Hi, this is Wayne again with a topic “What Linus Thinks of xQc’s Lifestyle”.
I have a new favorite, totally deranged gazillionaire story, so my old favorite one was um was to do with Mr BEAST’s like production process. That was like my favorite story to tell um just just like the guy’s like so laser focused on just like productivity and like maximizing his day that there’s there’s some pretty there’s some pretty sort of mind-blowing to me. Uh, who you know people have been telling me. I should have an assistant for like better part of a decade at this point, and I only like I only people, people were surprised to find out that I had one in that assistant swap video because it he only just started. He started less than six months ago um by the way, I’d like to address something from that video, the number of people that are mad at me about being so like, like, like disrespectful, that I barely even talk to my assistant or look at him or whatever, And that’s why I didn’t notice. Do you know why I wasn’t talking to him? Do you know why I wasn’t paying attention to him because he’s in recovery, because I thought he was at work after having gone through eye surgery and mouth surgery? I was trying to interact with him as little as humanly possible, not use them as much yes. So I barely talked to him nope because he shouldn’t have been at work, evil person, it’s so frustrating man like it’s.
It’S honestly frustrating how determined some people are to find the absolute worst possible explanation for anything that I do yeah anything I do it. It absolutely blows my mind um anyway, so back to the xqc thing. So my new favorite deranged thing is: he was talking about this on stream, so I’m not disclosing something that is in private information or anything like that, but as a streamer, he moves around a lot and we probably don’t need to explain why.
That would be a lot of streamers move around a lot just for for security and privacy right, you know, they’re they’re, public figures. Definitely um and being live is different from recording videos. Right like I, I worked across multiple content, not continents countries.
You know this week and there was no disruption to our upload schedule. A lot live. You don’t have that luxury if you don’t have somewhere to stream friendly you’re, not you’re, not producing.
That’S it. It’S that simple um. So anyway, he moves around a fair bit.
Um – and I I didn’t know that I have to confess I hadn’t watched a ton of his streams like I don’t I don’t not gon na hide from it. I might read the comments once in a while, but I don’t like I’m paying attention to his career, but I’m not watching the streams, and so I I wasn’t aware of this, but when I walked in, I was kind of like taken aback by how bare things Were like it felt like you know that scene and How the Grinch Stole Christmas after the Grinch takes everything, but the wire hanging on the wall yeah. You know, and the crumb on the floor for the mouse right like he steals the crumb at the very end. Like it was like, it was like weird, it was like there’s a lot of boxes, but not a lot of furniture. You know um, and so he was explaining that uh. It came up because we need, I needed some electrical tape and I was like.
Oh, what are the odds? Do you have any electrical tape, because I wanted to cover up some loose contacts that I was worried, we’re going to short and it takes them about five seconds. There’S this toolbox, that’s right there in the room grab some electric tape, new inbox, the new in packaging, throws it to me. I’M like oh well. This is that’s impressive, because, even with my perfectly organized garage that I love talking about, it probably would have taken me more like 10 seconds, even though my garage is perfectly organized um anywho, I kind of I was like really impressed and he goes oh well. Don’T be that impressed that’s a brand new toolbox, full of brand new tools, I’ve like never touched it basically and I’m like sorry what okay! Well, why do you have it and he explains that um? He has an Amazon wish list that has all the essentials for living every time and what he does is every time he moves. He rebuys everything sent straight to the new address, so it’s all just there.
In boxes when he arrives, he unpacks it. He said he brings with him his CPU and like monitor like, like. Maybe I don’t even know if he mentioned his keyboard honestly um and by CPU. I think he might have meant Tower because I doubt he’s going to like pull the CPU out of the socket yeah, but it sounds like other than what fits in the back of a car. He takes absolutely nothing with him and just revise everything.
I’M like wow. All right I mean it’s a hassle, I mean it. Yeah packing is a is a pain and one of the things is like. I’Ve heard this from a lot of people, yeah, oh yeah, and him in particular. As far as my understanding goes, I don’t watch either, but again I follow careers. He has more streamed hours than like anyone he’s just always online I’ll. Tell you this just being there within that one time: guy’s a tank yeah an absolute unit like I don’t think I don’t think it was out of rudeness at all, but I don’t think the thought entered his mind at all of like food yeah like for real. He had been live for almost five hours when we arrived, we were there for, I think, like three and a half or four and by the time I was back at my hotel having dropped off Andy and you know said hi to the family and stuff. He was still online, I’m sitting here going like it’s a good thing that we stopped for some Mickey D’s on the way there, because otherwise we wouldn’t have eaten and not again like not because I think he was being rude or anything like that he’s just as Far as my experience, he does marathon level streams like literally on The Daily literally so like he doesn’t have time to do that stuff right.
It would be really expensive. It would be more expensive than apparently just buying it yeah. Well and there’s a I mean I’ve been trying to like think about this right because it’s like you know on the surface, it makes no sense right. It looks calm and ready, but I think it’s PR, okay. I think it’s probably fair to say that major streamers, like an xqc, have a more mainstream appeal than someone like me like. I think it’s fair to say that xqc is more famous than me. Generally speaking, multimedia like yeah, like I don’t, I don’t really have a ton of appeal outside, especially as a variety gamer, which I believe he is yes. So if I were to walk into a Best Buy yeah, obviously because people are going to be looking so balloons, you know I go into a Micro Center. I get absolutely mobbed right, but if I go into uh a garden supplies store no, but nobody knows who I am yeah right, whereas gaming is mainstream right and especially like you said, if he plays all kinds of different games, then he could appeal to kind of Anyone at a on a certain level right and so from a security standpoint if he hires a moving company. That means that everyone involved in that transaction knows where he came from and where he’s going, whereas if you just orders from Amazon, didn’t think about that totally makes sense.
Yeah, yep and people do all kinds of weird stuff, like there’s: got ta be like executive, like White Glove moving companies where they move like you know, maybe special people, but are they everywhere so much? And it’s so much to coordinate that you might as well just buy everything new, because people are weird like I’ve met like I don’t know, don’t want to name any names but like I’ve met parents of like my kids, friends right, who don’t immediately disclose that they Know who I am yeah they’ll like interact with me for a bit first, that’s so much they’re like by the way big fan, I’m kind of like someone very recently. You need to lead with that yeah. Someone very recently asked me about my biggest pet peeve about fan interactions, and I that I immediately jumped on that. I hate it hate it like you, don’t another thing I hate is like if, if you and I are out to eat and there’s someone seated near us and then like we’re there for like an hour and then they get up to go, leave and as they’re Leaving they’re like by the way big fan and they take off, then my brain just has to go through. What have we been talking about? What did we say for the last hour, like just that one? I get more that one because, like you know it might be socially already talking and like I know I know you can just tell by the body language. Sometimes I know for some people it would have been very stressful for them to acknowledge me and then sit there like eating yeah, the the dining one.
Honestly, I get it more as well. It’S just it’s still as much as I understand it. It still racks my brain uh Yvonne’s a lot. I like, I’m, really careless about it.
To be perfectly honest with you like um, we should just assume people are watching at all times I was in. I was in line for some attraction with Yvonne and I was like I was talking about Revenue numbers for like the last year and the next year and projections with like screwdriver. This was before the launch and Yvonne’s like okay you’re, not speaking vaguely enough like I’ll I’ll keep it kind of like kind of could be anything yeah she’s like if someone knows who you are they’re gon na put two and two together: they’re, not stupid and, like Later on, they must not have heard her say that at least because the person in front of us in line turn around was like big fan by the way. Okay, I hope that was nebulous enough yeah, because it was pretty. It was pretty detailed, like financial information about the company [ Laughter ], oh no yeah, yeah Linus isn’t into opsec no um anyways anyway. It was.
It was definitely a different experience, even though, obviously I stream like we’re streaming for you, know how many people are watching. Not the same look look we’re streaming for over 20 000 people right now, like probably close to 25. By the time you factor in float plane, it’s not it’s not 80, 000. and hang out in his area, but it’s his area. Yes, it’s their area.
I should say yes because there’s lots of other major streamers and aside from just the volume honestly – and maybe this is weird like – maybe maybe I shouldn’t have a parasocial relationship or whatever the opposite, whatever the the the counter of a parasocial relationship is with uh with Some you know with a an influence or whatever but like when I’m on Wan show I’m in my space yeah, I’m with you know hold on my peeps right. I’M I’m hanging with you guys who whoops uh. What did I press? Okay? There we go um. You know, and – and I consider you guys just like part of a part of the The In Crowd here, you know we’re just we’re hanging like when show is its own entity that I I don’t know. I just almost have like a completely different brain space for it.
I am often two candid on wancho, I’m often too transparent, uh, because the way that I see it is like well, you guys will understand, and if you don’t, then I probably need to explain it better. You know what I mean like I’m with I’m among friends. I guess is the way that I kind of feel about wancho on xqc stream. It’S not like they didn’t know who I was a lot of them. It’S not like they weren’t down. You know one of his top spammed emotes is my face. Your face like for real, though um apparently xcc has been online for 20 minutes so far, and already has 31 000 viewers yeah there you go um but they’re, not like my peeps, and so the pressure that I felt was not just about the sheer number of People watching and the expectations that come with that, but about that for a lot of people. This was their first and maybe only ever actual interaction with me doing anything other than making a silly face into my selfie camera once twice um, and so I was deeply worried that I wasn’t going to solve the problem. Like I went way Overkill, I brought one of basically everything to completely build a new system. If it came to that like, if I couldn’t figure it out, I mean, but I yeah I felt like not figuring it out and just building a new computer was such a cop-out.
That was not the outcome I wanted. I wanted to solve it. Yeah, like I wanted to go, find the problem, speaking of which Dan uh you had a chance to actually have a look at the motherboard uh. Was my diagnosis, correct, or was I barking up the wrong tree? They’Ll hear it here? First, does he even have a microphone? It’S muted there we go uh, no you’ll, hear about it on Monday, because I haven’t looked at it.
Yet, oh because I’ve been dealing with other things, um, it was on my desk uh. It did graze my hand, it’s very heavy – that’s nice motherboard, but uh. I will have an update for you next week. If that works all right, sorry to disappoint thanks, um, okay, uh BNT Masher. No, we do not have a solution for that yet, but we will definitely make sure you get taken care of uh yeah, so there I I was stressed, like more stressed than I’ve been on any live stream like even when things go wrong, so things weren’t even Going wrong – and I was still super stressed – I had no way of getting more replacement parts if I needed them.
Micro Center was closed and not not to mention the um with LA traffic. You know no matter how close Micro Center is. It takes a long time to get there.
You know how things are down there, so I was oh man I was. I was shaking in my boots. Be perfectly perfectly upfront with you. .