I don’t watch LTT or indeed hardly anything on YT, so I’m not about to sit through a teary YouTube apology video.
I assume it’s the usual “sorry not sorry” arse covering job?
My biggest complaint is how Linus is still saying he’s not sorry about what he did, at least it doesn’t seem genuine, instead he is still apologizing that he didn’t realize what the community wanted.
He shouldn’t care what the community wants. He should always strive for accurate data, ethical partnerships, and correcting mistakes when they still make it through because they always will.
Linus is doubling down on his opinions, hiding mistakes, doing the bare minimum to fix them, and needs public outcry and the heavy hand of the other executives in LTT to see any course change.
Accurately presenting your past opinions and weaknesses is not weakness. You can recognise your error while accurately describing your past actions.
You may want to change your actions depending on new information though.
If Linus was his own boss he’d have fired himself.
“We fucked up, and that’s why I’m here to cry about people being mean to me on the internet again. Also I’m super not sorry and it definitely will happen again” -Linus
A comment I saw on another thread put it best. He should have taken the 100 million
For absolute sure. But even if he didn’t sell the company, he’s got enough money to never step foot there again - go watch Shrek 3 with the kids in the theater room of their mansion or something.
He got offered that much for the company? Yeah, I’d be sipping cocktails on the beach by now.
As all this unfolds, I am more drawn towards the opinion that I don’t care that much about the GN call out, because those things can be fixed. I just don’t care that much about tech entertainment being dry as bones to ensure accuracy, but am a lot more concerned about the posts from ex-employee Madison about how she was treated.
Sounds like they have made themselves a bit of a mini Blizzard culture. Crunch and sexism abound.
I have a feeling of “I told you so” because I had mentioned how LTT always just felt like shills and something about Linus just didn’t sit right with me years ago when I first started hearing about the channel and decided to check it out. I couldn’t prove anything, you know. I just had this gut feeling about how things were presented, the way he talked, etc that things weren’t what they seemed and he’s probably a fucked up guy behind the scenes.
Turns out I was right.
I’m probably missing a meme, what’s BP?
British Petroleum. The meme comes from the South Park episode lampooning the BP oil spill and BP’s response to it. The meme is making fun of the fact that youtubers use the same non-apology whenever they’re in trouble.
what happened?
Figured it out, gamers nexus has two videos on it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGW3TPytTjc (initial investigation) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3byz3txpso (response to linus forum post)
Makes me sad, man. They were the channel that got me into tech. I learned how to build a PC with their videos. :(
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I get that this is just a meme, but comparing YouTube drama to the reckless behavior of a multi-billion dollar oil conglomerate causing incalculable amounts of ecological damage feels like a bit of an overreaction.
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I think that’s… well, have at it I guess
True, there are probably better companies with a toxic work environment, uncompetent managment and rushed products but I can’t think of one rn, well except VW but that’s over the top too.
