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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 96 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • 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.
[-] MossyFeathers@pawb.social 31 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

"""shocked!"""

Also, she claims she had to slash open her leg in order to take a day off without being harassed for it.

[-] vis4valentine@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago

Also, lets remember that when activison Blizzard got shit about the gigantic amounts of sexual harassment allegations, they pulled a "we investigates ourselves and found we did nothing wrong" and is still avoiding being investigates by independents.

Immediatly jumping to hire an external investigator is a good move from the CEO, given how low the bar is.

[-] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I do remember. I would be playing Diablo IV right now if not for their bro culture crap. Oh well.

[-] Arbiter@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it really is the best thing he could do in this scenario.

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