At what point did he know they were ‘stealing from users’? Do you mean the thing where they don’t use the best coupon code? Because Linus has stated multiple times he didn’t know about, only the affiliate link changing, which only effects creators, not users.

What does history and data have to do with any of this? Of course they would have it.

I feel like a lot of different points are getting conflated and mixed into one point. Which is making it hard to address points.

As for what he should have done given the information he had at the time. Dropping the sponsor seemed ok. Anyone that cares about let sponsors can go to their forum, give feedback, and read why they have dropped sponsors.

He is not saying that at all? He said, at the time he believed that was the case. Which he knows now is not true. But back then he only knew about the affiliate link redirection, which only effected creators not consumers.

Louis’ point wasn’t about the price of the sponsorship. His point was that he was that Linus was justifying himself by pointing at the forum post, but the forum post isn’t worth $65k, and that Linus can’t compare a forum post to several sponsored segments.

It’s also worth mentioning that $65k is the highest number on that list, A midroll is $7k.

How else should LMG pay the 150+ people they got working there? Not to mention All the projects, testing lab, the new public LAN / Badminton center, taxes, ect. People dont seem to understand money on business scale all they see is a number bigger than they can conceive compared their personal bank account.

65k for a sponsored video seems fine? What is the point you are trying to make? It might be interesting to compare it with other forms of advertising.