Is there a video, stream, forum post showing that Linus encouraged his fan base? Or proof that he discouraged them from continuing the harrassment? Fans get rabid. Comes with the territory. I would not neccessarily blame their actions on the content creator unless they were shown to have encouraged or knew the situation and not adequately discouraged the behavior
He did adress it in a WAN show (here) at the ~10 minute mark, but he’s still responsible for the original video. Besides, only a fraction of his viewers watch the WAN show, anything he says there will remain unseen by most.
Ok. Yeah, I think this follows the pattern that NG pointed out of the team not properly making corrections/edits to their videos when needed. Pointing it out on this separate smaller platform is equivalent to secretly updating the original video with corrections after millions of viewers have already viewed it and are for sure not going to come back and rewatch just in case it changed. This shitty behavior was already happening back in 2018 except the subject is much more egregious than wrong testing results or specs for hardware.
Every person with a larger online following is absolutely partly responsible to their fans behavior when it happens en masse. Especially if your audience is partly kids. They look up to you and you profit from them consuming your content so it’s your moral responsibility to direct them in the right direction.
That’s why I’m asking if he put out a message strongly discouraging this behavior. And, no, ultimately, you have no control of what those fans do in your name. Your responsibility ends if you make a good faith effort to call those fans out for and show strongly that you are not supporting their behavior
Is there a video, stream, forum post showing that Linus encouraged his fan base? Or proof that he discouraged them from continuing the harrassment? Fans get rabid. Comes with the territory. I would not neccessarily blame their actions on the content creator unless they were shown to have encouraged or knew the situation and not adequately discouraged the behavior
He did adress it in a WAN show (here) at the ~10 minute mark, but he’s still responsible for the original video. Besides, only a fraction of his viewers watch the WAN show, anything he says there will remain unseen by most.
Ok. Yeah, I think this follows the pattern that NG pointed out of the team not properly making corrections/edits to their videos when needed. Pointing it out on this separate smaller platform is equivalent to secretly updating the original video with corrections after millions of viewers have already viewed it and are for sure not going to come back and rewatch just in case it changed. This shitty behavior was already happening back in 2018 except the subject is much more egregious than wrong testing results or specs for hardware.
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Every person with a larger online following is absolutely partly responsible to their fans behavior when it happens en masse. Especially if your audience is partly kids. They look up to you and you profit from them consuming your content so it’s your moral responsibility to direct them in the right direction.
That’s why I’m asking if he put out a message strongly discouraging this behavior. And, no, ultimately, you have no control of what those fans do in your name. Your responsibility ends if you make a good faith effort to call those fans out for and show strongly that you are not supporting their behavior