“Heads up, there won’t be a WAN Show this week. Instead, we will continue to focus on addressing issues raised both internally and by the community during our production break. We appreciate you all for your patience.”
“Heads up, there won’t be a WAN Show this week. Instead, we will continue to focus on addressing issues raised both internally and by the community during our production break. We appreciate you all for your patience.”
They’ve been using polls for a lot for a while now - even things that were recently criticized like the Framework investment, was originally a poll on WAN asking how the audience felt about the ethical implications of that investment. And whether the audience thought it was acceptable so long as they always disclaim that Linus is a Framework investor during coverage of other laptops. To me it kinda makes sense how they could get so caught up in an echo chamber of die-hard fans who encourage them into things that people who aren’t in that core fan group see as problematic or at least ethically questionable. I see using fans to guide decision making as one of the root problems at LTT, because fans, pretty much by definition, already think you can do no wrong, and will often be blind to the way things look to a broader audience.
This is my concern as well. A charitable reading of this might be that their decision making team’s sense of knowing what is ethical and normal has been soo shaken that they’re uncomfortable with making those decisions without outside guidance. Given Terren has only been there for six weeks though, he should be able to provide outside insight on this. The non-charitable read is that this is all for show and they’re reaching out to see what the minimally acceptable most profitable line they can toe at the moment is.
So every youtber who has patron is ethical questionable?