Did anyone really think that Linus wouldn't get back to gaming the algo with silly videos and clickbait thumbnails? Funny that you're just coming right out and calling Madison a liar though. Maybe Linus will give you a ride in his Porsche for being such a good bro.
Funny that <anybody> would come right out and believe any random person making life changing claims about someone acting immorally / illegally / reprehensibly ... You have as much reason to believe her as I have to disbelieve her. My speculation is as good as yours ;-)
Wouldn't go as far as to say that. What I have watched seems to be very safe for LMG, ultimately they will put their foot on the gas as they will want the graphs to trend upwards sooner rather than later.
I think if they interspersed actual helpful/review/technical videos then I'd say its not filler but what yeah, just mostly pabulum right now. I've largely stopped watching, so the google heuristics are such they I really don't see LTT videos come across my page, and I'm generally happy about that
No argument there. But someone like Linus brings a ton of dogma and assumptions from the other side, and that clash is how a self-identified "tech expert" can utterly destroy a desktop environment in less than a week. When unnecessary complexity meets unrealistic expectations, it's like trying to put together a jigsaw puzzle while looking through a kaleidoscope.
The recent PS5 Slim teardown video did feature some of their lab stuff (the soundproof chamber), so they're still using that stuff. If I had to guess, they are reevaluating how it is going to be featured on the main channel.... especially since the main channel has really pivoted hard into a very sanitized casual entertainment style versus a more tech heavy nitty gritty format or the old frat bro meme lord style that they used to have. IMO, they've seem to have managed to find a middle ground that is objectively worse than both alternatives.... but who knows, maybe the YT algo will eat it up.
Labs have definitely been influencing a lot of content lately. New charts are being rolled out (long overdue) and there was a video about ten identical AMD CPUs and how they were not performing in an identical way.
I mostly agree with you, at least in the medium-term, LTT seems to have leaned hard into silly Mr Beast goof kind of vibe. I have noticed far far less elitist snark from Linus, and less personality from him overall... he seems like he is only playing a character now, one that is generally positive, upbeat and self-effacing, which is probably a good course correction given how much his personality was getting them into trouble.
