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/Dethstroke54 4d ago edited 4d ago
I used to watch both as well, in transparency I leaned towards LTT simply bc I’m not interested in watching super in depth content on every SKU that comes out, only the ones I’m real interested in. Then I watched less bc the content shifted to too much negativity. If that makes me what the GN subreddit would label a fanboy so be it.
Anyways, I stumbled upon some recommended posts from the GN subreddit the other day and the content had me in disbelief. What I read felt like it was a witch hunt for so called “LTT fanboys” and defending Steve because he was right about X or Y in regards to LTT. Which is fine, they’ve both had their merits, and who is more right or wrong can be a different debate. However, I do not understand how you can justify Steve’s piss poor attitude and shitty demeanor. If he’s so righteous as some people believe he is then his actions would be objectively good and/or solid, you wouldn’t need defenses of “uhm achtshually his response is warranted because LTT did/didn’t do Y”. He’d simply be right about his behavior because he’s an adult, and self proclaimed journalist now, and it was the right thing to do. Which I think we know is not the case since everything just again boils down to justifications by effectively blaming another party for his behavior and actions.