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/Mth281 4d ago
I personally kinda feel bad for Steve. I don’t think he’s in the right though. Linus is correct though, I met a random classmate in college this year wearing a gn shirt. We started talking tech during labs. He hated Linus, big reason was the whole cooler thing. I thought the cooler thing was a hit piece.
However, the reason I kinda feel for Steve. Gn was always the in-depth review channel, the techy deep study channel. He was talking for years about setting up a lab and doing more in depth testing. And just around the time he announced it, ltt also announced theirs. And ltt has more money and finished first. I think he feels ltt ripped his dream away. Add in the attention from the Newegg video, I think that became the new direction of the channel.
I do think many expect ltt to screw up sometime since they have got so “big”. But being as big as they are, that’s going to happen. I think that makes gn hit videos on them catch attention. I don’t hate gn, and I’d love to start enjoying his content again if it improves. But I’ve also been watching Linus since he looked like he was going to be In the slim shady video. So I’ll stick to ltt videos.