I’ve always thought Linus, from LinusTechTips, often came off as an incredibly conceited, annoying, and rude person. I don’t know what it is about him exactly, but I’ve just always thought he acts in a very strange and off-putting way, which is a real shame, being that I love tech content on YT, and he’s one of the biggest out there. I simply could never get into his stuff, because he just gave me such terrible vibes.

Now, I’m saying this, but so what? Right? I mean, getting bad vibes from someone doesn’t mean they’re actually bad, for one, and for two, I find it rather distasteful to just announce that you dislike someone for seemingly no reason. I did it because it relates to the rest of this post.

Today, I watched a video from Louis Rossman wherein he basically tore Linus a new hole. It’s over an hour long, and while saying bad things about Linus isn’t the only thing he does, it’s what stuck with me. Watching that video, I was reminded of another video—a TikTok, actually—that I watched the other day, about Neil Gaiman. The TikTok was saying how, after Neil Gaiman was outed as a terrible person (apparently, while I have heard about this I didn’t actually look anything up about him), tons of people came out of the woodwork talking about how they’ve always had an inkling about him, how they never really liked him, he just gave off bad vibes, and so on. The thesis was that, those people should STFU; if you knew he was shit, why didn’t you say so before?

Upon watching Louis’ video, I felt that same way. That weird vindication that my gut feeling was right about someone. Then, I felt incredibly silly.

Should I have warned people? I don’t know, that seems so wrong. And for the record, I’m still withholding judgement on this particular situation, as I don’t have nearly enough context—nor do I care enough to look it up—to actually judge anyone involved.

Then, I watched another TikTok, talking about Trump supporters being faced with facts. That’s how it was framed, but the general idea was that, upon having their deep beliefs shattered, people tend to be in a very fragile emotional state, one that, if pressed, will often result in them lashing out. So, if you shatter someone’s understanding of the world, and then keep pushing it with more and more evidence, they might just get angry at you. Basically, that was the TikTok. Now, I wonder if that other TikTok was just that. People are upset when others say this whole “I felt they were terrible way before” because they didn’t see it, so it’s like a deep belief that they held was shattered, and now you’re just rubbing salt in the wound, so they lash out and get angry.

I don’t know.

I’ll just keep on not watching LTT.