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Update 2: We've heard the feedback from our community and from our team internally and monetization has been turned off for this video.

TheOneVader posted:

Never heard of it, what do you mean here?

Cyrano4747 posted:

There's more, but that's more of a TFR subject than a SH/SC subject. Suffice it to say he did a big heel turn that disappointed a lot of people.

kliras posted:

just checked floatplane's website, and they only currently have 21 paying channels, which is way fewer than i thought they'd have up to this point

beep by grandpa posted:

Looks like they turned off monetization on the apology vid according to their pinned comment

The Grumbles posted:

I think it's in everyone's collective interest that Steve from GN is kept as far as possible from anything Apple. Imagine. The closed systems. The sacrificing of raw power in exchange for tasteful design. Laptops with literally no airflow. The poorly labelled charts in their product launches. The anti-market business practices. CPU's that still somehow run more efficiently than anything else on the market despite all the above. It'd be too much for him.

Mr.Radar posted:

Keep in mind that Linus got his start on the NCIX Tech Tips channel and they specifically allowed him to continue using the "Tech Tips" name when he went independent...

Skeezy posted:

DankPods is the only good FP channel. (trash network)

EngineerJoe posted:

I'm sure you guys are aware that they also have employees 'volunteer' to pose as models for all their clothes including underwear



I made the image small on purpose, but the thumbnails on the left are of regular employees. I always found this troublesome because even though they're volunteers there can obviously be pressure to be a team player. And it's not outside photographers doing the shots, it's the in house team. All this to save a few bucks by not hiring actual models.

Shugojin posted:

Probably soonish, I know Dankpods mostly ended up there because youtube streaming sucks and Twitch automodding or something banned him over his drum stream IIRC and he couldn't get it overturned

beep by grandpa posted:

how fired is this dude?

beep by grandpa posted:

how fired is this dude?

Xakura posted:

SlowBloke posted:

Given the small business tyrant ownership, she would have incurred in a series of scenarios ranging from monetary damage, reputation damage, loss of housing to jail and deportation(she was living in canada on a job visa). Not as bad as an infantryman under Cadorna but still not very fun.

Cyrano4747 posted:

Yeah, that's my take. I"ll repeat what I said in another thread that's also talking about this:

This is going to cost him some subs in the tech dork crowd, or rather the subset of the tech dork crowd that also cares about things like sexual harassment and hostile workplaces. Which, let's face it, is not as large as it should be. To put things into context, Pewdiepie still has north of 100 million subscribers and, with a quick glance at his channel, has 8.8 million on a video about how he's a dad now . This is after he publicly said he's stepping back for a bit and years after he poo poo the bed so publicly it made CNN.

LTT is first and foremost not a channel for the tech dork enthusiast crowd, even if a lot of that crowd is exposed to it and watches it. It's about as mainstream as you can get for a channel that has opinions on things like RTX4060 memory. It's the light, funny, accessible channel that people looking for inspiration on their first watercooling build land on because it's so huge and the algorithm privileges it.

This poo poo's going to make a dent, but it's not going to shutter the channel. A month from now it will basically be business as usual.

Put another way, LTT as of right now has 15.5m subscribers. GN has 2 million. For all the love that GN gets at places like this, THEY are the small fish.

Steve wasn't loving around when he made a point in his initial video about how the blow back from something like this can hurt him and his business. LTT is the 800 lbs gorilla with strong industry connections, both inside the tech space and specifically with Youtube. poo poo, they have entire editing privileges to their videos that GN doesn't have, and 2 million subs isn't exactly nothing.

This is looming large to us because we're a bunch of tech dorks and we're the sort of people who read poo poo like Madison's story and go and poo poo ourselves, which we loving should because it's awful. But we're not the demographic that's going to move the needle on this.

Xakura posted:

I thought he was jailed in romania

Xakura posted:

I thought he was jailed in romania

Xakura posted:

I thought he was jailed in romania

TheOneVader posted:

Never heard of it, what do you mean here?

Ultraklystron posted:

IIRC, it's been specifically asked via WAN show merch question that if Jonathan Horst from Mac Address walked, would he take the Mac Address brand with him, and it was a categorical no that he'd get to keep the branding & channel.

mobby_6kl posted:

Yes sorry that's my hot take. Some soldiers might injure themselves instead of going to the front because 1) they could be killed or be forced to kill in combat, 2) there's literally no legal way out and 3) punishment can court-martial or execution on the spot or having your family punished etc.

Vic posted:

I don't agree with folks who wish LMG just crashed and burned because that's not good for anybody involved.

Ultraklystron posted:

IIRC, it's been specifically asked via WAN show merch question that if Jonathan Horst from Mac Address walked, would he take the Mac Address brand with him, and it was a categorical no that he'd get to keep the branding & channel.

mobby_6kl posted:

Yes sorry that's my hot take. Some soldiers might injure themselves instead of going to the front because 1) they could be killed or be forced to kill in combat, 2) there's literally no legal way out and 3) punishment can court-martial or execution on the spot or having your family punished etc.

Two things can be bad but not necessarily similar or a good example for the other. I hope we can talk about this without immediately going "what do you mean Linus isn't literally worse than Hitler!?"

How did I make it sound like it's very fun? Realistically the stakes are on entirely different planet, for the reasons I wrote above, so I just don't think it's a good example.

Sudden Loud Noise posted:

The wish is not for good things to happen to people involved. The wish is for bad things to happen to some of the people involved.

Cyrano4747 posted:

Short version, once upon a time Forgotten Weapons was highlighted by a bunch of people as one of the few good youtube gun channels where they didn't roll around in racism and lgbtq+phobia etc.

Then the long haired dude who ran it, who the community called "Gun Jesus" publicly poo poo the bed trying to promote a Ukrainian foreign volunteer neo-nazi's book (neo-nazi in the "right wing extreme ethno-nationalist waving around actual nazi symbosl" sense not the Russian propaganda "all ukranians are nazis" sense), and THEN decided to roll around in the mess throwing the trans community under the bus over a business deal.

There's more, but that's more of a TFR subject than a SH/SC subject. Suffice it to say he did a big heel turn that disappointed a lot of people.

beep by grandpa posted:

how fired is this dude?

mobby_6kl posted:

Yes sorry that's my hot take. Some soldiers might injure themselves instead of going to the front because 1) they could be killed or be forced to kill in combat, 2) there's literally no legal way out and 3) punishment can court-martial or execution on the spot or having your family punished etc.

Two things can be bad but not necessarily similar or a good example for the other. I hope we can talk about this without immediately going "what do you mean Linus isn't literally worse than Hitler!?"

kalleth posted:

the thread on the LTT forums about madison has now turned into an absolute gamergate-style cesspool. wish I could say i was surprised.

yeah, this won't have much impact at all on LTT, unfortunately. They'll just post through it.

Just Another Lurker posted:

The Mighty Jingles on Floatplane is a bit odd, guess he diversified for income... his cameraman Ed died from bowel cancer last month btw.

kalleth posted:

the thread on the LTT forums about madison has now turned into an absolute gamergate-style cesspool. wish I could say i was surprised.

yeah, this won't have much impact at all on LTT, unfortunately. They'll just post through it.

Mr.Radar posted:

At the very least Reddit seems to be almost entirely on Madison's side, maybe because the threads about her situation have made the front page so they're drawing in people outside the LTT diehards.

kalleth posted:

The thread on the LTT forums about Madison has become an absolute Gamergate-style cesspool. I wish I could say I was surprised.

Yeah, unfortunately, this won't have much impact on LTT. They'll post through it.

SlowBloke posted:

...
Oh gently caress, I remember the video about him getting sent to the hospital on my timeline a few months back .

Just Another Lurker posted:

On a lighter note he mentioned that he went round to Eds' house and deleted his browser history before his parents could see it "because that's what buds do for each other".

power crystals posted:

She decided to take a step back from the camera (but did appear in one video as emily) which might be what you're thinking of.

gradenko_2000 posted:

He can just rebrand into uhhhhh MAC Binding