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"Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership (www.sportskeeda.com)
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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?

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[–] tomkatt@lemmy.world 46 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (22 children)

I stopped watching LTT years ago. His channel is crap. He's a tech personality who seems to barely understand technology, so most of his videos are just over the top bullshit and stunts. Not to mention his awful annoying vocal fry. He's like the male Fran Drescher.

Plus, Linus has been a complete asshole to GamersNexus, one of the best channels for investigative journalism in tech. As far as I'm concerned, Linus is your typical business entity, and lacking ethics.

[–] Noobnarski@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

It's actually worse than that.

He does know some stuff about technology and his team knows the stuff that he maybe doesn't know.

But in the fight with GamersNexus Linus basically admitted that they don't have time to properly fact check stuff because they would make less money if they released less videos.

[–] tb_@lemmy.world 10 points 1 day ago

That's from way back when. They shut production for a week, reassessed how they make things, and came back with the promise to be more thorough and not release a video when it's just not done that day. And they have "missed" some days since.

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