Narcissist YouTuber, but I repeat myself, has trouble backing down and taking feedback.
Now that there’s some drama people are dogpiling with more drama, related to ex employees.
My guess is we’re not going to see much more drama from the LTT side. The new CEO is going to go silent running for a while, which is probably their best course of action. Then release of statement that they’re going to investigate the exemployee’s accusations, but since it’s a private matter they can’t talk about a publicly. Which again is the most reasonable thing they can do.
In a week they’ll start publishing videos again without talking about either event. Maybe in a month they’ll be a follow-up on their new processes.
So for the next week everyone’s going to brigade against LTT because it’s fun to do, and then it will blow over.
The memes though, the memes will be legendary!
don’t forget the Blizzard apology – “We’re sorry you feel upset.”
That didn’t happen.
And if it did, it wasn’t that bad.
And if it was, that’s not a big deal.
And if it is, that’s not my fault.
And if it was, I didn’t mean it.
And if I did, you deserved it.
-The Narcissist’s Prayer
The Rooster Teeth method
I just started listening to their DnD podcast, what did they do??
What started as a few friends dicking around together, RT grew to be one of the giants in the YouTube space (probably still is). A lot of the edgy humor that flew with the team and also the fans in the 2010s but generally not accepted now, stayed with them as they grew bigger. There were multiple allegations of sexual harassments, racism, and not to mention the Adam Kovic/Ryan Haywood stuff.
Come to think of it, not much controversy has been popping up from them lately. Maybe it’s because I don’t really watch their content anymore, or they have actually improved their work culture since then.
“Knows of Linus Tech Tips but hasn’t watched it”: kalm
“Read the latest drama and how Linus is a horrible person”: panik
“It’s not Linus Torvalds”: kalm
Okay honest confession… I read it enough to make sure it wasn’t Torvalds.
A actually Linus Torvalds already got accusations of sexism and toxic behavior
Letting this stand this way is close to misinformation.
Linus Torvalds got accused of sexism, as to be expected with a person so public, but nobody ever proved anything. In contrast he shows the opposite of sexist behaviour nearly every day by working with all people equally on the Linux kernel. Also his daughter Patricia is a feminist and he fully supports her. Honestly I am surprised that with so much of his communication being public (Mailing list discussions) nobody found any piece which sounds outright sexist. Not even a bad joke. He is a role model regarding this.
His toxic behavior is another thing. And also up for discussion I think. Firm words to discourage bad behavior regarding contributions to the kernel. He went to far at times, recognized it, and improved. He still has the stance to not use overly polite words to play around any bad statements, which many think is correct to improve communication and finding a common ground instead of secretly harboring ever greater dissent. Many discussions by many qualified people on this in the net.
These e-mails are public where he’s quite toxic towards developers.
But that was a few years ago by now and it’s been handled.
Afaik, this Maddison case started in 2021. She now came to light with all the accusations but what happened did happened in 2021. My guess is whatever she was complaining about was already solved since they got a shitload of new management people to handle those cases.
Might be, don’t know. Depends on how seriously it was taken back then. If they dismissed it, then no changes had to have been made. Since Madison quit anyway there was no urgency to do anything.
You’re not missing much.
I was just happy to realize this afternoon that this is a different Linus than Linus Torvalds. I was very confused this morning how out of the loop I was to not realize The Linus had become a youtuber. Now this makes more sense (or at least I no longer care at all)
This Linus failed to install Linux multiple times, but is somehow a prominent tech influencer.
My first introduction to him is when he had like a PetaByte of data on a huge array that wasent backed up, and then managed to physically drop it somehow?
As i recall actual tech youtubers flew out and helped him recover data off of it.
Dropping things has been his specialty since he dropped an early prototype of the RX480 at a trade show event. I’m still not sure if he’s really that clumsy or if he intentionally drops things for entertainment value, but he drops an awful lot of things.
To be fair, I am also a clumsy son of a bitch and have dropped quite a few expensive items that I have purchased with my own money
lmao, the duality of Linus
relatable
Hobbydrama needs a place on the fediverse.
We just need knowledgeable, skilled summarizers to actually fill it 🥲
is there somewhere I can be updated?
Most of it is floating around the fediverse, but a quick rundown from my superficially gleaned view:
Someone called out LTT for shitty quality videos, LTT responded publicly in a roundabout snarky way. Then a former employee called out LTT for their shitty treatment of employees, which LTT responded in an even more snarky way. Their subscriber count took a hit, and it’s all been going downhill since then.
I’m sure someone will come along with more details, but that’s about the jist of it.
