Earlier quoted context omitted.
Marques Brownlee is a professional. Good product reviewers don’t accept money for good reviews.
A professional is someone who gets paid for his work.
He is paid by YouTube (ad money)
MKBHD, Fisker, and "the worst car ever reviewed"
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#22Why is that car so bad? The software seems at fault, but I’d like to know more - what exactly happens?
An unfinished mess that was rushed to release due to money issues.
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#23It's so interesting to see how every tech bro has opinion on everything car related nowadays.
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#24He called it "the worst car I've ever reviewed" How many cars have he reviewed? I thought he mostly reviewed smartphones.
42 videos on his car review channel plus 13 videos on his main channel (a few might be crossposted) plus a couple tesla reviews from several years earlier than the others. So 50+.
That makes him in no way relevant to the topic of cars, but he has a huge audience on his main channel who just followed him to the car channel.
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#25It's so interesting to see how every tech bro has opinion on everything car related nowadays.
Popular influencers getting sponsored by the auto industry to perpetuate their sales with the younger generation even as we enter into climate crisis and should be focused on walkable communities, public transit and less consumption overall.
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#26Granted Fisker seems to be run by amateurs but high-impact social media influencers like MKBHD need to be carefully managed, pampered, and yes, probably paid.
Marques Brownlee is a professional. Good product reviewers don’t accept money for good reviews.
Yes he's good. For phones, RED cameras and Mac Pros. Not cars
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#27https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1766231831345541571.html
> Separately, Fisker announced last week that it may not have money to survive the year.
Brutal if this is primarily due to one bad review from a social media influencer. No wonder why companies fear them and Fisker wanted to postpone the review.
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#28Worse than the Chery Amulet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7rrk3ZjN-I
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#29Worse than the Chery Amulet? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f7rrk3ZjN-I
He said "The worst car I've ever reviewed". So the worst of 50 or so vehicles.
He did not say "the worst car ever". I doubt that he has reviewed a circa 2005 Chery Subcompact. And if so, there's no relevance at all.
His reviews are good in the modern EV space. The more relevant omission - vehicles that might actually be worse, but which he has not reviewed yet - would be any vehicles made by Vinfast.
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#30Why is that car so bad? The software seems at fault, but I’d like to know more - what exactly happens?
It's a 20min video and a little over half of it is everything that's bad, so it's too long to summarize. Watch it yourself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xWXRk3yaSw 8:10 onwards.
Most of them could be fixed by software, though the problem with the steering buttons being too close to the hand grip (14:11) may not be?