There’s no way Steve knew or intended this would blow up the way it did. After Steve’s original 45 min video, the situation was still “recoverable” at LMG.
Then Linus dug in not once, but twice, and then the Madison post.
Has Steve said anything else recently? Hopefully he kinda backs off, honestly. It’s gone way beyond the original scope of his video.
Can I get a tldr? I’m really out of the loop on this.
I read Madison’s post, but I’m not sure what’s going on with Linus other than that.
They have reviewed a GPU cooler from a company incorrectly, said it was trash and don’t buy it, refused to do the review correctly and then sold the prototype cooler at auction when they agreed to return it.
GN called them out on that and their massive QC problems, crunch and ethics.
Gamer’s Nexus calls out LTT for some major oversights and failures, then the internet hate machine bandwagons on top and blows everything into a massive issue.
So many people are so worked up for something so incredibly insignificant.
Sexual assault isn’t insignificant though.
Did you watch any of the videos? Linus straight up lied about reimbursing them. They didn’t reach out to them until after the first GN video was released.
He said on his news recap video that they’re not going to address the lmg issue after seeing Linus’s forum response. So I think he’s gonna leave it at that.
He might back off if they adressed his arguments, but they didn’t (yet, hopefully).
I wasn’t expecting an analysis of the situation on a memes sub…
He said in his follow-up video that there would be no more follow-ups. So we’ll see.
We need an Out of the Loop page here in the fediverse because wtf
You mean !outoftheloop@lemmy.world
The top active posts shown to me.there is also the one relevant here: https://lemmy.world/post/3234957
Appreciated
Steve released a video pointing out a bunch of technical errors and ethical concerns about how LMG is run, Linus just straight up admitted that he thinks it’s unreasonable to have his fancy new multi-million dollar lab spend even $100 on retesting even though he absolutely knew that his results were inaccurate, doubled down after people started calling him out on it, whined that he didn’t “sell” the one of a kind prototype that he’d promised to give back to the manufacturer, he “auctioned” it for charity, even though that had been explicitly stated in Steve’s video, and then completely separately a former employee said that she had been sexually harassed while working there.
YouTube drama
Not really drama.
I’ll help ya out since I felt the same way and spent too much time on something I don’t really care about, though I do care for the person who was impacted.
They are a tech YouTube channel that tests components for computers and the like.
Basically, a former female employee (can’t remember her name) who was the social media manager, made a post of her tenure there, and it was horrible. Sexual harassment, belittled, ridiculous standards for work. At one point she felt she needed to gash herself and go to the ER, just so she can take a day off because she was ridiculed for taking a sick day previously. There is whole shit ton more. I’d link the post but sorry I’m a little lazy rn.
The guy who is “de-friending” this Linus guy, is another YouTuber who does the same thing.
This was a hyper TL;DR, and I’m missing other things, but that’s pretty much the jist of it.
Career ended with Linus*
Is this real? I kinda don’t want to visit facebook. I’d love this to be real, but I guess my hopes will be dashed before long.
