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Palladium posted:so wtf exploded in the 24 hours in here This issue began yesterday, when Gamers Nexus released a video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGW3TPytTjc] tackling a number of issues at Linus Media Group, centering around unprofessional "reviews" of hardware that are so error-ridden that they should be considered misleading and damaging to consumer knowledge, and also encompassing ethics problems. In particular, GN highlighted their dealings with a start-up called Billet Labs, who sent them a product for testing, that they then improperly tested, and then judged to be bad on the back of their improper testing, while also refusing to re-test when called-out on it, and then they auctioned off the product, despite Billet Labs specifically asking for it back, because it was a prototype for a product they were developing. Linus's initial response to this video doubled-down, deflected blame, and refused to admit wrongdoing: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3byz3txpso] Earlier today, one of their former employees posted about harassment and abuse that she received while working at the company: [https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1691693740254228741.html] (Content warning, and that thread-summary doesn't cover the whole thing, but you can follow the links back up to her full statement) And then some time after that, Linus Media Group did come out with this "apology" video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cTpTMl8kFY], though this only covers their reaction to Gamers Nexus, and not to that twitter thread from their former employee. It's a total non-apology, because on top of being monetized, it also continues to contain jokes and sponsor spots.
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The allegations Madison dropped made me look at what Naomi Wu talked about last year again. Even if Linus wasn't the main source of Madison's harrasment, in my experience a work environment like that doesn't happen without the boss being okay with it and being a sexpest themselves.
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https://twitter.com/SteelRat0/status/1691460351358078977 YouTube tech idiots fandom thread: Lienus Theft Tips: this is informative, and unfortunate
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So Tech Jesus said to them, ”Unless you people see signs and wonders, you simply will not believe"
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gradenko_2000 posted:jfc i just remembered having an employee edit a video of him walking around his house butt rear end naked What the flying gently caress?
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Lecherous Tech, Tanks
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Honestly not even gonna watch or give a poo poo about their response, the madison thread is so bad they’ll never get their house in order lol are you kidding me, of course its just loving toxic and it’ll never change. Just the usual corpo boilerplate we hear you.
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Lawman 0 posted:What the flying gently caress?
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Lawman 0 posted:What the flying gently caress?
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Harlock posted:When they got hacked on Youtube, LTT thought it was a good idea to release the security footage of Linus in his house when it happened. Nude, and sitting at his PC dealing with the situation. Why would you ever think that's a good idea? Holy poo poo this is so bizarre.
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There are a LOT of supportive comments re: Madison and they are rightfully disgusted and angry at LMG. But holy poo poo there are a lot of gross "she has no evidence" comments.
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:https://twitter.com/suuuoppp/status/1691707172215046446?s=20 Jfc
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Tuxedo Gin posted:There are a LOT of supportive comments re: Madison and they are rightfully disgusted and angry at LMG. obviously the scale of what happened to madison is awful, but we didn't go from absolute zero to 100 in terms of sexism and weird workplace practices, unfortunately, and a lot of people are essentially not interested in how we got here it's rare that the evidence against one party is so unambiguous, and it's also been obvious that a lot of people have tried all kinds of both sides strategies of "gee, it's so hard to wrap my head around this drama". all that being said, there's going to be some kind of eventual response to madison's account, and people are going to try to obfuscate things once again kliras fucked around with this message at 15:34 on Aug 16, 2023 |
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Aug 16, 2023 15:31
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Even if you think making an onlyfans joke video is appropriate, why actually run an account? And why assign someone to run it
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Vir posted:Doesn't this mean that the editor is on probationary employment, so their identity isn't public yet? But they should be allowed a credit anyway, as we talked about. The whole things is a silly policy. They could jot down any joke. "Some bitch" would make them look sexist though, and "Aunt Jemima" might come off as racist. So they went with...
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Sigma posted:Even if you think making an onlyfans joke video is appropriate, why actually run an account? And why assign someone to run it Tuxedo Gin posted:There are a LOT of supportive comments re: Madison and they are rightfully disgusted and angry at LMG. There have been some high-profile cases of people making false allegations for clout or to harm a celebrity, but in this case I think the problem is LTT fans who are just blind to how badly run the company was, also in the asleep-at-the-wheel HR level.
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Here's madison's full twitter thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1691693740254228741.html This is beyond the pale to me and I've unsubbed from the LTT youtube channels
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Sigma posted:Even if you think making an onlyfans joke video is appropriate, why actually run an account? And why assign someone to run it A lot of their fans subbed to it, I think they were one of the bigger accounts on it for a while. So probably just hey we can make some money from this let's just dump this on the social media person's workload as well.
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kliras posted:i will say, i could never have guessed the insane format of the actual video, especially the ending In it, voted thumb down (404 seconds in)
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That’s what happens when the founder hires a longtime friend to be management
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FuturePastNow posted:In it, voted thumb down Lol we got a LTT stan in here
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Can someone explain the helicopter thing? i genuinely don’t get it. From context I can understand it’s transphobia but I don’t understand why. And no, this isn’t concern trolling. I’m just “lucky” enough to experience transphobic code in a whole other language on my day to day. Sorry if this is off topic.
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Gros Tarla posted:Can someone explain the helicopter thing? i genuinely don’t get it. From context I can understand it’s transphobia but I don’t understand why.
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Gros Tarla posted:Can someone explain the helicopter thing? i genuinely don’t get it. From context I can understand it’s transphobia but I don’t understand why. It's the same old "I identify as an attack helicopter" joke
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Gros Tarla posted:Can someone explain the helicopter thing? i genuinely don’t get it. From context I can understand it’s transphobia but I don’t understand why. The sentence "I identify as an apache attack helicopter" is a phrase commonly used by regressive writers against lgbt people.
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kliras posted:"i sexually identify as an attack helicopter" was the one joke(tm) people would use about trans and non-binary people when confronted with gender-sexual orientations beyond basic cis-lgb Got it, thanks! Yeah, gently caress em. (Thanks to all that responded)
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Gros Tarla posted:Can someone explain the helicopter thing? i genuinely don’t get it. From context I can understand it’s transphobia but I don’t understand why. And in this case it was likely a reference to that - but if anyone is able to do this kind of thing by accident, it would be LTT. The mixture of incompetence and bad luck is just so high. Vir fucked around with this message at 15:58 on Aug 16, 2023 |
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Gros Tarla posted:Can someone explain the helicopter thing? i genuinely don’t get it. From context I can understand it’s transphobia but I don’t understand why. Its a common transphobic joke, I think originated by Adam Shapiro where he tweeted one time "I identify as an attack helicopter" to mock a trans person replying to him. The worst people in the world all thought this was the funniest thing ever said and now it's one of the right's 3 jokes.
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At least I can take solace in knowing I don't have to unsubscribe from LMG channels. (because I was never subscribed in the first place)
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Branch Nvidian posted:At least I can take solace in knowing I don't have to unsubscribe from LMG channels. (because I was never subscribed in the first place) I enjoyed the clowns doing stupid things to computers 
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StrixNebulosa posted:I enjoyed the clowns doing stupid things to computers I'm less inclined to accept someone wasting a 1k€ card as a practical joke now that cost of life rising has put a lot of people under the poverty threshold. It's like burning money for laughs in front of people that cannot pay rent. Nowadays i replaced most of my tech channels with machinists and car mechanics, at least the videos end up in a fixed problem. njsykora posted:Its a common transphobic joke, I think originated by Adam Shapiro where he tweeted one time "I identify as an attack helicopter" to mock a trans person replying to him. The worst people in the world all thought this was the funniest thing ever said and now it's one of the right's 3 jokes. I'm ashamed to say that it was first found as a smug retort on 4chan and then co-opted by the usual right/alt right commentators. SlowBloke fucked around with this message at 16:04 on Aug 16, 2023 |
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Get Jonathan from Mac Address out of there. He’s the only one I liked.
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Cantide posted:Not sure I would trust the account of someone who does this: That doesn't mean they're nuts. It might be a perfectly sane thing to do in what is viewed to be an extreme situation.
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Sigma posted:Even if you think making an onlyfans joke video is appropriate, why actually run an account? And why assign someone to run it yeah I think doing the things as a joke is fine, but like the second you learn "wait onlyfans has comments, and people are posting their dicks there?" is when you shut the thing down instantly. or like Linus himself volunteers to moderate those comments. and the only reason I can think that you wouldn't shut it down is that onlyfans probably has a policy that when someone gives you money they get a month of access, so shutting down in less than one month means you don't get the money. which is extremely gross. the "ha ha ha I'm doing an onlyfans" joke has suddenly become "hey we're making a bunch of money from this, your job is to get sexually harassed by the type of people who leave comments on porn". (every time I am reminded that porn sites have comments I die a little inside)
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Belan posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0_HiB5CQq0 All I saw was throwing a lot of bodies in front to deflect blame.
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