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Floatplane is now below 37000 subscribers. (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago by pascal@lemm.ee to c/linustechtips@lemmy.ml

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They have approximately now lost over 5000 subscribers which equates to about $25000 per month or $300000 per year in lost revenue.

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[–] Flaky@iusearchlinux.fyi 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

(which drove a kid and his mom to suicide before)

Wait, what? Do you have a link to anything about this?

[–] net00@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Maybe it was his dad, not entirely sure, but it was real. You can see linus comment on the post from the kids parent:

https://old.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/t1e1if/you_destroyed_my_life/

From what I know the kid had a YT channel, and their parent bought a silver YT play button from the NCIX auction years ago. Linus wanted the button back and they refused. Basement dwellers and bootlickers then proceeded to harass the kid in every way possible contributing to their suicide (and their parent's suicide).

[–] WashedOver@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

Was the Mindchop channel about video games? If so I recall watching a video about the NCIX auctions. I recall the mission being to buy back the youtube play button from Linus' early days there.

I was watching due to the local uproar in the media of all of the customer data on the servers being sold to the highest bidder at the time. Being a former customer of NCIX for my personal system builds I wasn't excited about this.

I thought this guy was an adult if it is the same thing I was thinking about. It was spun as the guy built a cool smaller channel and couldn't get his play button for reasons I didn't understand and at the time of the video Linus decided the guy should have it as his channel was pretty cool. Since I wasn't a rabid LTT viewer I never saw anything more about it and honestly I probably didn't see another LTT video for a while after that.