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Veteran68:
I watched Steve's video the other day and was quite shocked at LTT's behavior here. I don't think Steve/GN did anything wrong by calling it out. I've liked Linus and LTT over the years, but I think it's obvious they've grown into the 800# commercial gorilla in this space and are driven more by the dollars than the creator passion they started with. Even their own employees were on camera saying they wish they could take more time to produce quality content, but are constantly pushed for quantity over quality.
thm_w:

--- Quote from: hans on August 15, 2023, 04:53:55 pm ---I like their goofy videos and was interested to see how they were expanding, but this seems like a huge PR disaster.

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Majority of his audience won't care.
Yeah he's good at entertainment and goofy videos, not 100% reliable data and in depth reviews. The whole "labs" idea as presented didn't really fit with his mentality.
If it was shown as a place where tech nerds can screw around with cool equipment, unscientifically, then almost none of this criticism would have been justified.


--- Quote from: Veteran68 on August 15, 2023, 09:40:22 pm ---I watched Steve's video the other day and was quite shocked at LTT's behavior here. I don't think Steve/GN did anything wrong by calling it out. I've liked Linus and LTT over the years, but I think it's obvious they've grown into the 800# commercial gorilla in this space and are driven more by the dollars than the creator passion they started with. Even their own employees were on camera saying they wish they could take more time to produce quality content, but are constantly pushed for quantity over quality.

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You can argue not asking LTT for comment is the one mistake GN made, they almost always ask for a comment before releasing a video.
John B:
The errors in their videos are more forgiveable than the monoblock fiasco. Linus can claim that it was sold in error (sorry, auctioned for charity), but the fact that it crossed anyone's mind to pawn off something like that rather than giving it back to the original owners speaks a lot to the mentality of the culture there. I think once they get big enough and get accustomed to large corporations throwing free stuff at them left right and centre, they lose perspective of the time and effort involved in other peoples products and labour.
EEVblog:

--- Quote from: thm_w on August 15, 2023, 09:59:50 pm ---Majority of his audience won't care.
Yeah he's good at entertainment and goofy videos, not 100% reliable data and in depth reviews. The whole "labs" idea as presented didn't really fit with his mentality.
If it was shown as a place where tech nerds can screw around with cool equipment, unscientifically, then almost none of this criticism would have been justified.
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As awesome (and automated?) as the new labs are, processes for software testing are still very manual and I imagine it's easy to make mistakes. I've done it in my own videos when comparing stuff. I did it just yesterday in a CPU vs GPU speed test video, but luckily I caught it and could reshoot that bit.
EEVblog:

--- Quote from: John B on August 15, 2023, 10:17:42 pm ---The errors in their videos are more forgiveable than the monoblock fiasco. Linus can claim that it was sold in error (sorry, auctioned for charity), but the fact that it crossed anyone's mind to pawn off something like that rather than giving it back to the original owners speaks a lot to the mentality of the culture there. I think once they get big enough and get accustomed to large corporations throwing free stuff at them left right and centre, they lose perspective of the time and effort involved in other peoples products and labour.
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I don't get the intense citicism here. They made a mistake, one time  :-//
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