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What's going on between Linus Media Group and Gamers Nexus? (feddit.ch)

submitted 1 year ago by goddamnpipes@feddit.ch to c/outoftheloop@lemmy.world

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I've been seeing a few posts about this, and judging by comments I've seen on posts related to this, there's been bad sentiment building up with LMG for some time now that has culminated in this recent dispute. Anyone have a brief catch-up of events?

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[–] TheBig2023Meltdown@lemmy.world 54 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Gamers nexus released a video criticising Linus tech tips for their quality of videos. Highly recommend you watch it if youre familiar with LTT or are into tech in general

Tldr

It's just a bunch of controversy surrounding wrong data, incorrect facts in videos, poor quality assurance, giving products a bad review because they didn't follow instructions etc. They also auctioned off a one of a kind prototype sent in by a small company, who actually wants it back but they can't for obvious reasons.

Linus responded saying he's not going to talk about it in the WAN show (his podcast), and that his statement is enough. Said statement was apparently a bunch of nonsense. (I didn't read it thoroughly myself but that's the general consensus from others discussing)

[–] Contramuffin@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I wouldn't necessarily say that Linus' response full of nonsense. It doesn't contain what we would normally expect out of a response, but it does give us nuggets of insight into his mindset and philosophy toward the issue.

My takeaway is that he's not a bad person, but he's well over his head in terms of managing his company. I think he knows that too, which is why he wants someone else to take the CEO position

[–] TheBig2023Meltdown@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Yeah I did wonder isn't that what Linus wanted to avoid with a new CEO?

[–] goddamnpipes@feddit.ch 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nice one, thanks! I tried watching the start of the GN video about this, but it felt like being dropped in the middle of the situation and it assumes you have some prerequisite knowledge. I'm only loosely familiar with LTT.

I'll go give the video another chance now.

[–] TheBig2023Meltdown@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He recently introduced LTT labs, a lab that tests hardware and see if they perform to their advertised specifications. He tests a whole bunch of stuff like headphone audio, monitor visual quality, colour accuracy etc

The controversy is mainly that the data produced from the lab has a lot of errors that should have been caught before uploading

[–] goddamnpipes@feddit.ch 8 points 1 year ago

Yeah, the gist I seem to be getting from GN's video is that there is a lack of due diligence and journalistic integrity at LMG w.r.t. testing products, primarily because they're unnecessarily rushing content out.

[–] Chickenstalker@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Linus tend to shoot his mouth. Luckily, he has Luke and Yvonne to kick him down a peg. I believe that Luke made Linus back down during the Trust Me Bro controversy and Luke will do the same here. Knowing Linus, he will probably even make a new video on this matter that will rake in 2 million views and profit from it.

[–] Shotgun_Alice@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Came to say the exact same thing. Both benefit form it because here we are talking about it, so there's no down side for either of them. And you're right he'll make a video, get 2 million views and bank.

[–] Slayan@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was a vid of a lmg employee shitting on other reviewer, gn made a video calling them out.

Linus being linus, took it personal, denied everything, and proceeded to call gn unprofessional.

[–] aSingularFemboyHooter@sh.itjust.works 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think 'shitting on' is a bit of an exaggeration, it was a passing comment from a technical guy during a tour that didn't mention GN and was in response to a question about why they're building this setup and how it will be different.

I think they were likely thinking of GN, but I didn't read it as quite so 'aggressive'.

[–] Kangy@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you watch the first 15-20 seconds of GN's first video on this, the clip of the guy in the tour literally calls out GamersNexus and Hardware Unboxed

Edit: "The difference between us and, similarly, GamersNexus and HardwareUnboxed, is we test new components, new tests, everytime"

[–] jsdz@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

If you're interested at all, just watch the GN video. It's pretty long, but worth it.

[–] its_prolly_fine@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This video gives a really good breakdown of everything. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XH6zCNR0SZ4