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[–] fartsparkles@sh.itjust.works 209 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I unsubscribed immediately. What a horribly toxic work environment and unpleasant company. Where I work, and I work for a place far bigger than LTT, no matter your seniority, you’re out the door the same day if you treat a member of staff the way Madison was treated. I’ve seen it happen. The fact she suffered such abuse for years from so many members of staff is indicative of a company so heavily poisonous, they shouldn’t exist. Hopefully other fans can see through their parasocial relationship and cut the cord.

[–] rippersnapper@lemm.ee 61 points 1 year ago (2 children)

At the risk of sounding pedantic, it wasn't for years. But yes, the Madison situation needs to be addressed. Can only hope that the culture is rectified, and whoever assaulted her is found, investigated, and fired if need be.

[–] hansl@lemmy.ml 52 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Having worked at quite a few startups that grew to LTT’s size, there are basically two kinds of CEO/COO; those who want to drive the culture, and those who don’t believe in corporate culture.

I feel Linus is of the second brand, and I’ve seen it enough to know that culture emerging in those conditions get out of control and becomes almost impossible to rectify.

Good luck to LMG, but the top is where culture starts.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

100% agreed, and can anecdotally confirm.

Honestly, I am not sure the culture issue can be corrected unless Linus is forced to at the very least take a BIIIIIIIG step back from day to day operations… because his (lack of) ethics and leadership are, in my eyes, the proximate cause of pretty much all the weird bad shit that’s coming out about LMG - both the provable and public-sphere ethics and data issues, as well as their internal (and admittedly less easily provable, though still extremely concerning) HR/cultural problems.

[–] angelsomething@lemmy.one 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Agreed. Their response made it worse. Watching the PR response today is why I’ve unsubscribed. No thanks.

[–] maiskanzler@feddit.de 15 points 1 year ago

The apology video has such an off vibe to it. They continue making jokes about sponsors, the store and more when it clearly is not the time to do so. It feels unprofessional. After reading Madison's thread it feels even more... wrong. I see what they were going for but it clearly is not working. They should have just stayed serious, addressed the issues and kept the video short. There's more stuff coming to light now and it seems like they need more than this one video now.

[–] TheBat@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I had never subscribed but yesterday I blocked their channels via Blocktube, a Firefox extension.

[–] NightOwl@lemmy.one 8 points 1 year ago

Blocktube once I started using it quickly became an essential extension. Biggest impact is improved search results if you don't have interest in videos of certain big youtubers for some topics that always get push them to the top.

[–] IWantToFuckSpez@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It’s basically caused by crunch culture. Everyone is stressed out and there is no time to breath and reflect. The constant grind turns the environment toxic. And I doubt they have a proper HR team, probably run by a family member.