Linus tech tips, after letting his son go through and pick parts to build a computer on top of everything else I just couldn’t stand it.
What happened here? I see some things about people being upset about how little he pays his kids for appearing in videos but I’m not sure that’s what you’re referring to?
He started putting his kids in a few eps. They’re in that tween age where they’re awkward and he clearly didn’t really want to be ont he show, and well it was mutual it wasn’t even slightly entertaining. He went down this path of:
I’m going to give my kid this thing if they can X,
I’m going to get my wife to switch to blah.
I’m going to put this person against that lawn mower cutting my grawss,
and this person against that pool cleaner to clean my pool.
It’s like he’s just drowning in the need to get free gear from vendors for him and his family.
I think he just wants to get his kids’ feet wet for the family business but is completely in capable of doing it without making it boring and awkward.
Easy cheap labor for sure. If he didn’t have quality and personnel issues that everyone else has been covering expertly here, i might be swayed that choosing beggars would be the extent of it.
I mostly listen to just LTTs podcast WAN show and on there Linus has said several times over the years that he doesn’t like having his kids in videos, he finds it grimy and takes a real issue with family YouTube channels since the kids don’t have a say.
His family only appears in videos when they ask to be in a video, and even then he makes the kids do the pitch so they have a real vested interest in wanting to be in the video.
That’s why his one son has been in several videos, one daughter has been in a couple, and the third I think was just in one video years ago. The videos can be a bit clunky because while the adults in the room try to make a video engaging and interesting there’s only so much they can do. Linus has also stated that he’d sooner let LMG as a company fold than just hand the reigns to his kids.
The clunky pool and yard video iirc was a case of the business development team signing a brand deal and the video production team not knowing what else to do
What happened here? I see some things about people being upset about how little he pays his kids for appearing in videos but I’m not sure that’s what you’re referring to?
He started putting his kids in a few eps. They’re in that tween age where they’re awkward and he clearly didn’t really want to be ont he show, and well it was mutual it wasn’t even slightly entertaining. He went down this path of:
I’m going to give my kid this thing if they can X,
I’m going to get my wife to switch to blah.
I’m going to put this person against that lawn mower cutting my grawss, and this person against that pool cleaner to clean my pool.
It’s like he’s just drowning in the need to get free gear from vendors for him and his family.
I think he just wants to get his kids’ feet wet for the family business but is completely in capable of doing it without making it boring and awkward.
sounds like the ultimate “choosing beggars”
Easy cheap labor for sure. If he didn’t have quality and personnel issues that everyone else has been covering expertly here, i might be swayed that choosing beggars would be the extent of it.
I mostly listen to just LTTs podcast WAN show and on there Linus has said several times over the years that he doesn’t like having his kids in videos, he finds it grimy and takes a real issue with family YouTube channels since the kids don’t have a say.
His family only appears in videos when they ask to be in a video, and even then he makes the kids do the pitch so they have a real vested interest in wanting to be in the video.
That’s why his one son has been in several videos, one daughter has been in a couple, and the third I think was just in one video years ago. The videos can be a bit clunky because while the adults in the room try to make a video engaging and interesting there’s only so much they can do. Linus has also stated that he’d sooner let LMG as a company fold than just hand the reigns to his kids.
The clunky pool and yard video iirc was a case of the business development team signing a brand deal and the video production team not knowing what else to do
There was a lot of things wrong with his tips. I don’t remember everything as it’s been too long.