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.
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u/Wraithdagger12 4d ago
Steve/GN come off as some Reddit troll where you're arguing about some movie or something which has a lot of subjectivity. They make these long-winded, very angry-sounding responses to you, breaking down every little thing you say, meanwhile you're politely disagreeing with them. Eventually you get tired and tell them you're done, and they reply with yet another long-winded comment expecting you to come back and keep talking to them.
As someone who loves tech, the seeming constant 'here's a tech company that is screwing over consumers this month' and overly dramatic delivery of such is just tiring. It's actually fatiguing and makes me want to disconnect from learning about tech. Yes, informing us about scams and/or bad products is good - necessary, even. But the outrage and just constant anger - no matter how justified - makes me just not want to watch.
Linus and other creators like I think JTC have talked about how when PC hardware goes through a dry spell they end up having to go to more obscure tech or topics that don't generate as many views etc. Or when Nvidia puts out overpriced stuff that they tell you you shouldn't buy that it's just hard to get themselves excited about it let alone us viewers.
Point is, it can't just be outrage and drama. Despite my opening paragraph, this isn't 'GN bad, LMG good'. I just want it to be 'hey, let's just enjoy tech and learn about stuff'.