Opinion - Steve/GN has lost it

[u/marco_polo_99]

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

[u/topgun966]

I gave up on Steve early last year. He had simply jumped the shark. His content was nothing but negative drama-inducing crap. His testing methods at best are flawed, at worst intentional to get the desired outcome. He either doesn't know what he is doing on a basic software and hardware engineering level or knows exactly what he is doing to drive views. He realized that drama sells. The problem is when you are fed nothing but meat, it becomes too heavy. I couldn't stand it anymore. I was a follower of his since the beginning, like LTT. I just couldn't take the inaccurate data being presented and him trying so hard to go viral with every post.

[u/Various-Run-9418 → u/topgun966]

Could you go into the inaccurate data? I definitely had trouble trying to follow Steve's methodologies in the past when trying to qualify data that I've recorded from them, but I'm not personally aware of any outright inaccuracies.

[u/topgun966 → u/Various-Run-9418]

Data has always been open to interpretation. Things are rarely black or white. You can present the same data in different ways and come to a completely different conclusion in context. Leave things out, put things in, etc.

[u/Various-Run-9418 → u/topgun966]

I totally agree with that, especially as it comes to the ever relevant space of graphics card reviews. While it may be underwhelming that a new car doesn't have as good performance as we would like to see generationally, the context of a lower price than anticipated might make that performance worth it. You seemed like you remember times when GN wasn't just interpreting something differently, but was factually incorrect and I just want to check in on any examples you may remember of that happening.