This seems to be on Floatplane (?), but has been posted publicly on Discord several times so I’m ok forwarding it here too. From the discussion, they plan to release this on youtube shortly. edit: Now updated with the youtube link. It’s cool that you can change the link after submission on Lemmy!
From discord:
maybe a tightly controlled corporate response was exactly what they needed. Show people they can get something right over the last few days. instead they posted the email with the value of the CPU cooler that the vendor asked LTT to keep private. maybe next video they won’t make a mistake?
The only one giving decent controlled responses here was, as I sort of expected, the new CEO. Everyone else I got the fake apology vibe, especially from Yvonne.
Terran has his work cut out for him, and I don’t really blame him for taking 6 weeks to be a fly on the wall (it’s generally good to learn the current process before coming in and making massive changes) but this week has not been good for LMG and we will see if he manages to make something good from this experience.
Especially things like the Madison situation. I could see him being unaware of it until now, but now it’s time to address that as well.
Her starting out by apologizing for linus was a bad look. Linus still spent half his time trying to justify his actions. I really didn’t need to hear from the head of each department when the mistakes are clearly starting at the top. Plus they monitized it, have merch links in the bio, and plugged the store. I get the attempt at humor but plugging a product (ltt store) while you are apologizing for your product (content) is just not tasteful. I just don’t know how much they’ve taken to heart if they have this whole response ready after a day.
The only people I wanted to hear from on this video were the new CEO, to explain the changes going forward, and maybe Linus, to give an explanation for his behavior after the GN video. I had been considering a floatplane sub and was looking forward to the noctua screwdriver, but I won’t be making either purchase now.
Yeah I noticed that. Idk if LTT were asked not to publish it but GN did censor it. I don’t remember if they said they’d been asked to censor it or if they just took the initiative. It’s not a huge thing but it’s a bit sloppy to publish the number. As others have said, you’d think they’d want to be as clean as a whistle to prove they can do something properly, given the accusations of sloppiness
If I were LTT, I would’ve asked Billet Labs if its okay to reveal that number (not that it’s even relevant) and if I didn’t have time to wait, would’ve erred on the side of caution.
But like LTT said, they’re still them. So I don’t think it’ll get better going forward since they’re doing what looks to me really closely like doing whatever they can to look good despite it potentially hurting others (who they’ve already wronged).
IIRC GN was told to censor it
Lol
Gary Key made yet another mistake in this video lol. He claimed that Linus is the one who said they retest every video - and not his own damn team member.
Looks like they censored it in-place, at least it was when I watched it a couple hours ago.
Or some
PR trainings?just use common sense and read the fucking roomI mean, I hate to do this but if they did, in fact, make a corporate apology video, then the community would mention how soulless and sanitized it felt. So…
These suck for all kinds of reasons, but one of these definitely would have avoided the problems LMG is running into right now. I would say what they really need more than anything is a big, visible commitment to making things right for their employees - an outsider investigating sexual harassment is a start, but maybe also come out with a new less-rushed video schedule, since that’s what literally everyone working there has complained about.
Fucking wow, this is the best version of themselves?