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This is fucking awful, I'm actually shocked, and with other leaked testimonies from other former employees I don't think any of this is false. She doesn't have anything to profit from this. I'm glad my adblock has always been on and I use invidious because I would have felt sick knowing I supported these assholes at LTT. Anyways I unsubbed from anything LTT and won't watch any more of their garbage.
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Posting because I can't figure out how to save on this client yet and I want to read this thread. feel free to ignore or download as you wish.
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Can we talk about his reverence for Israel as well? That one video and his commentary on it (or maybe lack of) rubbed me the wrong way.
What's that video? I missed that one, yikes from the sounds of it.
it's the one where they visit the intel fab. I watched the first minute when he mentioned the location, and made it seem like the country paid him to visit?? so I just clicked away in disgust
I haven't seen the video and won't, but to be fair Israel is a country with a lot of history and interesting things. The government of Israel is just pretty shit, and the circumstances of it being created are equally shitty.
Israel has no history, only a criminal record
They are a nation with borders. Whether you agree with then or not doesn't change the fact they occupy historic ground. Try taking a plane to there and you'll find out they exist, whether you like them or not.
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It is difficult to discern whether this is malice or Linus just being too incompetent, emotionally directed, & aloof to actually run LMG. He should have thought much more carefully before scaling to where they are now.
making her work OnlyFans after she said no clearly is sexual harassment and clearly intentional.
They opened a WHAT?
I think it started as an April Fools bit but for some godforsaken reason they decided to keep it and assign one of the only female staff members to work it over her clearly stated objections, where she was subjected to people fantasizing about having sex with her, along with pictures of genitalia.
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I think the issues and harassment she faced were very real, and are all very serious complaints.
But calling a job stressful where you had to make six social media posts a day and two fluff videos a week? I mean…
Honestly, that's a much larger issue to me than the beef with GN. Forcing the image of a super cool liberal easy company while being as shitty as every other bigger greedy firm. So sad.
Forcing someone to run an onlyfans is fucking insane and should 100% be a lawsuit, that's disgusting.
There are people that I know that would run an onlyfans for a decent paycheck and not be bothered by it at all. It's actually pretty easy to find someone who would do that just go into any sex store and offer the cashier above minimum wage and there's a good chance they would take the job.
I've been watching LTT since I was 13, this past few weeks has completely changed my perspective on them in a very negative way and I'm extremely disappointed.
Yeah that's a super weird one, why did they even have an only fans?
Been out of the loop last few weeks but damn, all of a sudden LTT has been getting so much hate lately almost everywhere I look.
As they should.
Linus has come out to be manipulative, extremely thin skinned, and the epicentre of most of what's wrong with LTT right now.
From rejecting content creators' pleas to redo shoots due to errors, belittling people for complaints both in the company and out in the community (including product partners), to being a source of the misogyny and maltreatment of women, it's clear that he himself has lost sight of what LTT was.
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I had heard Linus' anti-union remarks on WAN Show and was slightly weirded out, because I don't believe for a second that a company owner AND manager of a company much smaller than theirs has enough time and resources to really be in touch with what their workers need, even if they have the best intentions.
There once was a WAN Show segment about quiet quitting and his fear that people might do that and it came across as if he was more scared that his employees might do it and thereby "hurt the company" than him being interested in why people feel compelled to only work the minimum amount required. As if he was expecting people to always give him 110%.
Even 90% is enough, that's just reality. If you have people working for you full time, you can't just pay them for their most productive and focused time. There's also socializing with coworkers, taking short breaks and being creative without direct output. It's all part of being a team. A good and healthy team that feels appreciated can take up extra work and make short extra bursts as they become necessary, but that can never be the expected normal.
There was also some WAN Show segment about compensation, free time and the likes that was weird. Maybe it was part of one of the upper two, I don't quite remember. It's a bit fuzzy but I remember that I was a little surprised that they operated on the same scheme of low amount of days off + limited sick days system that many US/North-American companies seem to run on. I get that it's normal in that part of the world, but I still had this idea in my head that they were somehow different. It all felt so quirky, close-knit and best-buddy-like in the videos. That made me think that they were somehow more progressive and worker focused than it turns out after all.
Hearing these allegations is like finding that missing puzzle piece and suddenly it fits into a much bigger picture. I had a lot of respect for Linus and his company and really believed that they were "better". I really like their content, it is super entertaining and of very consistent quality. They are experts at making things accessible and interesting for a broader audience. But they are also running in a giant hamster wheel that is the youtube algorithm and several daily uploads.
Very sad to see how all this could happen. Even worse is how all of this is being handled. They need a proper restructuring because these problems seem to be structural and deep-rooted. I wish Madison all the best!
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LTT is approaching Amazon levels of fucked up