Addressing the Drama #Helpful Post

ll right well I've been sitting at my

desk kind of putting off starting this

stream for about the last 15 minutes but

I guess I'm just gonna get on with it so

we kind of talked about this on land

show but there's been a little bit of

drama and then as of today there's been

more drama around landis Media Group -

tech tips me personally whatever sort of

whatever entity you want to focus your

IR at running out and copyright striking

other content creators and so I typed

myself up some notes here to hopefully

address this and lay it to rest once and

for all so when it comes to I guess the

first thing I want to do is sort of ask

our community the broader YouTube

community in general just people ask

them to try to think critically anytime

they run up against some kind of

accusation like I'm not saying that you

know all accusations should be dismissed

I'm just also not saying that all

accusations should be taken entirely at

face value and then just run with so

here are some of the questions that I

would probably ask myself if I were to

encounter any sort of any sort of drama

not just YouTube drama who are the

stakeholders here what do they

individually stand to lose or gain what

is the actual solution to this problem

who has the power to enact that solution

where could I find more information

about what's going on

is it worth the time that I'm investing

to find that information in the case of

the particular thing that's going on

where people are receiving content ID

notifications not to be confused with a

copyright strike I'll talk about that

later

but in the case of people receiving

these Content ID notification

has anyone have these people actually

contacted - Media Group about it

directly we actually have a contact us

email on our corporate website we also

have a contact us email for a - tech tip

specifically on our YouTube channel that

stuff does get monitored on business

days mind you like this is my long

weekend it's family day here in British

Columbia but I'm dealing with this

instead of doing what I would really

much rather be doing um here are some

here are some other questions we can ask

ourselves whenever we encounter drama

what else is already posted in the

comments on the video is there something

with a ton of upvotes that sort of

answers my question am I being

manipulated to join a crusade is the is

it based on ignorance or is there some

kind of agenda so those are all the just

general questions that I'd really like

people to ask themselves whenever they

are sort of called to join a cause with

the most important ones I think being

who are the stakeholders what do they

stand to lose and gain what is the

actual solution and what could or has

already been done about it and then for

for myself personally this has been

there's been kind of frustrating

offensive hurtful I'm you know there's a

bunch of different words for it because

the the questions that I'd like you guys

to ask yourselves about me and and my

company specifically is is Linus Media

Group some kind of monster that's not

still run by real people who give a shit

as opposed to you know some nameless

faceless corporation like yeah we're

we're on the bigger side especially of

tech YouTube channels but that doesn't

mean that like we've worked hard to get

here it's not like it we got there by

being you know jerks or anything we

haven't you know engaged in market

manipulation or any other unfair

competitive practice you know another

question to ask yourself is is the

behavior that Linus media groups being

accused of or - personally is being

accused of is that in character is Linus

Pro censorship does he silence criticism

is there is that behavior that anyone

has actually encountered

from us in the past and if we haven't

then you know is it may be worthwhile to

give the benefit of the doubt

so all right now we're we're past sort

of the the preface to the stream so

let's get into some of the points that

I've more completely prepared I was like

sitting inside my car having sort of

scrolled soot scroll through some

comments on the forum some comments on

YouTube I'm trying to figure out sort of

what I need to address so I wrote myself

up kind of a little script here but of

course it's all in it's all my own words

just a few guys see me kind of looking

down it's because I'm looking at this at

the screen I'm just dreaming this awful

webcam at my house so here's the deal

look I think I just shook the camera

sorry about that guys so I'm not gonna

be naming any of the individuals that

are stirring the pot here because my

general policy when it comes to public

drama is one of zero acknowledgement

like if there's a legitimate grievance

no problem get in touch we'll do our

best to solve it I think we have a

pretty good reputation not just among

viewers but within the creator community

as being an organization like not just

me of course it's there's 20 plus people

that work at Linus Media Group but being

an organization that just generally

cares about fixing problems and doing

the right thing I mean an example of

sort of our zero acknowledgement like

you you just you won't you won't hear

from us about this stuff I feel like I

can bring up this one now because it's

sort of not relevant anymore but we had

an issue with totalbiscuit at one point

where after having a relationship in the

past we had him on the way on show at

one point he put me and Luc personally

on blast publicly over something that

was posted by a user on our forum and

that was instead of contacting either me

or Luc directly and the really bizarre

thing about that was that I know a

hundred percent that he had my email

since he had no problem asking for and

even receiving multiple times text

or from me and then like when I reached

out directly rather than replying on

Twitter because I'm not going to do that

when I reached out directly like yo WTF

can you retract your comments publicly

cuz that's really unfair like this this

is a user comment on our forum you

didn't even you didn't even contact us

and asked us to have it dealt with he

basically said and I'm paraphrasing here

I didn't feel like pulling up the email

cuz it was really annoying he basically

said like I don't get why you expect me

to reach out to you directly we're not

friends and you need to moderate your

forum better our subreddit is moderated

you're responsible for the content on

your forum I'm kind of sitting here

going what are you even talking about

like at its peak your subreddit was a

small fraction of our forum we have like

a really really debt it like massive

shout-out to our forum moderators we

have a dedicated community over there

and it's a lot of work what they do to

keep the Linus tech tips forum running

they're amazing they do a great job and

you go after my moderators who tell me

they're you know they're subpar just

because someone posted something that

was offensive to you but not necessarily

even against our Community Guidelines

actually don't remember exactly what the

post was but like yeah he went on the

list you never saw another

acknowledgement from Linus media group

because that's that's the way that's the

way to me things should work that's the

way my engagement with people on the

internet works because that's how my

human relationships works so whether

it's my household my friends my family

my company

these are drama-free zones and if you

can't abide by those rules if you can't

stay drama-free then I am well within my

rights to completely ignore you and the

funny thing is like like we've we try to

like we do that in an effort to try and

take the high road and a lot of the time

I feel like we end up looking bad

because other people get their shots in

at us and we just we just never return

fire like it's not like I've never had

personal you know beef to use the lingo

I suppose with other content creators

but here's the thing I guarantee you

don't know who they are because anyone

that I have actually feuded with

publicly like Jays two cents or Steve

from gamers Nexus trying to beat their

benchmark scores or Paul and Kyle

ripping their award away from them at

the end of scrapyard Wars or Louis

Rossman with the whole you know baking a

GPU and oh wow you really shouldn't do

that Linus he said it a little more

colorfully than that but the point is

the point is anyone that I have publicly

feuded with or beefed with I both like

and respect in private like these are

people that I would sit down and have a

drink without a trade show not that I

drink but yeah I can have water they can

have something stronger whatever works

for them I'm not actually monitoring

chat right now cuz I'm reading my thing

but hopefully the stream is like working

properly and stuff you know it seems

like it's fine so back to the question

of agendas this is the most important

thing to think about again I'm not gonna

be naming any names for reasons that

I've explained already but I will say

that at least one individual out there

who has drawn attention to the matter of

these Linus tech tips Content ID flags

okay so this person rather than simply

disputing the claims and don't bother

speculating about who it is because

there's so many people that are

complaining about it at this point and

I'll get into why there's a bunch of

people complaining about these Content

ID flags and why that's happening in a

little bit but there's so many people

you're probably not going to guess the

one that I'm talking about which is the

only reason that I'm allowing myself to

allude to this but at least one of the

people rather than simply disputing the

Content ID claims per the standard

operating procedure took their problem

public rather than just emailing me and

I know that at least one of these people

more than one actually more than one of

these people have my contact

information my personal contact

information from applying for a job at

Linus Media Group in the past one that

they obviously didn't get so I

disappointed I'm disappointed in the way

that some people have handled this

without just talking to me when they

obviously have my contact info which

hasn't changed in the entire time that

Linus Media Group has exist existed and

I'm I I never win myself any friends

when I say stuff like this but that's

not really the goal of today's stream

I'm I'm a little disappointed in the

community you know not necessarily over

on the forum by and large the folks over

there have been more understanding and

have dug a little deeper for the facts

before raising their pitchforks but the

the YouTube viewer community more

broadly I've been disappointed in the

way that some individuals have just

assumed that I'm some kind of you know

wielder of you know the copyright been

hammer without any regard for fair use

or for smaller creators or that I'm some

kind of like anti-competitive asshole

like based on what evidence is this

assumption being made like am I

automatically evil for a problem with an

automated system that I don't control a

problem that was brought to my attention

literally on Friday morning or do we

live in a place where you are guilty and

guilty until proven innocent maybe

there's another way of saying that you

should be assumed innocent until proven

guilty

why don't we assume the best of people

until we are presented with

incontrovertible evidence that they are

actually acting out of malice so so so

then with that in mind what I'm gonna do

is I'm gonna take all of the vitriol

that I've been getting over the last

couple of days and I'm going to assume

that everyone who is dishing it out did

it out of ignorance rather than out

of some kind of ill-will so I want the

rest of the stream to be more about

educating people rather than sort of

complaining about the situation all

right

so someone on our forum actually did a

better job of this then I probably could

have it's an excellent post so what I'm

gonna do is I'm gonna read it out so

that you guys can fully understand the

difference between a Content ID claim

and a copyright strike because they are

spectacularly different so it was posted

by spotty over on our forum actually I

can hopefully this works I'm gonna

screen share with you guys yeah it looks

like it's working cool so spotty posted

in response to someone else you seem to

be misinformed there is a huge

difference between a copyright claim and

it take down notice resulting in a

copyright strike copyright claims which

was what happened to one of the people

that made a video are often actually as

far as I know they just are an automatic

process where content actually no no no

no no that's correct

often not always because we actually ran

into one that was on purpose a little r1

that was manual a little while ago we

included a few notes of a song in the

the cheap 4k TV video the video has

since been edited and we've got

monetization re-enabled on it but ya

know it can be manual so an often

Odyssey like I said spotty did it better

than I could often automatic process

where Content ID detects that a portion

of your copyrighted content has appeared

in another video on YouTube and will

issue a copyright claim on the video so

that video remains public and viewable

not all these viewable everywhere

because sometimes it will be blocked off

in like certain regions per the

copyright holders guidelines however

what happens after that point is that

any ad revenue generated by the video

may be redirected to the original

copyright holder so there's no actual

punishment for the channel when when

this Content ID copyright claim is made

against them they only lose the revenue

for the video

okay so now that we've got all that

obviously this is not a perfect solution

because what if someone

what if someone submitted a mash-up of

youtuber reaction videos and then all

you know nine of the people in the 3x3

tile of reacting to whatever it is are

eight I guess it would because the

original content would be in the middle

what if they all submitted Content ID

claims well I don't know how you split

something anyways I don't think it's

actually about granular so it's

obviously not a perfect system and

there's a lot of room for false

positives but there's no punishment for

the channel there's no long term impact

just the revenue and just on that

particular video now copyright strikes

or takedown notices so this is this is

like DMCA stuff

that's what the verge did to Kyle okay

so that's when the copyright owner

manually issues a legal notice that the

video is infringing on their copyright

and they demand that the video be

removed from the platform so the channel

then receives a strike against their

channel which comes with punishments

such as losing the ability to livestream

just one strike and you can't livestream

anymore and can even come with the

potential to be demoted in terms of

YouTube's YouTube serving your content

to people though I don't think that's

ever actually been confirmed and then

after multiple copyright strikes so

remember this is DMCA takedowns the

channel can be removed completely I

think it's three right before don't

quote me on that Ben so that that's

really different and that is not what is

happening right now so what's happening

is Content ID claims and what is not

happening is manual DMCA takedowns so

Content ID claims are handled by YouTube

algorithmically

so our MCN full screen is making sure

that people aren't real plotting our

videos because that does actually happen

a lot and that way we don't have to pull

all that crap down and go through it

manually fill out a bunch of annoying

paperwork just if people reload our

videos we just take the Adsense fine who

cares no big deal the only times that we

have issued DMCA takedowns are for

people who are up

loading content that is supposed to be

on other sites such as hold on mixed

messaging oh I didn't mean to do that

Thank You Nick um there we go so let's

go back to that how was I talking about

right okay so there was something that I

wanted to add so Content ID on top of it

not having any long-term ramifications

for the channel aside from just losing

the revenue on that video if you believe

for whatever reason that that Content ID

claim is not valid

you can dispute it and I'm actually

gonna walk you guys through the process

for how to dispute a Content ID claim

I'll show you I'm gonna dispute one on

my channel right now if you dispute it

in a timely manner it actually doesn't

even affect the monetization of the

video either so it's some period of days

like you don't have to do it ten minutes

after you get it but I also wouldn't

wait for a week or a month or whatever

else but if you do it right away then

there is literally no impact whatsoever

other than to help train the YouTube

algorithm so let's go ahead and fire up

here we go hopefully I am doing all this

correctly yeah seems fine okay so let's

fire up a video here we've actually

gotten a ton of Content ID claims over

the last probably I'd say week or so

including some from our own channels

against our own channels just because I

is my belief that they have made some

changes to the Content ID system making

a little bit more sensitive it's again

my belief I don't have any proof of this

but that it is due to the ongoing

chapter 13 stuff that's going on in the

EU but I've disputed most of them so

you'll see that most of these aren't

really that new so this was streamed in

last November includes copyrighted

content so we go ahead and we click on

this okay

it says ads might appear on your video

copyrighted content was found in your

video the claimant is allowing their

content to be used in your YouTube video

however ads might appear on it if you

agree with these conditions you don't

have to do

anything monetized by claimant you can

use the copyrighted content your video

but ads might appear in your video okay

so we can learn more just go ahead and

let me learn some more what is a Content

ID claim if you upload a video that

contains copyright protected material

you could end up with a Content ID claim

companies that are music movies TV shows

video games another copyright protected

material content owners can set content

had to eat a block material from YouTube

when a claim is may they can also allow

the video to remain live on YouTube with

ads in those cases the revenue goes to

the copyright owners of the claimed

content okay am I in trouble

probably not in most cases getting a

Content ID claim isn't a bad thing for

your YouTube channel it just means hey

we found some content your video that's

owned by someone else it's up to the

copyright owners to decide whether or

not others can reuse their original

material in many cases they allow their

content to be used in YouTube videos in

exchange for having ads run on those

videos these ads may play before the

video or during it bla bla bla alright

they can mute it they can block certain

platforms they can block a video what

can I do about this claim if you get a

Content ID claim there are a few

different things you can do depending on

the situation you can do nothing if you

agree but yeah I probably shouldn't use

that you can leave it and you can always

change your mind later you can remove

the music so that's cool you can swap

the music you can share revenue if

you're a member of the YouTube Partner

Program you may be able to share revenue

with the music rights owner I actually

did not know about that it's kind of

neat you can dispute the claim if you

have the required rights to use the

copyright protected content your video

or if you think the system has somehow

misidentified your video you may dispute

the claim so how to dispute a claim you

go to let's go back to where we were

okay oh yeah first we can check and see

what exactly it is so in this case it

was oh it was a trailer for some Pokemon

thing or other oh we were doing live

commentary so yes this is copyrighted

content but it's a trailer which is

generally considered to be for

promotional purposes it's very unlikely

that a copyright holder would be mad at

you for playing their trailer and

talking about it that's kind of like

what the point of them is also where

we're commenting on it that's pretty

pretty well established to be a fair use

use case for it so we're gonna file a

dispute

I believe this copyright claim is not

valid

here's a few options I beheld the cd/dvd

or bought the song online by the way if

you click that if that's your reason

you're wrong

I gave credit in the video if you click

that that's your reason you're wrong the

video is my original content I own all

the rights yep

sometimes it just Flags random crap we

we actually had a claim against an actor

April Fool's video we uploaded where it

was just a case lying in the rain and it

was just the sound of rain and there was

a claim that that we had used someone

else's rain sound effect we were like yo

let's no it's just our microphone

sitting on the porch no so that was that

was all our original content here's

another one I have license for

permission to use this material okay my

use of the content meets the legal

requirements for fair use or fair

dealing under applicable copyright laws

that's the one we're going to use here

or the content is in the public domain

and not eligible for copyright

protection so these are all the reasons

you can say that that it's fine to use

it so here we go in the case of the

heaven benchmark which was what I think

a lot of people are getting flagged on

we don't own that and as far as I know

Unigine gives zero FS about people

uploading their benchmark content

they've never talked to us about it and

we've got probably hours of it in our

videos which is probably why other

people are getting claims because like

we uploaded it a lot and quite early on

and it's just it you have to submit

these reports otherwise the system can't

fix itself now I can understand where a

lot of people whoops

I just hit a hotkey that's not a thing

good there we go I can understand why a

lot of people would find the wording of

what would be the correct response here

kind of scary

my use of the content meets the legal

requirements for fair use or fair

dealing under applicable copyright laws

that's a scary thing to click because it

feels like you should probably consult a

lawyer before you click on something

like that

but that's not necessarily the case you

know what I would say is make sure that

you at the very least I would say that

at the at the very least you should you

know probably read up on what went down

with h3h3 productions and that person

they made a reaction video of a lot of

good material there there was a lawyer

that actually did a bunch of content

sort of around that very educational I

would like at least gogo read up on that

but no not not necessarily I mean fair

fair use in some cases is pretty

cut-and-dried whereas in other cases

yeah you you might actually end up in

court trying to defend it so a lot of

the time yeah it's probably better off

to just leave it which is why you'll see

we do actually have here if I go back to

the dashboard oh no I'm not gonna go

back to the dashboard yet you know what

I'm gonna finish my I'm gonna finish my

my dispute here okay

I believe this is not valid because my

use blah blah blah fair use etc yep

continue I'm quite sure about this a

visual content please explain briefly we

are commenting on this trailer I believe

this is fair use I have in good faith

etc etc etc thank you I understand well

that's my name continue and we can

submit our dispute yes yes I'm sure so

the process takes about 30 seconds and

if you if you do these things you're

actually helping them make the Content

ID system better because if they get a

bunch of disputes then they can go back

and they can say oh right okay so that's

probably not right let's go ahead and

get that updated um so there you go

dispute in progress

typically these take a couple of days

for my experience but that is that is

the entire process hopefully that was

illuminating for y'all I think there was

a thing I said I was going to get back

to I forget what it was but let's go

back to my notes here yeah actually you

know what no I think that's pretty much

all I have to say on the subject if

anyone out there did get a Content ID

claim from - Media Group - tech tips any

of its affiliated whatever unless you're

actually just reloading our videos which

you're not supposed to do I would say

just dispute it the worst thing that

could possibly happen is we could say

nope we dispute your dispute

we disagree I never done that it's just

not really a thing people upload all

kinds of like highlight reels or silly

reuses of of limas media group content

you know set to songs or like whatever

we love that kind of stuff we love our

community memeing it up we we consider

ourselves a fairly internet savvy

company and not just like the internet

but also just oh all right Nick yeah

thanks Nick Nick told me what I was what

I was showing I was gonna show a thing

that wasn't worth disputing but we

consider ourselves not just like how the

internet works a V would also internet

culture savvy and we recognize that you

know memes and discussion about us is

it's just it's good if people want to

just like have fun with us and engage

with us that way it's great I've gotten

many many and everything from smile to

full-on laugh from the kinds of things

that our community has done with our

content and I love it so yeah I just

submit a dispute it'll probably be fine

so Nick reminded me what I had said I

was going to do I was going to show some

of the copyright notices that I

considered not worth disputing some of

these were left this one was left in

here just because it's like Rancho

Rancho doesn't really like make any

money on Adsense anyway like after the

first week or so it doesn't get any view

so what am I like what am i bothering

for it's like it's not worth the 30

seconds it takes me to dispute the

stupid thing but some of these I left

because there is actually potential

legal ramifications if I dispute it and

they decide they don't like my dispute

and they they want to they want to go to

court over whether it's fair you so this

I think is an example of that the

fallout 4 ultimate bomb case build log

so here we used some kind of classical

music apparently yeah so this is like

music stuff which from our experience is

super complicated because there's

different copyrights for the actual

sheet

music itself and the performance and it

varies from country to country and we

were just like this was around the time

that we were just like you know what

screw it we're just gonna like pay the

thousands and thousands of dollars that

it costs to subscribe to a service like

Warner Chappell and we're just gonna

gonna invest in having music for our oh

I'm parent Lee I'm not showing you guys

the screen right now

sorry Thank You Nick what would I do

without you're my guardian angel so here

you go

so they'll fall out for ultimate bomb

build there you go so here's a bunch of

performances we were just like you know

what we're not gonna we're not gonna

deal with that we're just gonna we're

just gonna spend a lot the new one we're

on now is like evac forget which one it

is it's like even better than the

warner/chappell libraries we were using

but it's like I was like 15 grand a year

so I'm stupid like that's amazing how

much it costs to to do things properly

so this is an example of one that we're

just we're just gonna leave if they want

the you know a few hundred bucks or

whatever then I guess they're they're

welcome to it going back there's just

like some older stuff that I just didn't

bother with as well but I'm glad I

didn't bother with all of them because

at least it means that I had this to

show you wonderful people how to dispute

a Content ID claim I guess right before

I go I should probably see if there's

any like chats or anything that I should

deal with

mostly just people being nice supportive

well that's kind of amazing

a couple people just want a summary of

the issue since they tuned in a little

bit later in this dream okay so

basically people have been getting

Content ID claims not to be confused

with copyright strikes from lionís Media

Group they're from fullscreen on behalf

of Lynas Media Group these have been

false content ID matches a lot of them

on the heaven benchmark not although and

people think and a bunch of pitchforks

are being raised and torches and all

that that - Media Group is you know

trying to keep down smaller creators or

whatever totally not a thing not what

happened it's an automated system we

believe it's gotten some updates lately

and disputing Content ID claims is super

easy I showed earlier on this stream how

you do it as long as as you don't think

the original copyright holder doesn't

have a claim to it either it's pretty

safe to go ahead and just dispute those

things it's really not a lot that can go

wrong it has no long-term impact on your

channel so it's all good we just all

need to have less drama and you know

give people the benefit of the doubt if

we have a problem with them we need to

reach out from directly I'm actually

shockingly easy to get ahold of I do

ignore the vast majority of the tweets

that get sent to my handle just because

like the last time I opened the Twitter

app was on Friday when I was at work

because I don't actually Twitter because

I like it i twitter because it's my job

boo there's there's a there's a

bombshell confession you know if you

send it to my email the business

inquiries only email we can't we

actually cannot reply to every email

that comes to that we reply to the

business inquiries what we do do though

is read them all so if there's something

that we are getting a ton of messages

about then we will address it in some

other way I just mean we're easy to get

in touch with even if you don't

necessarily get a response and hopefully

we've demonstrated

so that's unless Nikki's got something

else urgent that he feels like I need to

address I'm not a legal professional

Thank You Nick

that's very very helpful for me to point

out to everyone that's all I've got to

say on the subject there's no doubt that

drama sells and I'm not above monetizing

the video you guys are watching right

now and my if I'm gonna get sucked into

this thing I might as well you know make

a couple of shekels and you know go buy

some new video games to play tonight

while I relax but I have zero appetite

for continuing to follow up on this

I'm only even making this as a

standalone video rather than addressing

it on the LAN show because the episode

of the LAN show from Friday which should

be up and contains my response to this

is still down due to a technical issue

on youtubes end so here we are

fortunately YouTube streaming worked for

me for a continuous however however long

we've been live right now which is great

and half an hour holy crap I've been

doing this for half an hour okay you

know what it's family day let me go

spend some time with my kids hopefully

you guys have a fantastic rest of your

weekend or long weekend or or whatever

else it is that you guys are up to see

ya

so I'm sure you guys did not expect this

to happen because normally we take

forever with projects like where the

heck is six workstations one CPU am i

right anyway the walls are up the

electricals in the powers in the

ceilings painted the light fixtures are

coming in the lmg employee lounge is

coming together and sponsored by samsung

we will actually be outfitting as

completely as we can today the first

corner of it this is going to be the

big-screen gaming big screen content

corner and this all thanks to Samsung

who sponsored this video inside this

crate is a what is it 75 inch TV can it

handle it

I think it can it's pretty nailed

together and they're an 950 this is

their top-of-the-line sound bar so we're

gonna rip this thing open get it

installed get some couches going you

ready

so we have more than just Jake to help

us today actually

Yvonne's gonna be joining us because

she's been doing all of the like

knick-knack and interior decorating

shopping why was there too

we want the you're taking too long

who puts a crate together with nails all

right yeah that's about enough of that

you know what these are the tools I was

given Jake okay this is super dangerous

let's oh gosh

yeah just drops it on himself

we just tip it over oh my gosh I'm in

here I got this it's all good are you

standing on the soundbar no no I was not

anymore 512 Watts 17 built-in speaker

seven point one point four set this at

most not those number

Oh what else we got here 4k pass-through

we're professionals why are you guys

holding it sideways I wanted to read

this bag has handles wow this is way

easier with the handles okay okay hello

that's what I said earlier so you're

good now you can go straight just let go

it's fine I'm right I'm on the bubbles

what could go wrong see Wow with your

Samsung TV comes a free Linus don't

scratch the floor don't dry it on the

floor

I'm just dragging it lightly on the

floor just leaves a giant scratch oh

that's good that's good

is this the coffee table yeah I thought

we agreed on something like foldable and

easy to stow away yeah how much did we

spend did we spend 300 on this cuz the

one that I wanted was 300 you like 300

on a coffee table

that's stupid it was that we bought well

it doesn't fall for $300

hang up out of the way yes look at the

metal feet you can hang it from the

metal feet fine okay where's the TV set

over there in pieces so do you want to

take the TV out while I build this sure

ow ow I literally just paid him to do

that let's lift this up a little more I

mean this is really intended to be done

by two people but so I am pretty excited

about this TVs big it's quantum dots

whoa oops what did you just draw and it

has free sink I didn't break it can i

push you over now

like the crate that would actually be

very uncomfortable in this case so this

is Samsung's one connect box this allows

all the i/o and I think even power then

they've got this little tiny cable

okay the connector is big but the cable

itself is so thin that carries all the

signaling data for the display and power

isn't that incredible power love this

thing y'all you already put all the

Delavan hey why is that one sticking out

so far

Jake have you ever seen a TV stand piece

that there's like cable management built

into this thing are you putting a stand

on it it's going on the wall it is yes I

love these handling strips they have on

their TVs though that is so handy why

are you guys using an impact driver for

that it's cheap furniture that's a bad

idea and you know it Jake he's not even

the right amount of holes on the other

side okay well you can just take it

apart now

whoopsies gonna go Jake that wasn't even

me I said it was okay yes but only after

she like made me think it was the right

one

deceptive marketing so I'm basically set

up on the TV here I'm a little bit ahead

of those guys so at first I actually

thought it came with two subwoofers but

that that would be that would be stupid

nobody does that and what it actually is

is the sound bar itself and then it

comes with a rear wireless speaker kit

that not only fires forward or well I

mean forward towards you the user so

backwards towards the TV I don't it

doesn't matter but it also fires upward

so that's part of how they're achieving

the whole atmos and DTS X compatibility

thing so that's probably also why if you

look up Samsung insisted that we do this

video somewhere with a ceiling right

because we were initially gonna do the

lounge on that side and they were like

that's not a great idea the more you

know this thing isn't aligned you can

assembled this David okay I have like

super mangled this do you believe that

we might be about to have a bit of a

challenge here though what's wrong well

our stand is the thickness of the TV oh

it's just right wrong what do you mean

wrong right is the sound bar go so here

it is two HDMI inputs and then we've got

HDMI to the TV out with audio return

channel so that way we only have to have

just the one cable and we can use a

single remote for both of them all

things that I learned last time now

that is a big fat no oh so do we need to

wall mount the TV we do like what is

this well this isn't man kV you wanted

purple accents Jake actually picked this

out himself you're not proud no what is

this that doesn't belong in a man cave

where's the like Darth Vader mask that

hangs on the wall and has glowing red

eyes look that's gonna be on that side

you wanted Darth Vader there he is I

actually had to convince Jake to buy

this so you remember how you told me

that there's supposed to be fluorescents

in the ceiling and then light fixtures

what you told me not to do I did not say

you know it's because I didn't know that

he wanted both I thought he just like I

thought we were either they're gonna do

fluorescent orders here well anyway I

put him bulbs and then I went and I

turned off all the lights and it is dark

it's dim as hell in here you're not

gonna be able to play ping-pong in this

light no but they're like a light over

for the single-rate ah

Tyler do you feel like the lighting

they're providing too is suitable here I

can see well enough in this light yes

then why do you need those glasses yeah

didn't pay him before this at all you

two just have no idea what you're doing

I mean the good news is you guys did a

fantastic job of getting this set up I

think

are we ready to try this out mostly the

TV's on the wall there's a box there Wow

Wow

can you notice I think I scratched the

floor yeah I got it pretty good there so

that goes through that super thin wire

and then this goes to our sound bar

right that's basically all we need cuz

we can plug our console into either this

or the sound bar oh oh I can do appeal

how much did we pay for this driftwood

like four dollars or something

Wow weak weak peel game also do you like

our decorations better now this doesn't

seem very mancave II what's not supposed

to be yeah yeah okay so how do we

install this we got our TV box plugged

in yeah that's plugged into the TV got

so the Xbox can go into our sound bar

man this thing is heavy like it's thick

oh the end 950 is the most premium model

in Samsung soundbar line up and is the

only sound bar on the market but offers

realistic Dolby Atmos 7.1 point for

surround audio when you pair it with

their Wireless rear speakers which are

unique to the end 950 these speakers

have special upward firing drivers that

bounce off the ceiling that allow them

to work in unison with the standard side

firing drivers and the sound bar itself

in order to achieve these four top

speaker channels and offer a more

multi-dimensional audio experience the

end 950 was also born out of a

collaboration with Harman Kardon where

there over 65 years of audio expertise

along with Samsung software engineering

came together to create the ultimate

immersive sound bar experience just to

be clear to our viewers this Xbox is

here because we want to show off like

the media playback capabilities there

will absolutely be a gaming tower just

like chill in here let me just slide

that back there and boom no it's pretty

good yeah I mean we have to do some

touch-ups yeah here obviously but do we

can we just turn it on now I think so I

got the remote theoretically is that how

this works

oh hey all right where's our stuff did

we plug that in no we forgot okay oh so

we could Mel well mount the sound bar

yeah I don't think we should so how does

it wall mount is it flush or does it

stick out so it's basically flush if we

ever decided it's like I don't know a

centimeter away from the wall so we can

decide that later okay I should take

this off this looks really stupid how's

that mount treating you there but

oh that's hard to watch full peal oh

yeah well the colors throw thought wow

that is the biggest peel I have ever

done I want to wear this peel I like

that flourish there where do you want to

put this up I'm just beside me I guess I

love how the terms and conditions are

all in English so what do we have

plugged in why did you plug the Xbox

into the sound bars and this one to the

TV and then the TV and the soundboard

communicate it can do that it doesn't

matter oh okay so like smart guys okay

let's try that again

for me it was that same minute power

right okay we finished setting up the

sound bar because we've got the

subwoofer to make sure is working and

then we've got the rear speakers to pair

135 250 degrees using the remote control

I think we can figure that out

stalling the wall mount the subwoofer

and surround speakers will connect to

the sound bar automatically if they're

plugged in to electrical outfits oh

outlets oh well they're already blue are

they blinking neuron they're just on

perfect so then we're good to go is that

an electric couch yeah do you need a

pillow - this is basically a bad yeah

it's pretty great right

oh the bass is working well the stuff is

working yeah oh yeah it's just subtle

it's not that loud right now oh my could

be what is this exactly I hate games now

it's like you just want to play the game

in there like oh oh here's a loop box go

away

you have to sign in yeah yeah you know

that's normal

so you can save your progress what

button do i press to go I don't know

sure thing here back

all right

the rear speakers are really cool so

they're angled and then they're tuned in

software to bounce off the ceiling and

the walls in a given space to mimic a

much more complicated and more expensive

surround setup really excited to check

these out you got to be over here for us

to have the surround experience so this

is this is it you ready this is the

pinnacle of modern engineering right

here other than Billy bass

I can see why they like this demo

because whenever you get anything moving

across the screen is like yeah yeah but

it feels like there could be speakers

it's like over there yeah

yeah we were at like 30% volume so crazy

so massive continuity error obviously

the couch has arrived but Samsung sent

us over one more clip to try and of

course we've got our new couch proper

couch game going on man this is too good

this is ridiculous oh wow it's like it's

like a bed alright here we go this is

the full experience here

have you seen this movie no I have an

actual oh I haven't either

you can't really tell like at what

direction they're coming from like the

guys that are coming up from the right

you can hear it coming from that side

and that's the clip that's quick that's

awesome

yeah atlas man we're gonna have to leave

this here we're gonna have to leave it

here of course we're leaving it here

what this is this is part one of the

lounge part one's like part three this

is yeah part two actually this place is

gonna be awesome

yeah and we don't even need more light

so I guess all that's left now aside

from making another joke about

continuity and the leather couches being

back is to thank Samsung again for

sponsoring this video and sponsoring

this amazing setup also getting you guys

to check out the samsung n 950 Harman

Kardon sound bar that we featured today

at the link in the video description I

mean this thing has basically everything

pun completly intended Dolby Atmos DTS X

surround sound for upward firing

speakers seven surround speakers and 512

watts of total power so thanks for

watching guys if you disliked this video

you can hit that button but if you liked

it hit like get subscribed or maybe

consider checking out where to buy the

stuff we featured at the link below also

down there is our merch store which has

cool shirts like the one I'm wearing and

our community forum which you should

totally join Billy bass is going in the

lounge we'll put it right there in the

middle that's like I'm sorry doesn't

match your purple flowers but like