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.
A comment I saw on another thread put it best. He should have taken the 100 million
He got offered that much for the company? Yeah, I’d be sipping cocktails on the beach by now.
“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
Really it’d be like, “I’m sorry… Just like this segue to our sponsor!”
They can’t put out a statement without a segue. It’s just not allowed! They love that word.
You got that from the video? The comment was hot headed, but I thought the video was the best they could have done.
"And a message from our sponsor! Just kidding…
DBrand would have though."
Is all I loosely heard. Shame his newly appointed CEO has to deal with this, I feel like he should have been the only one in the video. It would have put extra value and emphasis on his message, and cut out all the blame passing and job title responsibilities; they could have dealt with all the other stuff separately.
They wrote and uploaded their apology so quickly, they didn’t even let the fallout settle before more controversy came inevitably to light. Now they need to eventually address that in a video too seeing as there’s an investigation. Though it would have been hard to comment on a year old incidences without an investigation to be fair.
Please edit your post to change the link to LTTSTORE.COM… seriously…
The video is overall good, just not the linus part.
“I am truely sorry - for all the money I’m going to lose”
If Linus was his own boss he’d have fired himself.
I mean, he did. 6 months ago.
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?
He came a long way from the depressed linus meme of years ago
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.
BP oil spill: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill
BP CEO hearing: https://youtu.be/X8p4s7EE6FY
South Park’s version: https://youtu.be/HQhmGIW7MVU
Edit: Here’s a better South Park one with the OP’s screen… https://youtu.be/15HTd4Um1m4
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British Petroleum… You know the guys behind that huge oil spill several years back
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.
That has nothing to do with being a shill. As far as I know, lmg still fiercely preserves is journalistic integrity, often cutting ties with brands that try to pressure them.
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2nd video is a response to an idiotic forum post
Not their apology video
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It’s kind of funny to me that a KYM page is now a valid source for news.
Sponsored by BP, Nestle and Purdue. \o/
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.
Sexual harassment allegations are not “drama”. And anyways, the comparison is in the way they apologize and not the damage they have done.
Dafuq what did I miss??? I thought the criticism was about data inaccuracy and overworking (which they addressed in the apology video (whatever that means))
Oof yeah was not aware of these at the time of my original comment.
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It’s actually being compared to a South Park episode that parodies damage control.
You are analyzing an image macro
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.
