I've always thought the "edgy" #Dbrand marketing is childish and pretentious, but it seems they took it up a notch on #Twitter and is currently being somewhat under fire for calling someone, a customer's name as, I quote, "basically Shit Rash" - the customer's name is Bhuwan Chitransh and they were complaining to Dbrand about a skin they purchased.
I say somewhat under fire becos, as often happens with their shenanigans - many overgrown male children will come to their rescue and say shit like "that's just their branding/persona" and that underneath the facade their customer service is excellent and would probably offer the customer they just dissed a free product replacement or the like. Must be nice to be Dbrand to get a "Free Racist" card by their loyal incels.
I have no respect for any content creator who choose to work and even entertain Dbrand's marketing strat that's aimed towards 5 year-old boys honestly, that includes #LTT and #MKBHD.
Our national hero Lee Chong Wei made an appearance in the latest #LTT video in the most unexpected way possible; a test to see if SDR -> HDR content makes greasiness/sweatiness pop more lol.
Back in March Luke, Jake, and myself all switched over to AMD to test our resolve after renouncing Nvidia. So are we sticking with AMD, or did we going crawling back to the 40 series?
Linux Tech Tips was accused of having a toxic work place where several past employees supported 1 employee who experienced sexual harassment. In your last video, you acknowledged this fact, said you were looking into it, and now in your update "plan" you do not acknowledge it or apologize. Worse, you double-down on how great you believe your HR Department is. Clearly, that is not the case.
I hate to have opinions about how HR is done at companies I've never worked for or done business with, but the more I read about how Madison/Suop was treated at #LTT, the more I wonder why this James guy hasn't been fired years ago.
If I'm going to see that guy reading things from a teleprompter again, then I'm uninstalling the YouTube app from my TV.
The biggest thing that gets me about this #LinusMediaGroup thing is how bad must the working conditions be where someone felt they needed to record an HR meeting the day after Madison left. Seriously. The person who recorded this meeting must have known SOMETHING about Madison and her situation, or was experiencing the same.
In all my years of working for companies big and small, I have never felt the need to secretly record any meeting, let alone an HR meeting.
You know what else I haven't felt the need to do? Tell an inappropriate joke after an HR meeting.
What a mess of an apology video #linustechtips#LTT
Monetized with 2 merch plugs
Spreading in jokes to break the tension
Leaking value of the Billet Labs prototype which they didn't want to make public
Lying about emailing them before the controversy
The entire Linus Tech Tips apology rings pretty hollow to me. I'm tired of them reiterating, "oh we'll be transparent about this." Yes, transparency is good, but having outside people read your dogshit homework isn't better than putting the effort into doing your homework right in the first place. They offload a lot of things to the community that benefit them to do so, while actively hiding things from the community that might harm their brand.
Which brings me to Madison Reeve. Are the allegations really shocking to anyone at this point? There have been numerous reports in the past that Linus Media Group cultivates an incredibly misogynistic "boy's club" that's hostile towards women. Linus saying, "They aren’t consistent with my recollections" is completely horseshit. Of course they're not consistent with your recollections. When you treat your company like a frat house, I'd imagine harassing women probably doesn't seem so bad. It's like a bunch of white people at a country club trying to figure out what a microaggression is. The lack of diversity at LMG should be the biggest red flag ever. While Madison's allegations are new, similar allegations are not, so where was the transparency then?
Also speaking to transparency, what about the wage theft? What about the burn out? What about the (apparently not illegal until recently but highly reprehensible) practice of forbidding employees from discussing their pay? Where's the transparency there? Linus and LMG have never addressed the criticisms whatsoever. The egregiously anti-labor employee handbook was leaked, yet they didn't feel like that criticism was worth addressing, as it doesn't benefit them to do so.
Seeing people look at their apology video and soften on their stance about LMG is driving me insane. Fixing some of their testing errors is not the issue. Their entire corporation is the issue. Until they agree to diversity-inclusive hiring practices (the channels desperately need more women presenting the content), more rights for their workers with equitable pay and a healthy work/life balance, warranties for their products, all in addition to the quality-related issues with their videos, I really don't see how anyone can have an interest in LMG's content.
The standard rebuttal is, "that's just capitalism", but if you've predicated your brand on not being a greedy capitalist, then your brand really falls apart when you treat your employees and consumers the same way that any other greedy capitalist does.
»My time at this company brought my mental health to an all time low.
You could talk to anyone who was around me during my employment and they would confirm it.
I would not have recommended anyone I knew to work there, especially with my experiences as a woman in the office.«
»There is a system of micro-managing and a level of distrust because the amount of content they have to push out daily is so insane, no one gets a break.«
From the video description: In HW News this week, we start with a discussion about Linus Sebastian's recent reply to our commentary about Linus Tech Tips' issues with accuracy, data, corrections, ethics, and conflicts. We are baffled and disappointed by the hastily, angrily-written, and at times inaccurate statement posted.
I’m Staying on AMD! (www.youtube.com)
Back in March Luke, Jake, and myself all switched over to AMD to test our resolve after renouncing Nvidia. So are we sticking with AMD, or did we going crawling back to the 40 series?
"What do we do now?" - LMG's response to the recent controversies (youtu.be)
At least, some of the recent controversies.
HW News - Linus Tech Tips' Terrible Response (www.youtube.com)
From the video description: In HW News this week, we start with a discussion about Linus Sebastian's recent reply to our commentary about Linus Tech Tips' issues with accuracy, data, corrections, ethics, and conflicts. We are baffled and disappointed by the hastily, angrily-written, and at times inaccurate statement posted.