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Re: MKBHDs for Everything

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Post by throwaway5959 »

paxys wrote: post #49

This entire controversy is so stupidly overblown. MKBHD posts a fair and thorough review of a shitty product, which is exactly in line with what every other reviewer has said about it as well. One guy tweets about how he wasn't fair, and how he has a responsibility to not write bad things about companies because of the size of his viewer base (wut??) Now the entire internet feels the need to come defend MKBHD, thus a…

Thing is, we should defend MKBHD. He didn’t do anything wrong. He did his job.

Re: MKBHDs for Everything

#52

Post by kstrauser »

slg wrote: post #13
your_challenger wrote: post #3

The only argument against MKBHD could be the YouTube title he chose. But if a "company" with many hundreds of people can't handle a title and goes under, it never deserved to exist.

>The only argument against MKBHD could be the YouTube title he chose. I clicked through to that Vassallo guy's twitter and that is exactly the argument he is making. He isn't defending the product, which he admitted he has never actually used. He isn't defending the company. He isn't even arguing against a single thing said in the body of the video. He is solely objecting to the title for being "sensationalized" as i…

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 criticisms, and move on.

Re: MKBHDs for Everything

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Post by plorg »

burningChrome wrote: post #14
threeseed wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One thing that is missed is that Marques is careful about what he reviews. 99% of the junk that companies release he/his team simply won't waste time on. So the title is probably true.

>> One thing that is missed is that Marques is careful about what he reviews. He is and he isn't. If he feels something is not worth it, he'll tell you. Like the crypto phone: "This is a Crypto Phone. Don’t Buy It." with a photo of him face palming: https://youtu.be/hRSMJGs0YMg?si=_sD9MA7JLeDbI0f1 And who can forgot the famous "Escobar Folding Phone"? https://youtu.be/O8FJSjy3bXA?si=nfAe9tZniafBwDmc And the follow up…

I don't think that means he isn't careful about what he reviews - just that his selection criteria is not "I expect this to be good". Rather it's, if I had to guess, "this is part of or illustrates an interesting story in the world of technology."

Re: MKBHDs for Everything

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Post by capybara_2020 »

Curious article. But I wonder if the problem lies elsewhere. The tweet caught my attention.

The author seems to be using outrage and dramatic words to get engagement. Based on this article and the views the tweet got, it looks like it is working.

The curious thing is that there is a reply from MKBHD in the thread and the tweet author highlights how MKBHD used a more dramatic title on Youtube and that is the authors gripe.

It it possible that all the only way to get engagement(the author is doing the same thing on his primary social media channel i.e. Twitter and MKBHD on his i.e. Youtube) now a days on your primary social media platform is with dramatic words/titles? Which is what is causing all this friction?

Re: MKBHDs for Everything

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Post by paxys »

throwaway5959 wrote: post #51
paxys wrote: post #49

This entire controversy is so stupidly overblown. MKBHD posts a fair and thorough review of a shitty product, which is exactly in line with what every other reviewer has said about it as well. One guy tweets about how he wasn't fair, and how he has a responsibility to not write bad things about companies because of the size of his viewer base (wut??) Now the entire internet feels the need to come defend MKBHD, thus a…

Thing is, we should defend MKBHD. He didn’t do anything wrong. He did his job.

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).

Re: MKBHDs for Everything

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Post by [deleted] »

paxys wrote: post #49

This entire controversy is so stupidly overblown. MKBHD posts a fair and thorough review of a shitty product, which is exactly in line with what every other reviewer has said about it as well. One guy tweets about how he wasn't fair, and how he has a responsibility to not write bad things about companies because of the size of his viewer base (wut??) Now the entire internet feels the need to come defend MKBHD, thus a…

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Re: MKBHDs for Everything

#57

Post by cmelbye »

paxys wrote: post #49

This entire controversy is so stupidly overblown. MKBHD posts a fair and thorough review of a shitty product, which is exactly in line with what every other reviewer has said about it as well. One guy tweets about how he wasn't fair, and how he has a responsibility to not write bad things about companies because of the size of his viewer base (wut??) Now the entire internet feels the need to come defend MKBHD, thus a…

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.

Re: MKBHDs for Everything

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Post by ilrwbwrkhv »

cmelbye wrote: post #57
paxys wrote: post #49

This entire controversy is so stupidly overblown. MKBHD posts a fair and thorough review of a shitty product, which is exactly in line with what every other reviewer has said about it as well. One guy tweets about how he wasn't fair, and how he has a responsibility to not write bad things about companies because of the size of his viewer base (wut??) Now the entire internet feels the need to come defend MKBHD, thus a…

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.

It's not clickbait. It is the worse product ever reviewed at that price point because it solves nothing. For now.

You cannot just slap together a bunch of tech for no reason and then price it like Apple and pretend you're Apple. The fact that they received $240 million funding needs to be investigated in itself. Such terrible VCs need to be publicly humiliated.

Re: MKBHDs for Everything

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Post by throwawaymaths »

kstrauser wrote: post #52
slg wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

>The only argument against MKBHD could be the YouTube title he chose. I clicked through to that Vassallo guy's twitter and that is exactly the argument he is making. He isn't defending the product, which he admitted he has never actually used. He isn't defending the company. He isn't even arguing against a single thing said in the body of the video. He is solely objecting to the title for being "sensationalized" as i…

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.

Re: MKBHDs for Everything

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Post by plorg »

paxys wrote: post #49

This entire controversy is so stupidly overblown. MKBHD posts a fair and thorough review of a shitty product, which is exactly in line with what every other reviewer has said about it as well. One guy tweets about how he wasn't fair, and how he has a responsibility to not write bad things about companies because of the size of his viewer base (wut??) Now the entire internet feels the need to come defend MKBHD, thus a…

Yeah, I don't see the point of the drama except for the amount of interaction this exchange got in Elon's bot swamp. If anything it seems more like the other dude was gunning for attention by taking a ludicrous position and backfilling arguments for it.
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