Listening to it, there is a lot of focus on saying things alluding to “we were already in the process of fixing this” rather than “we fucked up and this will be fixed”.

I’m also a little concerned to see that gender affirming healthcare isn’t listed on their health plan when they have trans members of staff. I completely understand why Emily doesn’t want to be in the public eye but she is by far my favourite host and I’d love to see her back and producing high quality, well thought out videos where she is given the creative time she needs. The people pressuring her (as well as others) to comment on everything were completely out of order though.

I think the culture of misogyny is demonstrated by the number of male hosts compared to women. Part of the reason people wanted Madison on board was because she would have fit the role perfectly and they just dumped her in the corner on socials. YouTube is a new industry and its disappointing that it is still as male dominated as the tech journo industry that came before it.

What I think is needed is for the staff to unionize and for the company to stop micromanaging and pushing performance because the “fun” doesn’t feel like real fun, it feels like corporate forced fun. McDonalds does a christmas party for their staff and you don’t hear people praise them for their workplace culture.