That whole video, and the follow-up, were incredible. I used to trust LTT quite a bit, but after the video, I’ve just chunks of respect for LTT. Dunno if i can ever trust them.
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I work in the tech industry. I work for an A tier company that makes servers, storage and more. I cannot imagine fucking up a benchmark/performance characterisation chart THIS badly even for an internal presentation.
I have spent hours double checking and re-running tests to ensure I’m getting the right numbers.
And to see a channel as big as LTT goofing up numbers so badly, which have the potential to affect thousands of purchasing decisions, i can’t even.
We also work with vendors, who sometimes send hardware prototypes. And we can never be THIS unprofessional to them.
Seems Linus is in love with money now.
Am I the only one who thinks this is a little overblown? After reading all these comments I finally got around to watching the video and was honestly pretty underwhelmed and found the GN guy a little over dramatic in his framing and language of the issue.
I’m not claiming he’s doing this whole thing for attention or clout. But yeah, not seeing anything world shaking or enough to change my views on much of anything.
GN dude literally just stated facts, with the evidence.
And that too after an lmg video called them out by name. The original video literally had the guy saying that lmg was better than others like GN or hardware unboxed.
They didn’t have to do it. Especially when there are multiple points of data pointing to their glaring inaccuracies.
After the sewer explosion at LMG today I truly felt Gamer Jesus is really coming forth as a messiah.
Gamers Nexus and Hardware Unboxed are the only channels I would watch for new PC part reviews. They don’t hide or glance over any details for the sake of entertainment and your attention. If I’m spending $700+ on a product I want to know exactly what I’m getting, Not a quick rundown that skips over details that could be potential deal breakers. Glad to see them get the attention they deserve after all this controversy.
Too large, corporate burdens. Ltt needs to slow down. Quantity over quality not cool.
"We may be pumping out trash, but at least the trash pumps are running strong with huge throughput. We’re ℙℝ𝕆𝔻𝕌ℂ𝕋𝕀𝕍𝔼!
I honestly never got his channel. Does Linus actually have a tech/engineering background which makes him an authority on this stuff? Watching his videos leads me to believe that he doesn’t. He gets basic shit wrong way too often.
Linus is both knowledgable and a good entertainer. The problem is he’s grown from a casual reviewer to running a 100+ employee business, pumping out multiple videos a week with his face on it - He simply cannot possibly know anything about the product besides what’s on the script.
When he is interested in something, it really shows. The way he talks about the LTT Screwdriver or the Framework laptop for example almost never even has a correction, let alone errors. Linus just has no ability to upscale that quality.
He doesn’t. He’s just being a computer technician for as long as he has worked.
Tech Jesus for data. LTT for infotainment.
I feel like I’m taking crazy pills and I have the hottest take on the planet, but I really don’t think this is as huge a scandal as everyone wants to make it, and Steve’s motives / vibes are just really suspect in this whole thing.
what exactly is suspect about his motives?
We are talking about youtube where “Drama” is a major motivator and can easily be a way to increase your gain of subs/views. I don’t disagree with many points of GN’s report but I do find the opening a bit peculiar with the whole labs tour statement where Linus does say that was a pretty bad thing for that employee (I think Tim) to say. We just have to remember these kind of feedback loops aren’t that uncommon to see. I have seen similar things with James Stephanie Sterling (Jimquisition) and other youtubers where ragebait/drama posts become a core part of channel and its just an endless war path. Like its no secret GN’s highest rated videos are typically around these kind of topics (Exploding PSUs, Asus stuff, Artesian Builds, Newegg). We shouldn’t blindly follow what gamer nexus has stated since its pretty clearly painted in a very specific light, this isn’t to say disregard everything he said but we shouldn’t act like he is merely a passive observer who is telling everything as it is. There is a clear motive for this kind of thing, right now its clear we are at the everyone has an axe to grind stage of this drama before things settle back down or this could be a full collapse. Who knows but right now I think discussion on this topic will clearly lean heavily on only one direction and any opposition to it will be seen as fanboying.
