As creator that makes some of their profits from affiliate links, I don't see how that could be the case for him.

Seems more likely they had a reason to avoid beef with PayPal.

Could have a non disparagement clause in their former agreement

Linus said it would be on this week's WAN show

Especially considering he hasn't been shy about ranting about a lot of things from (insert latest apple thing) to "fucking eggshell"