Why the FXXX is everyone acting like MKBHD is a well known abbreviation?
MKBHDs for Everything
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#162Earlier quoted context omitted.
MKBHD has a finite and countable number of reviews. One of them has to be the worst. Even if this wasn't the worst product he ever reviewed, so what? He wasn't saying it's the worst product in the history of products, or that it ran over his dog and spread lies about his sister. "The worst product I ever reviewed", even for MKBHD, is drawing from a pretty small set. Big deal, Humane. Take your lumps, fix the criticis…
It's actually a rather large set. But it's entirely believable that it's the worst product he's reviewed to date.
I think he said this a while back, in one of the smartphone EOY videos, that while he tests a lot of products, he only reviews a few of them.
He also a video about the worst car he reviewed recently, which somehow didn't get the same negative feedback.
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#163Why the FXXX is everyone acting like MKBHD is a well known abbreviation?
I think it's the name of the guy's YouTube channel, so it isn't an abbreviation.
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#164Earlier quoted context omitted.
Defend him from what exactly? There was literally no controversy until people started defending him from the controversy. The only person who won here is Daniel Vassallo, whose low effort post went viral because people kept sharing it to show how stupid it was, thus drawing more eyeballs to his $400 "I will teach you how to be a successful entrepreneur" course on X (because of course he has one).
> thus drawing more eyeballs to his $400 "I will teach you how to be a successful entrepreneur" course on X (because of course he has one). Just a voice in support of Daniel here as this is a bit of a mischaracterisation. He’s a really nice, gentle guy, who runs a small online community called Small Bets which I would characterise as the opposite of a “I will teach you to be rich” course. (I’m a satisfied paid member…
Yeah, that really puts him in a much better light. Totally. For real.
Btw, kinda on-topic: did you notice this discussion yesterday?
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#165Earlier quoted context omitted.
People underestimate the financial gains involved (If $ is all one aspires for) in intentional bad takes like that one guy on social media. Glad you pointed it out and his crappy course.
You could apply that exact same argument to MKBHD’s slightly clickbait title of his video.
Its 'influencing' they are all just grifters, always were.
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#166Earlier quoted context omitted.
Here's my $0.02 MKBHD posted an IMO unnecessarily clickbaity title to his review. I watched the review and thought that he was mostly on the ball except for the once again exaggeration that it's the worst product ever (for the views). In a way, it seems that the recent scathing review for Fisker and the views generated might have gone to his head somewhat. Given that the Rabbit R1 is coming out soon (which he will li…
Agree. The review was fine, but the optics of the title are bad because he makes $$$$ from the clickbait. Even if the title was accurate (I don’t think it’s likely to be literally accurate).
The title is almost certainly literally accurate.
Of the products he’s reviewed (it’s the worst product he reviewed he said), how many others are even half as expensive as the Pin? And what percentage of them almost completely fail to achieve their intended purpose?
I’d bet the answer is indeed none other than the Pin.
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#167Earlier quoted context omitted.
The guy was specifically talking about the video's headline, which was written to be clickbait like everything else on YouTube because that's how MKBHD pays his bills.
The video title is "the worst product I've ever reviewed" and the thumbnail is the product with its $700 price tag. What exactly is the "clickbait" here?
the worst|best|dumbest|smartest|fattest product I've ever reviewed
$$$$$$$$'s in the thumbnail
Youtube sad face thumbnail - youtube open mouth face thumbnail has been retired by the pro level influencers.
All classic youtube algorithm optimisation for clicks tricks - aka clickbait.
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
People underestimate the financial gains involved (If $ is all one aspires for) in intentional bad takes like that one guy on social media. Glad you pointed it out and his crappy course.
You could apply that exact same argument to MKBHD’s slightly clickbait title of his video.
You could.
You’d just be wrong. Because the title isn’t clickbait at all. It’s accurate.
If anything, most other media writers have correctly been even more harsh on it.
If you wanted to give Humane a ridiculous amount of leeway you could argue it’s a good concept but in Beta form but that’s not how they’re selling it to the general consumer. They’re charging them $700 and telling them it’s a consumer ready product.
By that standard it’s absolutely failed and if anything, the title could be far harsher.
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#169Having actually watched the video which seems to be rare in this debate there was really nothing bad or misleading about the content. He genuinely reviews the product and shows it working without any editing or magic. It's an exploratory product that just doesn't work that well and as others have said if it had redeeming aspects surely the fanboys would be jumping to the product's defence. The people criticising MKBH…
I am yet to watch the MKBHD review of the Apple Vision, but I can safely assume it is very much along the same lines ...
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#170> Hard to explain why, but with great reach comes great responsibility. Potentially killing someone else’s nascent project reeks of carelessness. > First, do no harm. Brownlee's not a doctor. …He's not Spiderman, either, for the record, or at least that we know of. And "Humane, Inc." isn't his patient, or even a person.
Journalists (and I'd argue that MKBHD falls under that even) definitely have responsibility in their reporting. Apart from the hypocratic oath, there are also the 4 pillars of journalism, one of which is "minimize harm". Bringing that one up feels like a recent trend whenever people see legitimate criticism that they can't really argue with, and it's an easy one to bring up as in every truthful reporting about people…
If anything, MKBHD is minimizing harm, by discouraging people from wasting their money on a very poor product.