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Sorry, I'm out of the loop on this one. Would anyone mind elaborating on what happened exactly? Thank you for your time!
Gamers Nexus (another highly respected tech YouTuber) called out LTT for their mistakes and performances over the last few years, the overall point being that they're moving too fast and causing multiple mistakes in their content.
There's a current controversy with a company called Billet who gave LTT a custom water block to test and instead of testing it properly with the 3090 it was made for, they tried it with a 4090 card (and it obviously didn't work)
Linus doubled down on their results saying it wouldn't have mattered anyway because it's a rubbish product and no one should buy it (which came across very poorly, why even agree to test a product if you know your going to trash on it)
The whole situation specifically looks like it's triggered some upcoming changes in LMG and hopefully the outcome is better, more accurate video content
It's a little bit worse than that. They kinda trashed Billet Labs and then went ahead and put the prototype water block on auction at their expo they did a couple weeks ago, LTX. So not only did they lose the graphics card that Billet sent them, they used it on a wrong card and then instead of returning the prototype, they put it up for sale possibly to a competitor. Complete idiocy or insanely scummy move.
There have also been some serious workplace toxicity and harassment allegations publicly aired by a former employee, Madison.
Colin said in his tweet that the prototype sale "has an element of occam's razor" (he really means Hanlon's razor). So it would seem to be the former.
However Linus's reaction to the incident was the latter. He should have put his company on the line, bought it back at whatever ridiculous price would have convinced the buyer, and sent it back all expenses paid to Billet Labs. That's how you own a fuck-up.