• CraigeryTheKid@beehaw.orgEnglish
    782·
    1 year ago

    There’s no way Steve knew or intended this would blow up the way it did. After Steve’s original 45 min video, the situation was still “recoverable” at LMG.

    Then Linus dug in not once, but twice, and then the Madison post.

    Has Steve said anything else recently? Hopefully he kinda backs off, honestly. It’s gone way beyond the original scope of his video.

    • Altima NEO@lemmy.zipEnglish
      24·
      1 year ago

      He said on his news recap video that they’re not going to address the lmg issue after seeing Linus’s forum response. So I think he’s gonna leave it at that.

    • worfamerryman@beehaw.orgEnglish
      211·
      1 year ago

      Can I get a tldr? I’m really out of the loop on this.

      I read Madison’s post, but I’m not sure what’s going on with Linus other than that.

      • Ken27238@lemmy.mlEnglish
        441·
        1 year ago

        They have reviewed a GPU cooler from a company incorrectly, said it was trash and don’t buy it, refused to do the review correctly and then sold the prototype cooler at auction when they agreed to return it.

        GN called them out on that and their massive QC problems, crunch and ethics.

      • Halosheep@lemm.ee
        1039·
        1 year ago

        Gamer’s Nexus calls out LTT for some major oversights and failures, then the internet hate machine bandwagons on top and blows everything into a massive issue.

        So many people are so worked up for something so incredibly insignificant.

        • Ken27238@lemmy.mlEnglish
          232·
          1 year ago

          Did you watch any of the videos? Linus straight up lied about reimbursing them. They didn’t reach out to them until after the first GN video was released.

    • XEAL@lemm.eeOP
      31·
      1 year ago

      I wasn’t expecting an analysis of the situation on a memes sub…

    • ZephrC@lemm.ee
      391·
      1 year ago

      Steve released a video pointing out a bunch of technical errors and ethical concerns about how LMG is run, Linus just straight up admitted that he thinks it’s unreasonable to have his fancy new multi-million dollar lab spend even $100 on retesting even though he absolutely knew that his results were inaccurate, doubled down after people started calling him out on it, whined that he didn’t “sell” the one of a kind prototype that he’d promised to give back to the manufacturer, he “auctioned” it for charity, even though that had been explicitly stated in Steve’s video, and then completely separately a former employee said that she had been sexually harassed while working there.

        • Name is Optional@lemmy.worldEnglish
          52·
          1 year ago

          It is dramatic, but the fact that Linus has always pretended to be a tech media guy, it’s quite remarkable to see him as a tool who has no integrity, much less even an iota of concern for testing accuracy. The billet labs guys he trashed in his erroneous testing and review of their prototype, are a pair entrepreneurs just trying to serve a very niche market. Linus Media Group, a multi million dollar company stole these dudes property, shit on them with an egregiously erroneous review, and then when Linus is called out for this, he puts out a video saying he can’t be expected to waste $100-$500 for accurate tests! And “I didn’t sell the billet lab’s prototype!! I auctioned it!”

    • Spaceinv8er@sh.itjust.works
      56·
      1 year ago

      I’ll help ya out since I felt the same way and spent too much time on something I don’t really care about, though I do care for the person who was impacted.

      They are a tech YouTube channel that tests components for computers and the like.

      Basically, a former female employee (can’t remember her name) who was the social media manager, made a post of her tenure there, and it was horrible. Sexual harassment, belittled, ridiculous standards for work. At one point she felt she needed to gash herself and go to the ER, just so she can take a day off because she was ridiculed for taking a sick day previously. There is whole shit ton more. I’d link the post but sorry I’m a little lazy rn.

      The guy who is “de-friending” this Linus guy, is another YouTuber who does the same thing.

      This was a hyper TL;DR, and I’m missing other things, but that’s pretty much the jist of it.

  • Quacksalber@sh.itjust.works
    232·
    1 year ago

    Is this real? I kinda don’t want to visit facebook. I’d love this to be real, but I guess my hopes will be dashed before long.

    • ZephrC@lemm.ee
      231·
      1 year ago

      He’s the host of Gamer’s Nexus, a YouTube channel that does extremely in depth and technical gaming hardware reviews, and occasionally also equally in depth and well researched videos about tech companies doing shady crap.

      • Moohamin12@lemm.eeEnglish
        652·
        1 year ago

        I feel like we are missing the most important context.

        He basically lit the fire that started the whole debacle.

        He is known for his investigative journalism as mentioned. And he is from the Youtube sphere like Linus and has done collaborations with him.

        Steve however, turned his eye of Sauron on Linus this time and called out inaccuracies in his content due to a rush to meet timelines and a huge bungle on a small company’s proprietary item.

        This caused Linus to react badly and the community was pissed. Mud slinging started and an ex-employee’s sudden revelation of the toxic culture of the workplace(still not verified), had started a massive shitshow.