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- technology@lemmy.world
- pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
- technology@beehaw.org
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- pcmasterrace@lemmy.world
- technology@beehaw.org
Linus Media Group CEO Terren Tong also responded via email, saying he was “shocked at the allegations and the company described” in Reeve’s posts. He went on to note that “as part of this process, beyond an internal review we will also be hiring an outside investigator to look into the allegations and will commit to publish the findings and implementing any corrective actions that may arise because of this.”
Citing an article that cites a Reddit post isn’t great. Let’s link to the original https://old.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/t1e1if/you_destroyed_my_life/
While the story is tragic, somebody running a million plus sub YouTube channel is going to get the full Internet experience. It’s pure muckracking to say Linus was responsible for this. It’s just sensationalism.
The reason for the harassment was that the kids channel was purchased from someone else and also had paid subscriptions/views, hence why he never got a silver play button.
Linus wasn’t responsible directly, and it’s completely unfair to imply he’s the one who did this. He did not drive this poor person into suicide, this is not on him.
But absolutely there’s something to be said about how big YouTubers use their platform to mobilize their audiences. When was the last time fans of a Disney Channel actor drove someone to suicide? On YouTube, that’s actually so frequent it’s scary.
If you know you’re on a live stream with thousands listening, and millions watching the recording, you can’t simply start implying things about a kid with a public channel. Regardless of your intentions, you know what’s about to happen.
And Linus did, in fact, keep hyping that useless plaque and did, in fact, act like it was stolen from him. It was only later on that his tone changed.
I think watching that auction video is very illuminating about his personality. He’s in full narcissist mode, but you can see him work out what he’s doing. And then he starts to backpedal, because I don’t think he’s a bad human being. He doesn’t want to hurt this guy. He just needed to time to stop being a narcissist.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDZfh5IjGv8
All that being said I think it’s incredibly unfair to bring normal people onto a large media platform. Just fucking going into the auction and recording people for the channels just not cool.
Edit: I originally said videotape, but I realize nobody does that anymore
Oh yeah, I absolutely do no want to imply malice - I don’t know him, but would never think Linus would purposely do something like that.
But he is massively narcissistic, for sure.
I think we can go beyond the malice standard and talk about reasonableness. I didn’t see anything in that entire auction scenario that was unreasonable. We can nitpick about lots the specifics but nothing was unreasonable. Even managing the audience was all reasonable.
To bring this scenario up at this time, as that article does, is just trying to add field to the fire. And not actually be constructive.
If that article, " journalist", had done some fact checking research, then at least they’d be adding to the discussion, and it’d be maybe not reasonable but justifiable to bring it up… Like finding the name of the deceased, verifying they died, verifying they died at that time for that reason. Verifying the story about the mother also being dead. All of this should be discoverable public record to a journalist who wants to verify a story. Talking to the father getting their position. What were the contributing factors to the event. What evidence of systemic harassment was there? Like all of this would be fundamental to journalism. But no it’s just shit posting pointing to somebody’s post on the internet which they haven’t done any verification of…