I’m really glad I didn’t purchase that stupid screwdriver now.
This all dropped the day I got mine. :(
Shame, too. It’s a really nice screwdriver.
I got the backpack, and sadly I really like it for carrying around the stuff I use daily. can’t understand the insane hype around a damn screwdriver though…
A few days before this whole shitshow i bought the flannel and their swacket…gotta put some stickers on the logo now i guess
She picked the right moment to come out with this. I mean, keeping this in for 2 whole years while being under the impression that you’re under some NDA, you can only imagine how stressful she must’ve felt.
I feel really sorry for her and I wish her the best. She’s a really cool person.
That’s usually how these things work. People see others speaking out against someone, and that gives them the courage that they’ll be heard.
It also helps that the current news only does to back up her claims and increase the perceived validity.
It’s sad people have to wait for these opportunities to come, if at all. Otherwise people would dismiss them as a liar or disgruntled employee. There are too many sycophants even now that will back Linus no matter what.
I think the LMG stans are super weird. People who pay for their premium floatplane stuff and pay just to be able to chat with others who pay
It’s all very weird to me.
I assume most of those people will stay behind and create an echo chamber of Linus simping for him to view.
Madison has been talking about this for awhile now. Dig up old tweets and posts and she’s definitely mentioned sexual harassment since she left LTT. No one paid attention until now.
Yep, she even said as much in here. People kept asking her about this and only now she gets the attentions that she deserves. It absolutely sucks.
This is worse than the Gamer’s Nexus video. The biggest red flag initially wasn’t even the bad testing data, it was how overworked the staff were. Clearly employee wellness is not a priority.
The Gamer’s Nexus video was necessary for others to speak out. Steve was clear that speaking up was a move that could backfire due to the power imbalance involved. Had he not spoken up there would be no opportunity for Madison to weigh in her experiences without being attacked.
without being attacked.
Not that she hasn’t been attacked constantly before and after the GN video, mind.
Imagine just how much worse it would have been if she just came out randomly. The fact she made a glassdoor review long before and it wasn’t picked up says a lot about LMG’s audence.
LMG has a massive frat boy culture to it. It was never hidden, in fact it seemed like it was welcomed and encouraged.
Wha what video?
Okay.
This is not your conventional toxic workplace. This is ADVANCED toxicity. She resorted to self harm for a day off. That’s a type of struggle that can make a company go terminal if the rank and file band together.
This needs to be spread.
Jesus fucking Christ. Messing up a review, selling a prototype then repaying the company is just unprofessional, this is a whole other fucking level ! It’s going to be hard to keep watching their videos after that, especially considering the two of them building a PC was my favourite one.
Agree, ltt is usually left running on the TV on lazy days and assumed they’re just guys hanging out bantering, but her admission and myself with daughters why would I want to support the show at all…
It’s hard to see our heroes fall from grace and their true colors revealed but be proud of yourself for having high standards for those in positions of power and being able to change your opinion based on new evidence and testimony.
It’s been a tough week but I’m proud to no longer support such an organisation and it’s freed my time to spend on other creator’s content who deserve my attention.
Well summarized thanks. Anyone you can recommend to stream?
A friend recommended I pick up a subscription to Dropout TV (the College Humour people) and I have been really really enjoying Game Changer, Make Some Noise, and Dimension 20. Really funny, diverse cast, and plenty of wholesomeness. Also the YouTube channel Drawfee has been great (ex College Humour people).
I’m still on the lookout for a great, wholesome tech channel but Dropout is full of new-to-me content that it’s certainly filling the void. The talent on the service are in loads of their different shows so it’s really nice getting to know the cast across different show formats.
If you have any suggestions, I’d love to hear them.
I had heard Linus’ anti-union remarks on WAN Show and was slightly weirded out, because I don’t believe for a second that a company owner AND manager of a company much smaller than theirs has enough time and resources to really be in touch with what their workers need, even if they have the best intentions.
There once was a WAN Show segment about quiet quitting and his fear that people might do that and it came across as if he was more scared that his employees might do it and thereby “hurt the company” than him being interested in why people feel compelled to only work the minimum amount required. As if he was expecting people to always give him 110%.
Even 90% is enough, that’s just reality. If you have people working for you full time, you can’t just pay them for their most productive and focused time. There’s also socializing with coworkers, taking short breaks and being creative without direct output. It’s all part of being a team. A good and healthy team that feels appreciated can take up extra work and make short extra bursts as they become necessary, but that can never be the expected normal.
There was also some WAN Show segment about compensation, free time and the likes that was weird. Maybe it was part of one of the upper two, I don’t quite remember. It’s a bit fuzzy but I remember that I was a little surprised that they operated on the same scheme of low amount of days off + limited sick days system that many US/North-American companies seem to run on. I get that it’s normal in that part of the world, but I still had this idea in my head that they were somehow different. It all felt so quirky, close-knit and best-buddy-like in the videos. That made me think that they were somehow more progressive and worker focused than it turns out after all.
Hearing these allegations is like finding that missing puzzle piece and suddenly it fits into a much bigger picture. I had a lot of respect for Linus and his company and really believed that they were “better”. I really like their content, it is super entertaining and of very consistent quality. They are experts at making things accessible and interesting for a broader audience. But they are also running in a giant hamster wheel that is the youtube algorithm and several daily uploads.
Very sad to see how all this could happen. Even worse is how all of this is being handled. They need a proper restructuring because these problems seem to be structural and deep-rooted. I wish Madison all the best!
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Linus said he wanted to make the company so that the employees didn’t feel like they need to unionize. I guess he failed.
didn’t feel like they need to unionize
That’s just bonkers on itself. Every labor producing worker should unionize, no company should be on “trust me bro” levels of trust. The one millionaire guy that reduced his salary and raised the minimum wage of every employee is on the right track, but that’s not enough, every laborer should be the owner of his own labor and therefore be a direct recipient of the gains of such labor; without a union we’re counting on individuals to do the right thing and funnel the profits and revenue accordingly.
However 100 and such years of capitalism have shown us that we can never trust those in power.
without a union we’re counting on individuals to do the right thing and funnel the profits and revenue accordingly.
I think that’s what he was saying, he hoped to do the right thing and funnel profits and revenue to where they should go, while providing a good working environment.
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Anti-union sentiments (hell, or even just lack of support for unions) from a boss who claims to “care” about their workers is a dead giveaway that they’re lying about how much they care.
Think about it, what they’re basically saying is “I swear I care about you and will always prioritize my workers’ wellbeing and happiess, but don’t you dare actually hold me to that by forming an independent organization to oversee my commitment to what I just promised. Just trust that I won’t put my own profit over your interests okay? I care about you so much that I absolutely need to retain all the power in our working relationship.”
“We’re like a close-knit family here. Except I pay you and I have a contract that says I can tell you what to do for eight hours a day.”
Exactly! I totally care about you, but let’s keep this power dynamic onesided. You know, just in case.
I was asked about my sexual history, my boyfriends sexual history, “how I liked to fuck”.
I was told certain issues were “sexual tension” and I should just “take the co-worker out on a coffee date to ease it out”
I was asked to twerk for a co-worker at one point
who is this maniac that asked this question and made these requests
this person should be fired asap otherwise others may leave as well
I’m happy Madison took her mental health and self-respect above the job
It might not just be one person either.
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we shouldn’t speculate on names - it’s easy to tar and feather an innocent person.
I would advise against making that judgement on how a person looks.
She sounds mentally ill from minor remarks. Conflating being told she should take time to grieve about her dead brother with being told she should just accept miscommunication because they don’t want to deal with it sounds so insane. Like she’s never been met with empathy in her life and looks for the dagger in the shadow. Then you have her literally admitting to self harm just to take a sick day and have an excuse, which sounds like her issue. If a company tells me off about taking sick days I’m talking to the department of labor, or whatever Canadian equivalent, and will threaten legal counsel for denying my legal working rights.
Sorry, I’m not gonna buy into this personal confirmation bias POV unless we have more proof and corroboration. All too convenient to come with this along GNs spear tip.
Stop decontextualizing what she wrote. This was all caused by a toxic work environment that enabled sexual harassment. 4 people now do the job she had. She took a job in Canada as a US citizen. Being a US citizen she was most definitely not taught the labor protections she has much less the protections she might have under Canadian law. Again, please stop decontextualizing.
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she was most definitely not taught the labor protections she has much less the protections she might have under Canadian law
lolwut
Ah yes buzzwords. I’m reading it as someone who barely has the context of their own duties and seems mentally unwell overall. Until there’s legitimate proof and data that can corroborate her story, it’s nothing more than hearsay and anecdotal. The only thing that can be attested to is the employees themselves as a group admitting they felt rushed and overburdened with their workload. Beyond that… gonna need more to go off chief. Simple as.
Last I checked, the burden of proof is on the accuser in any legal issue, and unless she is willing and has the ability to prove tangible beyond reasonable doubt that her claims are evident, it is again nothing special.
And no, typing out a 40 paragraph essay as to what she FELT was wrong and FELT slighted by is not proof. There’s a reason they’re called ALLEGATIONS and ALLEGEDLY.
I’m pretty sure her cutting herself during her employment at LMG left a trace in the system. I’m pretty sure LMG deciding out of the blue to “voluntarily” begin an external audit about sexual misconduct isn’t out of her “essay” of absolutely unsubstantiated “allegations”. If the company knew for certain they had not wronged her, they would be preparing a defamation case, not trying to uncover what ammunition she exactly has against them.
This is literally standard affairs for any corporation, especially one now headed by a CEO that is unlikely to be even aware of this supposed environment, being that he wasn’t even there. You don’t just jump to defamation out of the blue without substantial proof you are correct, nor should you make these claims without the proof either, as she’s doing. You freaks just want a witch hunt because GN set up LMG and Linus as a bad guy too perfectly with these claims coinciding.
You sound like an HR nightmare. How many times have you been accused of harassment, chief?
Braindead take. “You ask for more proof in claims, so surely you must be an offender”. It’s like all logic in your arguments are removed and replaced with the need to find moral superiority where it doesn’t exist. One employee’s ALLEGED experience does not make a conviction.
None of this is surprising to me at all. I’ve been seeing hints of a toxic ‘hustle’ mindset in their videos for quite some time and have commented as much on the videos. I’ve worked in environments just like this and once you’ve lived it it’s easy af to spot.
Linus probably says ‘I don’t ask anything of anyone that I don’t expect of myself’ and then goes on to expect someone making 50k to put in as much time and effort as he did when first starting LTT/LMG.
Yeah I wish I could say I’m surprised, but I’m not. This kind of mindset is all too common in tech. I hate it.
I think one of her friends leaked the sexual harassment allegations a while back cause I distinctly remember hearing about it. I think it got quickly swept under the rug win some talk of an NDA. regardless I’m glad it’s in the light now.
It’s absolutely bonkers how basically every scandal in the tech industry has at least an element of sexual harassment. Really feels like a lot of guys in the industry have problematic feelings towards women (probably because of their experience as nerdy teens), and unleash those when they have power and when they don’t think there’ll be any consequences.
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Stopped watching years ago because something about the videos were starting to put me off. Now I know.
If the allegations about the sexual topics are true (like managing the OnlyFans account and having to see other people’s junk, being told to twerk for a coworker and getting asked about “how she liked to fuck”) LTT is in some serious trouble.
No sponsor in their right mind wants to be associated with a bunch of grown men sexually assaulting their female coworkers. If this isn’t cleared up totally and publically, LTT will lose a lot of sponsors and this can seriously hurt them.
When the employee handbook leaked a few months ago and this was mostly ignored by Linus except him making a rant about the company not needing unions because they’re so great, that was already very suspicious to me. It seemed like just another hustle culture company trying to sweep things under the rug. Well, looks like it was not just a feeling…
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| part of the law.
We’re not in a court of law here. Even then, the standard is “beyond a reasonable doubt”, and that only applies to criminal matters. With civil matters the standard is “the preponderance of evidence.”
Outside of court proceedings, the standard is completely arbitrary and has been since, well, forever.
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Yes but the same is true in all of it, innocent until proven guilty is a legal thing not a social thing because it rests on the fact that the case is being tried - if I called you a smelly snail then you went to your mom and said I called you a smelly snail you wouldn’t expect her to say ‘well we have to act like he didn’t until it’s been tried in a court of law…’
Thanks for making me laugh :) (I didn’t laugh at you, the snail example was pretty funny).
Yes, the innocent until proven guilty is a matter of legal affairs.
Yes, the public opinion isn’t bound to such limitations. But that is only because the public opinion isn’t supposed to have executive power.
Arguably, the Internet changed that. The public opinion now does have at least some executive power: before the internet, it was practically impossible for anyone to organize a coherent retaliation towards any entity; and that responsibility was entirely left to the official, governmental executive power.
Since social media enabled emergent social organization, coherent retaliation is absolutely possible, and is something the American “left” has been doing for a decade with the concept of “cancelling” people.
Now, as I posted elsewhere, the algorithms in place online are shaping the discourse, and aren’t shaping it in a way that aims at social improvement, but at engagement maximization. Which, you know, anger and hate are the easiest and fastest route to.
The consequence of this is that the American “right” has duly noted what the “left” has been doing, learned from their concept, learned the tools, and is now apparently preparing their own version of “cancelling” people, which presumably involves the second amendment.
It is probably too late to remind everyone that “innocent until proven guilty” shall apply to any and all parties with executive power, however emergent; but I still think it’s an important fact to highlight.
In case we can salvage anything from what our ancestors gave their blood and sweat for, and learn how to resolve conflict instead of giving in, having a major crisis; only after which we will begin pondering what need(ed) to be done.
I do think the Naomi Wu thing was mostly a misunderstanding taken to extremes due to fanbases toxicity (doubt she would’ve outright said Linus wanted her to suck his dick if the stans hadn’t started harassing her, she basically jumped to all out offensiveness out of spite). This, however? Even if she was also being toxic in the workplace, it just means management had been so horrible that toxic behaviors developed with ease and would just spin out of control. This all sounds like they could just not adapt to becoming more corporate oriented fast enough, and the fact that Linus just recently stepped down as CEO is clear proof of this. He should’ve done that years ago.
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I totally agree. Where can I find the leaked handbook?
Edit: Found it
Pretty terrible deal compared to even the mandatory UK stuff. Our glorious hereditary not-dictator 🤴 will be greatly disappointed!
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10 days is the legal minimum in Canada and most companies don’t offer more than that unless you have lots of experience. My company caps at 15 days. So I say this is more of a Canada work culture problem than an LMG problem
Bro what the fuck. The legal minimum in Belgium is 20 days, and you also get 10 national holidays. 30+ days (not including those national holidays) isn’t exceptional. I can’t imagine only getting 10 days.
I can imagine it.
Here in Belgium, first year of working and working 38 hours: 0 holidays except national holidays 😂
But yeah outside europe, holidays are abysmal. India, maylaysia, and China are even worse than the Americas in many cases as far as holiday and conditions.
Same here, most collective labour agreements offer ~25. Also, sick days aren’t a thing.
Really? I’ve had friends in Canada who I used to vacation with, and none of them only had 2 weeks or 3 weeks as seniors.
Alright, time to unsubscribe from their channels. Already started to dislike Linus when he went all Anti-Union and stuff, but this is truly disgusting.
She has also confirmed that this Glassdoor review was written by her, with continuing updates on her twitter
Quote from the twitter thread:
I was asked about my sexual history, my boyfriends sexual history, “how I liked to fuck”.
I was told that certain issues were “sexual tension” and I should just “take the co-worker out on a coffee date to ease it out”
I was asked to twerk for a co-worker at one point.
I was told I was chunky, fat, ugly, stupid. I was called “removed” I was called a “removed”
Holy cow I thought the screenshots currently on this post were the whole thing and I was horrified??
No, the screenshots are like, half?? THE TAME HALF???
Holy shit wtf
I figured it was stressful there, and I always kind of dismissed the dickheads in the community as “the internet being the internet” but it seems it’s WAY worse.
Someone share the glassdoor post here pretty please? They’ve got a login wall
1.0 Jul 27, 2022
Disappointed with treatment would not recommend
Social Media Coordinator
Former Employee, more than 1 year
X Recommend
O CEO Approval
X Business Outlook
Pros
a lot of talented people
employee bonding activities
Cons
No proper/or explained HR system.
Sexist remarks, coded language, and harassment were common place.
Inappropriate actions, comments, and discussions frequently occurred.
Including discussion about employees bodies, appearance, clothes, and wealth.
Upper/middle management frequently misuse power.
No way to report most incidents without issue, since the HR team was ALSO upper management.
Feedback was consistently harsh and not constructive.
Inappropriate language was commonly used while giving feedback.
Meetings with unbalanced power dynamics were common place.
Gaslighting situations frequently occurred.
Unbiased 3rd parties were never present, or easily able to be requested in these meetings.
Lack of proper communication between management and employees.
Outside ventures frequently frowned upon, or limited by the company.
Advice to Management
Stop dismissing complaints because “everyone is friends here” it’s a workplace, not a group hangout session.
Get a proper HR team and take reports of harassment and inappropriate conduct seriously.
Don’t dismiss employees complaints.
Thank youu!
Much thanks for this!
Just an fyi, you can get past the wall using reader mode in Firefox and
glassdoor.com^*/gd-hardsellin ublock origin’s filters. Reader mode is necessary if you want to see full reviews, the ublock rule is to stop the “please login” popup
Man what the fuck kind of attitude is that??
They sound like a bunch of immature misogynistic little pricks.
Honestly? Considering how some members of the team act on camera I’m willing to believe they are immature misogynistic little pricks
Holy fucking shit
This is, quite frankly, atrocious.
my lemmy client’s running at 1 fps help
Lol yeh Sync is not behaving well with the amount of images in this post.
In Jerboa it works fine.
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Whataboutism in its purest form. The issue at hand is not existent in Jerboa, which was the totality off my statement. You instead flying in, pointing to other issues perceived by you not discussed here in a quest to defend an app not even sold by you is quite transparently nothing else than cheap self-serving discussion-toxic whataboutism crapping on everything which is not your messiah app shat by god himself into proprietary lines of code. Perhaps you should simply go sync yourself.
Yeah, expecting the app not to be randomly crashing, or lack essential features, etc, is just “whataboutism”. Sure.
In the context of this thread lagging in sync it surely is.
I’m on sync and it it’s buttery smooth pixel 7a
Maybe it’s my S21 then 🤣
It has always had this issue; even with reddit.
Connect didn’t flinch!
I’ll start with: I believe Madison.
I honestly did not even know that she had left, so all of this is news to me. I assumed that she went into a role that suited what she wanted to do (like production or editing or something with no significant on camera time), and was still there. I usually avoid following anything so closely that I’m aware of whatever drama they get into. Which isn’t to imply that Madison’s experience is mere drama, because it’s not. This is an egregious HR violation on all fronts, and bluntly, if Madison still has any evidence of any of this, a lawyer would do well to pick up her case at no cost to Madison; as far as I’m concerned, with any level of evidence, especially right now with the PR nightmare they’re currently weathering, they’ll want to settle quickly (if they have any sense left in their heads whatsoever)… And Madison can walk away with a very reasonable pay off for all this mental anguish.
Of course, money doesn’t un-do the fact that it happened.
On the surface, to me, this looks like LMG hired Madison to appease the masses, partly evidenced by the fact that he announced that he had done so before she was even made aware that they were interested in bringing her on board, which seems to be a trend with Linus now - saying things have happened when he simply rubber stamps the approval to go ahead and start the process… Then “allowed” her to appear on camera enough to show that yes, she does work here… Then as the hype from fans died down and stopped being a benefit to the company, slowly berated her into leaving quietly so schmucks like me (anyone that’s not so dedicated that they read the LTT forums daily), are unaware, and they don’t lose viewers.
The workload described, at first didn’t sound too bad, busy, sure, but not bad. Some Twitter posts, FB posts, a few tiktoks daily… Yeah ok. That’s a fairly reasonable bar to set, a little high IMO, but ok… Then she went on. And on… And on… What the fuck? I get the idea that it’s “only social media” so some think it’s “not really like working” (which I don’t agree with, I just understand why people think that), since managing your own social media is fairly trivial, but when managing it for someone else, you have to constantly check yourself and consider “is this me saying it? Or is this the right tone and perspective for what the company would say?” Because if you say the wrong thing, you’re reprimanded, or fired. That kind of mental gymnastics is rough; and having to do that for a dozen posts a day is a lot of work to accomplish alone, and you’re probably going to make some mistakes unless you can bounce the posts off of someone like a long term employee or manager to make sure that the message isn’t straying from the brand you represent.
I’ve personally been in plenty of scenarios where I’ve been over worked. It happens. When being overworked is basically your job duties, that’s unreasonable in every way.
On top of that the dismissive and demeaning treatment isn’t going to help. I’m not surprised that Madison noped the fuck out, and it’s sad that happened, and more sad that she felt that she shouldn’t even say anything. It’s unsurprising that she left and that she had such a major impact to her mental health by being there… Honestly, it’s almost surprising that she stayed as long as she did… And this isn’t even addressing the sexual misconduct. I know for me, when I think “sexual assault” I’m thinking the worst case scenario, and bluntly, some of the comments that she relays (like “you’ve never gotten drunk with us”) makes me think that could have happened… But it’s not exclusive to that. This is sexual assault. She was sexually harassed and sexually assaulted by staff and bluntly, I hope she names and shames those who were involved. This is unacceptable in any and every way in the workplace and everywhere else. Madison’s gender, sexual orientation, preferences, history, everything, is entirely personal, and discussions of such things in a workplace is completely unacceptable. If she wanted to offer up such information of her own volition, sure, but berating her about it, and harassing or demeaning her about it is completely unwelcome both socially, and legally.
IMO, Madison has a legal case if she ever chooses to pursue it… I think she should but I understand why she hasn’t, and isn’t.
As for LTT and LMG, I’m extremely disappointed that Madison was set up to fail like this. I get that it’s a bit of a boys locker room, where most of the staff are “one of the guys” regardless of who they are or what gender they are, and ribbing is part of that. Clearly this was above and beyond it and from what people said to Madison after she left, her treatment was worse than most… Well beyond a good ribbing, and others could tell. Anyone who participates in ribbing among friends can recognise when they’ve gone too far. IMO, it was clear that they had, and they just kept doing it. No part of that is ok. The staff then took it further and further into sexual harassment and assault, and the management team was complacent. This is wholly unacceptable on LMG’s side. Their behaviour is reprehensible.
I hope Madison is doing better. I’ll probably track down her twitch and throw her a sub, because she deserves it, and never deserved to be treated the way she was. I don’t know what she’s doing now, but I wish her all the success in the world.
if Madison still has any evidence of any of this, a lawyer would do well to pick up her case at no cost to Madison
That’s what I’m hoping for. The described behavior is unacceptable.
Of course, money doesn’t un-do the fact that it happened.
Getting public acknowledgement that it happened would be a very good start to healing.
slowly berated her into leaving quietly so schmucks like me (anyone that’s not so dedicated that they read the LTT forums daily), are unaware
Madison herself wrote that they were going to announce it on the WAN show, and decided to omit it when she demanded they would include the fact that she quit.
The workload described, at first didn’t sound too bad, busy, sure, but not bad.
I thought about this. I agree with what you wrote, but I would like to add something: if you go for “stupid” tweets (like “behind the scene” goofy content), hipster-style instagram posts, and boring tiktok videos showing someone walking down a corridor, yeah it can be a chill job. I don’t think it would be your job for long, but it would be chill. One the other hand, if you are (like she was) clearly starstruck, and want to do justice to your idol, the tweets/instagram posts/tiktok videos alone are going to take your entire day, at the very best. This is without considering that it also was her responsibility to somehow find people available for floatplane exclusives, and manage other stuff on the top of that…
bluntly, I hope she names and shames those who were involved.
Absolutely. With written proof or screenshots if at all possible, to make it irrefutable.
I look after the Twitter account of an online news site as one of my jobs, and even doing just the Twitter alone is so stressful and daunting. Because you have to use the right photos, make the text of the tweet interesting, use the right hashtags and tag the companies we’re talking about.
It is a lot. Even though “it’s just twitter” like… it still takes a toll out of you. So seeing her workload sounded like hell to me. Like Twitter and Facebook are easy enough. But I’ve made some tiktoks here and there on my personal one and it takes a lot of my time.
Linus and most people ar lmg seen go be workaholics, so it makes sense (though not okay) that they’d work people way past their limits. Similarly, since the team is mostly guys, sexism and assault could go less noticed as well. They need to hire a really good HR, and fast, and slow down to fix their culture issues before the whole company cracks apart.
Honestly, that’s a much larger issue to me than the beef with GN. Forcing the image of a super cool liberal easy company while being as shitty as every other bigger greedy firm. So sad.
Linus is completely one of the most ruthless capitalists. The pace he makes his staff follow shows that he doesn’t really care about them but the money they generate.
I think it might be more the fact that he is a workaholic and expects everyone else to be. But yeah, I don’t think he is quite as progressive as he thinks he is.
It’s easy to work a lot when you get rewarded for it. Employees are almost never actually rewarded for working harder or more. It’s honestly the most privileged capitalist lie to tell others how their actions help “us” when all they will receive is another paycheck but the capitalist can use the gains to expand their investment or give themselves massive bonuses or wages.
Also easy to work a lot when you decide what your job is, I’ve worked tirelessly this week doing important market research, networking and product development… I sat on YouTube, chatted to friends and day dreamed about things I could do in the future.
If Linus feels like playing with a gaming rig then that’s what he does, good staff don’t have that luxury so it’s a totally different ball game
The sad/tragic thing is he probably doesn’t realize that and he is surrounded by people who reinforce that. He never had any business running a company this size.
I don’t think he cares about the money all that much, he just wants to be the nr.1 tech YouTube guy. If he was in it for the money, he’d be doing something else. He wants to be validated above all, and he has little regard for other people’s needs. That’s a dangerous cocktail.
I don’t think he cares about money, he cares about having fun and public recognition. So he works his people really hard towards that end even if they can’t handle it.
His reasoning for not testing the bilit labs waterblock further was $500
He is stingy yes, but I feel like that was also an excuse for not wanting to redo stuff.
I mean if he straight up said 500$ what other excuse is there?
On his initial (bad) response he says that it’s because the outcome wouldn’t be affected because the product is “bad”. But no way in hell Linus is THAT stupid, ie to think that a 3090TI block would work the same on a 4090.
I mean since he has the lab and all he could have just sent it to them to verify if the cooler makes good contact with the dye and other chips on the 4090 and verified it with billet like how they’d compare CPU scores with AMD.
But all of that takes drumroll time (and therefore money) and money!
I mean if he straight up said 500$ what other excuse is there?
The extra time it takes to create the same video.
That’s what he was saying with the $500. He said $500 dollars worth of people’s time.
Forcing someone to run an onlyfans is fucking insane and should 100% be a lawsuit, that’s disgusting.
There are people that I know that would run an onlyfans for a decent paycheck and not be bothered by it at all. It’s actually pretty easy to find someone who would do that just go into any sex store and offer the cashier above minimum wage and there’s a good chance they would take the job.
I’ve been watching LTT since I was 13, this past few weeks has completely changed my perspective on them in a very negative way and I’m extremely disappointed.
Yeah that’s a super weird one, why did they even have an only fans?
Edgelord points.
