Comment on Uncovering Every Lie in MKBHD's Softball Interview; a scathing critique of 'brand safe' influencers

• dinckelman@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Being honest isn’t where the money is. Not reaching out towards that takes willpower, and strong principles

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  • ikidd@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    www.youtube.com/@ProjectFarm

    This guy has 3M subs and doesn’t take free samples for reviews. I think he’s doing OK, and damn, if you want a detailed review of something. He’s branched away from the mainly mechanic oriented stuff recently, but still staying unbought.

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• recursive_recursion@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Thanks Steve

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  • mightyfoolish@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I legit upvoted every Thanks Steve comment right before I posted this thread! 🤣 I love that meme.

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    • recursive_recursion@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      ditto😆

      Intel really set themselves up for a perfect memefest😂

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• reddit_sux@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  This is true of apple as reviewers critical of them are never invited for their events.

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• n2burns@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Probably has to suck-up inorder to get products early so his reviews can be viewed first.

  No. Apple and most major tech companies are pretty good about giving reviewer samples to anyone with a large enough audience. The only thing that gets you disqualified is breaking the moratorium and releasing your review early.

  What conducting softball interviews gets you is more interviews.

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  • stealth_cookies@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    major tech companies are pretty good about giving reviewer samples to anyone with a large enough audience

    That isn’t true, for example LTT doesn’t get seeded Apple products anymore because of what they have said about Apple. NVidia has also been caught revoking early access to products to some outlets because they were unhappy about reporting as well.

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  • mightyfoolish@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    As @reddit_sux@lemmy.world stated there are more perks than just earlier reviews.

    Sometimes a large company will stop assisting you if you go against their talking points. For example Hardware Unboxed got in trouble for saying, raytracing isn’t as big of a deal as Nvidia is making it and it will remain that way for at least the next few years. Thanks to influence of several big Youtubers (like Steve Burke and Linus Sebastien), NVidia changed their minds.

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  • slumberlust@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Are you assuming this simply because apple doesn’t state the reason they end a relationship? Access journalism isn’t new or unique to apple.

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