Linus Tech Tips pauses production as controversy swirls
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The controversy continues to grow.

Linus Media Group CEO Terren Tong also responded via email, saying he was “shocked at the allegations and the company described” in Reeve’s posts. 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.”

      • @[email protected]
        3•11 months ago

        The reason for the harassment was that the kids channel was purchased from someone else and also had paid subscriptions/views, hence why he never got a silver play button.

    • hexaflexagonbear [he/him]English
      16•11 months ago

      The fanbase is insane considering it’s a slightly snarky tech review channel. Like how do you get rabid fans doing that??

      • roadkill
        7•11 months ago

        As I saw someone else… LTT Fans are the “the Canadian Dollar Store version of Musk Fanboys”… and yeah. I think that’s apt.

        Insecure weird nerds needing someone to simp for. Obsessive and creepy fanboy behavior seems to follow any public figure with a history of immature (read: misguided assumptions of what ‘Alpha’ is) behavior.

    • mihnt
      13•11 months ago

      I remember the video that this stems from. He wasn’t exactly a “little boy”, and I don’t mean by size. I mean that he was near or at adulthood.

      Linus gave up the plaque to him realizing that he had won the auction fair and square and even plugged his channel on the video.

      We don’t know how much Linus knew about his community doing this. Scouring the comments of Mindchop’s channel shows no harassment that I can see so far. However, I do admit the harassment could have taken place through DMs and other private communication.

      • @[email protected]
        3•11 months ago

        Mindchop’s channel shows no harassment that I can see so far.

        Even now his most recent video is 10:1 dislike to like ratio:

        • mihnt
          -3•11 months ago

          I meant verbal harassment. Votes can be from anywhere.

      • roadkill
        0•11 months ago

        The plugging of the channel and Linus voicing his upset about losing the plaque…

        …caused his weird, creepy fanboys to target him.

        How about just not saying anything about it, eh, Linus?

        “This person upset me, btw here’s his channel.”

    • came_apart_at_Kmart [he/him, comrade/them]English
      10•11 months ago

      god that’s heartbreaking. i had never heard of any of this before today. what a massive implosion.

      maybe i’m too dumb or old, but i cannot wrap my head around why “fans” are loyal to some sponsored content/native marketing organization like this enough to follow some kid around youtube and crap on their content. or harass someone doing their job. having to do tons of social media content professionally seems soul destroying… especially because “the bosses” only think about The Algorithm and maybe saw some SEO snakeoil pub telling them it’s better to generate 8 weak outputs than 2 strong outputs worth watching, because the “goal” is to harvest all those passive clicks and views of people who are bored out of their skull barely playing on their phone… instead of maybe targeting someone actively engaged and searching for something well made and relevant to their interests.

      so you get overpaid bozos who don’t know fuck about shit leaning heavy on underpaid young people to make more internet garbage for the sake of making more internet garbage, and then later complaining that views per output are down or reactions are lukewarm or engagement is off. imagine that job and then a handful of fuckups following you around and shitting on your online presence because you’re doing what you’re told in order to have a roof over your head and food to eat and dreams of a mildly secure future.

      as someone who was once idealistic and full of energy and stamina that was taken advantage of by ego-driven and deceptive exploiters: beware assholes, the rest of us can come together and build a world without a place for you in it.