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The recent criticism of Linus Tech Tips, explained::Linus Tech Tips founder Linus Sebastian has admitted to “sloppiness” in the hardware review channel’s handling of controversy that erupted over its recent review of a high-end watercool
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Old news already. Doesn’t cover the Madison/sex abuse stuff.
This is the real problem for me, I can forgive the goofy bullshit and half-ass benchmarks, but that is straight up sexual assault and harassment. There’s no way I’m supporting them until they address the allegations professionally and without some stupid “sponsor” joke video apology.
WTF, that entire work environment seems so messed up and sexist.
Ewwwwww ewww. Fuck Linus, hard unsubscribe
i could never make it thought an entire LTT video in my entire life. They are just so boring and bland and lack any depth.
No thanks,I’d rather read reddit or now Lemmy opinions from other people who are far more competent and open to opinions.
Lately there’s been this weird undertone of discomfort in Linus’ videos, and I think I now understand why. He does a great job appearing to be a decent and relatable guy who’s just being mean for a gag, but it’s becoming more clear that’s not a bit. His relationship with the people he appears with on camera only seems to work because there’s a back and forth in their quips and insults. Whenever he’s on with someone who’s not a staple of the channel, there’s this sense that he’s untouchable, that he can dish it out but grounds for pushback are shaky at best. Communication overall seems to suck, and there’s never not a Disappointed Linus moment when he’s involved in a project. You can really feel the unnecessary stress he’s piling onto the situation, and if it’s that obvious on-camera, how bad is it when nobody else is around? Or for the employees who feel like a bit of a squeaky wheel? It’s been clear for a long time that Linus is a cheapskate (he openly complains about relatively acceptable prices for the silly stuff he’s doing in videos pretty often) but for some reason in the back of my mind I thought maybe he wasn’t so stingy as a boss, where it counts. Wouldn’t bet on it now.
For someone who’s even a little bit out of place at LMG, I can 100% see how Linus has built a toxic work culture. It should speak volumes that nearly everyone, when given a chance to speak without Linus’ final say on the video, expresses much the same criticism toward his hustle culture. They don’t have the time they need to do good work, I don’t get the sense that they have a supportive and creative environment conducive to enjoying the process, and the output is clearly suffering.
Linus’ initial response dropped the ball harder than anything he’s dropped in his storied career of dropping things. But even if his response was heartening, the further reports of toxic culture and fanbase are enough for me to keep my distance. I’m going to miss their flavor of “tech nerd fun” videos, but the “Linus is a bad guy” Pandora’s box is open, and it’s going to take a lot of goodwill before I can just enjoy their videos again. Sad to see another titan of Youtube let it all go to his head, but this just goes to show that success doesn’t make a man better, it just makes him more powerful.
He does a great job appearing to be a decent and relatable guy
I couldn’t disagree more. He’s always come across as a hateful asshole.
… who’s just being mean for a gag, but it’s becoming more clear that’s not a bit
Exactly. The guy’s a prick. There are so many good choices for this kind of content out there. I never understood how anyone could tolerate looking at Linus.
I suppose younger guys might look at him and think “he sounds like he knows his stuff” or… maybe think he’s relatable, like you said above. Maybe?
But as a grown ass man, my take on Linus has been “fuck this prick” since the beginning. He always looks and acts like he has never taken a shit in his life, and today’s the day it’s going to come to a head.
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I’m… I’m a bit skeptical of the truth here but at this point, anything could be true or false so it’s best to just wait it out.
LTT always came off as a group of scumbags to me. Good riddance. I hope the victims of their harassment get the justice they deserve.
This clown as lost 5k+ subscribers on floatplane since this began. That’s around $300k/yr
Just want to point out LTT has released a (maybe final) response to the whole thing here: https://youtu.be/0cTpTMl8kFY
Also before everyone starts having justice boners, just please remember they are human too and there’s a huge difference between knowingly defrauding their audience/vendor partners and being incompetent/overworked. That’s from a fan who used to watch all their main/spinoff videos but have stopped half a year ago because I noticed their quality dropping.
Ah, so since it’s him we should put our “justice boners” in check.
Jesus - the double-standards of some people.
The point was to put your justice boner in check. No matter who it is.
I laid out my reasoning, and yes because this post is in the context of LTT, who else would we be talking about? I can differentiate situations depending on context but if you want to call that double standards just because I am able to notice that LTT would have no incentive to publicly and blatantly steal/pawn off hardware that they knew didn’t belong to them, then I think you need to take a critical thinking class.
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I can differentiate situations depending on context
I think you’re missing context though. It wasn’t addressed in the video.
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There’s also incredibly toxic work environment issues detailed by a former female employee that also went through sexual harassment in the work place while she worked there.
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For the first half of that, I suggest actually watching the video. They basically admitted to all of that and are stopping video production for a week.
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