According to Billet themselves, they heard nothing about compensation or payback until about 3 hours after the original GN video went live… Which Billet hadnt even replied to before Linus made his post saying they’ve already made the deal on compensation.
I may just be emotionally distanced enough from the channel to feel this way but I feel like this just isn’t that big of a deal. At worst everything seems like negligence and/or incompetence and I don’t see his main audience caring unless they already have a few bones to pick with Linus personally like a lot of people in these comments seem to.
The cover up is worse than the crime. Being wrong like that is bad, but it’s fixable and understandable the way the company is growing. Selling the prototype is a huge deal, both ethically and for future collaborations. But his statement after the fact stopped me from re-subbing to Floatplane. The response pissed me off.
Yep. Everything happened kinda fast, but what everyone is mad about is what Linus said and did after Steve made the reaction video to Tim “Big mouth” Holowachuk dissing GN and HUB for their “amateurism”.
The right way to react would have been “The opinions Tim Holowachuk expressed are his personal opinions and are not endorsed by LTT or LMG. We have explained him they were out of place in a piece like this, and there will be some time before he gets an opportunity to express his opinions again in the name of LTT/LMG. We deeply apologize for his words, and to reiterate, to not agree in the slightest. Now, considering the other points highlighted by Steve in the video, they are, indeed, alarming. We are going to take some steps back, hold on releasing any videos for a few days, and think about all this. See you all in a short while.”
Occasional inaccuracies/mistakes are to be expected and are excusable; but a regular and consistent pattern of these mistakes bridges the gap to willful, almost intentional, negligence.
That is not ok. (and is a huge part of why I don’t regularly watch LTT anymore.)
LTT has chosen to focus on quantity instead of quality, so much so that the quality has slipped well below what many find useful/helpful. Having lots of content isn’t beneficial if none of that content holds any value so far fewer people want to watch it.
I think pretty much any creator can agree 1 banger video with 100m views is far better than producing 100videos each only getting 1m.
Put more effort into quality; then reaching that self-imposed weekly video count won’t be so important to the bottom line.