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OOTL, what's going on here?
Being transparent about your business, comes with pros and cons. Right now a female employee shared her end of the story to the web on why she quit, and you're seeing the reaction to it.
Edit: This amplified the ongoing issue about LTT and their information integrity, which is very likely due to root causes that Linus repeatedly ignored, or worse, believed he was right and everyone was wrong.
Didn't she leave about two years ago?
Yeah, but she hadn’t talked about it publicly because of fear of harassment, death threats, etc from the community
Sounds like a great community if true...
I had to look it up myself. These two links seem to cover the controversy pretty well.
https://www.pcgamer.com/the-recent-criticism-of-linus-tech-tips-explained/
https://fandomwire.com/the-linus-tech-tips/
Edit:
Found this one too which is straight from the horse's mouth: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1691693740254228741.html
Drama
No doubt lol. There's bigger fish to fry. I'm so glad I'm learning to not participate in trendy drama. Especially when the activists won't even take time out of their super righteous elite life to tell you what's going on. It must be huge! Lol
Nah, nothing big outside of it being LTT and Gamer’s Nexus calling them out.
In a nutshell, LTT was given a prototype of a product that they basically said was shit due to testing the product outside of the specified parameters that company told them to test in and, instead of sending the prototype and other stuff that the company sent to LTT for testing back to said company, LTT auctioned the prototype off. Gamer’s Nexus made a video calling out stuff like this happening as well as the inconsistency of LTT’s testing lab data to point out that LTT is basically doing rush job videos for money and is starting to do more harm than good. Linus himself gets involved and shifts blame to everybody else except himself and his staff. On top of all this going on, a former LTT employee started going off about workplace harassment with some pretty serious accusations (but no hard evidence).
There’s a lot more stuff going on with the nitty-gritty, but that’s more or less the gist of things.
Thanks for the info, I appreciate it.
Shitty of him to sell the device but that's the biz if you don't put every little thing in fine print.
Them's the breaks.
What needs to be in the fine print of LTT confirming they're going to return it... to then turn around and sell it after confirming they're going to return it?
You must have an elite life too then, because the links to what happened are posted everywhere.
Hobbydrama, which is always enjoyable.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGW3TPytTjc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3byz3txpso
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1691693740254228741