TLDR:
Linus gets a GPU cooler to review. He attaches it to the wrong GPU and then claims the cooler is shit when it doesn't perform well.
G*mer dude calls Linus out for being a cute twink.
Linus chucks and sneeds, claiming it wasn't his fault.
Proceeds to get btfo at every step by g*mer dude.
G*mer dude videos on the drama:
Part 1:
Part 2:
Edit - Kaamrev post about the reddit side of the drama
https://rdrama.net/post/197101/yo-guys-rpcmastercucks-having-a-sneed
Edit Edit- Update from Billet
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Important context to add here as I don't even see the regular G*mers nexus fans bringing this up in full detail.
The deeper motivation for Steve's hit piece aka dunking session on LTT dates back to their announcement of LTT Labs last year. LTT conventionally does not do good in-depth reviews like GN or HWU because the LTT fans by and large are too fricking r-slurred to appreciate the necessity of that.
G*mers Nexus announced in like 2020 or 2021 though they were building a whole comprehensive lab to up the ante of doing good high quality reviews and posted a lot of vlogs of its development, eg:
Basically LTT ripped the whole idea for his own lab straight from GN, so instead of being a fellow tech tuber, LTT made dramatic changes to his own channel and company in response to GN to set LTT up as a direct competitor for this audience. He has proceeded to try and dwarf GN, as LTT is a much larger operation and they threw a shit ton of money at it too in order to try and outspend Steve and set LTT up to look more advanced/comprehensive etc.
Steve has mostly avoided calling LTT out for this shit move
and has still always treated Linus well, in fact he was the first person to get ahold of Linus recently to let him know their channel had been hacked.
Anyway, the straw that broke the camels back was that shitty comment from someone at LTT's new lab featured at the start of the video. The guy basically said in nerd terms "we're better than those other hardware reviewers like GN or HardwareUnboxed" and lied about them not doing full equipment retests with every new benchmark or something. As soon as this comment landed in their backyard, it was open season for Tech Jesus to go r-slur hunting.
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he is
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no different from calling elon rocket daddy tbh
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post setup cute twink
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why
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That's nice sweaty. Why don't you have a seat in the time out corner with Pizzashill until you calm down, then you can have your Capri Sun.
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GBIPOCs are really r-slurred, I really didn't think there would be so many here![:marseyeyeroll: :marseyeyeroll:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyeyeroll.webp)
No one has EVER done fan testing, cooler testing or PSU testing before GN. LTT STOLE their idea to test things in depth!!! It's not like Techpowerup or Tom's HW have in depth tests of fans, SSD's, PSU's, coolers etc. for years, GN owns the idea of testing computer hardware.
He did not say they're better and he didn't lie - GN, HUB, in fact everyone reuses data. Two GN graphics card reviews, 4 months apart, first 6 columns are the exact same data (other data is also reused but it doesn't nicely line up side by side).
Reusing data is pretty normal, you retest every few months before major releases and then just add new cards into the mix. It was just a gimmicky way for the "Labs" to differentiate themselves from others.
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right basically that's sort of what I was kind of fundamentally saying, essentially
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HardwareUnboxed retests pretty frequently, not every time iirc, but pretty often.
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Wow shit talking both HardwareUnboxed and GN? What a frick up.
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Linus also just straight up sold those guy's only good prototype lmao
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imagine being stupid enough to hand over your only good prototype to someone outside your company
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Especially to a pop tech youtuber![:marseyetika: :marseyetika:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyetika.webp)
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I don't know why the sent the prototype anyway, they could've just sent the ones that they're already selling (which do have 4090 compatibility).
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all in a day's work
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Yoooo is this Marsey based on that based Sponge Bob gangsta
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you know it
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Hardly a slapfight, more like a beat down from Steve and telling Linus to sit down and apologize.
Apparantly Linus didn't email the Lab that make the prototype until like 5 minutes after he made that long ranting post about how they totally were arranging compensation with the Lab for the mistake blah blah blah.
It seems so par for the course for a youtube channel that "goes big" in their field has to go to shit too. Cant even give a decent apology out.
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Yeah he goes over the timeline. Linus looks incredibly bad in this whole situation.
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Would be a good spoof channel if someone wanted to make it. It would probably make Linus lose it and increase visibility exponentially if it got big enough for him to notice.
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Linus is famously very thin skinned, this would work well but it's hard to troll with video due to format
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In some video, Linus reviews a product called Cuck or something where one of the hosts calls him a cuck and Linus responds by saying that to the best of his knowledge, his wife never had s*x with another man after their marriage
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Tbf, his wife is a literal incarnation of ugly goblin. It's difficult to get cucked when you have an ugly wife
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That's literally one of the photo they choose to post publicly. She looks like an insect
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What is it with startup guys and having totally shitty business practices?
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inexperience
sacrificing flexibility for stability is the normal maturation of business
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They're not business-minded, they're just tech people.
But even from a business standpoint, you have to take insane risks to break through as a startup company. So even smart business decisions can come off as stupid when they don't work, but that's just the nature of running a startup.
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Lmao that title good work
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The Billet Labs guys are also getting their crumbs![:marseymerchant: :marseymerchant:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseymerchant.webp)
https://old.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/15rxni4/our_public_statement_regarding_ltt/
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he's literally the same twink he's always been lol
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Every thread in the subreddit is drama
about this, it's real good
https://old.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/
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didn't read, didn't watch and won't
All I know is that some r-slur from LTT said testing everytime is good and sneed ensued from poorcels
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LTT is the poorcel in the scenario. They didn't test correctly and whined because they didn't have the right GPU to test it on. Instead of just buying one.
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noooo you didn't test my 800$ hipster art piece properly![:soycry: :soycry:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/soycry.webp)
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I don't know what any of this is about and I'm not clicking any of those links but I assume LTT is in the right and their critics are just![:marseysoylentgrin: :marseysoylentgrin:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseysoylentgrin.webp)
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It's a soy shitfest, the market is so saturated they try to cannibalize each other constantly
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is this like that time g*mers got mad at reviewers for not playing a game for long enough and then the reviewer got mad back for being shitty at the game or am i completely misremembering that *sips tea*
gonna go buy a new gpu tomorrow i have no idea what to get lmao
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But does tech jesus have a nice bussy?!![https://i.rdrama.net/images/16921245564941337.webp](https://i.rdrama.net/i/l.webp)
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The socks manage to be the gayest thing about that picture, impressive.
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I was gonna post about this. Linus is getting absolutely dunked.
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The stuff with the prototype in the second video is amazing![:marseyx#d: :marseyx#d:](https://i.rdrama.net/e/marseyxd.webp)
What are the odds Linus has a spergout?
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Weird sort of 'tech' channel that LTT. Very light on the tech and in general just... hmm
Did he ever venture a stance on right to repair?
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Yes, supports it. Even had a video with Louis Rossman, iirc. I think he's talked about it on WAN show multiple times.
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Snapshots:
archive.org
ghostarchive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
archive.org
ghostarchive.org
archive.ph (click to archive)
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