Linus Tech Tips apology video - BEST PARTS

Damn they tried to plug LTT store too. GN made a long serious video with stats, data, no jokes, no sponsors or plugs.

Good Lord bro. Imagine having self-awareness. With the Madison stuff also coming to light, they would have already been in the pit regardless, but this 'apology' video is kind of insulting.

Yes I also watched the whole thing and still found it equally as insulting as the highlights.

To be fair to Luke, in regards to the "six nines" comment in the video that a lot of people think is part of a sex joke (and how the video is framing it), in the proper context he was talking about IT infrastructure and this comment actually refers to a target for high availability: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability

99.9999% availability (ie. uptime) = "six nines"

He was basically saying that they're setting a target for higher availability of their infrastructure, because it's been unstable at times, causing staff frustration and delaying certain workflows.

I can't blame a lot of average people who don't work in any sort of IT field for confusing it with the "69" sex position (wondering what the heck "six nines" means), but that's not at all what he was making reference to.

I'm not at all defending anything else in relation to this debacle besides this unfair portrayal of this particular snippet.

EDIT: Just wanted to add, I think it's pretty sad that pistol fingers and a wink these days apparently must mean you're making a sex joke (or are trying to offend people in some other way). As a kid I remember this gesture being used to "act cool". We did it all the time back then, and it was all in fun. Luke's from my generation, so maybe he thought the same, or maybe we didn't get the memo that this gesture is off-limits now.

Linus should have employed a professional CEO, Managers, PR and HR years ago, right at the start of the labs expansion.

Their problems in the last couple of years could have been avoided or greatly reduced with better management, and employees not afraid to be open when things go wrong, this will set them back years.

They simply tried to lower the tension. This type of humour is their watermark, they even mention in the video that they are available to make changes but not to take away the goofiness.

Some of you are raging over something innocuous.

I cringed so hard, I got muscle cramps 😬

I never understood why their channel have been so popular? Every video felt like a scammer who want to sell me stolen stuff.

Can someone explain the popularity of them?

Ok, I was wrong...I haven't watched the whole video yet, but the bits this video showed really does make it seem worse than the Spez AMA. At least Spez was smart enough to keep the answers short and concise, even if they ignored all the questions.

Are we just really posting selective parts of this video? I could have sworn that when journalists / the media do this everyone is up in arms about bias and creating a narrative, but when we do it I guess it's fine?

Fuck Linus and everything he touches

YouTube drama is crazy

Sorry, I'm out of the loop on this one. Would anyone mind elaborating on what happened exactly? Thank you for your time!

I still don't understand the drama and do not want to watch a 20 minute video to make myself care.