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To add on, I'm seeing a ton of comments saying "I only watch LTT for entertainment". Because of this sentiment, it isn't looking good for Labs. Isn't Labs goal suppose to be a superior version of GNs testing process? If so, I'm seeing a ton of comments saying "GN videos are boring". I can only assume this is coming from the same demographic.
I'm not sure what LMG is planning long term but they are shooting themselves in the foot by setting up their core audience to watch their videos for entertainment rather than data/reviews.
As I already mentioned, the Lab is far from totally set up. I don't think it is fair to judge their work at this stage in the game. Linus clearly has a vision to do tons of testing, which for consumers can be fantastic, because no one that I know of has been doing this kind of testing on the scale that Linus has eluded to. It is good to hold these companies accountable, but the results seen by the Lab have to be seen as being trustworthy. Until we start seeing these results I think all bets are off. They might have to break out the Lab into it's own sub-channel or they might need to hire on more "serious" presenters to be taken more seriously. Most of the current hosts they have are entertaining to watch, but they go off on silly tangents far too often to be considered serious reviewers. For instance when Jake is reviewing a product, it feels like he is being forced to do it and it also feels like they threw this hosting duty at him 10 minutes prior to the camera being turned on. Jake is great in the other segments he is in, but none of his reviews seem particularly good or well researched.
I don't know, but GN definitely had that mono-tone delivery that makes him sound more serious when he is delivering his news segment, but I couldn't picture Steve doing a $5000 PC build for his employees (like the one that Linus does). I just wouldn't think it would be a fun video to watch.