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What's the deal with Linus tech tips? (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by soullioness@lemmy.ca to c/explainlikeimfive@lemmy.world
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I'm completely out of the loop.

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[–] vis4valentine@lemmy.ml 100 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (24 children)
  • A YouTube channel named "Gamers Nexus" made a video criticisms about LTT hardware Review process.
  • Due to having the pressure to make videos as quickly as possible, the quality control of hardware reviews has suffered, even with the Lab they assembled for testing hardware and presenting detailed benchmarks.
  • A startup sent Linux a watercooling prototype to review, but they tried it on a video card it was not designed for, giving bad results.
  • Then the "sold" the prototype apparently without the full approval of the creators.
  • Linus was dismissive at first, but now the company has responded and said will take quality control more seriously.
  • Now an ex employee named Madison came out telling basically that there is a Guy Bros type culture on LTT, where they made inappropriate comments to her, affecting her mental health, overloading her with work because she had the "funny job" of social media managment, and even verbally abused her. Some instances can be considered sexual harassment.
  • The new CEO of LTT said he was "shocked" by these revelations and will hire an external investigator.
[–] Vlhacs@reddthat.com 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Want to quickly point out that this whole thing was probably prompted by LTT's Lab folks (who's responsible for testing I guess), publicly name-dropping Gamers Nexus when comparing how their own testing methodology was seemingly better.

[–] BlinkAndItsGone@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago

Yeah, most of the answers here seem to miss that part. The LMG lab tech also called out Hardware Unboxed, who responded via Twitter, got flamed by Linus's fans, and that was the end of it. But it sounds like Gamers Nexus was already sick of LMG's shit and that clip was the last straw.

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