YouTube star Marques Brownlee's scathing Humane Ai Pin review leads to argument over ethics and influence

[poltevo]

Never a good product idea and well over hyped. Well done Marques.

 

[Puiu]

I watched the video and he had really valid criticism.

 

[VaRmeNsI]

You know a news site is circling the drain when they are manufacturing stories from what some random nobodies say on twitter.

 

[Theinsanegamer]

Why do the two top comments talk about this guy's feedback being illegal? No one said anything about legality. Are we only allowed to criticize people for illegal behavior?

The video review seemed fair and accurate, regardless.

You zeroed in on the word "illegal" and took them out of context with the rest of the comment. Congratulations.

I could break it down, but I'll sum it up as: It is not illegal, so acting like a reviewer broke the rules for giving a negative review is childish and wasteful.

You know a news site is circling the drain when they are manufacturing stories from what some random nobodies say on twitter.

"random nobodies" have shown to have more power then shareholders these days. How many thousands of companies have adjusted business practices and politics based on what Twitter loses its mind over?

 

[gingerbill]

You know a news site is circling the drain when they are manufacturing stories from what some random nobodies say on twitter.

they did not manufacture anything , and to be fair someone with 18 million followers is not a nobody. I couldn't care less about him and have never heard of him but lots of people apparently have.

your post is very unfair to this website and unnecessarily rude .

 

[Julio Franco]

Update: A day later after reviewing the Ai Pin and that controversy ensued, Marques felt compelled to upload a new video with his take on the matter, not specific to Humane's device only but reviews in general, watch below:

 

[Nobina]

There will be a push to silence critics in the future, so scumbags startups can sell rubbish to people.

 

[bexwhitt]

I think he was pretty honest, he said it was well-built but overheated had poor battery life, was very slow and often gave wrong answers

 

[VaRmeNsI]

they did not manufacture anything , and to be fair someone with 18 million followers is not a nobody. I couldn't care less about him and have never heard of him but lots of people apparently have.

your post is very unfair to this website and unnecessarily rude .

I was referring to the nobodies criticizing the YouTuber.

 

[Plutoisaplanet]

Brownlee's video has been criticized by some social media users, with one calling it "distasteful, almost unethical, to say this when you have 18 million subscribers." The poster later added that Brownlee "significantly" influences the market, and that the reviewer just wanted to show he can crush companies.

What's funny is the media picked up on what this guy said and ran with it, so he practically backtracked First of all, let's look at his occupation. He's basically an investor in upstart companies like Humane. My guess is he knows people who lost money because Humane's product was crap and got offended on their behalf.

Anyways, below is what he changed his opinion to later. It's no longer unethical, careless, harmful, and more. It's now focused on the headline (SERIOUSLY you're focusing on the headline of YT videos instead of the news?) and it simply "deserves more rigor" from MKBHD because of his influence. Yet the review was fair and balanced lol. He didn't even quote the headline right in his reply trying to support his lazy opinion:



In the end, MKBHD decided to keep the headline the same. I guess he did believe choosing it had enough rigor. Sorry Daniel Vassallo!!

 

[Eflow]

You zeroed in on the word "illegal" and took them out of context with the rest of the comment. Congratulations.

I could break it down, but I'll sum it up as: It is not illegal, so acting like a reviewer broke the rules for giving a negative review is childish and wasteful.

The entire discussion is about ethics, which are very different than laws (or even Youtube rules). You don't seem to understand the difference.

Talking about opinions not being "illegal (yet)" definitely hooks people with hyperbole, though, so congrats on that.

 

[Disiw]

Just make good products and you won't get bad reviews. Simple.

 

[umeng2002]

If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.

 

[anastrophe]

Telling the truth about a product is not illegal.
Good thing there are honest people doing product reviews, to avoid people getting scammed by these companies.

Full-throated agreement. Not only was it not illegal, it was not unfair, a most assuredly, not unethical.

This nonsense world we live in where people talk about 'my truth' is a symptom of a wider rot. There is no such thing as 'my truth' or 'your truth'. There is only The Truth. We may perceive the truth differently, but that doesn't change what truth is.

Truth is not malleable.

 

[McMurdeR]

I'm not a big fan of the influential content creator reviewer culture, but an honest review is what it is. No company, neither established nor startup has any right to expect anything different.

 

[bexwhitt]

What's funny is the media picked up on what this guy said and ran with it, so he practically backtracked First of all, let's look at his occupation. He's basically an investor in upstart companies like Humane. My guess is he knows people who lost money because Humane's product was crap and got offended on their behalf.

Anyways, below is what he changed his opinion to later. It's no longer unethical, careless, harmful, and more. It's now focused on the headline (SERIOUSLY you're focusing on the headline of YT videos instead of the news?) and it simply "deserves more rigor" from MKBHD because of his influence. Yet the review was fair and balanced lol. He didn't even quote the headline right in his reply trying to support his lazy opinion:



In the end, MKBHD decided to keep the headline the same. I guess he did believe choosing it had enough rigor. Sorry Daniel Vassallo!!

The clickbate title was unfortunate.