Their issues are:

“Billet review” is downplaying by an extreme degree.

They reviewed a cooler prototype designed for one product using a different one and claimed the product was not worth a purchase for anybody, ever. Linus was aware of the issue, but said the product was bad and not worth “$500 of extra time reviewing it correctly”.

Then, they took this internal prototype that the company lended for review and, after claiming to be ready to give it back two times, SOLD IT to a random third party during an event. An event where competitors from the original company were visiting.

The company already confirmed that was their best prototype and they were relying on it to iterate on the design.

So LTT accepted a lent prototype from a new company, absolutely trashed the product in a review they purposely published with wrong methodology, then stole the prototype and sold it to God knows who.

I think that their point that it’s an $800 product for a last-gen card, there really isn’t anyone out there that should buy this, and therefore it’s a bad product is valid. They could have handled the whole thing better and honestly should’ve just scrapped the video before release.

Auctioning off the prototype when the company asked for it back is pretty inexcusable. I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt that it wasn’t malicious, but they clearly have problems with internal communication of things like this are happening.

At any rate, it’s going to be a spicy WAN show this week. Linus needs to actually watch the video and address this point-by-point. If he “reads the comments” or cherry picks some of GN’s weaker arguments he’s just going to end up throwing fuel on the fire.