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What started as criticism over errors in recent YouTube videos has escalated into allegations of sexual harassment, prompting the company to hire an outside investigator. (www.theverge.com)

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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.”

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[–] 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] 6 points 1 year ago

Are these labels mutually exclusive?

[–] [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.