According to Billet themselves, they heard nothing about compensation or payback until about 3 hours after the original GN video went live… Which Billet hadnt even replied to before Linus made his post saying they’ve already made the deal on compensation.
You still report. You don’t stop reporting.
But what is the difference here? GN made a video. LMG made a gaslighting response. Maybe a fraction of the people who cared are going to watch the GN HW News update and see that get refuted.
Versus: GN made a video. A day before it launched, LMG tried to do some bullshit. GN calls out that bullshit with receipts. The audience of the original video see everything
At the end of the day: Meaningful change is unlikely. I don’t expect LMG to change much (outside of doing scrapwars again or whatever to recover lost subscribers). But I think “You might stop doing shitty stuff a day earlier” is not a good reason to not solicit comment.
Again, I don’t think a comment is required considering the original video (and this one) are literally responding TO comments. But if the Billet section was “Shortly after reaching out for comment, Billet informed us that LMG had finally returned their calls and offered to pay them back. We will keep an eye on the outcome of this” then… it doesn’t change much. Other than removing one aspect of the gaslighting response LMG sent.
And same with the toxic waste example. If the outcome is Julia Roberts talking into a camera about how Mr Burns stopped dumping toxic waste shortly after being approached for comment but that watch groups will be keeping an eye on this: The end result is likely the same. The waste starts back up a few weeks later. But that is one less week of toxic waste being dumped.