• Gladaed@feddit.org
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    22 hours ago

    They are running a drama/scandal focussed channel. Of course they are going to be controversial at times.

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      22 hours ago

      Not really. Reviews and weekly news are still their bread and butter. They do a few of these deep dive investigations per year.

      And they do very detailed reviews.

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        3 hours ago

        The way they are phrasing things is very sensationalist. They are very much not doing dry, factual content. This probably is required to make a profit, but too me is still drama.

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          3 hours ago

          What do you mean not doing factual content, they literally had a lawyer with them in their video about NZXT scams. They also showed tons of proof how NZXT was lying to the customers. NZXT CEO was eventually forced to do an interview regarding these news. Is it still drama to you?

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            2 hours ago

            They aren’t doing dry content. They do emotional but factual content.

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              2 hours ago

              that’s because they are forced to by the yt algorithm: you flat out cannot run a business on yt without resorting to clickbait titles, stupid thumbnails, and a bit of sensationalization, because the algorithm will deprioritize your video and unfairly limit your viewership if you don’t do those things.

              Steve’s videos are generally very much dry, factual reporting using fairly neutral language; or in other words: really decent reporting!

              if you want to complain about some tech youtuber doing the exact things you complain about, look at linus and jay…

              there’s some good reasons why steve is one of only a handful of tech channels i still subscribe to…

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        16 hours ago

        Just to make a more meta comment, this is a case where cynicism is definitely not helping. We need better journalists to do this kind of deep dive without concern for losing a revenue stream. And not just in gaming hardware, either.

        If we cynically label every journalist that does it as “drama mongers”, we’re only hurting ourselves.