Last night, at approximately 2AM ET, a former employee, Madison Reeve, posted a thread on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, accusing Linus Media Group of cultivating a toxic work environment and encouraging a work culture that was detrimental to her health as well as sexual harassment directed at her by Linus Media Group employees.
“I chose to quit my role at LTT because it, and the working environment I was facing, were ruining my mental health,” her statement begins. “My work was called ‘dogshit’ I was called ‘incompetent’. When I would reach out to managers and try to get help with these situations, I would be told to ‘put on my big girl pants’ and be ‘more assertive’.”
Reeve went on to accuse the company of barring her from videos after she reported being “grabbed multiple times in the office” and being told to “calm my tits” and “stop being such a bitch.”
Madisons’ thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1691693740254228741.html
(Content warning: self harm)
I’m pretty sure turning LTT into an enterprise was a bad idea.
There was never a need to share the profits with so many people in the hopes to become more than just a millionaire. Greed’s doing work, I suppose.
Okay. So I’ve gotta find a feature recommendation thing. The ability to block certain words.
5 days ago I had no idea who the hell Linus was. Now my front page is filled with a bunch of random communities all talking about him.
This is fucking exhausting. I’m tired of the endless bickering over internet drama. Is this a problem? Yes. Should they be held responsible? Yes. Does every fucking community that is tangentially related need to be talking about it? No.
He used to be one of the most successful tech help youtubers (had whole series on how to fix computer issues and build PC’s) and now he runs a company that reviews, tests, and fucks around with tech.
Lemmy is filled with tech enthusiasts. How many people have you met on here that profess they’re a “senior dev” or talk about gibberish involving linux? I’m personally surprised there isn’t more talk about Linus.
I mean lemmy is, like the early days of reddit and digg before it, full of tech enthusiasts.
Linus was one of if not the most successful tech YouTuber. He went from a YouTuber to a tech media empire. I don’t know why you’d be surprised that a site that is basically full of his target audience is interested in it.
And honestly this is some awful stuff.
I mean I’m fucking sick of being reminded Trump is a real person, but I’m not surprised by all the coverage of his arrests.
mean lemmy is, like the early days of reddit and digg before it, full of tech enthusiasts.
Linus was one of if not the most successful tech YouTuber. He went from a YouTuber to a tech media empire. I don’t know why you’d be surprised that a site that is basically full of his target audience is interested in it.
And honestly this is some awful stuff.
I mean I’m fucking sick of being reminded Trump is a real person, but I’m not surprised by all the coverage of his arrests.
And to add, he held such away with the tech enthusiast community that, if during the reddit fallout, he had come out and talked shit about lemmy under the guise of some list of reasons and pushed for kbin or even some other service entirely then we would likely see a drastic difference in the number of people that joined here.
This is the worst of it to me. I never expected the kind of standards from LTT that I did from Gamers Nexus, but it was entertaining and they seemed like nice people. Now not so much.
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The company has currently paused all production to improve its review processes, and CEO Terren Tong tells The Verge an outside investigator will be hired to examine the harassment allegations.
“We’ve been seeing an alarming amount of conflicts from Linus Tech Tips as it relates to their corporate connections, their flow of money, and the potential bias as a result of those things,” said Gamers Nexus host Steve Burke.
According to Gamers Nexus, Linus Tech Tips reviewed a copper cooling block from Billet Labs on the wrong GPU, then auctioned it off at a recent fan event without the company’s permission.
The afternoon after Gamers Nexus posted its video, Sebastian began responding to concerned fans in the Linus Tech Tips forums.
Reeve went on to accuse the company of barring her from videos after she reported being “grabbed multiple times in the office” and being told to “calm my tits” and “stop being such a bitch.”
He went on to note that “as part of this process, beyond an internal review we will also be hiring an outside investigator to look into the allegations and will commit to publish the findings and implementing any corrective actions that may arise because of this.”
Are there two autotldr boys and this is the worse one, or am I going crazy? I think the other one has a semicolon in the username.
Both the same bot, just that some communities have asked that the TLDRs be put into spoilers, for some unknown reason
Since this community is on Beehaw, here’s the discussion leading up to the change.
Oooooohhhhhhh snap!
