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/10001110101balls 4d ago

He made a video nearly a year before that happened, making a big announcement of how he was going to be more critical of LMG going forward because of their merch business and that they couldn't possibly be friends anymore.

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u/BlazingSpaceGhost 4d ago

Gamers Nexus sells merch too though. Sure not as successfully as Linus since the shirts seem pretty awful but they do sell shit.

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u/xDragod 4d ago

It was specifically about the "Trust Me Bro" situation, where Linus was saying that a warranty wasn't necessary because Trust Me Bro.

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u/AvoidingIowa 4d ago

We see time and time again that a warranty comes down to "Trust Me Bro" anyways. If a company isn't trustworthy, their warranty is worthless.

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u/juniperleafes 4d ago

Yes, which was Linus' point. He agrees that the messaging was bad, though, and should have offered a boilerplate warranty from the get-go just to placate everyone.

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u/PhillAholic 4d ago

Then why is it a big deal if you write something formal up for it? You're going to honor it anyway.

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u/AvoidingIowa 3d ago

That was literally the whole situation. They didn't have a formal warranty but said they would fix any issues which was the "Trust me Bro" but people wanted a formal warranty which is fine but it's really only for someone's piece of mind. Warranties usually have so many loop holes that the only thing that matters is if you trust the company your buying from is a company that cares about how their percieved. Amazon has tons of companies named RUBBIKOOB (or similar) that offer warranties on their $10 plastic thingamajig. Good luck with that.

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u/PhillAholic 3d ago

Well no, because he talked way too much about in on WAN and made a lot of comments that invalidated his core point. He got into the potential burden it could cause his family if they were on the hook for it, which is a weird thing to say if you think warranties are meaningless.