Steve vs Linus, round 2

Louis Rossmann that previously collaborated with Linus and featured in his videos? That Louis Rossmann? They're all as bad as each other these influencers/youtubers. It does nothing but divide and disrupt the community when things like this happen. Nothing good comes of it for us. They all make yet even more money through being drama queens, back stabbers and biatches.
 
Maybe people should channel their hatred towards the actual crux of the issue at hand here; HONEY.
It should not be put on Linus for not doing a big reveal of said scam. It's not on him to do so. He quietly left that stable as he should have done when they found out, and carried on with life. Yet Steve wants to punish him for not bringing enough drama to the table on youtube, something he and seemingly lots of others revel in, when they can try to disrupt LMG. Pretty sad. Linus sat back on things in the past, but now is fairly professionally on the defence. Can't blame him for that.
 
Yes, this nothing drama is pathetic.

I can't watch Gamers Nexus as he bores me to death. I tried to watch a full video of his years ago and could only make it to the 10ish minute mark he is that tedious to me. Come on man, invest in a little bit of a personality.

I'll watch LTT depending on the video but I don't think I've ever bought anything because Linus liked it. I tend to watch the WAN Show on a Saturday morning whilst on the computer doing other stuff but I usually look at the, viewer generated, time stamps and skip topics I'm not interested about. The one channel I watched every episode of was scrapped a year or so ago, Carpool Critics/They're Just Movies.
 
Honeys only a scam because it took influencer affiliate money after they promoted it...

none of these influencers would care if it were their viewers losing out getting data farmed or whatever
 
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arknor said:
Honeys only a scam because it took influencer affiliate money after they promoted it...

none of these influencers would care if it were their viewers losing out getting data farmed or whatever
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You are missing quite a lot to the story here.

When LTT dropped Honey - this was all that was known (the affiliate link stealing). His position was not to make a big song and dance about it, because it may be seen as him whining he is losing his cut and the Consumer should take the "L" and not get a better price to protect his revenue.

When GN did the Honey video, he filled it with hyperbole and rage bait and it was hard to decipher what he was even saying (see the thread where the usual suspects ganged up on me but they were unable to explain what they were actually mad about - so resorted to being mad that I wouldn't watch the video). The difference now is that people are mad Honey allowed retailers to filter out codes they didn't want to be made available on there site. Ergo Honey "may not be the best discount code available".

The odd thing about all of this is that Honey is an optional plug-in that people use to see if they can "steal" a discount despite not being the audience for those discounts in the first place. It is like bruteforcing a password, essentially. Rewarding commission to people who did no work to get that commission, and giving an incentive to buy to people who were already as far as the checkout lol.

We have a lot of members that subscribe to circlejerking though, so it got a lot of posts.
 
StriderX said:
I'm confused...

So Linus endorses a product to millions, finds out it's a scam and opts to not to warn anyone it is... but he's a good person for that?
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Context, ah yes, don’t worry about that.

Back in 2021, it was only known that they were taking affiliate revenue. Scam is also a strong word given the consumer wasn’t harmed or a better description, known to be harmed.

No one said he was a good person for not making a video about it, that doesn’t make them a bad person either.

It was also reported at the time by others. They don’t make videos every time they drop a sponsor either, hardly anyone does, they just get ditched.
 
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StriderX said:
I'm confused...

So Linus endorses a product to millions, finds out it's a scam and opts to not to warn anyone it is... but he's a good person for that?
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It is OK to be confused --

Linus was sponsored by Honey a while back. He learnt they rewrote affiliate links so he was losing revenue, alongside other YouTube'ers for their affiliate links. He decided to drop them as a sponsor and mentioned this on one of his shows. At the time, no other controversy was known.

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dlockers said:
What is the very specific thing you are saying they lie about?

(remembering BMW call themselves the "Ultimate Driving Machine" and Airbnb say "belong anywhere")
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stealing revenue from affiliates and harvesting peoples data.
but assuming you can read there is something else you are getting at here, what is it exactly ?
 
I believe also the discount codes where fixed and not searched as better prices could be found if properly searched for.

Don't like either of them to be honest, Linus is always trying to sell me something in every of his videos, GN rambles on, though at lest GN I can skip and get the jist of things.
 
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