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by flutas 1319 days ago
> MKBHD is an awesome reviewer of many things.

I want to disagree with you there, but if I do basically all other YT reviewers get thrown into the mix too.

Let me preface this with: I haven't watched his reviews, or most reviewers in a year or two.

So many of them just read the spec sheets to a camera, then add something like "It's amazing to me, personally I've loved (insert some aspect of the device the marketing department is focusing on this year)."

Now, to be specific with him, to me it seems like he just doesn't care anymore. So many flubs that should have just been reshot, or him reading a spec sheet wrong.

But I think this is a symptom of nobody (ok, the general public) really wanting in depth testing reviews. They want eye candy that reassures their pre-made decision.