Linus Tech Tips temporarily halts production, releases apology video: 'Linus made a clear and egregious judgment error'
The Linus Tech Tips controversy continued today with an apology video (embedded above) in which various company executives admitted that things at the popular hardware review channel aren't going very well right now. The company says it will be halting all video production for a week while it makes internal changes to improve the quality of its content and, following criticism that it favored speed and volume over accuracy, slow down its upload schedule.
The controversy began on June 24 with a Linus Tech Tips review of the Monoblock, an expensive prototype watercooling block. The review, conducted by LTT founder Linus Sebastian and writer Adam Sonedergard, was negative, but also flawed: They tested the device on a GeForce RTX 4090, even though it was designed for a 3090 Ti. Despite that, Sebastian refused to re-test the cooler on the proper GPU, saying it wasn't worth the expense of doing so. Making matters worse, LTT auctioned the one-of-a-kind cooler for charity when it was finished, rather than returning it to manufacturer Billet Labs as agreed.
The incident came to wider public awareness on August 14, when competing hardware channel Gamers Nexus posted a video criticizing the handling of the Monoblock review and questioning LTT's broader «accuracy, ethics, and responsibility.» That prompted a written response from Sebastian, who acknowledged some «sloppiness» but defended LTT's record of transparency and accuracy. The problem with the Monoblock review wasn't the accuracy of his conclusions, he wrote, but that he «read the room wrong» in his response to criticism of LTT's process.
That did not go over well: One thread on the Linus Tech Tips subreddit entitled «Why didn't Linus just own his mistakes, apologize, and
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