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LTT used to be fun because they’d get a bit more creative than other youtubers and weren’t to cringewrothy (I’m talking back in the house with the kitchen set) and occasionally would go on some bonkers home engineering projects that were just stupid fun. But as my IT career grew I learned just how disconnected they are from enterprise IT and just how focused on gaming hardware they are (and just how boring gaming computers are) and now that I have a degree in networking and they’ve been struggling to level up their networking game I really just shake my head.
I watch them for entertainment purposes but anytime they look at server-y stuff I’m more watching to see how bad they are than to learn anything or see anything cool.
Its fine that they have their niche, its fine that they’re trying to expand out of it, and I wish them the best, but they’ve got a concerning cultural problem that needs to be addressed before they can effectively grow more
Edit: wow this seemed so big when it was just a accuracy and integrity issue but now that seems so small with the new revelations from Madison. I wish everyone working the grind at LTT the best and hope everyone who sexually harassed and groped can find a nice thorny cactus as their new office chair
They’re not even the only ones doing server/enterprise grade hardware anymore. And they’re obviously incapable of competing in that area with more knowledgeable channels (outside of a few employees who can’t carry a whole LTT video by themselves).
Any of their “engineering” content is like that for me. I’m primarily an embedded systems developer but in an industry that keeps me close to hardware and other engineering systems (including IT infrastructure) and I’m 100% with you on the watching out of morbid curiosity. I don’t know necessarily how to do things the best, but I know enough to know when something could be better and what they have ain’t it.
I don’t know if I agree on the cultural problem, I think it’s more of an experience problem. Almost everyone they hire, even for Labs has to have some kind of publication or writing background. You’re not going to find good QA or test engineers by having that huge ask on top, so they’re not getting the experience to test properly. I’m not sure they even recognize that performing the tests is like 10% of the total work.
LTT used to be fun because they’d get a bit more creative than other youtubers and weren’t to cringewrothy (I’m talking back in the house with the kitchen set) and occasionally would go on some bonkers home engineering projects that were just stupid fun. But as my IT career grew I learned just how disconnected they are from enterprise IT and just how focused on gaming hardware they are (and just how boring gaming computers are) and now that I have a degree in networking and they’ve been struggling to level up their networking game I really just shake my head.
I watch them for entertainment purposes but anytime they look at server-y stuff I’m more watching to see how bad they are than to learn anything or see anything cool.
Its fine that they have their niche, its fine that they’re trying to expand out of it, and I wish them the best, but they’ve got a concerning cultural problem that needs to be addressed before they can effectively grow more
Edit: wow this seemed so big when it was just a accuracy and integrity issue but now that seems so small with the new revelations from Madison. I wish everyone working the grind at LTT the best and hope everyone who sexually harassed and groped can find a nice thorny cactus as their new office chair
They’re not even the only ones doing server/enterprise grade hardware anymore. And they’re obviously incapable of competing in that area with more knowledgeable channels (outside of a few employees who can’t carry a whole LTT video by themselves).
Any of their “engineering” content is like that for me. I’m primarily an embedded systems developer but in an industry that keeps me close to hardware and other engineering systems (including IT infrastructure) and I’m 100% with you on the watching out of morbid curiosity. I don’t know necessarily how to do things the best, but I know enough to know when something could be better and what they have ain’t it.
I don’t know if I agree on the cultural problem, I think it’s more of an experience problem. Almost everyone they hire, even for Labs has to have some kind of publication or writing background. You’re not going to find good QA or test engineers by having that huge ask on top, so they’re not getting the experience to test properly. I’m not sure they even recognize that performing the tests is like 10% of the total work.