I think it’s sad. All of it. Linus projected an image of a friendly geek when the channel was smaller. The first cracks I saw in that image appeared after covid in which I assume the channel (just as the rest of youtube) grew extremely.
Since then I noticed „slip ups“ where he went edgy and kind of lost part of his friendliness. I assumed it was because he was overwhelmed with his job as ceo since that job takes a heavy toll. I know from experience.
But the fact that he (and his wife and the new ceo) didn’t do anything against the obvious transgressions that were carried out under his watch (against this vendor as well as former employees, some of which have posted on youtube) is his (their) responsibility.
It’s just sad to see them making the same mistakes (being careless in the wrong department) as others before them.
For me it was visit to Louis Rossman https://youtube.com/watch?v=Shn7LdIrViQ
Truth is, I didn’t know of Linus than, was only fan of Louis, but the way Linus was acting throughout that video was just unpleasant for me. I wouldn’t wanna be in Louis’ shoes than.
Second was recently in that Linux challenge where, I was convinced, he was working hard to find that bug and show to everyone how bas he is. His complaint of Linux was that it allowed him to delete software Linux told him not to delete. Yeah… cool.
As someone who drives Linux on my gaming PC I hated his Linux videos. In all fairness I don’t really like either distro he tried but at the end of the day you hand the average person Linux mint and they will be fine imo
What does this have to do with technology?
The YouTube channel Linus Tech Tips is a very large part of the tech space, reviewing, and making videos about technology. This is actually bigger than that as it speaks to Linus media group, of which Linus tech tips is one of many tech related channels.
Everyone you like will disappoint you someday. Fuck you Linus.
Not everyone be any means, but if you admire narcissistic extroverts then sure, you’re always going to be disappointed.
