Linus Sebastian, the founder of the Linus Tech Tips YouTube channel, has spoken out about its recent decline in viewership, describing it as a "very dramatic shift.

A lot of Youtube channels are reporting declining viewership lately.

EX1: https://youtube.com/watch?v=cpVnx4_yqTo
EX2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yF0tmhEtVJE

Fun times. Looks like a lot of channels are seeing a decline not just Linus. Hes just the latest to talk about it.

Then I saw this article as well and thought I would share.

Anyone here youtube creators? Are you seeing the same thing, a general downturn in viewership?

  • _cryptagion [he/him]@anarchist.nexusEnglish
    44·
    3 days ago

    you would know if you had been paying attention to our conversation.

    hey what about the time LTT auctioned off property that belonged to someone else without asking them, what’s your take on that?

      • Aatube@kbin.melroy.org
        32·
        3 days ago

        It wasn’t planned to just be given to them. It was always a prototype sent to them for sponsoring purposes. Then they dunked on it without seeing its intended purpose and auctioned it. And until this thing blew up they never refunded it despite email chains. If it was a misunderstanding it was an egregious misunderstanding. Though they also enormously misunderstood a mouse in another tech review and never took off the cover while complaining of trash tracking (because they didn’t take off the cover at the bottom!), that being just one of the more ridiculous errors two years ago. This all exploded around the same time as the employee’s sexual harassment allegations so you might’ve missed it. Just watch Gamers Nexus’s video on this for the receipts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGW3TPytTjc it’s not an hour long! C’mon, spend your time there instead of heated back-and-forth. Or this 30-minute video from a commentary channel I haven’t watched yet but the channel has a good rep: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCvvmvIjNWM

        That said, this was all two years ago. Not sure what stirred things up in January.

      • _cryptagion [he/him]@anarchist.nexusEnglish
        44·
        3 days ago

        it figures you would be OK with that, since you were OK with the sexual harassment. what’s a little theft when you’ve already dismissed unwanted sexual contact, amiright?

        the reason I’m still talking with you is because I want to demonstrate to everyone one of the other controversies around LTT, that being the toxic fanbase that’s as rabid as Elon’s or Trump’s. and you played along fantastically, dutifully playing the part of fanboy for everyone to see. so for that, I thank you.

        but now that you’ve done your job and played your role, I don’t have any further use for you, so ta-ta and farewell!

        • dev_null@lemmy.mlEnglish
          11·
          2 days ago

          Not going to take a side here, but the fact you said “you were OK with the sexual harassment”, when the other commenter said nothing as such, does not show that you are arguing in good faith.

          • _cryptagion [he/him]@anarchist.nexusEnglish
            1·
            2 days ago

            they dismissed the allegations because a group LTT paid to look into it said nothing happened. so yeah they absolutely said they were OK with sexual harassment. I’m not going to argue this with you, either, because I am not interested in whatever rationalization for sexual harassment you’ve prepared.

            • dev_null@lemmy.mlEnglish
              1·
              2 days ago

              whatever rationalization for sexual harassment you’ve prepared

              Wow, well now I know for sure you are not arguing in good faith. Have a nice day.