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[–] jet@hackertalks.com 88 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Narcissist YouTuber, but I repeat myself, has trouble backing down and taking feedback.

Now that there's some drama people are dogpiling with more drama, related to ex employees.

My guess is we're not going to see much more drama from the LTT side. The new CEO is going to go silent running for a while, which is probably their best course of action. Then release of statement that they're going to investigate the exemployee's accusations, but since it's a private matter they can't talk about a publicly. Which again is the most reasonable thing they can do.

In a week they'll start publishing videos again without talking about either event. Maybe in a month they'll be a follow-up on their new processes.

So for the next week everyone's going to brigade against LTT because it's fun to do, and then it will blow over.

The memes though, the memes will be legendary!

[–] cerement@slrpnk.net 47 points 1 year ago (2 children)

don’t forget the Blizzard apology – “We’re sorry you feel upset.”

[–] jet@hackertalks.com 53 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

That didn't happen.

And if it did, it wasn't that bad.

And if it was, that's not a big deal.

And if it is, that's not my fault.

And if it was, I didn't mean it.

And if I did, you deserved it.

-The Narcissist's Prayer

[–] nocturne213@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

Fuck Bobby Kotik

[–] Sneckster@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The Rooster Teeth method

[–] Duke_Nukem_1990@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I just started listening to their DnD podcast, what did they do??

[–] falkerie71@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

What started as a few friends dicking around together, RT grew to be one of the giants in the YouTube space (probably still is). A lot of the edgy humor that flew with the team and also the fans in the 2010s but generally not accepted now, stayed with them as they grew bigger. There were multiple allegations of sexual harassments, racism, and not to mention the Adam Kovic/Ryan Haywood stuff.

Come to think of it, not much controversy has been popping up from them lately. Maybe it's because I don't really watch their content anymore, or they have actually improved their work culture since then.

[–] lobut@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago

I know little of Rooster Teeth, is it this?

https://digiday.com/media/is-rooster-teeths-rebrand-enough-to-escape-its-controversial-history/#:~:text=From%202019%20onward%2C%20current%20and,racist%20and%20homophobic%20work%20environment.

[–] mo_lave@reddthat.com 39 points 1 year ago (2 children)

"Knows of Linus Tech Tips but hasn't watched it": kalm

"Read the latest drama and how Linus is a horrible person": panik

"It's not Linus Torvalds": kalm

[–] NewAgeOldPerson@reddthat.com 7 points 1 year ago

Okay honest confession... I read it enough to make sure it wasn't Torvalds.

[+] traveler@lemdro.id 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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[–] squaresinger@feddit.de 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

But that was a few years ago by now and it's been handled.

[–] Macros@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Letting this stand this way is close to misinformation.

Linus Torvalds got accused of sexism, as to be expected with a person so public, but nobody ever proved anything. In contrast he shows the opposite of sexist behaviour nearly every day by working with all people equally on the Linux kernel. Also his daughter Patricia is a feminist and he fully supports her. Honestly I am surprised that with so much of his communication being public (Mailing list discussions) nobody found any piece which sounds outright sexist. Not even a bad joke. He is a role model regarding this.

His toxic behavior is another thing. And also up for discussion I think. Firm words to discourage bad behavior regarding contributions to the kernel. He went to far at times, recognized it, and improved. He still has the stance to not use overly polite words to play around any bad statements, which many think is correct to improve communication and finding a common ground instead of secretly harboring ever greater dissent. Many discussions by many qualified people on this in the net.

[–] roguetrick@kbin.social 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hobbydrama needs a place on the fediverse.

[–] inasaba@lemmy.ml 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

!hobbydrama@lemmy.world

[–] poppy@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

We just need knowledgeable, skilled summarizers to actually fill it 🥲

[–] v_krishna@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago

I was just happy to realize this afternoon that this is a different Linus than Linus Torvalds. I was very confused this morning how out of the loop I was to not realize The Linus had become a youtuber. Now this makes more sense (or at least I no longer care at all)

[–] FlyboyM619@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Me watching everything go down.

[–] kaklerbitmap@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm just getting caught up, never watched any of their videos before either. Was hoping the drama was just over something inconsequential but juicy & amusing.. but no, of course it's something icky and depressing.

Also this is from Linus Sebastian's email response to the Verge:

In addition to our existing report systems (both anonymous and otherwise) we’ve proactively reached out internally today to encourage members of our team to report any workplace bullying or harassment..

So they're proactively reacting to the allegations? Am I just really stoned?

[–] berkat@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

They’re proactively reaching out to employees in case that they’ve experienced any bullying of harassment, but haven’t self reported it.

[–] madcaesar@lemmy.world 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've seen that guys face on my recommendations before, but never watched anything because he looked like a whiny bitch 😂 looks like I was right!

[–] eestileib@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Definite pewdiepie vibes.

[–] Powerbomb@lemmy.ml 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Pewdiepie is just a disgusting mustard horse son - Linus is just blissfully oblivious

[–] maiskanzler@feddit.de 13 points 1 year ago

This has been brewing for quite a while. The meeting after Madison left has been secretly recorded and leaked 6 months ago.

[–] ComradeR@lemmy.ml 7 points 1 year ago

I'm waiting the ukulele song!

[–] 47_alpha_tango@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 year ago

You’re not missing much.

[–] RaoulDook@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Me who has never subscribed to a single YT channel or "liked" any YT video:

YouTube is overrated and too ubiquitous

[–] Obi@sopuli.xyz 26 points 1 year ago

Too ubiquitous, probably. Overrated, I'm not sure. There's really a lot a lot of very valuable content.

[–] lazyslacker@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

That's an interesting complaint. Is ubiquity necessarily bad?

[–] Martinligabue@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

is there somewhere I can be updated?

[–] Bonehead@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Most of it is floating around the fediverse, but a quick rundown from my superficially gleaned view:

Someone called out LTT for shitty quality videos, LTT responded publicly in a roundabout snarky way. Then a former employee called out LTT for their shitty treatment of employees, which LTT responded in an even more snarky way. Their subscriber count took a hit, and it's all been going downhill since then.

I'm sure someone will come along with more details, but that's about the jist of it.

[–] sadreality@kbin.social -2 points 1 year ago

No more detail is needed... this circle jerk is too much as is.

[–] aleph@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

If you want to be fully up to speed, first watch the initial video critique here

https://youtu.be/FGW3TPytTjc?t=99

Then watch the follow-up response video:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=X3byz3txpso

Then watch the LTT apology video:

https://piped.mha.fi/watch?v=0cTpTMl8kFY

There's also a whole other thing about harassment of a former employee who quit for mental health reasons, but I don't have the link to that right now.

Edit: The Verge have put out a really good run down of all the different issues here:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/16/23834190/linus-tech-tips-gamersnexus-madison-reeves-controversy

[–] Taako_Tuesday@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same, I had heard of the channel on reddit but was never interested until now.

[–] Isthisreddit@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Honestly it has been a pretty good techy channel for a while, but like many things, apparently it's become a victim of its own success. Ive gone down the rabbit hole on LTT YouTube episodes a few times in the past - really enjoyed what I decided to watch, this news is really unfortunate to what was (in my opinion) a great channel

Gamer nexus was always great too (the few episodes I watched), that's why this is such news. I'm going to sit down and really listen to the video GN did

[–] ryn@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

relatable