Edited sentence: (Some hosts have admitted on their official message boards that they had no prior video game experience or knowledge of the video game industry prior to becoming a host at G4).G4 has been heavily criticized since it's inception on catering to a more younger audience similar to the programming tactics used by MTV, especially since a lot of fans think that some of the hosts are just pretty faces used to promote the channel.Original fans of TechTV criticized G4 soon after the merger because a lot of shows used on the network were cancelled and original hosts on TechTV were soon laid off in favor of more younger and hipper looking hosts for marketing purposes, which alienated a lot of the original TechTV viewers, who were mostly older than the demographic that G4 was looking for at the time.Recently, fans of G4 have heavily criticized G4's recent move to being more of a network that caters to a male oriented demographic similar to Viacom owned network Spike TV with the additions of shows like The Whip Set and reruns of The Man Show.With G4's recent announcements that G4TV.com and Filter were cancelled, Icons shifting to being more about pop culture icons as opposed to strictly dealing with video game related material, and the recent purchase of the rights to air Star Trek, original fans of the network are being very critical due to the move, as G4 was originally advertised as a "Network for video games"