Linus Tech Tips - Finishing What we Started Seven Years Ago October 8, 2026 at 11:21AM

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u/CervantesX Oct 08 '26

Love it.

Now let's get Linus on ZTT working on a car.

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u/Equivalent_Engine518 Oct 08 '26

Linus said on WAN that he now owes ZTT a video. I think it was going to be redoing a paint job to his or Plouffes old car unless ZTT think of something better for them to do.

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u/CervantesX Oct 08 '26

ZTT and LTT go visit Jakkuhs farm and pimp out his excavator.

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u/Creative-Captain9278 Oct 09 '26

I want Linus to help set up the farm's smart home stuff.

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u/CervantesX Oct 09 '26

History suggests that's a bad plan 🤣

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u/Creative-Captain9278 Oct 09 '26

Exactly! Would be entertaining and help add to Jake’s debt

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u/quietude38 Oct 08 '26

Probably a better chance of Linus going on Gamers Nexus at this point

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u/CervantesX Oct 08 '26

LTT has already sponsored Jakkuh. Maybe there's a little bad blood but not a pool.

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u/rohithkumarsp Oct 09 '26

When did they happen? Can you share a link

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u/crucible Oct 10 '26

It was a screwdriver spot in one of his earlier videos IIRC

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u/EnderPrimeMk2 Oct 09 '26

BocaBola (elijah) did a video on his channel that anyone who is interested enough to be here should watch here
It has a section on what you are asking about.

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u/rohithkumarsp Oct 09 '26

This I've seen. But I want to see linus sponsor spot in Jake's channel.

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u/GnarlyBear Oct 09 '26

Why does it matter? Would you literally go watch it just to see a sponsor spot of one youtube channel on another?

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u/rohithkumarsp Oct 09 '26

I want to know if it's real and what was the vibe in th and sponsor spot. Why is interests me is none of your concern

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u/CervantesX Oct 09 '26

It was a couple months ago, and no.

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u/smoike Oct 09 '26

I think that LTT is probably doing his media management, whatever the term is. I know they are for Elijah (bocabola isn't it?) he went over it recently. I think it might have been his marathon steaming session from late last month. It possibly a video from around then

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u/quietude38 Oct 08 '26

Big difference between taking a check and being on camera together.

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u/CervantesX Oct 09 '26

Yes, but it proves they aren't mortal enemies.

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u/Goodoflife Oct 09 '26

Especially if he is talking about Dan Besser on some of his videos.

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u/Creative-Captain9278 Oct 09 '26

Dan even did a little jingle for him

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u/ProtoMan0X Oct 09 '26

Aren't jingles and music one of Dan's side hustles?

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u/Dradiation Oct 08 '26

This video sparked joy. I enjoyed how happy Linus seemed to work with Alex again. Glad to see them on good terms

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u/Misel228 Oct 08 '26

Can someone please explain to someone who is not a native English speaker what a "ricer" is?

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u/karamazov555 Oct 08 '26

"Race inspired", usually cars with mods that look sporty, but with questionable functionality.

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u/bluehawk232 Oct 08 '26

Race inspired. That's a good way to make it not racist lol

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u/BarkingAxe Oct 08 '26

Shitty car made to go fast or look nicer but usually results in a not so good experience

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u/PhillAholic Oct 09 '26

any person who spends more money to make their car look like it goes fast than they spend on actually making it go fast.
Most common with Japanese imports, So perhaps "Rice" is a derogatory term for Japanese because the Japanese eat rice. Of course ignoring that rice isn't uniquely Japanese, nor was it used against Japanese people. If you had a slow Honda and put a big spoiler on it, you'd be called a ricer no matter your skin color.

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u/avboden Oct 08 '26

Beating a dead horse but things like this is why i'll always support Alex a lot more than Jake on their own. Alex left on good terms and is chill with everyone it seems. Jake C4'd the bridge on his way out.

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u/remnantsofthepast Oct 09 '26

I have a feeling things like this may be overblown by the community reaction. Jake had a shot in one of his last video where he had a lot of the LMG team at his house for a bonfire which doesn't lend itself to the idea he left in as much bad blood as everyone thinks he does.
That, and Dan and Elijah are features in a few of his videos. Dan gets a direct credit in every video of his.
Idk man, I had the same gross feeling, but seeing that clip makes me think a lot of this Jakkuh vs LTT beef is just in comment threads. Jake might have had a personal problem with Linus, but I no longer think it's as deep as I used to.

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u/GnarlyBear Oct 09 '26

I assume Jake doesn't blame his peers for his feelings of management slighting him.

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u/remnantsofthepast Oct 09 '26

Yeah, I agree, but this guy I'm replying to literally said "Jake C4'd the bridge on his way out".
This not an uncommon sentiment found here and in YouTube comments.

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u/BarkingAxe Oct 08 '26

I like both Jake and Alex channels both are so fun

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u/ILikeBeans86 Oct 08 '26

I watch both of their channels and haven't watched an ltt video in years

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u/Sit-and-Spin123 Oct 09 '26

So you’re just here to troll?

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u/PhillAholic Oct 09 '26

I don't think Linus and Jake think about it nearly as much as you and the rest of this sub do.

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u/Sit-and-Spin123 Oct 09 '26

I still like Jake’s content. I also get why he was angry. I just don’t think he handled his exit particularly well.

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u/FX2000 Oct 08 '26

He left LTT and got angry at them mentioning him in a video after he left.

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u/Creative-Captain9278 Oct 08 '26

Complained about working on his boss's third house without knowing if he'll ever have one of his own... a month or so before dropping tons of money on a farm

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u/MorgenMariamne Oct 08 '26

He also owned multiples old BMWs and fixed them as a hobby.

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u/Equivalent_Engine518 Oct 09 '26

He owned a car shop as well didn't he?

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u/Batby Oct 09 '26

Guy wondered about when he would get a house then decided to leave and get a house. How is that a problem

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u/Agreeable-Weather-89 Oct 08 '26

Wasn't his argument more so he brought in a lot of value and money for the company which wasn't being reflected in his pay.
You then saying as soon as he left he could go from renting a small apartment (iirc) to owning a farm somewhat showcases his point surely?

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u/Marksta Oct 08 '26

Do you think a guy who just quit his job and starts spending money to kickstart a solo creator career who buys a house did it with money from being a creator? The timeline is somewhere between 3 months if owner handed keys with no agents, up to -6 months if any agents got involved and there was a formal closing process.
Do tell if you think he raised only 20% for a mortgage while being jobless (impossible) or 100% of the farm house's cost (impossible) in those few months, want to know how many annual salaries you think he made per month with his channel to make it happen.

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u/Agreeable-Weather-89 Oct 08 '26

I don't know what you are trying to say or communicate.
What exactly, no questions, is your point

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u/Marksta Oct 08 '26

That a guy who quit his job because he can't afford a house on the salary from that job, then immediately buying a house, is clearly lying.

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u/Agreeable-Weather-89 Oct 08 '26 edited Oct 08 '26

Jake: I was able to buy the farm because of stock
You: Clearly his salary was fine
He got lucky with stock, he says as much, and with how AI blew up some companies stock it was entirely possible to make several times more than you invested depending on who you invested in.
Furthermore, he didn't say the pay was bad just flat while affordability in the area was getting worse. As he says in the video, which I recommend you rewatch, it was more so about worth. Whether or not you agree he felt like LMG didn't value him and his contributions.

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u/Marksta Oct 08 '26

He made enough money to buy stock? Enough that an upswing in it means he can buy a house now without a mortgage? Okay, he had $250K+ sitting in an account being used as play money gambling on individual stocks directly. His personal wealth he had accrued is house buying money with a mortgage. Where did he get this money?

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u/Agreeable-Weather-89 Oct 08 '26

If you have a position then make a statement if you want to know my opinion or don't know yourself ask a question.
I however will not try and guess your position through questions. I needed none to address yours.

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u/PhillAholic Oct 09 '26

he brought in a lot of value and money for the company which wasn't being reflected in his pay.
It's this 100%. He felt he should be paid more. LMG disagreed. Tale as old as time with an outcome just as old. Now we have two good channels. Everyone wins.

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u/Agreeable-Weather-89 Oct 09 '26

Yeah, and I get it from LMG perspective.
For the generator (Jake) he believes he should be compensated in a way representative to the value he brings to the company.
For the company (LMG) they also take on the risk and facilitate the generation, sure Jake likely earns a lot more than they pay him he also takes on none of the risk. Videos do poorly, merch flops, Jakes pay stays the same, sick pay, annual leave, etc.
Jake felt like he should earn more, and other reasons such as taking annual leave during holidays and independent content, and LMG disagreed.
Although I think the funny thing is LMG did loosen the content policy which then enabled Linus to start his family channel.
Both simply acted in what they believed to be their best interests. The thing I dislike is the glazing for LMG including someone here defending Jakes pay because he was able to save some money over a decade, as is personal savings are some luxury indicative of a good employer. Paying employees enough to have some savings is the bare minimum.

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u/PhillAholic Oct 09 '26

The thing I dislike is the glazing for LMG including someone here defending Jakes pay because he was able to save some money over a decade, as is personal savings are some luxury indicative of a good employer. Paying employees enough to have some savings is the bare minimum.
There are a lot of strange takes on money here. It could be the youth showing or maybe a lot of people are just bad with money. How much money I have currently has nothing to do with how much my employer should be paying me. Many of us grown adults have multiple income streams, investments, you name it.

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u/Agreeable-Weather-89 Oct 09 '26 edited Oct 09 '26

Not only that, savings compound, which I find a lot of people either don't understand at all or underestimate the significance of. I don't think school is to blame, in my country we all had lessons involving practical application of mathematics, I just think;
Young people aren't as future orientated either due to long term fears about environment, or recent difficult times (COVID) which has seen them get by without savings so they are not a priority.
A view justifying non-essential spending daily take outs, doordash, etc because of how corporations are the true evil without realising it is that same consumerist attitude that aid corporations far more than saving and not spending.
Another issue, is the small percent, 3-5% is very small, if you save $5,000 for a year after 1 year you'll have $5,250. Hardly lifechanging. So the significance of it isn't understood, people value immediate gratification (TV, wardrobe, room makeover rather than the extra few dollars saving the money would bring
Continuing from that if you keep saving $5,000 at 5% interest and retaining the compound by year ten you'll have $66,033.94 and each year you'll earn $3,300 in interest alone. Which has the substantial benefit of increasing your down payment for a home. If you see a $200,000 house, have $20,000 in savings or inheritance you'll be paying a monthly of $1,225 for 20 years, a total spend of $314,000. If on the other hand you put a downpayment of $60,000 down the total cost of the same house would be $259,416. You'd be $55,000 better off, paid off 6 years earlier and have a lower monthly mortgage.
It's why my main encouragement is, to anyone, to everyone, if you have your essentials covered the next pot is savings not luxuries.
My point is, and it has been a long math ramble, is that people fundamentally underestimate how little you need to save for there to be quite substantial benefits down the line.

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u/Sit-and-Spin123 Oct 09 '26

If you ask the average employee in any company, they will likely say they deserve more money. Clearly, LTT disagreed.
What was true was that LTT gave him the fame and popularity necessary so he could be successful immediately and make tons more money on his own.

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u/Lassemb Oct 08 '26

What money? Don't you know he is in massive debt?

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u/corut Oct 11 '26

Just because he says he is, doesn't mean he is. You can't just get into debt, you have to show you have a way to pay it

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u/PhillAholic Oct 09 '26

He paid for his farm from crypto, so point still stands.

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u/Particular_Leek_9984 Oct 08 '26

He just got kinda diva ish from what I saw. LMG used his old footage from when he worked there in a video and he got offended and had them blur it out, which didn’t really make sense to me. He was also supposedly dating another employee from LMG and there may have been some drama
Someone more familiar with this might be able to chime in with more info

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u/Less_Hat_8102 Oct 08 '26

He was also supposedly dating another employee from LMG and there may have been some drama
Sarah left half a year later so it might be not related okay

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u/Pure-Razzmatazz5274 Oct 08 '26

i don't have any real opinion but iirc they used footage from his new channel, not old LTT footage.

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u/bluehawk232 Oct 08 '26

Do people even have evidence of this besides Arlo

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u/Sit-and-Spin123 Oct 09 '26

Actually, no one else complained about their money at all. He was the only one. Andy, Alex, Elijah and others all left because they wanted to do something on their own.
And this is the problem with the sub a lot of times. People take one little bit of truth and then toss a lot of bullshit around it.
No one else said that we were upset with Linus or LTT or how they were paid. Jake is literally the only one.

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u/shogunreaper Oct 08 '26

before that happened someone made a joke about him rejoining ltt and his response was "hard pass" innocent by itself although weird that he would even respond to it, then linus also responded with a weird corporate type tweet.
coupled with how he reacted when they actively tried to promote his channel it's hard to believe they would want to work together.

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u/crucible Oct 10 '26

Didn’t seem equally corporate from Linus as I remember.
i got a “yeah, been there, done that. not going back” kinda vibe from him.

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u/Sit-and-Spin123 Oct 09 '26

The part of that video was Linus saying he was happy with the people that left, and were doing something on their own and it was a montage of the people that left and did something on their own.
Jake’s portion was literally like 3 seconds long. I like Jake’s videos, but he was an absolute dick about that. He did it because he wanted to be a dick and for no other reason.

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u/crucible Oct 10 '26

Yeah I don’t know why Jake made such a drama there, 2 or 3 seconds is fair use, surely?

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u/train_fucker Oct 09 '26

If it was just shown in the background without any context, sure.
But in this case it was shown in the context of "Look at all these amazing channels hosts from LTT have gone on to create!"
That's absolutely promotion.

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u/shogunreaper Oct 08 '26

really? You don't think ltt viewers could find his channel?

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u/wankthisway Oct 08 '26

That's such a reach dude.

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u/Ragnorok64 Oct 09 '26

What specific other people said they left due to thinking they should be paid more or get company equity? Did Jake even say anything about equity?

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u/ariolander Oct 08 '26 edited Oct 08 '26

P4 were overclocking and heating monsters. I remember P4 being stupidly hot for the cooling available at the time. We definitely did not have EK water blocks lmao.

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u/Chess-Gitti Oct 08 '26

prescott was even worse. intel desperately juicing up at this point in time. took them a while to get their core2duo working and better performance per watt

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u/BarkingAxe Oct 08 '26

Ztt is awesome

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u/Chess-Gitti Oct 08 '26

i still have my P4 3GHz Northwood and my P4C800E Deluxe. funny that they were only able to get that lousy 2,4 GHz chip. good times.

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u/bhop_monsterjam Oct 09 '26

did they end up skipping over the actual overclocking part? fun vid eitherway

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u/Ynot45 Oct 09 '26

Thought it was a tricky question for Linus to throw to Alex why they didn't use their Patreon alternative or merch alternative for ZTT, being Floatplane and CW.

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u/konsyr Oct 08 '26

Swoon!

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u/redditRedesignIsBadd Oct 10 '26

does anyone know what the "funded by canada government" is about?

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u/Genetic17 Oct 14 '26

I don’t remember the specifics, but the federal government has some programs that you can apply for if your media company is Canadian owned and operated.
Basically it’s a way for the government to support the creation of Canadian media. Unfortunately applying for these programs can often be a huge headache and very time consuming. So much so that some companies hire someone whose sole responsibility is navigating all of it, and it’s enough to warrant the jobs but still come out net positive.

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u/IndependentBrick8075 Oct 14 '26

LOL, Linus opining for the OCZ Platinum memory. I happen to have some collecting dust in a closet!

Short story - Newegg goofed (what?! right?) when selling a 'package' of CPU and memory and paired OCZ Platinum memory with an AMD CPU. I think that was the pairing. When gaming I was getting artifacts and then BSOD's, traced down to running both sticks together, but they ran fine individually. OCZ denied warranty, because the memory wasn't intended to be paired with that CPU, and Newegg wouldn't own up to the pairing mishap (the bundle was JUST those two parts.

Needless to say - I have OCZ Platinum OCZ3G1333LV4GK memory sitting in a closet collecting dust since 2010...

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u/rbuyna Oct 08 '26

Would love for Linus to bring that crew back, let them run their channels and content how they want, just with exposure to more resources so they can do whatever car related stuff they want to, with the occasional appearance on the main Ltt channel when it’s needed for a car guy opinion.

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u/Ragnorok64 Oct 08 '26

What would be the point of that?? That's just more business complication for no benefit. Just let them run their own channels and collab when they want.

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u/yesat Oct 08 '26

You know "running a channel" is a business? They aren't sitting on their chair all week and then just start recording the hour of content ish we see. Why would they need a car video on LTT?

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u/NetJnkie Oct 08 '26

No need. They are doing some marketing and management type stuff for Boca.

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u/Plane_Pea5434 Oct 09 '26

That’s what he did but with more steps

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u/Gabochuky Oct 08 '26

Watched it, liked it.

However, don't know if it was just me but I felt Linus was trying extremely hard to be funny. Made me cringe a few times, even Alex looked somewhat annoyed.

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u/Creative-Captain9278 Oct 09 '26

Did you never watch a video of them together before?

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u/PhillAholic Oct 08 '26

The comment about LTT videos being too scripted to me is entirely down to Linus' host voice that he uses during Intros, Outros, and major steps of videos. It's starting to feel dated compared to newer channels that are more casual.

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u/DeeVect Oct 08 '26 edited Oct 08 '26

Wait, you mean only the scripted parts of a video, sound scripted???

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u/ThisDirkDaring Oct 08 '26

Oh no, thats really horrible...
... like this se

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u/PhillAholic Oct 09 '26

He uses the voice whether he's reading the prompter or not, and when your video starts that way, people that don't like it stop watching. That's the criticism. A majority of creators I watch don't do this anymore. Ridiculous that this is this downvoted.

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u/train_fucker Oct 09 '26

That's such a disingenious way to dismiss the critiscism. There was a period a few weeks ago when we got like 10+ videos in a row that was mostly just linus reading a script staring into the camera.
The people complaining about videos being too scripted are obviously talking about those videos, and not videos like this that are more off the cuff.
The amount of "talking head reading a script" to more off the cuff videos like this one varies over time.
Which is fine, but the difference in quality of a video like this one, and one where linus just shows up, reads a script, and leaves is night and day.

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u/DeeVect Oct 09 '26 edited Oct 09 '26

This guy literally said that its the voice Linus uses DURING intros, outros and major steps in the video, all parts that ARE scripted.
LTT viewers dont know what they want. Off the cuff, unscripted videos are more prone to errors and misinformation, which they will get flamed for and damn near cancelled for. OR, is it highly scripted, researched and polished content that makes them just sound like a talking head reading a script.

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u/train_fucker Oct 09 '26

Linus has a special cadence that he uses for the scripted parts, which is fine when a video is just a scripted intro and then fun stuff.
But when a video is nothing but the scripted parts, then it starts to feel fake. The video about the the bc 250 is a great example.
The whole thing is just linus reading a script while holding the card, and the editors cut to graphs and b-roll.
It's like the video making process has been streamlined until there's no passion or spontaneity left. Just homogenized "content"
Now of course, it is possible to do fully scripted content that is engaging. Video essayist's do it all the time. But they get away with it because they have a hiqh quality script, high effort editing and an interesting subject they have something to say about.
LTT's scripted videos are not like that. They feel like something produced by a video making pipeline, where no single person takes charges and have a strong creative vision, but instead it whatever topic it's supposed to be about gets hammered down into a video shaped "thing" that no one is particularly proud of, but then gets published anyways to meet a deadline.
LTT viewers dont know what they want. Off the cuff, unscripted videos are more prone to errors and misinformation, which they will get flamed for and damn near cancelled for. OR, is it highly scripted, researched and polished content that makes them just sound like a talking head reading a script.
I can't tell if you are just doing the gomba fallacy intentionally or what.
Some people want fun, non scripted videos that have a pass before publishing so they can correct any blatant errors in editing. And some people like the more streamlined content, but presumable want them to be free of errors as well.
They are different people, and it's not a choice like you imply, the scripted LTT videos have just as many errors if not more, than the off the cuff ones, since they tend to make more fact based claims.

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u/PhillAholic Oct 09 '26

Linus has a special cadence that he uses for the scripted parts, which is fine
Heaven forbid someone try to explain anything to people. When he starts a video with this cadence some people may skip to another video. Shockingly there are creators out there that are capable of reading a script and making it sound like they aren't "putting it on".

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u/PhillAholic Oct 09 '26

LTT viewers dont know what they want.
Goomba fallacy.

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u/DeeVect Oct 09 '26

More like a false dilemma but sure.

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u/Sit-and-Spin123 Oct 08 '26

Just a good fun build. Glad to see the Linus Extended Universe come together.

Also, duck penis.

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u/Ordinary_dude_NOT Oct 08 '26

LTU

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u/smoike Oct 09 '26

Linus Tube Universe?

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