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Big shout out to them leaving the links to LTT merch in the description. Venal fucks.
They probably have some internal application where they literally do fill-in-the-blanks on the description and timestamps and the rest is a template.
They definitely have a default description set. Bitching about that kind of small detail is pointless when there are plenty of more serious things to talk about.
I mean, it's another example of the lack of attention to detail and rushing, but yeah.
Yeah, people keep making excuses for them.
"There isn't enough time, they have to eat and drink and sleep"
Then delay the video until it's done. That's part of the core issues that kicked this whole episode off. Them rushing out videos without care.
Not trying to make excuses for them, I just think that picking on a low hanging fruit like the description which is more or less exactly the same for every video, feels a bit cheap to me. There are plenty of examples of them being in the wrong with far worse impact than that.
On YouTube, creators don’t earn anything unless a new video is released frequently. They have to sustain a huge corporation based on that. I think that it’s a bad decision to go for that income structure in the first place, but there they are.
They don't "have" to do anything. LMG chose to hire dozens and then hundreds of people in an effort to grow as fast as possible. Linus could have prioritized accuracy or quality over quantity, but that would have made less money, so he didn't.
My point is that you should criticize the reason, not the consequence.
Not entirely sure what you mean. Are you saying we should criticize YouTube for making the algorithm that creators have to cater to, and not LMG for bowing to the demands of that algorithm?
If so, I agree that YouTube should be criticized, but that doesn't excuse LMG. Plenty of other channels have chosen not to go all-in on quantity and they have likely suffered financially for that decision. That is exactly what I mean by "priorities".
They chose to financially put themselves in a situation where they are forced to release content at that frequency because they chose to expand operations and drastically increase expenses compared to other channels. It's their decisions that created the work cycle that is needed in pursuit of exponential growth over a more financially sustainable model that affords the luxury for a less hectic release schedule.
It's getting old seeing people keep making they have to do it this way when it is the situation they created for themselves.
It's possible to release videos frequently while not rushing the production for each video. They'll just need more editors and writers to spread the load. e.g. instead of working on 3 teams working on 3 videos in parallel and rushing them to finish in 3 days, they can have 6 teams working on 6 videos in 6 days to achieve similar output (releasing 1 video per day) without overworking the team while keeping the attention of detail high. GN even mentioned it in their video. LTT has over 100 full time employees already, so they definitely have the resource to scale up their production team.
How about the multiple merch plugs in the video itself or that the video was monetized, in direct contrast to the original video from GN not being monetized?
Perhaps, but I see it as indicative of the problem in general. A slapdash attitude where they don't pause for a second to consider what they're actually doing, which, you'd think they might try and do under a 20 minute video where they grovel and scrape and beg forgiveness.
It's not a small detail and it's not pointless to point it out.
When you messed up so big, you wanna make sure your "we got this, folks" video is impeccable.
100% this. Whoever is in charge of uploads is almost definitely using a macro to auto-fill every description. If you look, the description credits the intro/outro music which weren't even used in this video at all.
Most YT channels do this, very few big channels actually put anything besides their own links in descriptions.