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Linus Tech Tips has become ground zero for accusations of conflicts of interest, sloppy testing, and rushing out too much content too quickly to feed its ever-rising ambitions. Now, the media empire valued at over $100 million is on pause for a week as it revaluates its internal practices and hires an outside firm to investigate allegations of sexual harassment.
Linus Tech Tips is a YouTube channel turned media company that covers PC gaming and the larger world of tech, marrying strong opinions with the vibe of a bunch of gadget nerds just messing around together. Think Mythbusters for whether the latest off-the-shelf rig can play Cyberpunk 2077 on max settings.
Its problems started at the end of July. A Linus Tech Tips employee said in a video tour of its offices and testing labs that one of the things that sets it apart from other content creators in the space like Gamers Nexus and Hardware Unboxed is that Linus Tech Tips tests everything from scratch each time it gathers data for a new video.
“If you have to tell everyone how good your testing is, in my 20+ years of experience that generally means your testing isn’t very good,” Hardware Unboxed shot back in a tweet a few days later.
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The one part of this that really makes me wonder how channels can remain popular is a video card cooling company sent them there one and only prototype unit for testing and not only did Linus test it on a video card that it was not designed for, he slammed it, then instead of returning the prototype Linus sold the Proto at auction for charity. Seriously, anybody who sends stuff into this channel deserves what they get because they are stupid.
Linus Tech Tips is a YouTube channel turned media company that covers PC gaming and the larger world of tech, marrying strong opinions with the vibe of a bunch of gadget nerds just messing around together. Think Mythbusters for whether the latest off-the-shelf rig can play Cyberpunk 2077 on max settings.
Its problems started at the end of July. A Linus Tech Tips employee said in a video tour of its offices and testing labs that one of the things that sets it apart from other content creators in the space like Gamers Nexus and Hardware Unboxed is that Linus Tech Tips tests everything from scratch each time it gathers data for a new video.
“If you have to tell everyone how good your testing is, in my 20+ years of experience that generally means your testing isn’t very good,” Hardware Unboxed shot back in a tweet a few days later.
Popular YouTube Channel Linus Tech Tips Taking Break Following Massive Controversy [Update]
Criticism by rival channel Gamers Nexus has prompted a big apology
kotaku.com
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The one part of this that really makes me wonder how channels can remain popular is a video card cooling company sent them there one and only prototype unit for testing and not only did Linus test it on a video card that it was not designed for, he slammed it, then instead of returning the prototype Linus sold the Proto at auction for charity. Seriously, anybody who sends stuff into this channel deserves what they get because they are stupid.
