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It's damage control.
Of course it is. But admitting errors and avoiding to make them again is a pretty effective form of damage control, and it is the kind we should want from any company.
The problem is the founder is still a thin-skinned whiny jerk that made it about 'his poor feelings' and doubled down.
When everyone else in a video is doing the right thing, and the founder is not, you can bet there's a huge toxic culture that a dedicated, but peripheral group is trying to work around - and Madison's tweets show that there's a hell of a lot more toxicity than just their ethical and editorial failings.
That's not at all what happened, and I think you're seriously lacking empathy here. He explained he reacted emotionally, and he's still emotional. This is in no small part his baby. He made the decision to step down before this ever happened because he wanted someone that could do it better at the helm, he realized he had been promoted past his competency, that's not nothing.
People just love drama...
Wow, well, that's one way to attempt to rewrite history. Either you are uninformed, misinformed, or delusional. I suggest you read some of the LTT related topics on the front page.
Try just watching the video. Linus is to my eye being extremely genuine.
I don't get the absurd crusade to crucify someone one barely knows for a situation one barely understands in the name of what... Some self indulgent moral superiority?
It happens every time. "Big publicly recognized figure/company/whatever makes a mistake" and everyone wants their life ruined, speculates to infinity and beyond, and writes off their humanity, etc. And it's happening over increasingly trivial things.
It's an internet mob out on a witch hunt and it's disgusting. This dude and his wife built a company from nothing that has been good to many many people from everything I've taken in over the years. They didn't kill anyone, they screwed up some data in a YouTube video, an employee sold something they shouldn't have (which Linus then tried to rectify), and some allegations have been made without proof by one former employee with no information from the LTT side (and no proof Linus or his team knew anything about the situation or its severity). Meanwhile, y'all are out here screaming for the demise of the whole damn thing, and to screw any second chances. It's a completely disproportionate and unjustified response.
I absolutely hate to see people treat other people in this way.
There is tons of info in this thread about what happened. None of that was a mistake.
Apparently you are just misinformed and seem to have no will to take in the relevant information, which renders your opinion on the matter meaningless.
Maybe you should offer him an actual coutner-argument, instead of just saying "You're wrong and uninformed". You're not even presenting an opinion on the story at all, which is even more meaningless than his actually relevant comments.
The onus is not on me to inform him when he can scroll up and find the original gamers Nexus video, the LTT response, etc.
His arguments have absolutely no basis. There is no point engaging with someone who refuses to inform themselves on all the very public information that is available. Especially when it can be gleaned by nearly zero effort
While also monetizing the video and plugging their merch, in direct contrast to GN not monetizing the original video that started this whole thing. Absolutely brutal move there.
GN monetized their follow up video just the same, pure drama for clicks about a total non issue. But Internet loves this shit. That GN likes to put huge focus on not monetizing and playing "holier than thou"-card isn't exactly a good look either.
GN's follow up video is actually their normally scheduled news vid that happens to address Linus' poor reaction.