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ljs

Lorenzo Stoakes

I had liked Marquee Brownlee's content before, but when I saw he put out a positive (!) review of the literal worst vehicle i have seen in my life by an ongoing scam company (the cybertruck) I had my doubts.

Fact he's putting out puff pieces... yeah this kind of dishonesty is why you basically can't trust nearly anyone about this sort of thing, sigh.

And to think he got 'backlash' for giving a bad review to a small company's product (funny that suddenly he's not concerned about consequences when the company's small eh?).

Sadly it's not just him, it's most reviewers/'influencers' out there who have very misplaced loyalties as they make this thing their career.

The radically honest people who can't help themselves are the ones you need to pay attention to like Louis.

I can relate, I've consistently felt the need to speak the truth and that's not always resulted in me having great outcomes in every situation...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0DF-MOkotA
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thomy2000@fosstodon.org

Thomas Frans 🇺🇦

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@ljs Louis, one of the few remaining "influences" I can still watch. He seems like a very honest, simple (as in good simple) guy. Says what he thinks, which is great.

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ljs

Lorenzo Stoakes

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@thomy2000 yeah in a way it's understandable, these people want to be paid and pissing off brands won't help with that.

But then it's better just not to do it at all imo. Integrity is worth more than anything else.

If you position yourself as a reviewer telling the truth about things and then pander, I mean yeah I don't know for me I couldn't live with being a liar like that.

Marquee is very talented but obviously his desire to get early access to apple stuff exceeds sadly what you can only fairly describe as his journalistic integrity.

Sad really.
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