imo legal counsel should be fired for allowing this to air after the Madison tweets. 100% feels like this was a PR/Legal approved scripted video.

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    Man, Madison’s tweets took this to a whole new level. I haven’t watched the video yet so idk how bad it is considering the new info, but maybe they haven’t seen the tweets yet? Or another miscommunication happened (like it seemed to have happened many times in the past lol).

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      They don’t address it in the video, and it does not mesh well with the video’s tone at all. I’m assuming its a horrendous oversight considering that Madison started tweeting around midnight Vancouver time, and this video went up on floatplane around 2-3 AM Vancouver time.

      Maybe if they listened to techJesus and didn’t rush so much they could have avoid it.

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        tech Jesus built my hotrod! seriously though, I watched tons of GN while building my last desktop. Check the thermals, shit is heating up!

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      Yeah her tweets plus lining up the nearly all male executive team to talk about the things they are fixing, which made no mention of the issues raised about employee treatment wasn’t a good look. Especially when they keep making a joke about firing on of them (maybe an ongoing LTT joke that I’m not in on).

      They all had dead eyes and looked like they were reading from a teleprompter

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    Com’on Linus has already told you how he feels about spending $100 - $500 of his staff’s time getting videos right.

    Plus, like the way LTT responded to someone’s request that they remove the sponsor and LTT store bit from the video as it was cringe, “[They]'re not going to stop being [them]selves”.

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      that always felt slimy to me, the way he talks about employees labor/time like a business expense. (which it is but as the employee, it’s literally your livelihood on their line sheet.)

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    Video won’t play. Tried 3 browsers so far. Damn, I really want to watch it. Lol

    Edit: silly me, it’s available on YouTube 🤦🏽‍♂️

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    I’m out of the loop on this. Can anyone ELI5 what’s going on with LTT? Don’t have time to watch this long video before work.

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      Here’s a link for an overview of the whole GamersNexus v LTT thing so far: https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/events/gamers-nexus-vs-linus-tech-tips-billet-labs-review-controversy

      This is LTT’s response, basically saying: we’ll do better with our labs data / corrections, we’ll fix our relationship w/ Billet Labs, and we’ll take a couple days off from uploads to get our house in order

      problem is, one of their ex employee’ Madison posted some serious allegations on LTT’s work environment 2-3 hours before they uploaded and they haven’t addressed that at all.

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        Madison’s comments would have been extremely early in the morning in Vancouver time, and I suspect LTT’s response video was a scheduled upload since it also went up early. I’d say we should give LTT maybe a day or so to reply to that.

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        Was the poor work environment just that they had a quota for videos and it was higher than Madison could get done without feeling stressed out? Or is there more to it?

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            I really don’t know how much of this I can believe. It starts out fairly level headed but becomes increasingly provocative and deranged sounding.

            My impression is this person has malicious intent. They are evidently mentally unwell; cutting yourself for a day off work is extreme.

            I’m sure there is some truth in here, but I’m not going to dig for it when I just outright disbelieve some of the later statements.

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                Because I don’t believe someone? Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.

                If even a fraction of what is written is true, it should be investigated.

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              I can believe someone cutting themselves to justify getting time off work, wife used to work in a very toxic workplace and with all the crap and guilt trips she’d get about having a day off work it took either something extremely serious or me telling her she’s that too sick and that there’s no way she’s going in to work for her to call in sick.

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                I can also believe someone would cut themselves to justify getting time off work, because I’ve also been a victim of workplace bullying and harassment.

                My point was that she was willing to be self-destructive for the sake of being deceitful. Being deceitful is rational if the motivation is selfish, but if the reason is literal self-harm, then that tells me her motivations are suspect, hence, my skepticism as a whole.

                My biases also factor into my assessment. I can totally believe LMG are overworked. But the claims about the toxicity of other employees just seems too farfetched for how I believe the company culture is.

                My stance is tenuous until there is more evidence to corroborate her claims.

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      I got about halfway through the video and still have no clue what they’re talking about. But this video really felt like it was meant more to address investors than a community of fans. It felt really uncomfortable to watch.

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      As horrible as that was, that is not LTT’s fault. Linus even let the kid keep it after being moved by the kid. The fan base apparently had other ideas. It is scary what a bunch of angry internet people can do.

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              Let’s not move the goal posts here. You said “would you stand and watch” he did not stand and watch. He did say something and told them to stop. What else can he do? Hunt them down personally and make them apologize? It is very unfortunate what happened, but Linus is not to blame here.

              What would you have preferred he done instead that he didn’t already?

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                  Clearly the kid was upset, but you are avoiding the important part about what Linus could have done to make it not happen. Is there anything at all he could have done to prevent it that he didn’t already try? I am open to hearing what you have to say in that regard as we can learn something from it.

                  Throwing insults doesn’t really help prove your point.