Linus admits that his framing of the segment as a response to criticism was an error in judgment.

“number two was framing the segment as responding to a critical call out instead of just framing the segment as further clarifying our React channel plans”

Matthew Griffin contends that reaction content lacks ethical justification when it is performed live without prior vetting or a specific transformative purpose.

“you're not coming to it with a specific idea of how you can create something new how you can transform it it's just this thing's popular maybe I say some things maybe I don't and let's just keep watching YouTube videos and let's all be entertained”