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Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 months agoBullshit, straight up bullshit.
Um, can you give some examples (with proof) of where LTT got paid to give a good review?
That’s an extreme accusation, and everything I’ve watched for the past decade+ seems to contradict that.
For obvious reasons that’s something they want to avoid. Hell they’re still happy to get on the bad side of companies for integrity, they’re just way less aggressive and outspoken about it compared to GN.
In fact I feel like GN sometimes overplays it a bit.
That’s an extreme accusation
Yes, and I can make it without fear of him suing me, because it’s true.
It was pretty obvious if you have more than 2 brain cells and the ability of critical thinking.
But Gamers Nexus actually gave examples of conflicts of interests:
youtu.be/FGW3TPytTjc?t=1575
This is actually from way after I stopped viewing LTT trash, but I can’t just go back multiple years and dig up the evidence.
But if you really are curious, you would have to track his “sponsors” and compare them to his reviews. And the evidence will quickly be pretty clear.
It was very obvious that after AMD became a sponsor around 2018, Radeon suddenly got way better reviews.
Raja had tried to suck up to him, and give him special treatment and privileges with the Vega release, which didn’t work the slightest. But when they became a sponsor THAT WORKED!
But if you don’t have eyes to see what’s going on, I really can’t help you.
I just want to point out that you gave no proof and admitted that Intel sucks. Also I don’t need to see any sponsored videos to know AMD has gotten better.
you gave no proof
WTF! I gave a timed link to Gamers Nexus CLEARLY demonstrating LTT posting videos with similar conflict of interest, which is exactly the same!!
And I gave examples of how payment as “sponsor” which was the method he mostly used, gave exactly the result I claimed. And even that the opposite was also the case for the non payment.
HOW the fuck can you say I gave no proof? You appear to refuse to see the truth.
muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
LTT and gamers nexus face similar but not exactly the same pressures. Gamers nexus is able to be more aggressive than Linus is but Linus structures his business on such a way that made it vulnerable to such a thing.
The clearest example of this was when the Intel overcoming bug was being hidden by Intel PR spin and GN noticed a pattern, said fuck all that noise, and raised hell over it. GN was right. Intel was wrong. And GN was rewarded for it. Linus has to keep sponsors happy whereas GN regularly throws punches with industry titans like NVIDIA.
The risk is higher but so is the reward. People trust GN specifically because of that reputation. Linus is fun, his channel is interesting, but he’s squarely in the influencer/entertainment category.
Buffalox@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Meaning that for Linus you are the product, and the advertisers are the real customers.
Again meaning the videos are not made for you, they are made for the advertisers.