What started as criticism over errors in recent YouTube videos has escalated into allegations of sexual harassment, prompting the company to hire an outside investigator.

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    1 year ago

    Can someone sum up the controversy? I’ve seen quite a bit but not sure exactly what’s what.

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      Basically, ltt auctioned off a small startups best prototype after telling them they’d get it back. This is after they fucked up the testing and gave them an unfair horrible review.

      This comes after a long line of testing fuckups that required corrections that were never properly made, on a pretty frequent basis.

      And to top it all off, a former employee was bullied and sexually harrassed until she quit.

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      They are running their business like teenage kids. An adult pointed out some flaws and they decided they’re a minority and are being oppressed. In reality the adult has 15 times less viewer following than the self proclaimed victims. Also, they treat their crew like dog shit and with that came allegations of misogyny which their behaviour seem to support the idea they are, in fact mistreating women. But without concrete evidence these will have to be considered allegations for the time being.

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        The train wreck ain’t stopping at the locomotive.

        edit: I’ve read the thread and removed the meme, this isn’t the time for memes, holy fuck.

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      One additional point I think some others left out, in a recent LTT lab tour video, an employee took potshots at GamersNexus and HardwareUnboxed by saying LTT wasn’t reusing benchmark test results and implying GN and HUB were. HUB responded on twitter pointing out they they’d rerun many benchmarks and pointed to some quality issues in LMG tests. Linus responded on the WAN show in a pretty dismissive way and mentioned journalistic integrity or something. This seems to have lead GN to make that 45 minute video which includes a bunch of evidence from LMG videos.

      Toxic workplace accusations aside for a moment, some of this might have blown over were it not were Linus’s shitty handling at every turn. He probably could’ve diffused some of this current situation, but just keeps being dismissive and adversarial. Steve of GN said they’d been thinking about these issues for the past few months, but I’m not sure this video would’ve dropped this week or in quite the same format had Linus not fucked up his response on the WAN show.