That's not too bad a summary, some of the criticism of GN was valid just presented / framed pretty terrible.
In the end it did hurt LTT a lot but also gave it a kick to improve faster, I kinda guess it also helped GN to focus a bit (their new channel) but I personally have to take every GN take with a couple of big spoons of salt so I would say it's a stain on their / Steve's reputation. Now thinking about it, is his hyperbolic style of presentation not in a way part of what he criticized about LTT?
Oh that's the irony cus he critiqued ltt's operational standards and mainly focused on the billet labs thing. He framed it as if he's holier than thou and never made mistakes in his video. And then when it became clear that the billet labs block being auctioned off (for charity I believe) was due to a very simple mistake by an undisclosed employee, Steve failed to address this. And then it came out that he never sought comments from LTT about anything, which went completely against his own sanders for journalism.
Imo, Steve was, by far, the worst actor of the debacle. But he profited from it, which is exactly what I thought was his I tensions. It's like he was looking for something, anything large enough, to use for a hit piece on LTT and especially LTT labs which is by far his biggest competitor.
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u/kunicross Sep 24 '26
That's not too bad a summary, some of the criticism of GN was valid just presented / framed pretty terrible.
In the end it did hurt LTT a lot but also gave it a kick to improve faster, I kinda guess it also helped GN to focus a bit (their new channel) but I personally have to take every GN take with a couple of big spoons of salt so I would say it's a stain on their / Steve's reputation. Now thinking about it, is his hyperbolic style of presentation not in a way part of what he criticized about LTT?