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I completely understand why others are unsubbing, but I enjoy the content and want to see how the new CEO ends up handling all of this. Threads like this seem to be inviting everyone to post about how they never liked LTT in the first place, but I wanted to write this down because I’m sure I’m not the only one who actually enjoyed the content and the cool technology and unique solutions they found when building PCs and cooling them.
I mean I don’t watch GPU reviews because they are mostly boring anyways. I only watch for the janky videos and pushing the boundaries and building wanly stuff.
The Madison claims need to be taken serious, but it’s not like this couldn’t be individuals that need to be singled out and kicked out.
So I really don’t get the rage
I really do like his content, I put it on generally when I get home from work and Im cooking dinner.
I’m willing to buy that this was a series of unintentional fuckups and accidentally bad business practices. But I’m also not going to support them if they cant conduct their business ethically, so thats why I unsubbed and shitcanned my Floatplane subscription.
If I feel that they addressed this shit to standards that I’m willing to support their business I’ll probably click the buttons again.
the quality has been going down for years.
Yeah I think LTT has done a lot of great stuff and could do some really amazing stuff yet. I enjoy the content and have supported them, but nobody’s perfect. I don’t think anything they’ve done is worth an unfollow at this point, personally, but I understand why some may not agree.
I think Linus has gotten lost in the sauce. It’s been apparent that everyone there has been exhausted for a while, and I think Linus hasn’t cared for the people working for him as much as his desire for a media empire, which has led to overworking and an unsustainable work environment.
Linus’ take on unions was shitty. IDK if a union could ever start there, but it seems like it could really help the company become more sustainable and keep it on course, because it seems like if the employees had their voices heard things might not have got so bad.
Lemmy (just like Reddit) loves a good dog-pile. It was pretty predictable to see coming tbh
the cool technology and unique solutions they found
Cool technology they barely know how to use. The storage server and Linux challenge videos demonstrated that very nicely. These guys are not tech experts.
Let’s see what happens in a month or 3.
Even Reddit lost viewers, but they are almost back to original.
People will forget and carry on with LTT subscription.
The thing is, although LTT is important to Linus, his wife, and with direct ties, the viewers have many choices today with regards to the tech YouTubers of different nature. This makes it easy to just move one. LTT is a mass marketed channel, not particularly niche in any area of tech and there are many like it.
Just being the messenger here. The problem is that it’s 100k of 15.6 (previously) million. People don’t care, which means nor will Linus. It’s incredibly likely that the “resolution” will amount to nothing, and the channel will remain dead to me.
While youtube hasn’t had much impact (I’m not sure that tracker updates subscriptions very fast either tbh); Floatplane probably will.
From ~42k subscribers down to ~36k. A 16% drop (~$30k/mo at $5 per sub)
Should have spent $500 on employee time!
I’ve said this on another thread, but how had video of several employees confessing to feeling rushed and not putting out product that will be open to critique slip by him. Did he chalk it up to just bros being bitches **(bro speak)
I never really liked ltt but I just don’t care how he treats employees. People can quit.
What a pro-worker stance you have considering the instance you’re on.
Bullied
lol wtf
These things are always temporary. They’ll lose subs for a moment, but then it’ll bounce back like nothing
Yep… it surprises me that people still think that the internet has principles or cares. Haven’t we seen how weak people are for reddit already?
I can’t tell you how disappointed I am on how this ended. I really thought the “Landed Gentry” quip would have had the pouring gasoline to be out a fire effect.
I unsubscribed immediately. What a horribly toxic work environment and unpleasant company. Where I work, and I work for a place far bigger than LTT, no matter your seniority, you’re out the door the same day if you treat a member of staff the way Madison was treated. I’ve seen it happen. The fact she suffered such abuse for years from so many members of staff is indicative of a company so heavily poisonous, they shouldn’t exist. Hopefully other fans can see through their parasocial relationship and cut the cord.
At the risk of sounding pedantic, it wasn’t for years. But yes, the Madison situation needs to be addressed. Can only hope that the culture is rectified, and whoever assaulted her is found, investigated, and fired if need be.
Having worked at quite a few startups that grew to LTT’s size, there are basically two kinds of CEO/COO; those who want to drive the culture, and those who don’t believe in corporate culture.
I feel Linus is of the second brand, and I’ve seen it enough to know that culture emerging in those conditions get out of control and becomes almost impossible to rectify.
Good luck to LMG, but the top is where culture starts.
100% agreed, and can anecdotally confirm.
Honestly, I am not sure the culture issue can be corrected unless Linus is forced to at the very least take a BIIIIIIIG step back from day to day operations… because his (lack of) ethics and leadership are, in my eyes, the proximate cause of pretty much all the weird bad shit that’s coming out about LMG - both the provable and public-sphere ethics and data issues, as well as their internal (and admittedly less easily provable, though still extremely concerning) HR/cultural problems.
Agreed. Their response made it worse. Watching the PR response today is why I’ve unsubscribed. No thanks.
The apology video has such an off vibe to it. They continue making jokes about sponsors, the store and more when it clearly is not the time to do so. It feels unprofessional. After reading Madison’s thread it feels even more… wrong. I see what they were going for but it clearly is not working. They should have just stayed serious, addressed the issues and kept the video short. There’s more stuff coming to light now and it seems like they need more than this one video now.
I was never subbed anyway, but I also made sure to find a LTT vid and click on “don’t recommend channel” on YouTube.
Nuking from orbit is the only way to be sure.
click on “don’t recommend channel” on YouTube.
I’m not very into the tube and had no idea this is an option. I’ll use this going forward. Thanks!
It’s great for when a video that you don’t want to watch just will not get off your homepage.
When (tech)bros post cringe they lose subscriber
I unsubbed a couple of weeks ago because they released that always live video thing and it gave me the shits seeing the icon
Good to see, but I don’t think LTT is going to lose most viewers. At least not anytime soon. They still have an insane amount of views per video and all they really have to do is look like they’re sorry and most of the internet will forget about it. I think LTT, if they continue down this path, should be defunct.
I don’t watch or follow their content and was impressed that they get at least a million views for every video, and they post almost everyday I guess. Holy shit
I wonder who are all these million people per video. Stopped watching LTT years ago.
I’m one. I support LTT even after this
I think you forgot a “/s”
Subscriber count is kind of a bad metric. Most youtubers know that most of their viewers aren’t subscribed, and that most of their subscribers don’t watch all of their videos. It’s a lot more useful for small channels that don’t get recommended to randoms, but the bigger the channel gets the worse it is as a metric.
Subscriber count is kind of a bad metric.
How about floatplane subs?
https://grafana.elizabeth.codes/public-dashboards/10023c4c479744e191760225708c0124?orgId=1&from=now-36h&to=now&refresh=5mCause it looks like that over the past 36 hours they’ve lost >3000 subs there… which IIRC is a paid service.
Edit: Another way to look at how much they’ve lost is ~10%
Not to mention they have so many channels that act as “fluff” that (lack of a better word) normies view casually and move on.
I unsubbed a while ago after discovering it for myself and binging, because I’ve noticed the consumer hate from Linus and odd microagression at nearly all times so I noped out. Everything I learn only makes sense to me tbh. It was heavily foreshadowed.
Well, it seems like they’ve finally admitted to a lot of this from GN (thanks Steve). But, can we at least give them a chance to correct?
massive sexual assault, sexual harassment, and abuse allegations dropped today from a former employee.
Little behind, eh?
Have a read through the pinned post in this community, then ask again.
/edit: https://lemmy.ml/post/3412121 (it’s not pinned anymore)
Uh, wow. Was not aware of this, at all. I was aware of some previous workplace stuff from what, a few months ago. But dam.
Thanks for the reminder.
