• Crunchypotat77@lemm.ee
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    That whole video, and the follow-up, were incredible. I used to trust LTT quite a bit, but after the video, I’ve just chunks of respect for LTT. Dunno if i can ever trust them.

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    I work in the tech industry. I work for an A tier company that makes servers, storage and more. I cannot imagine fucking up a benchmark/performance characterisation chart THIS badly even for an internal presentation.

    I have spent hours double checking and re-running tests to ensure I’m getting the right numbers.

    And to see a channel as big as LTT goofing up numbers so badly, which have the potential to affect thousands of purchasing decisions, i can’t even.

    We also work with vendors, who sometimes send hardware prototypes. And we can never be THIS unprofessional to them.

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      LTT is like Fox News - it may come off as statistical analysis of technology but it’s really just there for entertainment purposes. They may call themselves fair and balanced but they offer favorable reviews to sponsors.

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      I never really trusted them. They were the wacky tech entertainment channel, which was fun! But their actual benchmarking has always been a mess unfortunately.

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        Linus made a post on LTTForums, but LMG/LTT, as a company, has yet to respond.

        Update: Video up on LTT channel.

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      Am I the only one who thinks this is a little overblown? After reading all these comments I finally got around to watching the video and was honestly pretty underwhelmed and found the GN guy a little over dramatic in his framing and language of the issue.

      I’m not claiming he’s doing this whole thing for attention or clout. But yeah, not seeing anything world shaking or enough to change my views on much of anything.

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        GN dude literally just stated facts, with the evidence.

        And that too after an lmg video called them out by name. The original video literally had the guy saying that lmg was better than others like GN or hardware unboxed.

        They didn’t have to do it. Especially when there are multiple points of data pointing to their glaring inaccuracies.

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        It depends if you spend money on the information LMG provide, or in the case of billet, use them to get an honest review.

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        He absolutely did it for clout. He currently has more traffic than he had in months. Talking about how awkward and uncomfortable the whole thing is, yet smiling through the whole video.

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            The real question is, given how he overdramatised these issues now, how much of the previous issues must have been him talking up molehills to mountains.

            Essentially, pointing out mistakes in tech YouTuber videos is not a challenge. They are everywhere. Whenever GN goes into details of electronic engineering I want to kill myself just as much as when Linus does anything related to Linux, or Jay does … well, anything really. I mean, GN clearly demonstrated in this very video that he doesn’t even know what IP is.

            So the only real issue is that whole Billet thing. They themselves said they only asked for compensation on the 10th and since they didn’t get a reply within a day they used the weekend to help Steve with his hit piece? I don’t know what they think they are doing, but they are radioactive now. Who in their right mind is going to review their stuff if there’s the possibility that they will give a competitor private emails to construct a hit piece like this. They are an incalculable business risk now and ultimately they need reviewers more than the other way around.

            That all being said, the really disgusting stuff is what apparently happened to Madison. That’s something a company and their leadership needs to be held accountable for. Not this other petty shit.

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          Honestly it’s the emotional language choice he used that put me off. That’s when is started to strike me as a bit disingenuous. But motivations aside, so good points were made.