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Linus Media Group’s Failure Signals The End Of An Era
The end of content empires. The end of the internet gold rush…
Linus Tech Tips is one of the oldest YouTube channels I have been following for well over a decade. It also happens to be one of the very few I kept regularly watching despite the many changes it has gone through over the years, and it generally being anti-Apple, a lot like Louis Rossman’s, though for very different reasons. I kept watching because living in an echo chamber as a technologist is the last thing I’d want. I need to hear the other side of the conversation, and for what it’s worth, sometimes the other side is right, or at the very least has a point. Watching Linus Tech Tips and his entire media group’s other channels, however, started getting increasingly frustrating, culminating in a screeching halt brought on by what feels like very much an inevitable scandal.
Zero surprises here
Waking up to my best mate’s text message saying “Looks like Linus got himself into trouble again.” while being an unconventional substitute for a “good morning”, was not at all unexpected news. Yet, the internet is shocked, and I have to wonder why?
Have they not been watching the same LTT we have all been for the last few years? The same LTT that has a segue to a sponsor…
