“The biggest scam in YouTube history”

  • @DasAlbatross@lemmy.world
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    592 months ago

    They didn’t say anything because they’re not pro consumer, they’re pro linus media group. They didn’t want to appear to be unfriendly to advertisers. There’s a reason tech jesus was able to do a big expose on how crap their videos are. They want to churn out content and make money. Being seen as a problematic channel for advertisers doesn’t help that.

    • @runjun@lemmy.world
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      192 months ago

      lol certain criticisms of LTT are quite funny to me. They literally were “unfriendly to advertisers” with Anker. They’ve done it several times in the past. The “tech Jesus” video you’re referring to caused them to pause production and they haven’t ever returned to a video every day since that came out. 🤷‍♂️ you can just not like their videos, it’s ok.

      • @misk@sopuli.xyz
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        172 months ago

        There’s probably some overlap between people calling for more social responsibility and people who thought some earlier behaviour from LTT was not ok.

    • @JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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      -82 months ago

      Why would being problematic to honey hurt them? If anything, it’d make the other sponsors more confident in their affiliate links. They’ve burnt plenty of brides with Apple and Nvidia, I don’t see why they would be afraid of honey.

      • @DasAlbatross@lemmy.world
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        252 months ago

        Why would publicly burning an advertiser on their channel cause other advertisers to be reluctant to work worth them?

        Could be any reason.

        • @JohnDClay@sh.itjust.works
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          02 months ago

          They’ve had public spats with Anchor and Plex, doesn’t seem to have hurt them too much. I don’t see how honey is more dangerous to them.

          • @brbposting@sh.itjust.works
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            12 months ago

            About to entirely make something up

            Maybe there are 10 more advertisers they want to rip on but they already felt two was too many

            IDK!