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[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I don't understand how this guy has an audience. I saw one video that was alright where he cleaned a water-cooling system. The rest were like, "look at all this garbage we bought on Aliexpress lol," and I bounce after several seconds.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

For people interested in tech edutainment he's alright and has mass appeal. My favourite videos have been more of the interesting ones showing how fast his ridiculous fibre connections are in his house.

So much terrible click bait has meant I haven't bothered clicking in a year or so though.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

He's got a lot of charisma. And his videos frequently give that "people doing something they should have prepared more for but pushing through anyways" entertainment where you can laugh at how they put effort into creating an illusion of professionalism but left enough gaps to make it clear it was just an illusion and he's in way over his head, but somehow still manages to keep it going.

It's a weird spot where I like the guy and want to see him succeed but also don't think he deserves that success and want to see him fail.

Though I don't really spend much time watching hardware enthusiast videos in general, so I probably won't see either of those unless it goes viral like his last shitshow did.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

entertainment where you can laugh at how they put effort into creating an illusion of professionalism but left enough gaps to make it clear it was just an illusion and he’s in way over his head

I liked the time when he tried to use linux and ended up destroying his os by blindly following googled command line instructions

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

He’s got a lot of charisma

That's funny.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

He used to have some charisma lol. Also the early Linus Tech Tips content, like back when they were running it out of someone's house, was usually pretty entertaining. Back then the content was much more silly and creative though, and much less corporatized.