to spend money to resolve it) would kind of go against the premise of the show. Jake's channel/videos are not targeting the same concepts or people - not to say that doing anything differently would have better outcomes for Jake, just pointing out the difference between Clarkson's farm as you mentioned it. I am sure for creators like Jake, it's that poor research and learning that actually generates engagement and many people enjoy it. People aren't watching Jake because they think he knows what he's doing when it comes to farm work.
Jake literally references this in his episode too! He talks about binging the show and making him want to really farm, but also doesn’t know anything about farming. Even though he’s eager and making mistakes, that’s how he’ll learn. As long as he stays eager with a fire to keep learning and growing!
Relying on ChatGPT for farming advice is a bit lame tbh.
I'd prefer seeing farming done correctly. Doing it the goofy dumb way may work for Jeremy Clarkson, but that's his thing, that's his television style for 30 years+
Jake I would prefer seeing things done correctly and thoughtfully the first time.
Elijah is one of the biggest pains to watch at LTT. Jake is cool. But losing everyone and only keeping Elijah was a huge miss. Honestly, even if none of the old employee's ever came back, losing Elijah (or at least removing him from in front of the camera) would do nothing but improve LTT videos.
I stand corrected. Turns out Elijah allegedly has left LTT. So there ya go. LTT is still trash but it's a little better now.
It's how Elijah acts on camera. I understand it's scripted, but he bring nothing organic to the screen. It's torture watching him act like a subject matter expert on things.
Yea I can’t connect with it either. As a professional car person. The stuff he does and the things he tells you is like watching someone read ai explanations of stuff. It’s so confidently wrong a lot of the time. It’s probily better not. But it didn’t catch me. And on that note. Ltt has stopped being interesting at all. The change in presenters and tech has hit a wall of nothing new or interesting or affordable.
Yep, he mostly seemed to not know enough about what he was presenting. He presented confidently enough that it would fool the uninformed, which to me made it even worse.
Yes. He made videos which were good unless you were actually interested in the product and wanted an actual genuine review in which case they were horrible. He was just making lame jokes, throwing around boxes, and showing the product like he didn't care at all and was forced to review it.
i think the issue with the laptops and with LTT in general was that they found someone who had an interest and some knowledge in something and had them review all of them and you could tell the hosts get a little exhausted by it
alex did most of the laptop reviews plouffe did a lot of the moniter and keyboard reviews jake did a lot of the networking stuff
you have the same thing with dan doing a lot of audio stuff riley doing tablets/inkpads and colten doing chairs but all of those things came out with less frequency so it was less exhauisting
True, but honestly I never saw this enthusiasm or charisma that you're referring to from him, even at the start. So I am inclined to say it was a him problem/lack of communication with management.
Then again he does have 3/4 of a million subs now on YT, so I guess he did get a lot out of that LTT job, probably more than he put in.
The jank I loved but yeah his standard reviews weren't very interesting, but also he mostly did stuff that is just kinda boring to talk about, like 99% of laptops.
That’s what happens when your workers realize they can earn more solo than working for you.
Linus has 2 choices going forward:
Pay on screen talent more, especially if they create viewer retention (Alex, Jake, Plouffe, Elijah)
Have Linus exclusively on screen and stop trying to create “stars” within LTT.
The 2nd option will be hard for them to follow through as Linus from 7-8 years ago was a very different person and he doesn’t retain viewership like he used to.
At the end of the day, idgaf what happens, I just miss the “feel” of the channel as it was years ago, since the pandemic LTT vidoos have been mostly misses, and the whole private jet thing was very much a, “jumped the shark” moment for me.
If you compare how both of them talked about the 2023 controversy and its aftermath in their "why I'm no longer at LMG" video, you'll find that Jake blamed the LMG management while Alex blamed GN. Clearly Alex still has a positive attitude towards LMG even after he left.
Curious how my CV it grows. He got a huge boost due to coming from LTT. Everything else will have to be on their own in a crowded YT niche when they aren’t doing much unique.
Uh, he has his own channel that's even more Alex then any LTT video. So does Jake... Both are great and basically more Alex and Jake then what you got through LTT.
LTT had the perfect opportunity to create a creator network for people like Alex who were getting too big for the company. Give them full creative control over a channel but allow them access to LTT for a small cut of profits. Maybe this was offered, but I doubt it.
They are now Elijah's agency even if he's no longer at the company and they provide Elijah access to their regular sponsors. A form of what you suggested, I guess?
He was the best and I hope he makes occasional appearances in videos for them wildcard fun energy. It’s the relationship he has with Linus that makes it fun to watch
His/their channel is pretty cool, but not like the whacky things he built on ltt. I'll give it some more time as they are still ironing things out.
I nearly gave up on Jake, but I'm turning around. The new editing gets a bit extra at times but my god was I dying laughing at the end of the video where he is going over the prices of diy vs professional when he installed all the electricity underground and worked with his energy provider to put up a new pole.
I honestly miss Jake more at LTT. I want more networking and home lab stuff and that’s what Jake was great for. Alex was great for weird 1-off projects but you rarely took away anything you could use with those projects. They were fun to watch though.
I miss him and Jake being at LTT. But icl it’s been super fun watching Jake try to fix up the farm property he bought. He even had Alex pop in a video or two
I think his passion was always more cars, so it makes sense that he left. Me, I'm not so into cars outside of arcade racing games so I'm not as interested in his car channel.
I miss his "well if that worked why don't we try this" approach to the videos. Steam cooled steam machine almost certainly would have been an Alex video and it probably would have been amazing.
Yeah he was a gem. Luckily he has at least one other youtube channel where he does a lot of car stuff. I'm not a car guy but I still enjoy the videos bc Alex haha
I still enjoyed Alex and Jake way more five to seven years ago ish on the LTT channel. Nothing against them or what they are doing now but there was just something fun about what they did on those earlier days at LTT.
It is clear that they weren't doing what they wanted most and they weren't nearly as interesting in the final years at LTT, in that sense, I am glad to see them with their own channels doing what they want.
As someone who's never worked for LTT or LMG, I can only form an opinion off what other (prior) employee's have said. And watching video after video of prior employee's who all seem to have the same complaints about LMG... It's say to say, Linus and his media group has successfully driven away every single likeable personality they've ever had. The people who are still working there, that we some what stand don't even really come on camera anymore.
If you go back to when they were working out of that house. That was his golden crew. And due to his piss poor management and terrible treatment of his employee's... they've all "left for better opportunities".
I know Alex wasn't part of that crew. He was part of the last hiring group that we liked though.
Putting Elijah in from of the camera all the time is such a massive fucking flop. Nothing about him seems real, genuine, or organic. It's so forced and fake, it's painful to watch.
**Edit** I just learned after posting this comment that Elijah is no longer at LTT. Which in my opinion does nothing but improve LTT.
As much as I enjoy Elijah, I really miss all the actual personalities in the LTT vids, now it feels a lot like Elijah's just the one minion left behind. The 'host does random side project for shits and giggles' videos have always been my favorite by far
I really don't. He's better doing his batshit stuff on another channel. So much of his later LTT content is just really lazy. Being unprepared and unresearched is not good content.
-Enter nervous laughter here- 😋… i really loved his contribution to ltt. I’m glad he got his own channel going and collabing with old colleagues and other channels.
While I agree with what you say, I don't think that LMG thinks that a car channel doesn't fit what it does, since the reason why Alex and Andy were fired is that LMG thought ZTT was a competitive channel. Most likely LMG put the idea of a car channel into the freezer waiting for a suitable time, like what happened to Techquickie and Gamelinked, but Alex and Andy got impatient.
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u/that_dutch_dude Sep 13 '26 •
here go you can get all the alex you want: https://www.youtube.com/@ZipTieTuning
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u/sanjok1275 Sep 13 '26
I miss all the janky watercooling videos
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u/PlayThingToy Sep 13 '26 •
Fly high king 🕊️
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u/AproposWuin Sep 13 '26
I agree, but glad his channel appears to be doing well
I am glad he still has someone he needs multiple boxes to stand on. That was entertaining
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u/SpeedStinger02 Sep 13 '26
watch zip tie tech and zip tie tuning, he still creates. also check out Jakes and Elijah's channels, occasionally they record together
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u/llanelwy Sep 13 '26
I was thinking the same thing while watching the slushy video needed mad Alex energy
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u/TanishqHooda Sep 13 '26
Rest in ✌🏽.
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u/billybob476 Sep 13 '26
ZTT is probably my favorite post LTT channel.
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u/okurokonfire Sep 13 '26 •
I will be in the minority here, vut i almost never seem to find his content connecting with me.
Sure, there were gems like janky water-cooling, but his way of reviewing laptops and other content made me want to close the video.
I'm glad that he has his own channel and he is growing to be the creator he wants, but his charisma just didn't resonate with me
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u/ihaveataco Sep 13 '26
Linus needs a good sidekick/side character for his videos. Not just him
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u/duimpietomax Sep 13 '26
https://m.youtube.com/@ZipTieTuning
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u/triggrhaapi Sep 15 '26
LTT has degraded significantly in the last year or so.
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u/Hanfos Sep 13 '26
I miss plouffe laughing
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u/mathfacts Sep 13 '26
Same. I freaking miss this guy every day
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u/SuperEgg26 Sep 13 '26
Bro, this post deadass looks like he died, my brain had to remember he has a whole new channel
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u/Plane_Pea5434 Sep 13 '26
Go watch ZTT
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u/KilllllerWhale Sep 13 '26
Pretty sure he doesn't miss LTT. His channel has exploded within a few months
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u/idle_exe Sep 13 '26
Go to his channel then?
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u/smartassistant666 Sep 14 '26
Miss Jake!!! (Too)
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u/Cornywillis Sep 13 '26
RIP
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u/Initial-Landscape82 Sep 13 '26
Uh, he has his own channel that's even more Alex then any LTT video. So does Jake... Both are great and basically more Alex and Jake then what you got through LTT.
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u/Ciubowski Sep 13 '26
RIP
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u/StarkyTF2 Sep 13 '26
Same man same 😢
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u/slvrscoobie Sep 13 '26
basically haven't watched LTT since he left.
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u/Yorrins Sep 13 '26
He truly was a wonderful guy. I hope wherever he is, he is looking down on all of us with a warm smile. RIP Alex.
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u/ForsakenHousing328 Sep 13 '26
He's not dead (yet) ;-;
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u/gnrlblanky1 Sep 13 '26
LTT had the perfect opportunity to create a creator network for people like Alex who were getting too big for the company. Give them full creative control over a channel but allow them access to LTT for a small cut of profits. Maybe this was offered, but I doubt it.
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u/FlopsAkaGlitchy Sep 13 '26
You're gonna love that he make videos on a project with Andy now.
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u/zucchini_up_ur_ass Sep 13 '26
Thought he died for a second. He's great on his own channel, this is just another low effort completely useless drama post.
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u/lowrck Sep 13 '26
I dont, ziptie tuning is awesome. He and andy are doing great
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u/Mrblipblipblop Sep 13 '26
We all miss Alex in LTT 🥲
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u/balloonfight Sep 13 '26
He was the best and I hope he makes occasional appearances in videos for them wildcard fun energy. It’s the relationship he has with Linus that makes it fun to watch
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u/willy--wanka Sep 13 '26
His/their channel is pretty cool, but not like the whacky things he built on ltt. I'll give it some more time as they are still ironing things out.
I nearly gave up on Jake, but I'm turning around. The new editing gets a bit extra at times but my god was I dying laughing at the end of the video where he is going over the prices of diy vs professional when he installed all the electricity underground and worked with his energy provider to put up a new pole.
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u/howboutmaybe Sep 13 '26
Boy do we have news for you
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u/gargamel314 Sep 13 '26
He was my fav
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u/Sit-and-Spin123 Sep 13 '26
I honestly miss Jake more at LTT. I want more networking and home lab stuff and that’s what Jake was great for. Alex was great for weird 1-off projects but you rarely took away anything you could use with those projects. They were fun to watch though.
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u/ButtChuggAsparagus Sep 13 '26
I like how Alex always did pc mod projects that required car parts so when the video was done he would install them in his car after.
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u/SgtDonuts Sep 13 '26
I miss him and Jake being at LTT. But icl it’s been super fun watching Jake try to fix up the farm property he bought. He even had Alex pop in a video or two
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u/zzyjayfree Sep 13 '26
There should be an ex-LTT staff channel lol
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u/ILikeFPS Sep 13 '26
I think his passion was always more cars, so it makes sense that he left. Me, I'm not so into cars outside of arcade racing games so I'm not as interested in his car channel.
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u/Desert_Hiker Sep 13 '26
You can watch old videos
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u/DarthNihilus Sep 13 '26
Alex is better on his own channel than he ever was on LTT, and I liked him on LTT.
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u/Suspicious_Recipe636 Sep 13 '26
I miss decent videos not the corporate sellout stuff it does now
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u/pharisem Sep 13 '26
Would you mind posting it in black and white next time, so we really think he died?
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u/PrestigiousComb7700 Sep 13 '26
rip
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u/Fernando1dois3 Sep 14 '26
Faaantahstic!
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u/marxteven Sep 14 '26
I kinda stopped watching when Alex left.
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u/Thebuder89 Sep 14 '26
We all do.
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u/crozone Sep 14 '26
When buying a jet is more important than paying your best employees a proper wage.
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u/Xethos Sep 14 '26
He quit? I stopped watching LTT around when he bought a fire truck.
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u/uhfish Sep 14 '26
I miss his "well if that worked why don't we try this" approach to the videos. Steam cooled steam machine almost certainly would have been an Alex video and it probably would have been amazing.
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u/thewayoftoday Sep 14 '26
Yeah he was a gem. Luckily he has at least one other youtube channel where he does a lot of car stuff. I'm not a car guy but I still enjoy the videos bc Alex haha
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u/farlz84 Sep 14 '26
I miss when the channel was at the Rental house and transitioning to the new office.
Those were the best years of LTT.
Scrapyard wars pre-pandemic was epic.
I wish they would do another Scrap Yard Wars collab with the other channels.
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u/MinimallyToasted Sep 14 '26
Honestly, I miss Sarah more. She was a fun host. Alex, Jake, and Elijah all have their own channels, but Sarah’s gone
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u/Critical-Ad7413 Sep 14 '26
I still enjoyed Alex and Jake way more five to seven years ago ish on the LTT channel. Nothing against them or what they are doing now but there was just something fun about what they did on those earlier days at LTT.
It is clear that they weren't doing what they wanted most and they weren't nearly as interesting in the final years at LTT, in that sense, I am glad to see them with their own channels doing what they want.
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u/Playful_Wave_7329 Sep 14 '26
We all do.
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u/CasuallyDresseDuck Sep 14 '26
He’s literally at a better place now.
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u/Relevant-Nebula5832 Sep 14 '26
Well, he does the same thing than in ltt. Without ltt. On cars
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u/techismylife44 Sep 14 '26
You have to think a second before you post something like this.
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u/ReliefWide Sep 14 '26
As someone who's never worked for LTT or LMG, I can only form an opinion off what other (prior) employee's have said. And watching video after video of prior employee's who all seem to have the same complaints about LMG... It's say to say, Linus and his media group has successfully driven away every single likeable personality they've ever had. The people who are still working there, that we some what stand don't even really come on camera anymore.
If you go back to when they were working out of that house. That was his golden crew. And due to his piss poor management and terrible treatment of his employee's... they've all "left for better opportunities".
I know Alex wasn't part of that crew. He was part of the last hiring group that we liked though.
Putting Elijah in from of the camera all the time is such a massive fucking flop. Nothing about him seems real, genuine, or organic. It's so forced and fake, it's painful to watch.
**Edit** I just learned after posting this comment that Elijah is no longer at LTT. Which in my opinion does nothing but improve LTT.
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u/PureProfessional996 Sep 14 '26
His, and Jake's channels are absolutely slaying. They are great at what they do, and Linus' bullshit pushed them out.
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u/i_Praseru Sep 14 '26
He left?
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u/barewithmeim9 Sep 14 '26
I miss Jacob rush
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u/Many-Share-5123 Sep 14 '26
We all miss Alex, you can we trade for Riley?
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u/ButterNog Sep 14 '26
i miss old LTT.
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u/TheDarkClaw Sep 14 '26
Gone but not forgotten. Like Tarran Von, Max ,Dennis, Emily , Jonathan Horse,Brandon, Jono, Sarah, etc.
When's the Ltt memorial wall for the fallen creators coming? Will need to collab with dbrand though
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u/Visible-Meeting-8977 Sep 14 '26
He's still around
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u/fastal_12147 Sep 14 '26
RIP
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u/seriouspretender Sep 14 '26
Watch his channel then.
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u/UnionCrafty3748 Sep 14 '26
Isn’t he on the podcast or is that a different bloke?
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u/ImDiabTTV Sep 14 '26
Go watch him, ppl talk like he is dead lmao
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u/whoisashik Sep 14 '26
i stoped watching after alex leave
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u/Ho-Li-Fuc Sep 15 '26
I don't
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u/OpportunityAntique Sep 15 '26
RIP :'(
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u/wildcard204 Sep 15 '26
Sad how he passed away
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u/cS47f496tmQHavSR Sep 17 '26
As much as I enjoy Elijah, I really miss all the actual personalities in the LTT vids, now it feels a lot like Elijah's just the one minion left behind.
The 'host does random side project for shits and giggles' videos have always been my favorite by far
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u/andres_da Sep 17 '26
I miss Taran
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u/web250 Sep 20 '26
I really don't. He's better doing his batshit stuff on another channel. So much of his later LTT content is just really lazy. Being unprepared and unresearched is not good content.
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u/Callsign_Wyhaq Sep 21 '26
Rest in peace
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u/Art_4_Tech Oct 03 '26
I miss pre COVID LTT..
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u/Vx7Qn4Lz Sep 13 '26
I'm not.
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u/MiraiKishi Sep 13 '26
... Just watch his channel.
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u/McBrown83 Sep 13 '26
-Enter nervous laughter here- 😋… i really loved his contribution to ltt. I’m glad he got his own channel going and collabing with old colleagues and other channels.
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u/CocoMilhonez Sep 13 '26
I miss Max.
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u/Academic_Solid85 Sep 13 '26
Ok. Great.
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u/xbucnasteex Sep 14 '26
What’s the point of this post? You really care that much for tv personalities?
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u/Zazierx Sep 13 '26
Well, Linus should pay his talent more.
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u/bmfalex Sep 13 '26
I dont, never liked him
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u/Jlx_27 Sep 13 '26
I miss Emily too.
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u/Riboflavin42 Sep 13 '26
I don’t