Evil Linus meme aside, it’s big time damage control at LMG right now: https://youtu.be/0cTpTMl8kFY

As usually happens with stuff like this, once started, many others will come out of the woodwork and it’s already started: https://lemm.ee/post/4433736. Of course we have to take some of these things with a grain of salt. However, if even a tiny bit of what Madison went through is true, this is unbelievably horrible.

I’m sure there will be plenty of LMG/LTT fans that will take this apology and happily move on. I for one will not.

  • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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    1 year ago

    It’s about time he had some humble pie, he was already aware he wasn’t really CEO material for a company of the size LMG has grown to. It’s very good there’s now someone above him whose job it is to tell him no. Until now, the no’s have only come from below his position. Clearly that’s not enough anymore.

    What happened to Madison shows they should have had professional HR on staff far, far sooner than they did. Her employment there having gone the way it did, means LMG has some serious cracks in its company culture, policy, and the views of its leading staff, including Linus.

    But looking at the way LMG operates, and the kinds of things Linus wants to do, and the way he says he wants things to go, shows hes not malicious. It shows he is not sufficiently competent.

    This is a fuckup. One that might kill the company. And if it does, they will have done it to themselves. But it’s a fuckup, not the evil masterplan of a villanous leader.

      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz
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        1 year ago

        Basically everything that can go wrong between employee and employer, did. Managerial overreach, ignored complaints, sexual misconduct, deterioration of mental health to the point of self-harm. All of it gas-lit away by her direct superior/s at LMG. She hasn’t named names, but someone at the company made her job a living hell, and sabotaged all her attempts at improving her situation to cover their own ass. She had it rough.

        Her posts

        • Killing_Spark@feddit.de
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          1 year ago

          What weirds me out the most is the onlyfans account. Why force a young woman to manage an onlyfans account, that expressed she didn’t want to do it from the start? It couldn’t have been important for the brand to have that account, it’s a tech channel FFS. This is one of the things that can’t be explained away by misunderstandings or misread situations or “just Bois being Bois”. This is a manager abusing power in one of the weirdest ways

    • MrSebSin@lemm.eeOP
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      1 year ago

      I haven’t found anything else that is directly comparable, most other channels I follow/enjoy are more specific on topics and/or technical. In no particular order, here are the channels that I’m currently subbed to that are tech/PC/Mac/gaming related…

      https://www.youtube.com/@paulshardware/videos

      https://www.youtube.com/@Jayztwocents

      https://www.youtube.com/@GamersNexus

      https://www.youtube.com/@mkbhd

      https://www.youtube.com/@UFDTech

      https://www.youtube.com/@HardwareCanucks

      https://www.youtube.com/@snazzy

      https://www.youtube.com/@Waveform

      https://www.youtube.com/@OptimumTech

      https://www.youtube.com/@Engadget

      • ashok36@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        I like GN in theory but they are boring as fuck. Even some of the B tier presenters on LTT like Plouffe are more interesting to watch/listen to than Steve.

          • shitescalates@midwest.socialEnglish
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            1 year ago

            Even ignoring the entertainment factor, Steve is too long winded and doesn’t convey much subjectivity. I understand objectivity is generally favored in reviews, but subjectivity is also desired, especially in a video. Otherwise you can just read the data.

            • maiskanzler@feddit.de
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              1 year ago

              Yeah the same is true for JayzTwoCents. The content is great and I like both guys, but they would do well by keeping it a bit shorter. Especially JayzTwoCents likes to ramble about tiny video material for twenty minutes and still fails to properly get his point across. He could use a more fledged out script before turning on the camera. They both made videos about failing AiO coolers and the main point was just to mount the pump below the reservoir or at least low enough for air to not get trapped in it. There. One sentence. Both wandered about and lost most viewers in the process. It left people so confused, they anded up watching both guy’s videos.

              But on a more positive note, I recently built my first own PC and I relied heavily on Gamers Nexus and JayzTwoCents for their reviews and practical videos. Their stuff had top notch information and was tremendously helpful. I didn’t really look at any LTT content in preparation for my build. I was a little surprised about that, because I have been an LTT subscriber since they were in that house with whole-room watercooling. They have somehow gone way beyound the regular gamer/pc-building related content and now have quite a big gap in their portfolio of videos. They have one big video that talks you through planning and building your PC which is great honestly (thanks Emily!), but it is also very general in order to stay relevant for longer. When I was looking for newer stuff and was trying to make choices, GN and JTC it was!

              Edit: Accidental Dead-Naming. Sorry!