Well yeah, LTT has long gone fully corporate. This was a problem years ago already, it was just always weird seeing so many flock to their channel when it was clearly a rote production like a 15 years ongoing weekly crime drama, not an actual tech channel.

Their production value is often stellar, don't get me wrong. But that's it. That's all they have. It's all about optimizing the production to maximize ad revenue.

[–] Evolushan 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I fully agree. But that's the thing, if you don't consider LTT as a tech channel anymore, like GN or whatever, it's fine. I now consider LTT as pure entertainment, I will never go to them to actually buy a PC or a tech product. For that I go to forums, I watch multiple reviews, etc. And if the production value is all they have, I'll just watch it like a show with actors that are - well - acting.

I'm not trying to defend LTT, what they did was shite and I feel that they should be held accountable. But let's compare apples with apples, LTT isn't a tech channel anymore.

[–] Belazor 4 points 1 year ago

This is how I feel about LTT too. There should never be one single location you go to for all your review needs - even if it had every single product in existence in for review.

I’ll look at LTT videos to see people doing dumb shit with tens of thousands of Britannian Monies worth of tech, sometimes there’s some genuinely good “hey, this exists” (see: PowerToys which gave me Spotlight on Windows), and sometimes it triggers a “hey I could use X, I’ll do my own research and collation of reviews”.

If they can get their Labs up and running and their tests being transparent enough that they can be peer reviewed, then Labs will be a tool in the toolbox, not the toolbox itself.

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