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

  • Vlhacs@reddthat.com
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    1 year ago

    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.

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      1 year ago

      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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      The situation as of yesterday, with the allegations by GamerNexus, was basically “OK, they’re not reliable or a good source of tech content, good to know.”

      It didn’t matter whether they were “good people who are just overworked” or “Advertising-dollar addicted charlatans”. We knew that the average YouTube channel doing, say, graphics cards comparison probably had better methodology and would give a fairer review than LMG is capable of doing.

      LMG is not capable of producing good reviews right now because it is so obsessed with quantity that it doesn’t have time to produce reliable accurate content.

      Yes, there are humans in the chain, and humans make mistakes, but in LMG’s case, the mistakes are systemic.

      This morning we have the added bombshell of the Madison allegations about the toxic workplace culture. This means it’s not just any more about avoiding being misinformed, there does, actually appear to be evidence that a sizable number of people at LMG are just awful, awful, people.

      It is possible, but unlikely, these allegations are false: unlikely because they’re corroborated by Madison’s boyfriend who heard them contemporaneously, and because Madison left a GlassDoor review at the time she left LMG.

      Every company is a mixture of sociopathic jackasses and good people who care about their work and want to produce things that people like. Any criticism of any company generally takes that into account: when we talk about LMG being irredeemably evil, we’re not saying that the janitors are bad, or that the team that manages their website are rotten people, but we are saying and have to acknowledge that the sociopathic jackasses are in control and are in sufficient power and quantity that the company itself is beyond hope.

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        1 year ago

        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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          Yes, I did watch the video, I’m not sure why you’re telling me to watch it again.

          The fact they admitted that the processes were shoddy does not mean their processes are not, actually, shoddy.

          You shouldn’t trust someone because after being criticized they own up to some of their mistakes. You should trust them only after they’ve actually fixed them. Owning up is only a first step.