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I feel like I'm taking crazy pills and I have the hottest take on the planet, but I really don't think this is as huge a scandal as everyone wants to make it, and Steve's motives / vibes are just really suspect in this whole thing.
what exactly is suspect about his motives?
We are talking about youtube where "Drama" is a major motivator and can easily be a way to increase your gain of subs/views. I don't disagree with many points of GN's report but I do find the opening a bit peculiar with the whole labs tour statement where Linus does say that was a pretty bad thing for that employee (I think Tim) to say. We just have to remember these kind of feedback loops aren't that uncommon to see. I have seen similar things with James Stephanie Sterling (Jimquisition) and other youtubers where ragebait/drama posts become a core part of channel and its just an endless war path. Like its no secret GN's highest rated videos are typically around these kind of topics (Exploding PSUs, Asus stuff, Artesian Builds, Newegg). We shouldn't blindly follow what gamer nexus has stated since its pretty clearly painted in a very specific light, this isn't to say disregard everything he said but we shouldn't act like he is merely a passive observer who is telling everything as it is. There is a clear motive for this kind of thing, right now its clear we are at the everyone has an axe to grind stage of this drama before things settle back down or this could be a full collapse. Who knows but right now I think discussion on this topic will clearly lean heavily on only one direction and any opposition to it will be seen as fanboying.
He's on the offense, it's a strategy. What's his endgame, what are his motives? We're hearing a lot of one side of the story. I'm naturally suspicious, and need way more information than everyone seems happy to run with.
Yea, it really does sound like you're taking crazy pills. It's not a movie, not everyone that critiques someone you like does it as part of their grand plan of world domination. There is a very simple explanation of his motives: he's a journalist and he's doing his job, like he always did. Trying to assign some neferious motives to, out of all people, Steve Burke, who has shown nothing but complete integrity in the past, is just absolutely ridiculous.
Relax he is just asking questions and wants to hear both sides. Wait, that sounds familiar...
I think people are treating this with too much hype. It feels like I'm on Reddit. I know it's incredibly easy to react sensationally, and I don't blame anyone for doing so, but a little levelheadedness would have been better. More "Huh, there are issues" instead of "Holy crap Linus just got destroyed".
I agree, this all seems way overblown and Linus's reply was pretty level-headed. GN's video seems pretty overblown in that most of it are relatively small errors. And I believe Linus that the auction was a miscommunication in his 100+ employee company.
I fee like people are jumping on the hate bandwagon just because they love the drama, while also forgetting everyone involved are real people and shit just happens sometimes.