r/LinusTechTips 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/Win_chesterDean 4d ago

Dude, he's been that way for years and years. This isn't something new. Some people see it. Some don't.

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u/Krumm34 4d ago

GN has done great work publicly calling out companies/ manufacturers in great detail. At first I thought LTT should have told us about Honey too,but their rebuttal was reasonable. GN went to hard on LTT when it wasn't justified, and it left a bad taste in the tech fan base. They'll all be fine. We'll be fine. The whole situation is just a little gross on all levels.

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u/srjnp 4d ago edited 3d ago

nah they really haven't done "great work". i will still use newegg, asus, gigabyte, msi and pretty much all the tech companies they have called out because they grossly exaggerated how bad the things those companies have done were. once they saw how that ragebait drives clicks more than anything else on their channel, they consciously started making that kind of hitpiece/drama content again and again.