My personal thoughts

At first it came off a bit whiney, but I watched the entire thing and I'm glad I did. It shows a pattern of carelessness and in some cases complete douchebaggery of LMG.

What they did to Billet Labs is absolutely un-fucking excusable. LMG and Linus, in particular, needs to be mercilessly shamed for that until Billet Labs gets a clear and unequivocal apology and paid restitution for damages. Fucking shameful. What a bunch of pricks.

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This video is not monetized. This video covers our serious concerns regarding the data accuracy of Linus Media Group, including Linus Tech Tips, ShortCircuit, and TechQuickie, particularly as it relates to rushing content out the door to favor -- by staff's own admission -- quantity over quality. As the company continues to expand into its LTT Labs direction, the importance of accurate data increases; however, even as 'only' entertainment, there are still certain responsibilities to the consumer and the manufacturers to report fairly (and to have defined corrections processes in place). We tried to approach this as objectively as possible and hope that viewers are able to listen to the evidence we present, particularly as it relates to significant and frequent data errors that now present in nearly every technical review video.

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[-] envis10n@lemm.ee 51 points 10 months ago

LTT: says they want more accuracy, so they build a whole fucking lab for it.

Also LTT: puts bad data into the video anyway because time

That's literally enough said. It's not an attack on LMG, it's pointing out legitimate concerns about LMGs internal processes because these easy to catch errors are getting through all the time.

They test a water block prototype on a card it wasn't designed for, and then review it as a finished product with the bad data.

It's a pattern over a long period of time that has been called out by the community. GN is fully right to be putting this out there. Even if you disagree with Steve's assessment, he's right to be pointing out things he has concerns with.

[-] NightOwl@lemmy.one 14 points 10 months ago

Yeah, once you stop playing up the entertainment angle, but try to be a go to resource for consumer buying decisions the kid gloves come off. Hashing things out privately in that area is how you lose legitimacy if trying to seem credible and not playing favorites is the image you are trying to project to viewers.

[-] envis10n@lemm.ee 16 points 10 months ago

Right. Many are hitting with the "it should have been handled in private" line, and it's kind of annoying. Journalists report on things, and GN did just that. Reported on an issue that has been gaining in public discussion over time. This deserved transparency, and I hope that having it put out there will help LMG/LTT fix their shit. I'm sure I can speak for most of us in saying that we WANT LMG/LTT to SUCCEED. We want to see them produce quality content. But they can't do that with accurate information right now, despite their public desire to provide that.

[-] NightOwl@lemmy.one 6 points 10 months ago

If you see the response to my comment that you responsed to you see that someone made a response along lines of what Gamers Nexus said near the end

I hope that people listened before they just jumped to the OMG drama wall comments

Found that funny, and does show why some of the comments are dismissive of the situation thinking it is just drama, and see it more as their favorite content creator being attacked than an assessment of the quality of reviews meant for consumers.

[-] lloram239@feddit.de 1 points 10 months ago

Journalists report on things

Yes and that's called clickbait. GN is just wasting everybody's time making big drama out of utter trivialities.

[-] TimLovesTech@badatbeing.social 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

That video I'm sure (if like the last - I'm not clicking it GN deserves no clicks) is just more drama video and nothing "journalistic" about it. It's just another reaction style video to feed the algorithm and give him free hyped up drama views. The sooner we stop rewarding content like this, the sooner the Internet become a little less toxic and full of bot made videos.