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GamersNexus responds to Linus Sebastian's WAN Show segment (gamersnexus.net)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/pcmasterrace

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[–] rockSlayer 33 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (2 children)

I checked out from all LMG videos after I found out about the treatment of Madison during the huge controversy. WTF is going on over there? I thought Linus and Steve were friends at one point, did Linus forget that Steve remembers everything?

[–] [email protected] 52 points 6 days ago (2 children)

From the article:

Sebastian’s recent calls for friendship were accompanied by serious legal allegations and claims regarding the ethics and motives behind our entire business. We believe this is a play on parasocial relationships, reinforced by Linus Media Group’s decision to re-title the LMG Clip “Can Linus & Gamers Nexus Ever be Friends Again?”, where it paints GamersNexus as a friend who just needs to make up with LTT so things can “get back to normal.” This suppresses dissenting views by pretending to be everyone’s friend, so a legitimate critique seems like a personal attack to onlooking viewers.

If they were, they emphatically AREN'T anymore.

[–] rockSlayer 14 points 6 days ago

I picked up on that one, I remember that they'd get pretty buddy-buddy for a while before it just stopped sometime around 2019. Apparently things have escalated a little.

I don't think Linus has the ability to pilot a company, even as a C-Suite with no actual responsibilities. I went from respecting them to seeing them as just another shitty corporation.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 days ago (1 children)

The only friends Steve needs are at Level1Techs and GN.

[–] DacoTaco 3 points 6 days ago

And derbau8er, and hardware unboxed, and jay and, ...
Ltt is a league on its own and lives on its own little island at this point (if that is a good or bad thing, i leave to you to decide)

[–] [email protected] 14 points 6 days ago

I checked out from LMG when they did the video on the Velkase Velka 3, an uber-niche case in a niche segment, used bad parts, didn't use exhaust fans, used a poor cooler choice, and got a pc running near thermal throttle when my near-identical spec pc was running 15°C cooler and benchmarking better. It made me realize that they have poor methodology and poorer research standards, so I just stopped watching entirely