After years of being subscribed I'm starting to get really annoyed with Linus himself purely down to him heavily leaning into the "clumsy oaf" persona which started with his apparently genuine "I dropped this" stuff but has now morphed into "hey let's see how badly I can bodge/break this $100k server" type stuff as he point blank refuses to to treat expensive items with respect as he yanks on cables, pulls on components etc and then 7mins into the video is complaining that the item doesn't work.
I don't mind the expansion of the video range which now covers consumer, pro-sumer and business, or the expansion into home IT, its purely down to Linus himself and it feels like that same stye of presenting is starting to effect the more "professional" guys like Antony and Alex now. LTT always had a cast of "wacky" folks to cover that end of the spectrum so it's a shame to see that diversity of ability slowly being ditched into a singular "one of us....." style of presenting, but I suppose that what the YT Algorithm wants now.
I wrote the above quoted post 2 years ago and, since all the "dirt" came out about the general level of employee abuse there amongst the staff (bullying, harassment etc) about 9 months ago, I don't think I've watched another one of his videos on any channel they own. As far as I'm concerned every LTT channel is a dead channel to me and its all on Linus himself, his lack of workplace professionalism (which enabled the abuse by other staff) and his attitude, which as mentioned above sadly seems to have rubbed off on his staff both infront of and behind the camera.
I was hoping that hiring the new "actually a professional" CEO about the same time would've helped, and maybe it has behind closed doors, but the level of deliberate "stupidity for clicks whilst deliberately damaging equipment" in their videos hasn't improved, and its a shame because the videos "back in the day" were really good.
I know GN got a lot of fanboi hate for "exposing" LTT but I also dsee the vast difference between the quality of what each is still outputting, with GN being held as a beacon for holding global companies accountable for their errors/behaviour (EKWB being the latest exposé) and making international news whilst doing so (even if I find their content a little dry), and then there's LTT, breaking stuff for clicks like Whistlin Diesel of the IT world.