this post was submitted on 16 Aug 2023
956 points (97.2% liked)

Linus Tech Tips

1053 readers
1 users here now

~~⚠️ De-clickbait-ify the youtube titles or your post will be removed!~~

~~Floatplane titles are perfectly fine.~~

~~LTT/LMG community. Brought to you by ******... Actually, no, not this time. This time it's brought to you by Lemmy, the open communities and free and open source software!~~

~~If you post videos from Youtube/LTT, please please un-clickbait the titles. (You can use the title from https://nitter.net/LTTtranslator/ but it doesn't seem to have been updated in quite some while...)~~

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Linus Media Group CEO Terren Tong also responded via email, saying he was “shocked at the allegations and the company described” in Reeve’s posts. He went on to note that “as part of this process, beyond an internal review we will also be hiring an outside investigator to look into the allegations and will commit to publish the findings and implementing any corrective actions that may arise because of this.”

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] [email protected] 46 points 1 year ago (4 children)

The reactions are so... reddit-ey:

I always knew it

I fee so gratified

It's what I've been saying all along

and all that stuff.

[–] [email protected] 72 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Its human nature not exclusive to reddit. You guys sure love talking about that place.

[–] [email protected] 27 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] lapommedeterre 17 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's what I've been saying all along

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago
[–] Rose 7 points 1 year ago

It's almost as if we're on a platform that imitates it.

[–] TBi 13 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Feels like the pitchforks are out. People want blood and don’t care if the allegations are true or not.

[–] ProvableGecko 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah, what are the chances that a company mismanaged by a bunch of incompetent unrepentant techbros also fostered a culture of sexual harassment?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Are we even living in the same reality? Tech bros? They're a bunch of goofy nerds.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People are leaning into the hate circlejerk way too hard, apart from the forum rant they have handled this situation pretty well. They addressed GN's concerns in their apology video by improving their workflows and communication, and are now hiring an investigator for Madison's claims. I can't really think of anything more that they could do, but I guess some people just want to be mad.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

They already did the damage. If someone steals something from me and slanders my name, I'm still going to be mad after they say sorry.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

LTT is down, the community has made clear what they expected and they've acknowledged it. It's time to let them grow and recover from the situation.

People who are just looking at a reason to hate on them and fuel their anger are just gonna be left behind once everyone moves forward without them.

[–] SloppyPuppy 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought people loved LTT. Theres only hatred now in the internet.

I really like LTT. All the stuff about mistakes and inaccuracies dont feel that bad to me personally and I feel like LTT would be in a better place regarding accuracy and testing after this.

Regarding the sell of the cooling system, yeah its bad. But I do believe it was a miscommunication and mismanagement within LTT. And int that case at least money can solve it.

Regarding the sexual harassments or “sexually bad environment” yeah this is really bad. I do attribute this to their male dominant eviornent. All those little sexual jokes are so fucking lame and really belong to the distant past of history. They behave like they are 16. The fact that they dont have women in the front of as presenters really shows they are all so sexist. Or at least the one at the top. I do hope justice will be done and everyone accountable gets the proper punishment. And I hope that after this the company will finally grow up and realize they can be still funny and with high quality without the need to oppress women.

I want to keep having fun and getting informed from LTT and i hope they can solve all that.

No pitchforks and no hatred.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I thought most people stopped liking LTT years ago after they started going full corpo.

[–] SloppyPuppy 1 points 1 year ago

Why so many people watch them then? And put a lot of time into watching them…. Literally 4 hours of a podcast

[–] monkeyman512 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think an important thing people forget is even if they hate Linus, there are a lot of other people who work there that will be negatively impacted if LTT is "burnt to the ground". I am hoping they step up, take the criticism professionaly and improve. Anything else is a major disappointment.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I have made very few posts to Lemmy but a recent one was a neutral-ish post saying that I liked the Madison videos etc. but I'm also not jumping to boycott LTT based on the testimony of one person and also a YouTube expose. The responses I got were negative and I was also told not to "deadname" another creator... who I wager nobody would know who I am talking about if I used that name.

Long story short, the comparisons to reddit seem downright charitable so far. Pitchfork brigade bullshit. How about having a nuanced opinion on literally any topic? Or is the average Lemmy user a sanctimonious 19 year old basement socialist?

[–] [email protected] -4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Arent the most refugees from reddit? M That would explain why so many being the culture with them.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Yes and no. Only a fraction of Redditors migrated, and that fraction is overrepresented by people who care about privacy, ethical business models, community projects and stewardship. And we've seen that the Lemmy discussions have been a lot more humane and productive.

I myself have remained pretty silent through this entire LMG saga. Maybe I represent a silent majority? Or maybe just a few? It's time to put down the pitchforks. The company has responded, let's wait and see what comes of it. At the end of the day, vote with your wallets. The LMG fanbase is starting to move out of "concerned citizenry" territory and into "self perpetuating angry mob" territory.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think you're right about the silent majority. This whole amplifying rage over thing is wild to see in real time. It's scary how many people have Internet brain rot, check these ratios on most any push back to the rabid behaviour.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed. I will stay subbed (for now) and see what comes from it.