It’s Time to Downsize - New Studio Tour

The reality is, you guys were right. Realistically, with rising interest rates and inflation, we probably would have gone down eventually, but after the slowdown in production after the controversy last August, guys, we're out of money, and we can't afford our office buildings anymore. There is a silver lining, though. We were able to hold onto one asset, the old Langley house. So, one little eviction notice to the tenants later, et voila, the new, old Linus Media Group office. We're moving back in. Honestly, I see this as a win. I mean, before we grew too big for our britches, we used to shoot our videos here in this regular residential house. So, why can't we do it again? It's where we created bangers, like whole room water cooling, the ultimate RGB build guide, and more importantly, that time we pranked old Taren for a year. Ha ha ha ha. I mean, realistically, if it worked for 10 people, it should work for 100 people. We just knew that creating an efficient layout was going to be a top priority. I mean, the first day I was here, I couldn't take two steps without bumping into something or tripping over something. So, we divided up the house by department and gave everyone an equal workspace. Just turned out that some departments got a little bit more equal workspace than others. We're gonna start in the living room. After we tell you about our sponsor, please don't skip. We really need the money. Build Redux. Not everyone has time to build themselves a PC. That's obvious. What's also obvious is that you should let the experts at Build Redux do that for you. Check them out at the link below. God. Oh, wow. I think it's worse than I imagined. Oh my God, we moved the poor editors here too. Everybody's here, Linus. The whole company. In this corner where the tech wiki green screen used to be, we still have a green screen, but we've also got the writing department. How's the transition been, guys? It's been all right so far. I think I enjoy it. We had a power surge and my computer died. Hey, glass half full, you still have a computer. Before they took the keys, we had everyone just kind of snatch everything that was within arm's reach, including their computers. So, we're actually pretty good there, but the issue is that asking everyone to sneak a desk out seemed like a tall order. Realistically, look around. It's not like every one of these people could have had a traditional desk anyway. That's why Jordan actually came up with the idea of bunk desks. I mean, we just added the junior writing position. So, they get the ground spots while the senior writers get the top bunks. Nice. Don't worry, buddy. You'll get up here one day. While the view is good from the top, the commute has some problems. We've got Creator Warehouse engineers working on improved solutions for this, which you guys might catch later on in the video. Keep your eyes peeled. Speaking of peeling, potatoes. You may already know from the tour of our potato farm that we do our best to give our staff their yard time. I don't mean that in a literal sense. I mean, no one's allowed outside without a pass. Like yard time, like a prison, you know? Time away from your cell, it's a joke. Quiet on set! Now, one big challenge is going from four fridges to one has led to some significant food storage problems. So, we started organizing pizza lunches every eating day. Everyone gets a slice and, hey, cleanup is easy too. Which is nice because we've been doing most of our vlogs here in the kitchen. It's like the good old days, only cozier. Who's contractually obligated to do that? Linus! Okay, we gotta shoot technics now. We need the space. Morph suit, Adam. Thanks to AI, Apple's next iPad is supposed to have a sense of self. Linus, I can hear you talking! Come on! Yeah, not having sets anymore, the green screen's been getting a ton of action, which means the editing den has been absolutely bustling. We were originally planning to put logistics here, but then I had a little brainstorm. They can't take this box truck back if they don't know where it is. I was concerned we wouldn't be able to pack all three of our surviving logistics members in here, but with how little of our inventory made it to the new space, it's not a problem. In fact, we're gonna have more room soon because there's almost no work for them to do, is there? Oh no. Oh, hi, Mark. Ah, I see you are working off of one of my favorite kinds of products. Anything from a sponsor who hasn't abandoned us over our constant stream of controversies. Like you, Green. Please don't go away. Oh, which by the way, brings us to one of the problems that we had to solve here, power delivery. You see, most Vancouver homes are serviced for about 10,000 watts, which sounds like a lot until you realize that across 100 people, that's like 100 watts each for all of their tech, and that's not including appliances or air conditioning or... Who turned these on? Doesn't include a budget for lights. I told you guys, there's no budget for lights. And working in the dark promotes positive chi. Look how much better we all feel right now. One of the ideas we had to solve this was to just have the editors work off of power efficient laptops. You know, the kind that can be quickly grabbed in a hurry, but we realized that most of what we had on hand just wasn't sufficient for any kind of computation heavy workload like rendering video. We're currently working on a solution using jailbroken PS5s, which draw less than 200 watts each as our standardized workstations. We're gonna have the files that you need to jailbreak the PS5 linked in the description below, but sadly we've run into some compatibility issues with Adobe Creative Suite 6, so the editors were allowed to keep their Windows machines for now on the condition that they edit twice as many videos as before. They've got twice as much power. We even let them keep full-size desktop monitors like these ones from ViewSonic that LanFest might want back at some point. They're not getting it back. That sucks to be them. I mean, realistically, we're a great company that deserves their support anyway. Like, look at this. Ploof, this is a great workstation. It's very ergonomic. I was working on an upcoming video where we're giving away gaming rigs to people who ask for them in the comments. What? That's what you're working on, isn't it? Ask for them in the comments? Yeah. Oh, God. You know, and then here's the re-roll every time someone actually wins. Don't worry, it's fine. It won't cost anything. Oh, God. Now, as you can imagine, having so many people in a house that's designed for five, maybe six people, there are not enough bathrooms to go around. We tested out some solutions like a schedule or those vibrating pucks they hand out at restaurants that it turns out you can just take. But the best system ended up being earning bathroom time on a merit basis, which for me means anytime I want. Ah, excuse me. Hey, hey, whoa, whoa. Again? Come on, you have your own bathroom. Oh, dude. I take it back. Go, go ahead. Jeez. What are you doing? Are you done? As for the post-lunch drop-off rush and the low merit individuals who just can never really earn any bathroom time, we operate a shuttle to the local Starbucks where our Mac address writer, Jonathan Horst, has made his office. Fun fact, he blends in so well with the crowd of otsy-fotsy people on the Mac books. He's been there for weeks and they haven't even noticed him. At this point, you probably have some questions about network infrastructure. The editors are clearly all connected to ethernet cables and we've got some pretty high-end stuff we were able to snag right here, but where do these cables come from? Where do they go? Let me show you. One thing we will never compromise on is our ballin' servers. And I mean, look, I knew that we could address almost all of our infrastructure issues if we just set people up to work remotely. And in fairness to me, I allowed most of the managers to work from home, but for everyone else, we've got to connect to new, new, new, new, new Wannick and our 10 gig internet connection that we achieved by aggregating links from nine of our unsuspecting neighbors. Thanks, neighbors, right? Thanks, neighbors. Let's check out the server. We wanted to put it downstairs where we could take advantage of the natural heat regulation of the basement, but now that we can't afford his executive-level pay anymore, Luke enthusiastically volunteered to move back into the basement. Workin' hard or hardly workin'? F**k you! Yeah. We're such good friends, we could talk to each other like that. Oh, on our way upstairs then to see the server, we're gonna pass our business and procurement teams on the house's naturally-embedded cushioned benches. With all the changes that we're making around here, we decided there was nothing more important than to streamline the money-making processes, and we're putting it all right into our script writing now. Hey, you make me any money today, Sherad? Absolutely. Wait, are you on LinkedIn? No. He's not. As for any confidential calls, the business team just takes those in their cars. In the car, Sven! Sorry, sorry, sorry! For f**k's sakes, man! In the car! Okay, okay, sorry, sorry, my boss is- Just give me that. I'll just do it. He'll talk to you in a minute. I gotta have a chat with him first. Meet me outside. I'll be out there eventually. Here, take your phone. Other than the occasional insubordination, I'd say this department is doing great. You guys doing great? Yeah! Now for the server room. Oh, damn. Good job. You wanna tell the people about what we've got going on here? This used to be an infrastructure map, and now it's this, which is great. Yeah. Thanks, I guess. Oh, yeah. So this is our unified rack we had to send the Hammonds back. Yep. Our internet comes in through here. Through the window? No, it's on the floor. I don't want it running through my office. Bring it in through the window. Okay. Okay, bye tomorrow. And then we've got the portable NAS over there, because we don't have WANEC anymore, and then these are the mother vault. Ah, we went back to the old vault. You got like 20 terabytes now. Wow, and Wi-Fi. Yeah. No one else is allowed to connect to this one, though, right, this is mine? Six, yeah, sure. I prefer yes to sure. I can't change this anymore. Obviously, there's still some work for you to do then, Dan, but there's some really cool stuff, like this is still a working bathroom. Check this out, I can wash my hands. No, it gets so hot. Honestly, this whole place is kind of hot. Not only is every computer a space heater, but every one of my world-class meat sacks produces around another 80 watts, meaning we're at 18,000 watts. How do we cool that? Well, initially, we tried opening the windows. Pretty good idea, right? But then people started abusing their privileges, so we had to think outside the box. You've seen water-cooled room. You've seen water-cooled chair. Have you seen water-cooled humans? In here, we've got our camera storage, which we don't have a lot of it, but hey, we don't have a lot of studio space anymore, so win-win, and our amazing accounting department. This is pretty cool, right? All we needed was a couple pumps, some tubes, some painkillers, and a garbage bag. It just runs in there. Then, to prevent them from getting swamp butt, we used camping chairs, so any extra moisture just collects in the bottom and then seeps into the carpet, where it can be dissipated into the rest of the room. Speaking of collection, guys, is there any money today? Are you playing video games? I'm actually working. Enough of these guys. Who likes accountants anyway? Now, let's see what Creator Warehouse is up to. You might remember there being more people on the team, and you're right. We sent half of them on a trip to China to work closer with our manufacturers, literally. Then, to save money and keep our prices low for you, we canceled their return airfare. That's a lose-win-win. What are the engineers working on? I can't help feeling like we used to draw things on computers. We still can. His is dead, though. And this way, getting a sign-off is much easier, too. Ready to go to the manufacturers. Fun fact, this is Nick's old office, back when we were working out of this house the first time. Just now, he shares it with about eight other people. Yeah, and we still get kicked out on Fridays for the WAN Show. Here, on the other side of our now in-house screwdriver production facility, we've got our social team. As you guys probably know, Twitter and TikTok don't pay particularly well, and we had to cost down, but we can't stop the content mill, so these guys just need to take up a little less space than before. You guys are doing good? Mr. Sebastian, I have a question. I have a question for you. Why are you not posting cat memes? I only get paid in cloud exposure. I'm wondering if we can- That's a good question. Why don't we turn our attention to the fashion team? What are you working on? So right now, just measuring some fabric for some new styles, testing out to make sure that the GSM is what we want, whether we want a heavyweight or lightweight garment, all that good stuff. Right, but have you costed it down? Yes. Like, way down. I know, yeah. We're talking cents, and that's why it's red. Dyed red with blood. Oh, God! Meanwhile, in the final corner of this spacious office, we've got Elamide. It's a little tougher to measure things, I guess, without a table. How do you do it now? Well, you go on the floor. Why does this have blood on it? I put my blood, sweat, and tears into it, just like we do with all of our merch at LTT Store. Yeah. You heard it here first. One in every hundred shirts will have authentic Sarah tears on it. And to show we care about our customers just as much as our employees, we kept over 19% of our customer care team right here in the closet. Thanks, Nolan. You're doing God's work. You're welcome. I tell him what. There's not much to see in here, though. It's basically like the rest of the house. I mean, look at this awful paint job. Do they even know what eggshell is? I mean, I guess I've got my plants, and, oh, this is where I have my visions. This isn't the time for work, though. I'm giving you guys a tour. Now, you might wonder why exactly it is that I need my own exit from the building, and it's because, just because my job is to have visions doesn't mean that I have to see all of the people who execute them. It feels good to be outside. Ah, by the way, this is where we're shooting Short Circuit these days. Let's go have a look. It's just like the old days. Thanks so much for watching, guys. Make sure to check out another video, like the one where we learned to sous vide a sausage. That's a good one. That took a really long time because the heater on this hot tub doesn't work so good. But, hey, I mean, look, we're ready for all the different elements. Bell even has a full 40% of this, whoo, hot tub covered. Doing good in there? It'll be warm soon. At least it would if we'd ever paid the gas bill. Oh, there's our parking lot. The neighbors don't really like it, but f**k them. This is fun, right? I mean, securing a parking spot at the old office was almost a bloodsport. So, as you can imagine, this, it's more like the Thunderdome. A hundred people enter, one person gets rich. You know, like the Angry Maxwell movie. In the meantime, we've developed an efficient system for fitting an incredible 30 whole cars where our neighbors used to access their garages. And the only scratches are from when they get keyed. We really are making the best out of what could have been a tough situation. But you know what I always say? What doesn't kill us makes us stronger. Feel stronger. Oh, we ended up in HR. They suck. Let's go look at the lab. Sorry for breathing. Things are a little tight in here, but we're making it work. How's it going, Gary? It's going great today. Let's see then if you can handle this. One more time. What's better, G-Force or ARK? ARK! Again, G-Force, ARK. ARK! He's gonna get it eventually. How's it going, John? We got a lot of space here. That's a good attitude. I like to hear that. And what are you working on? We're retesting the XTX because everybody keeps complaining about it. Oh, that's a good idea. Actually, there's a lot of kind of redoing that's been going on, including adjusting the labs' attitude. Antoine here is undergoing a mandatory new training program. Antoine, we've been through this. We live as a team, we die as a team. It is amazing how many tax write-offs you can fit in this bad boy. Infinite money glitch. Yeah, it all kind of came together. I was worried it would be a tough transition, but instead it feels like going back to our roots. And guys, this is just the beginning. We've got all kinds of great content planned for you guys, like a whole human water cooling V2, where we actually mix the chilled liquid with their blood, which is gonna be really cool. Oh, and my personal favorite, the best tech for faking your death and leaving the country. On that subject, hey, shout out ViewSonic and LandFest for lending us those monitors that you can get back if you can find us. 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