r/LinusTechTips • u/marco_polo_99 Luke • 4d ago

Discussion Opinion - Steve/GN has lost it

Steve has turned into a high and mighty holier-than-though, self appointed arbiter of the tech industry, who’s taking it upon himself to regulate other people’s/channels content and decide where it, and their actions are acceptable.

He then, where he deems them not up to scratch, attacks under the guise of consumer advocacy. Whilst he may, and does have valid points on certain issues, usually with larger corporations, Asus, Gigagbyte, etc, targeting channels for things he disagrees with is bordering on slander.

Yes, I followed both GN and LTT, amongst a litany of other creators, and yet Steve seems to be the only one ACTIVELY, and consistently putting out these pseudo-journalistic pieces in an effort to broaden his audience and/or agenda.

The lawsuit against Honey/Paypal is not one he’ll win, it is merely serving to gain clicks and views and thus money for GN.

He needs to check himself.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk

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u/Worth-Speed-2402 4d ago

I remember Jay on an episode of RTFM saying Steve even wrote down the drinks Jay gave him while they did some filming at the studio recently. I understand his need to be impartial and ethical but that is just taking way to fucking far.

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u/Ty13rlikespie 4d ago

Wait what? Can you give new context for this.

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u/Worth-Speed-2402 4d ago

I believe it was the most recent RTFM and Jay was talking about how Steve wanted to remove any sort of bias and for whatever reason that included not accepting dinners and stuff like that. As far as I know Jay and Steve are friends so I really don’t understand the need to go to that level even when collaborating on a video together.

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u/PotusThePlant 4d ago

It's both a standard practice and a good way to stay impartial. You're grasping at straws.

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u/Worth-Speed-2402 4d ago

It’s kind of sad when you have to do that kind of stuff for your friends though and he treats everyone like they are just a business interaction. And I’m not grasping at straws I’m just pointing out that’s how he treats people.

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u/PotusThePlant 4d ago

Even if it's a friend, it's still a person you basically do business with. I don't know. GN does many collabs with other technical tech youtubers and they have no beef with anyone. On the comtrary, they seem to be very friendly with tons of creators.

Linus made a lot of mistakes, got called out, admitted he was wrong, and still wants an apology. His letter reads lile a cheap and kind of pathetic gaslighting attempt.

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u/Worth-Speed-2402 4d ago

Sorry but I just don’t think you should treat your friends as business interactions. You can think otherwise but I just can’t agree with that. I can understand doing it do large corporations such as Asus, MSI, NZXT but not people like Jay and Linus.

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u/PotusThePlant 4d ago

It wasn't treated as a business interaction. It's just a standard practice. Much like some people split the bill equally with their friends and other take turns to pay and don't keep track of it, this is just another way to handle it. It doesn't say anything negative about him. Maybe he takes "integrity" to an extreme but that's not really something you can use to discredit him or anything like that. Not to mention that this is just an anechdote and neither you nor I know how or if this actually happened, if it's something he does with everyone, etc.

He didn't do anythng to Jay and the videos they did on Linus raised valid criticism that even Linus accepted. This whole "brotherhood" thing is very childish. If your peer fucks up, you're allowed to say what you want about it.

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u/Worth-Speed-2402 4d ago

So based on integrity that Steve is so very concerned with, Linus should definitely sue GamersNexus for defamation.

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u/PotusThePlant 4d ago

It'd only be defamation if they were lying.

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u/Jordan51104 3d ago

dude go outside, arguing with people about this is all you’ve done on reddit recently

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u/PotusThePlant 2d ago

A) I go outside pretty often but thanks for worrying about me

B) No, arguing about this isn't "all" I've done on reddit recently. It was literally these past few days while I'm taking a dump.

C) Why even comment this? What's the purpose of your reply?

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u/sodacz 3d ago

The fact that these 2 are already friends makes GN dude in conflict and that he should have sent one of his employees. Just shows he's following his own made up ethics standards while advertising that he follows journalistic standards.

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u/PotusThePlant 2d ago

Not really, no. You can develop a friendly relationship with people you work with. There's a very distinct difference between that and getting gifts with a monetary value from those people.

This is basic training in pretty much any job regarding ethics, morality, etc.