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@elias

I honestly don't get it, either, but the only YouTube celeb I remotely "get" is MKBHD, and not so much because I give a rip about consumer tech anymore, but because he's very well-spoken and the videos are of very high quality.

Oh, also Mr. Mobile, for the same reason.

@jamesp

@elias Linus Tech Tips used to be really good. Nowadays it’s just like MKBHD. If you want me to recommend a tech channel or something I’d say TWiT is probably the better one.

@elias Been watching TWiT since the Windows 7 days or something

@elias Linus Tech Tips used to be really good during his golden age from 2013-2018. Then they started becoming too popular and were filled with sponsors and clickbait.

But they got people into building PCs, and for me, even into installing Linux!

So #LinusTechTips should deserve credit for how they got the masses, especially a whole generation of YouTube viewers, into PC gaming. But other channels would fill in the gaps that LTT didn't do anymore. Whether you like modern LTT is up to you.

@jamesp @elias
Feels weird, as I've discovered LTT through a post on Void Linux Twitter, I was like "Wow, there is a guy named Linus and they are not talking about Linus Torvalds", I didn't know it was a popular channel.
Then again, I think I found out who PewDiePie is via a GOG.com blog entry.
This must be how old people feel when some celebrity is mentioned and they don't even know that name. I don't have anything against, but I just don't get sucked in. I sometimes fall down the Wikipedia rabbit hole, but it doesn't work that way with YouTube, even if video is interesting, I get bored or distracted very soon — video isn't my medium after all.
When I meet friends for beers, and they are "Have you seen what x did?", the "Who the f x is?" moment happens quite often, thanks to YouTube celebrities 😂

@jamesp @elias
This makes me thing about how negative PR is still PR, I know about a lot of people just because they did something stupid and it got attention. Well, I knew who Elon Musk was, but probably not that much. J.K.Rowling — I definitely knew about Harry Potter books, I think I've watched one of the movies, but she mostly stayed under my radar, it was trans community who made her a celebrity.

@elias Nah it's LINUS tech tips. You're thinking of Linux Torvalds, who invented the OS

@sjb @elias It's actually a kernel

@elias >Overly expensive budgets
>Clickbait titles and thumbnails
>treats his employees like shit
>Nonsenical challenges
I swear I heard of this formula somewhere.

Maybe most youtubers just piss me off by making a video for what could be a 2 paragraph blog posy

@elias And don't get me started on people who send voice instead of text messages.

@erinaceus ugh. LINE.
and send Word and Excel files by LINE. jesus h christ.

@elias Some make a video when a link or a screenshot would be enough "Here, we download this thing, you can find the link in video description, we install it — voila!"
I think they do it because some people unironically use YouTube as their search engine, so such videos really get the views.