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Linus Tech Tips. It used to be good informative content. After they moved from the house in particular it started to really ramp up the clickbait. It just didn't feel like it was still about technology. It felt like it was about whatever gags they could throw into technology related videos.
The all the controversies happened after I had already unsubbed. Yeah, I don't know how people still engage with that channel.
Also the anti-union bullshit Linus tend to puke out sometimes.
Tbh, they always had the gags in their videos. I think the do make some really informative and interesting content. Especially their tours of factories or other industrial equipment.
Where they have irked me is with their reaction style videos or their 'top things to buy for whatever holiday'. Whilst they can be entertaining, it is low effort content that often isn't that great. I wish they didn't do them and did more reviews rather than just doing unbox+ on short circuit
They had gags before, but they were part of the video. Now it seems like they do videos to have the gags. (Well, I don't know about now, but many years ago.) It went from informative videos only into a content mill that sometimes creates informative content. Gamers Nexus is much better if you just want the information.
I mean, Linus's video about a fire truck toy was a gag and that was ages ago. The gags have always been big parts of the videos.
If you want pure information and performance metrics, ltt isn't the place to go for sure. But not every video needs to be dense on plots and performance metrics. They didn't even start out doing that, they transitioned to that from doing unboxings. He's said himself they aren't doing that on the main channel anymore cause others have carved that niche for themselves.
They definitely do more shovelware content these days but unfortunately it does seem to be what big creators do to stay relevant
Yeah, the moment they started treating as a business it started going downhill