Linus Tech Tips Video was released today, however it isn't a proper apology video, but just an attempt to salvage the PR. Here are some of the cringe moment...
Dont even need to watch the whole video. This is all you gotta see.
Oof, you wanna TL;DR half a week of “influencer” drama? I’ll bite.
On July 28th, Tim “Big Bald Mouth” Holowachuk decided, of his own volition, during the LTX labs tour, to entirely undeservedly diss friendly tech youtubers GN and HUB in a MurfsGaming video released the same day (timestamp: 8:30).
During LTX, a full copper block, artisan prototype owned by Billet Labs (apparently their best performing), previously inaccurately (of course) “tested” by Linus, was fraudulently sold on the silent auction.
Linus responded within hours essentially reading “Yeah, you don’t really deserve an answer, be happy you got one privately. As for the guys we wronged, they don’t matter, and they made an absurdly atrocious product, so who cares. And I didn’t sell it, I auctioned it to profit a charity; plus we already have an agreement on how to compensate Billet Labs.” (that last part was a lie).
LMG decided to then publish a sort of “Apology” video (sort of, because not only they managed to sound nauseatingly bland, dishearteningly corporate, incredibly unconcerned, they also plugged their merch, and threw goofy jokes with sexual references around, proving the absolutely laughable extent of their seriousness).
Freeman decided to make a video montage of the much worse, much more boring, much longer video released by LMG, and posted it here. And he’s right. That’s all you really need to see.
Stop lying. And if you go with “eh I didn’t know!”: you didn’t even take the time to read the other answers to this comment. You’re not the first one to try…
Didn’t notice, or did¹, and expected it to blow over more or less silently as usual.
1) I can’t imagine a social media company not having automated alerts in place checking their former employees’s social media feeds for keywords (like their company names and acronyms, brands, the names of their management (first, last, both) and various “hot” keywords, such as alleg*, abus*, fired, I quit, etc).
Please make explicit in your comment that the video didn’t come out before the allegations (by 4 and a half hours, include that if you want, I don’t care), or I will remove it. I have too much misinformation to deal with, I can’t leave “vague” statements up.
I keep seeing people saying that the LTT video came out first when all I can find supports that Madison’s tweet came out first. Its likely LTT made and released the video before they were aware of the tweet.
The timestamps I can see (in my local time of -7) Madison’s tweet 11:09 PM · Aug 15, 2023
Madison’s tweet came out 4 hours and 24 minutes before the video was published.
Additionally the Verge article states a similar timeline.
Linus Tech Tips posted its latest video at approximately 7AM ET. However, last night, at approximately 2AM ET, a former employee, Madison Reeve, posted a thread on X
Maybe you pull your apology video with sexual innuendo in it and remake parts without it if you end up cross-posting with SA allegations, just saying it’s not a great look
Oof, you wanna TL;DR half a week of “influencer” drama? I’ll bite.
Legend for putting that all together with links and everything.
Thank you so much 🙏. It’s refreshing to be called something nice for once.
I didn’t know that Colin came out and said that about Madison’s allegations. Thank you for including that, and I’m glad he did.
It’s kind of the banner of the community since yesterday, no biggie… 😅
Yea, I’m not as invested in this story as others seem to be. I’m on a work trip abroad and am a bit hyperstimulated
It’s okay. Enjoy the calm moments of your trip, take the opportunities to chill and have a good one. I didn’t mean to be condescending.
Is that the guy who looks like Andrew Tate? (Who also kinda looks like that ogre in Harry Potter 1)
The very same.
Who is Colin and where can I see this account? Please?
Colin Worobetz, you can find him on twitter (Not sure what’s there tho, twitter is completely locked down now).
Damn! You have done more research than Linus Labs does for a product test!
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Stop lying. And if you go with “eh I didn’t know!”: you didn’t even take the time to read the other answers to this comment. You’re not the first one to try…
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Allegations were around 2am and video was around 7am, but considering how often they get data wrong, im not surprised they didn’t notice it.
Didn’t notice, or did¹, and expected it to blow over more or less silently as usual.
1) I can’t imagine a social media company not having automated alerts in place checking their former employees’s social media feeds for keywords (like their company names and acronyms, brands, the names of their management (first, last, both) and various “hot” keywords, such as
alleg*,abus*,fired,I quit, etc).Please make explicit in your comment that the video didn’t come out before the allegations (by 4 and a half hours, include that if you want, I don’t care), or I will remove it. I have too much misinformation to deal with, I can’t leave “vague” statements up.
6 and 7 are in wrong order, and it makes a huge difference. They didn’t have anything about Madison in the video because it was released first.
Tweet: 2023-08-16T06:09:52.483Z
Video: 2023-08-16T10:33:44Z
That’s four and a half full hours prior. Wanna try again?
I keep seeing people saying that the LTT video came out first when all I can find supports that Madison’s tweet came out first. Its likely LTT made and released the video before they were aware of the tweet.
The timestamps I can see (in my local time of -7)
Madison’s tweet 11:09 PM · Aug 15, 2023
LTT video 2023-08-16 / 03:33:44
Madison’s tweet came out 4 hours and 24 minutes before the video was published.
Additionally the Verge article states a similar timeline.
Maybe you pull your apology video with sexual innuendo in it and remake parts without it if you end up cross-posting with SA allegations, just saying it’s not a great look