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I remember hearing about this guy enough that I was interested so I subscribed, and checked out a video of his once, I forget the topic but the title sounded pretty interesting. This was a few years ago.
Within 3 minutes I had unsubscribed. Why?
Well, he spent the first few minutes of the video being an annoyingly arrogant rich guy whilst also wasting time on things that had nothing at all to do with the topic of the video.
It was when he had his camera man follow him through his house or office or whatever it was, tacky "check out my millionaire crib" style, like a show for kids, and he went into a room, pointed at a big wall of NAS racks and said something like "I've got thousands and thousands of dollars worth of hard drives and I don't even use them! Hahaha", and I was like.... Yeah. Screw this guy.
Some people might like a guy who baits grown up tech viewers with an interesting topic only to then waste their time with childish, arrogant behaviour, but I clocked him as a tosser within 3 minutes and never bothered with him again.
That's just my personal experience, I can't imagine what having to be around someone like that every day would do to a person, my gosh :-(
It's really unfortunate because their early content was actually pretty entertaining. They'd document the fun projects they were doing, or showcase some wacky PC build they were doing, or they'd have PC build competitions where they'd have to build a themed PC within a certain budget, and they'd be judged at the end. I don't think those competitions had prizes, they just did it for fun. Most of their content was just for fun. They'd do sponsored stuff or reviews here and there, but for the most part it was just for fun.
Then Linus became a multi millionaire, and the whole thing went to shit.
I never got the appeal of any influencer flaunting their shit. Look, I'm happy your successful, good on you, but I watch videos to learn and grow, I really don't give a shit how many cars you have unless you're going to be teaching me about each one's internals and unique features.
Exactly! If he'd started with "look at how many hard drives I have set up in here" and then went on to show a really interesting novel use for them, I'd have maybe stuck around.
Though his personality was a little over the top regardless, but that can be forgiven in small doses if the content is particularly unique and engaging.
I don't understand how the channel even got that popular in the first place with Sinus' personality being what it is
Sinus Lebastian? Never heard of that guy.
Sounds like the stupid TV show Top Gear. I never liked those annoying smug idiots, I watched Fifth Gear instead.
Funny you should mention Top Gear! As someone from the UK, I'm embarrassed that Jeremy Clarkson is famous globally, he's such a bigoted, xenophobic, sexist man, and an embarrassment to our country :-(
I know, right? But then again you have the likes of Tiff Needell who is a great racecar driver with a really nice personality and is a perfect TV presenter.
It's interesting that you talk about top gear because top gear was an entertainment show first and a car show 87th. If you think top gear was a car show you missed the point.
I know it wasn't really a car show, but it mimicked one.
He's literally the male version of the Kardashians. Tech bros are super obsessed with him
UK?
Haha yeah :-)