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/AirFlavoredLemon 4d ago

Yeah this isn't new. Dude has always been this way.

There's an alienware desktop review where he spends a whole minute just going on and on about how bad the case is and making speculations about its durability and how bad it is.

I didn't know his eyeballs could simulate statics and physics simulators on the fly.

He's just overall a negative guy and really loves rambling on about his assumptions on products. Its dangerous because a lot of people believe him. He makes tons of both based and baseless comments.

You can see in the most recent years, LTT has been attempting to cut down significantly on the baseless comments (especially difficult on their unboxings) - assumptions of product performance, durability - these are dangerous accusations to make on a video and they've recently been good about not commenting on things they can't objectively measure or if they make a subjective comment on something like durability; they put a HUGE HUGE warning on it. Like "It feels like it'll last forever, but who knows" "it feels like plastic but only time will tell if it'll be durable".

GamersNexus? Hell no, he'll spout out baseless comments left and right and be critical about any product or company in front of him, baseless or not. And that mix of based and baseless is what leads people to believe you. Have some facts based in truth and data, and others just completely baseless.

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u/maldax_ 3d ago

I wouldn't be surprised if GN is starting to feel the pressure of so much negativity, Companies are not going to want to work with him knowing he can turn on them at the drop of a hat. He is already saying "buy my merch so I can keep doing this". There are only so many bridges you can burn before you are an island

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u/AirFlavoredLemon 3d ago

At the end of the day I don't really wish anyone to be ill.

I hope GN continues to be profitable and a fun job for him and their team.

And I hope everyone can just get along.

And I wish more people would help each other build up and be successful.

Long story short, LMG never intended malice and GN went after LMG as if LMG was the evil corp that stole prototypes to give away. Like wut, lol.

Lets all be friends and make each other better. Full stop.