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The "haha, we've made an oopsie" tone of the video (sponsorship jokes, plugging their store link, possible sex joke, deflecting to "I'm just a human" instead of fully taking the blame) don't sit right with me. I was also hoping they would address Madison's comments on why she quit.
I think Madison's post happened after the video was planned, so it's understandable why that's not addressed. But Linus really has to address what she's said on the forums ASAP at least, because there's a lot of damning claims towards his company from her.
Also, they should stop deleting all mentionings of the Madison thing on the apology video as they doing are now, makes it all seem very disingenuous and fake.
Can confirm. They appear to be doing it manually, so lots are still up (for now), but entire threads are being disappeared.
It should be it's own topic of discussion. It makes sense why they're trying to control the comments on that video specifically.
Given his responses so far, he's probably just going to dig his hole even further.
I really want to make a joke about how they could have added an annotation on the video to address it and how it would have taken “$500 of people’s time” but her post was super gross (about the company, not her) and that’s more of a poison pill for a company than the sloppiness IMHO.
I don’t watch LMG content and I have intention of starting to so I don’t have a dog in this fight but I always thought of LMG as “decent content but too over the top and silly for me”, the “decent content” part is in question now and the workplace allegations leave a bad taste in my mouth for sure.
I thought this video was very well done aside from:
“I don’t agree with ALL the criticisms” - ok, then expand on that
Store plug - read the room, I thought the sponsor joke was ok but then they did it twice and plugged the store.
“6 9’s” - didn’t we just talk about filtering for sexual innuendos? Look I don’t give a fuck but, again, read the room
Linus’ whole section - it really felt genuine then he came on and came off as a petulant child
To quote poetry:
Sex joke?
"6 9s"
Thats not a sex joke, that's just a server uptime thing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability
🙄 I want you to tell me with a straight face that you honestly believe someone could say something like "six nines..." whilst simultaneously quirking their eyebrow and striking a dual fingerguns pose without an implied double meaning...
For Pete's sake, the editor even inserted a zoom cut and delayed the next shot transition for comedic effect!
Worth noting that the "69... Nice" joke is not just a universal meme, but also specially part of LTT in-jokes. So it's very much in character for Linus or others at LMG to say something like that, but I am honestly disappointed that it came from Luke.
Yeah I get the various other critiques others have for this video but complaining about the "potential sex jokes" is a stretch.
Agreed