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[–] net00@lemm.ee 34 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Good, hopefully more follow. Floatplane subs have to be LMG's most loyal audience. This is kinda surprising considering the amount of LMG apologists in reddit & LTT forums. Their level of shilling for a company is kinda unreal.

Also fuck LMG's "investigation." Seems like just some diversion that will result in "we found no evidence of anything" and to say they did something. Typical corporate BS.

Everything Madison said has been corroborated by another ex-employee, it aligns with her glassdoor review of last year, aligns with other anonymous employee coming forward exposing LMG's toxic culture, and it's supported by other bits and pieces of recordings. None of these parties are profiting by coming forward, on the contrary they are exposing themselves to the cult that is LMG's fanbase (which drove a kid and his mom to suicide before).

Unless LMG comes up with damning evidence proving everything wrong then anyone with half a brain will see through their bullshit.

[–] unscholarly_source@lemmy.ca 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm condemning LMG like the next guy, but it would be good to reserve judgement until after the reports are published, at which point we can assess whether the investigation was done impartially or was biased and tampered with. The reality is, we just don't have any evidence for either side, aside from testimonials. I'm interested in seeing what comes out of the investigation and will raise hell if the investigation is not properly conducted.

[–] mustardman@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 year ago

Those people can simply resubscribe if LTT is exonerated so it's not like it's a death sentence.

[–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

(which drove a kid and his mom to suicide before)

Wait, what? Do you have a link to anything about this?

[–] net00@lemm.ee 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Maybe it was his dad, not entirely sure, but it was real. You can see linus comment on the post from the kids parent:

https://old.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/t1e1if/you_destroyed_my_life/

From what I know the kid had a YT channel, and their parent bought a silver YT play button from the NCIX auction years ago. Linus wanted the button back and they refused. Basement dwellers and bootlickers then proceeded to harass the kid in every way possible contributing to their suicide (and their parent's suicide).

[–] WashedOver@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Was the Mindchop channel about video games? If so I recall watching a video about the NCIX auctions. I recall the mission being to buy back the youtube play button from Linus' early days there.

I was watching due to the local uproar in the media of all of the customer data on the servers being sold to the highest bidder at the time. Being a former customer of NCIX for my personal system builds I wasn't excited about this.

I thought this guy was an adult if it is the same thing I was thinking about. It was spun as the guy built a cool smaller channel and couldn't get his play button for reasons I didn't understand and at the time of the video Linus decided the guy should have it as his channel was pretty cool. Since I wasn't a rabid LTT viewer I never saw anything more about it and honestly I probably didn't see another LTT video for a while after that.