Dont even need to watch the whole video. This is all you gotta see.

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    Oof, you wanna TL;DR half a week of “influencer” drama? I’ll bite.

    1. On July 28th, Tim “Big Bald Mouth” Holowachuk decided, of his own volition, during the LTX labs tour, to entirely undeservedly diss friendly tech youtubers GN and HUB in a MurfsGaming video released the same day (timestamp: 8:30).
    2. During LTX, a full copper block, artisan prototype owned by Billet Labs (apparently their best performing), previously inaccurately (of course) “tested” by Linus, was fraudulently sold on the silent auction.
    3. HUB answered via a tweet throwing some well deserved shade; while GN, unbeknownst to LMG, had accumulated months worth of data about their repeated egregious errors, inaccuracies and general unprofessionalism, and made an outstanding, demonetized, 45 min long video about it. I highly recommend watching all of it.
    4. Linus responded within hours essentially reading “Yeah, you don’t really deserve an answer, be happy you got one privately. As for the guys we wronged, they don’t matter, and they made an absurdly atrocious product, so who cares. And I didn’t sell it, I auctioned it to profit a charity; plus we already have an agreement on how to compensate Billet Labs.” (that last part was a lie).
    5. GN took the first 12 minutes of their next upload to react on Linus’s atrocious take, commenting how unsavory it is.
    6. Madison Reeves (@suuuoppp), seeing the tide turn after 2 years of silent suffering, decided to publish everything (apparently) she had about her horrible experience (TW: outrageous abuse of authority, humiliation, self harm, sexual harassment & abuse) at LMG. Unfortunately, being mostly ignorant of OpSec, she apparently did not manage to collect much proof. Fortunately, Colin Worobetz (@DubMFG) chimed in, corroborating her version of the facts, and adding a much needed third party confirmation (reddit thread about it).
    7. LMG decided to then publish a sort of “Apology” video (sort of, because not only they managed to sound nauseatingly bland, dishearteningly corporate, incredibly unconcerned, they also plugged their merch, and threw goofy jokes with sexual references around, proving the absolutely laughable extent of their seriousness).
    8. Freeman decided to make a video montage of the much worse, much more boring, much longer video released by LMG, and posted it here. And he’s right. That’s all you really need to see.
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      Legend for putting that all together with links and everything.

    • @[email protected]
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      I didn’t know that Colin came out and said that about Madison’s allegations. Thank you for including that, and I’m glad he did.

        • @[email protected]
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          31 year ago

          Yea, I’m not as invested in this story as others seem to be. I’m on a work trip abroad and am a bit hyperstimulated

          • 7heoM
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            It’s okay. Enjoy the calm moments of your trip, take the opportunities to chill and have a good one. I didn’t mean to be condescending.

    • @ZagamTheVile
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      Who is Colin and where can I see this account? Please?

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        Colin Worobetz, you can find him on twitter (Not sure what’s there tho, twitter is completely locked down now).

    • @puppy
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      Damn! You have done more research than Linus Labs does for a product test!

      • @[email protected]
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        Allegations were around 2am and video was around 7am, but considering how often they get data wrong, im not surprised they didn’t notice it.

    • @[email protected]
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      6 and 7 are in wrong order, and it makes a huge difference. They didn’t have anything about Madison in the video because it was released first.

      • @KeenSnappersDontCome
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        I keep seeing people saying that the LTT video came out first when all I can find supports that Madison’s tweet came out first. Its likely LTT made and released the video before they were aware of the tweet.

        The timestamps I can see (in my local time of -7)
        Madison’s tweet 11:09 PM · Aug 15, 2023

        LTT video 2023-08-16 / 03:33:44

        Madison’s tweet came out 4 hours and 24 minutes before the video was published.

        Additionally the Verge article states a similar timeline.

        Linus Tech Tips posted its latest video at approximately 7AM ET. However, last night, at approximately 2AM ET, a former employee, Madison Reeve, posted a thread on X

      • @[email protected]
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        Maybe you pull your apology video with sexual innuendo in it and remake parts without it if you end up cross-posting with SA allegations, just saying it’s not a great look