GamersNexus did an expose on the Honey thing and filed a class action suit over it because they were essentially stealing money from creators. Linus was complicit and aware and said nothing.

I’ve no idea why people will defend him to the ends of the earth.

Your information is out of date.

That was massively overblown and turned out not to be entirely as claimed. I would really like it if people would attack him for things he actually did rather than making up accusations. it just makes you look like a bad actor.

LTT only knew that they were stealing associate links, Which is something that only affects content creators and was already being shared between various content creators. That aspect was not something that affected users. The information was made available on the channels that content creators use. There was no need to highlight it to the general public in a video as it didn’t make any difference to them.

The thing with Gamers Nexus was a completely different event where they were accused of changing the associate links so that users wouldn’t get good deals. That did affect users but that was a different scam and then GN deliberately went out of his way to conflate the two incidents.