In most cases, yes. in this case, no.
Dunno where you "called out" my last post but hey, if it gives you some of these "internet points" you crave then I've got over 25k other posts you can have a go at
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In most cases, yes. in this case, no.
Dunno where you "called out" my last post but hey, if it gives you some of these "internet points" you crave then I've got over 25k other posts you can have a go at
Don't youtubers with beef arrange boxing matches now? Maybe Steve and Linus should fight.
*Picturing a scene out of WWE where instead of a chair, one of them grabs a keyboard and smashes the other over the back of the head.
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Little comment from Steve regarding the drama
Our Response to Linus Sebastian | GamersNexus
GN Extras Our Response to Linus Sebastian January 21, 2025 Last Updated: 2025-01-21 GamersNexus responds to Linus Sebastian's WAN Show segment Evidence Included PLAGIARISM: Receipt #1 - History of Failure to Resolve IssuesDATA ERRORS: Receipt #2 - History of Failure to Resolve IssuesEDITORIAL...
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This is an odd thread. Very much like Twitter misinformation.
When I am planning on buying something computer related I tend to watch GN videos, but I will sporadically watch LTT videos just as they are more entertaining. He does have ad's/sponsors, usually one at the beggining and one at the end but the inbetween isn't all about selling stuff?
LTT biggest mis-step imo was the 'Trust me bro' regards to warranty. But this particular argument going on is stupid, LTT did not disclose why they stopped working with Honey at the time as they only knew Honey was taking their affiliated income. They didn't know about restricting vouchers etc so why would the public need to know?
Steve is good at what he does, and if you like what he does, great. But he does seem to take specific aim at certain companies/brands when there are others out there who have done the same thing, he just calls out the ones bigger than himself.
Also just a pet peeve, but the LTT is only in it for the money......he could have sold LMG years ago for $100 million and didn't. He has 100-200 employees now? Yes they need ads to pay for that, the studios, the random videos etc Steve gets away easier as his is fairly limited aside from the testing lab.
Again, I watch both for various reasons but the misinformation is ridiculous.
When I am planning on buying something computer related I tend to watch GN videos, but I will sporadically watch LTT videos just as they are more entertaining. He does have ad's/sponsors, usually one at the beggining and one at the end but the inbetween isn't all about selling stuff?
LTT biggest mis-step imo was the 'Trust me bro' regards to warranty. But this particular argument going on is stupid, LTT did not disclose why they stopped working with Honey at the time as they only knew Honey was taking their affiliated income. They didn't know about restricting vouchers etc so why would the public need to know?
Steve is good at what he does, and if you like what he does, great. But he does seem to take specific aim at certain companies/brands when there are others out there who have done the same thing, he just calls out the ones bigger than himself.
Also just a pet peeve, but the LTT is only in it for the money......he could have sold LMG years ago for $100 million and didn't. He has 100-200 employees now? Yes they need ads to pay for that, the studios, the random videos etc Steve gets away easier as his is fairly limited aside from the testing lab.
Again, I watch both for various reasons but the misinformation is ridiculous.
^ LTT you might consider 'more entertaining' but fundamentally his reviews are worthless these days, it's impossible to tell which he's shilling on, which he's just doing his OTT fake 'entertainment' spin on and which he is honestly reviewing..
I don't even find him entertaining, it's all fake/hammed up and badly acted as he tries way too hard and so it devolves in to him trying the Clarkson approach of just trying to break things and be deliberately belligerent which clarkson gets away with because he's always been like that..
He's botched numerous reviews, he just openly shills right in front of you and I can't trust anything he recommends without doing more research..
If he isn't in it for the money, why does he keep growing the empire whilst simultaneously becoming less credible as a reviewer? Is it just a narcissistic fame thing? Is he trying to grow it to a $1Bn business?
It's because he has such a large number of staff that the problems have arisen, he's too big now, he has to pay the bills and that means he's sold himself out..
I tell you the turning point, that was when he once said he'd never sensationalise the titles/thumbnails for click bait, and then he got to a size he said he now had to to keep the money rolling in.. that was him setting foot on the slippery slide..
I might appear jaded, but that is because he used to be an honest reviewer and built his original channel all based off that, then he diversified and took on loads of people and it's just all about the money now.
I don't even find him entertaining, it's all fake/hammed up and badly acted as he tries way too hard and so it devolves in to him trying the Clarkson approach of just trying to break things and be deliberately belligerent which clarkson gets away with because he's always been like that..
He's botched numerous reviews, he just openly shills right in front of you and I can't trust anything he recommends without doing more research..
If he isn't in it for the money, why does he keep growing the empire whilst simultaneously becoming less credible as a reviewer? Is it just a narcissistic fame thing? Is he trying to grow it to a $1Bn business?
It's because he has such a large number of staff that the problems have arisen, he's too big now, he has to pay the bills and that means he's sold himself out..
I tell you the turning point, that was when he once said he'd never sensationalise the titles/thumbnails for click bait, and then he got to a size he said he now had to to keep the money rolling in.. that was him setting foot on the slippery slide..
I might appear jaded, but that is because he used to be an honest reviewer and built his original channel all based off that, then he diversified and took on loads of people and it's just all about the money now.
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Wowza I lost brain cells reading that nothing burger.Little comment from Steve regarding the drama
Our Response to Linus Sebastian | GamersNexus
GN Extras Our Response to Linus Sebastian January 21, 2025 Last Updated: 2025-01-21 GamersNexus responds to Linus Sebastian's WAN Show segment Evidence Included PLAGIARISM: Receipt #1 - History of Failure to Resolve IssuesDATA ERRORS: Receipt #2 - History of Failure to Resolve IssuesEDITORIAL...gamersnexus.net
Reads like Steve is Mr clever clogs and got cross LTT didn't give him enough Viz?
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Little comment from Steve regarding the drama
Our Response to Linus Sebastian | GamersNexus
GN Extras Our Response to Linus Sebastian January 21, 2025 Last Updated: 2025-01-21 GamersNexus responds to Linus Sebastian's WAN Show segment Evidence Included PLAGIARISM: Receipt #1 - History of Failure to Resolve IssuesDATA ERRORS: Receipt #2 - History of Failure to Resolve IssuesEDITORIAL...
Little? I wish you'd given a true representation to its length before I started reading
.Anyway, I did get to the end, it was tediously long and rather petty, particularly the end regarding computex.
The amount of cognitive load the two of them must be using up on this is incredible.
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I like that gn is splitting the channel, moves all the journo drama stuff somewhere I don't have to see it. Impressed that they read the room.
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Only read the first few grievances and jeez you are not wrong about the nothing burgers. If that’s the “receipt's” he’s got he’s really struggling there.
Just seems like Linus was keeping it casual whilst honestly I’m not even sure what Steve would have been satisfied with. Why would you even save stuff like that is, weird in itself.
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Take a break Steve, your community begs you.And once again Steve lays the smackdown on Linus
(these are the top 3 threads in r/GN atm
It seems pretty clear that steve from GN has a personal dislike for linus and a fear of LMG as a competing business, neither of which anyone can say arent reasonable opinions for him to hold. However, the way its manifesting as a vendetta against LMG in public seems very questionable.
It seemed to start when a fan that was on a tour uploaded some footage from the tour that included a comment from a member of staff basically saying that their aim was to be better than others such as GN and HU. This in itself as a comment from a single employee about their goals for their work seems fair as surely you are always aiming to be the best otherwise whats the point. It also wasn't an official statement by the company etc but a single employee talking to some fans about his work. HU took it as it was and made a comment but basically ignored it whereas GN feeling threatened took the nuclear option and released a full video hit piece to their channel trying to tear LMG apart and damage their reputation.
Skipping ahead a few years ignoring a bunch more instances and moving onto the current drama and it seems GN blindsided LMG by calling them out specifically in a video around "honey" a sponsor many youtube channels had then dropped over some questionable practices. LMG responded by providing counterpoints and clarifying some things while questioning the validity of factual information in a lot of his claims against them and asking him for receipts for his claims. They also basically said look mate this has to stop, you are repeatedly causing us reputational and financial damages, we don't want to lawyer up and would rather bury the hatchet but if you continue...
GN latest response seems to ignore both the veiled threats of lawyering up and any requests for receipts to backup points he made that LMG claimed were not valid. Instead, he has launched a personal attack against linus himself, as far as I can see he calls out LTT for plagiarism but then his provided evidence was a few emails that show linus apologising for not giving citation of GN in a podcast episode while also then adding a pinned comment to the podcast video thanking GN and steve responding with "all good". He also proceeds to call out linus himself for "unprofessional communication" and provides screenshots of personal text messages between the two of them....
So as far as I can tell from reading whats gone on steve is blinded by his personal dislike of linus, he cant provide the receipts LMG have asked for to backup the claims against them in his videos and the worst he can provide is a single email of linus apologising to him and some personal texts. He also has completely failed to discuss or counter questions around the conflicts of interest around covering a competitor and his journalistic practices in the coverage such as not reaching out for comment which in one of the cases would have provided him with much needed information on a story and changed the narrative completely.
It seemed to start when a fan that was on a tour uploaded some footage from the tour that included a comment from a member of staff basically saying that their aim was to be better than others such as GN and HU. This in itself as a comment from a single employee about their goals for their work seems fair as surely you are always aiming to be the best otherwise whats the point. It also wasn't an official statement by the company etc but a single employee talking to some fans about his work. HU took it as it was and made a comment but basically ignored it whereas GN feeling threatened took the nuclear option and released a full video hit piece to their channel trying to tear LMG apart and damage their reputation.
Skipping ahead a few years ignoring a bunch more instances and moving onto the current drama and it seems GN blindsided LMG by calling them out specifically in a video around "honey" a sponsor many youtube channels had then dropped over some questionable practices. LMG responded by providing counterpoints and clarifying some things while questioning the validity of factual information in a lot of his claims against them and asking him for receipts for his claims. They also basically said look mate this has to stop, you are repeatedly causing us reputational and financial damages, we don't want to lawyer up and would rather bury the hatchet but if you continue...
GN latest response seems to ignore both the veiled threats of lawyering up and any requests for receipts to backup points he made that LMG claimed were not valid. Instead, he has launched a personal attack against linus himself, as far as I can see he calls out LTT for plagiarism but then his provided evidence was a few emails that show linus apologising for not giving citation of GN in a podcast episode while also then adding a pinned comment to the podcast video thanking GN and steve responding with "all good". He also proceeds to call out linus himself for "unprofessional communication" and provides screenshots of personal text messages between the two of them....
So as far as I can tell from reading whats gone on steve is blinded by his personal dislike of linus, he cant provide the receipts LMG have asked for to backup the claims against them in his videos and the worst he can provide is a single email of linus apologising to him and some personal texts. He also has completely failed to discuss or counter questions around the conflicts of interest around covering a competitor and his journalistic practices in the coverage such as not reaching out for comment which in one of the cases would have provided him with much needed information on a story and changed the narrative completely.
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I subscribed to the new consumer advocate channel immediately, never clicked subscribe so fast before
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