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Linus Tech Tips is BLEEDING subs - WORST apology video ever

2023-08-20 · 5 min

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    So it's been a few days since the

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    absolutely awful apology from Linus Tech

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    Tips was released, and it's— oh my god,

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    they are just absolutely bleeding subs.

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    As you can see on Social Blade, they have

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    lost 200,000 subscribers in the last

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    few days, or the last 30 days. And the

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    apology video that they made was just so

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    bad. And if you look at the comment

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    section, you can see that most people in

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    the comment section are in agreement that

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    this was just a really bad soulless,

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    scripted, and fake and forced apology.

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    For me personally, the worst thing about

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    this apology is how they are blatantly and

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    very obviously staring right into a

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    teleprompter. Look at Taran, the CEO.

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    He's not even looking into the camera.

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    He's not making any kind of eye contact

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    with us, the viewer. And you can see in

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    the reflection of his eyes that there is a

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    reflection of a teleprompter, that, that

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    is reading this apology script right off

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    of a teleprompter. And it wouldn't even

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    surprise me if they got this apology

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    script written by like a professional

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    apology writer. Do you really think this

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    apology was written by Linus or Linus?

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    One of the weirdest things I find about

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    this apology video is that even though

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    Linus is the one that should take most of

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    the blame and responsibility for the

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    problems that have arisen, it's just kind

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    of weird how he's brought out the top

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    members of his team to come and apologize

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    in this video. For him when this video

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    should be mostly him in the video

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    apologizing. And I don't really feel like

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    these other people should have to

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    apologize for his mistakes. The reason why

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    they had these problems like data

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    inaccuracies in the first place is because

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    they're trying to rush to meet these

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    self-imposed deadlines. And I don't really

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    feel like these are the people making

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    those decisions who are appearing in this

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    apology video. The decision to make these

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    very quickly made videos and pumping them

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    out every day on a daily basis are

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    probably being made by Linus or Taran.

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    This apology video doesn't really come

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    across as very apologetic, and it just

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    kind of comes across as a big company

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    desperately trying to do damage control,

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    and they're trying to reduce the amount of

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    public backlash that they are now

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    receiving by just basically saying, yep

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    guys, we made a big mistake, we're going

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    to now fix it, and we're really sorry.

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    It's very easy to just say that you were

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    wrong when you might not actually think

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    you were wrong. I feel like even though

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    they are admitting that they've made

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    massive mistakes, I feel like there's a

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    massive but that they are not saying. It

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    just seems like they're saying, yeah, we

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    made a massive mistake and we admit it,

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    but it happened because of X, Y, and Z

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    reasons. Some of these comments in the

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    comment section absolutely nail how I was

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    feeling. Like this guy says, why does this

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    video feel like mandatory training you

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    have to watch at work? Yeah, it does feel

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    very forced and very soulless and not

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    really from the heart. And people also

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    saying stuff like, look how it's scripted.

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    You can see them reading a teleprompter.

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    Feels like the old Apple keynotes of when

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    they present their new products. Why would

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    they try advertise their own products

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    during an apology video? Yeah, they also

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    kind of tried to shill their store or

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    their products during the apology video,

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    which is very weird and very tactless.

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    And then if you look at the pinned

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    comments, they've made an update saying

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    that we've heard the feedback from our

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    community and from our team internally,

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    and monetization has been turned off for

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    this video, which means it was originally

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    turned on. I don't really know because I

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    have YouTube Premium, so I never see ads.

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    But the fact that they had monetization

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    on, on the apology video so they would

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    make some money from the apology video is

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    like a really weird move to make.

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    Obviously You don't want people to think

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    that you're making money off of your

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    apology video because it just makes the

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    apology just seem really insincere. I

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    think this apology video has completely

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    failed to do what it was made to do,

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    which was to try and reduce the amount of

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    public backlash, trying to get people to

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    calm down and not be so angry. But it just

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    kind of feels like this apology has dug

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    them into an even deeper hole. And Linus's

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    explanation at the end of the video when

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    he finally appears is not that great

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    either. He tries to gaslight you by

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    saying, we're just humans, we make

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    mistakes, blah blah blah. He then starts

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    trying to play the victim, and then he

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    starts saying everyone's calling him a

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    thief or trying to say that he was

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    stealing someone's intellectual property.

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    It felt like he was trying to make me pity

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    him by him pointing out how he's the

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    victim in this whole thing. Oh, poor

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    Linus. So as it is right now, it just

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    seems like this apology video has kind of

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    made things worse Look at these comments,

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    the people don't really seem to be

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    sympathizing very much with Linus, and

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    they just seem to be very disappointed

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    with how this apology video comes across

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    and feels kind of scripted. So yeah, I

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    feel like this apology video has kind of

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    made things worse.

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