GN spends the first segment of their GN News to responding to Linus's comments, and reveals that Linus mislead people on the Billet compensation.

GN absolutely destroys Linus in this video. I mean Linus gave him all the ammo by repeatedly lying and not owning up his mistakes, but still. He's calling like it is, without any sugarcoating.

I did change my sub from LTT to GN.

...Yeah that's enough.

Blatantly, and knowingly, lying (let's not pretend that wasn't the intention) about his compensation to billet is too much. No excuses for that.

This response has made me lose so much respect for LTT. Linus really needs to learn when to shut up and stop digging himself into these holes. He could have just apologized, compensated Billet properly and worked on fixing whatever communication issues his team has, but instead he wrote a long non-apology where he deflected blame, tripled down on the Billet situation and just straight up lied about compensating them. Very scummy behaviour from Linus.

Money and fame went to linus' head, didn't think it would happen considering they preach to be transparent but here it is.

If only that bald guy at LTT would have kept his mouth shut about how their testing was better than GN/Hardware Unboxed, all this drama wouldn't have blown up on ltt's face LMFAO

What a joke. Linus’s response was horrible and I’m glad Steve is calling him out on it.

I've enjoyed LTT for a long time. The quality definitely went down, which I had chalked up to growing pains.

But this is different. This is an absolute loss of trust from me, especially the response Linus posted. What a shame.

GN has another subscriber, though.

The quality was already going down, but now I'm unsubbed and I'll never click on a LTT video again. Sorry, but this behavior is just unacceptable.

"We didn't sell it, we auctioned it", Jesus H. fucking Christ.

Linus has become time a big multi-millionaire media tycoon and acting as such. I really hope this takes a big chunk out his company's bottom line (to have a learning effect), he has been getting high on success for far too long.

Now say it with me lads : "You Either Die A Hero Or Live Long Enough To See Yourself Become The Villain"

If now was a time to bring in a full time CEO and relegate Linus into "creative director", or whatever title he wants to give himself, now is that time.

GN has simply pulled back the curtain to show another corporation who put their bottom line before their viewers. And his response only shows this even further.

Truly disappointed by the whole debacle.

So incredibly disappointing, I thought Linus was smart, but instead of just owning up to his mistakes and making a proper apology, he just doubled down and dug his own grave even further. If he had just apologized and explained how he would do better and make things right, and how he would prevent these mistakes from happening again, I'm sure a lot of people would've gave him another chance, but he really showed him and his company's true colors.

This is very sad to see, I was definitely a fan of LTT and enjoyed their videos, I watched and supported them for years, but now I'll no longer be watching or trusting them after this. Its heartbreaking.

Just trust me guys -big media company guy

Yeah...

Before I was generally on the side of "ask for comment even if you don't have to"

LMG/Linus have shown exactly why it is sometimes better to be "unprofessional" considering that they apparently sent a quick email to Billet saying they would pay them right before hitting submit on the forum post so that it sounds like GN were negligent. I think I would have still preferred for that to have happened (GN can just as easily include the timeline in the original video) and Billet would have more time to explain what the actual cost is (since it sounds less like an agreed upon payment and more "oh, here is the cost of the part. Fuck you for damages"), but those bullshit "We are making a change" non-actions are what tend to result.

People here acting surprised as Linus like hw didn't do the same years ago with the crappy merchandise without warranties that he sold and double down about how everyone was wrong and he was right.

LTT has grown to the point they can not act as equal to any small time team or start up. Linus decision has consequence larger than he can afford by pretending "I'm just another tech youtuber". With 100+ employee, and far outsized influence in tech, LTT must be professional in their decisions.

What a way to dig himself in even deeper. Yikes.

I mean, GN in the video had confirmed they've talked to Billet - of course they knew about the updated situation. Linus implying otherwise was shady.

I am glad I cherrypick carefully what to watch off of LMG's channels. Usually it is just the 5 minute weekly news bits. I never trusted their channel for authentic information. GamersNexus, Hardware Unboxed, Phoronix, AnandTech and other dedicated testers are goats.

I may just be emotionally distanced enough from the channel to feel this way but I feel like this just isn't that big of a deal. At worst everything seems like negligence and/or incompetence and I don't see his main audience caring unless they already have a few bones to pick with Linus personally like a lot of people in these comments seem to.

Unsubscribe from both and watch the may alternatives, or sit here and whine about it? Which team are you on? Pathetic.