Does anyone I follow or who follows me watch LTT still in 2026?
I just kind of can't stand the channel anymore, and I've been done with it for a while. All of the recent layoffs and quits from the channel would have sealed the deal had it not been sealed already. They're so out of touch with any demographic I can conceive of, they recommend shit too expensive for the tech novice/entry enthusiast, and too shitty and tacky for the tech professional, it feels like they cater to the PC equivalent of the car guys who spend $10,000 more on a car for a chrome badge with the letter "s" and an exhaust system that makes their car 40dB louder.
What really gets my goat is Linus's insistence that adblockers = piracy. If I asked a friend to black out the ads in a magazine with a sharpie, would that be piracy? Is pressing the left arrow key five times at the start of a video or clicking onto another one before the end-credit ad rolls piracy? Is muting my audio, or turning my head, or throwing something on the stove during an ad piracy?
If I couldn't use an adblocker I wouldn't use youtube. Even with one I'm kind of over the platform. I own an LTT screwdriver, and in high school I had a WAN show t-shirt (haven't owned it in years, thank god), and if it weren't for adblockers I wouldn't have purchased either. If they could really convince me that adblockers = piracy, I'd gladly take a $90 refund for the screwdriver and tshirt and mail them a check for the $0.68 lost from me not contributing to their ad revenue.
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