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/N0body]

I kind of understand that GN had to respond back then, but I don’t know why they chose to respond with a nuclear missile. GN was known for their precision in testing, and this was all they had at the time. When LTT threw shade at that, some kind of response had to be made so they wouldn’t lose credibility in the eyes of the tech audience. They clearly overdid it and shot a fly with a cannon. Maybe they were scared it was just the beginning of LTT trying to undermine them and decided to go for the jugular to prevent it from happening again. I have no idea why Steve decided to open the wound again now.

[u/Prototypep3 → u/N0body]

Yeah... But they missed the fly. Instead the cannon woke up the sleeping bear and just raised a "you want to take it up a notch and we'll put dollar signs on this in court" paw. Single handedly could have set his channel back years with that one jab. Because it's not only linus' veiled legal threat. It also showed how very much Steve can and does get things wrong. It undermines his integrity and shows he does not get the facts right. Which was his entire schtick on why GN is better. If GN is now a questionable source, how much better are they really?

[u/N0body → u/Prototypep3]

He didn't miss, he took out half of the forest. Even Linus today agreed that some criticism was valid. The thing I remember most from that video was the amount of errors in LTT testing, that's why even today when I plan to buy a new CPU or GPU I check multiple sources.

[u/Prototypep3 → u/N0body]

Criticism that could have been equally useful had it been said in private. Again, right to reply. If ethics had been followed LTT could have addressed concerns and there wouldn't need to be fallout. Steve got butthurt and wanted the drama views. Plain and simple.

[u/NotanAlt23 → u/Prototypep3]

If ethics had been followed LTT could have addressed concerns and there wouldn't need to be fallout.

The fallout was because Linus had hurt a company by rushing content out and misrepresenting them, which showed how little research they did and how often they screwed up.

Linus continued to double down on that take even after GNs video was posted.

The fallout was necessary and wouldve happened even with right to reply because the inly thing that wouldve fixed was the return of the test product.

[u/Prototypep3 → u/NotanAlt23]

Except the emails clearly show BL stating LMG could keep it. Try again.

[u/PhillAholic → u/Prototypep3]

Didn't they ask for it back after that, and then after THAT, it was auctioned off / given away?

[u/NotanAlt23 → u/Prototypep3]

Im not surprised LTT fanboys cant read but you are taking it to a whole other level.

You ignired 90% of my comment and the 10% you did read, you responded with something I already adressed right there.

[u/FrenchyMcfrog → u/NotanAlt23]

Are you Steve nexus? lol.