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At least, some of the recent controversies.

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 10 months ago (21 children)

I am carefully optimistic about this. They addressed the problems and seem to take some time to fix them. I hope they will focus on quality over quantity as they promised.

[–] [email protected] 47 points 10 months ago (7 children)

After all the shit Madison revealed, you’re going to give these creeps a chance?

The PC world truly is a toxic cesspool if you can sand behind these assholes a second longer.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (3 children)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Madison, a former LMG employee who handled the social media part of the business, posted a series of tweets alleging a slew of accusations of sexual harassment and paints a picture of a very toxic and abusive workplace.

Personally, I don't know how much stock I put into all of that just yet. She didn't come with receipts, so right now that part of the story is still mostly "he said she said" until either Madison posts more details about specific incidents or if LMG responds to her claims directly.

Edit: Link to Madison's tweets, mirrored off-site from Twitter: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1691693740254228741.html

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

Madison, a former employee, basically described a terrible working environment. She was bait and switched on several aspects of the role, and only found out after giving up her US visa and moving to Canada. She was constantly berated, sexually harassed in many ways, made to manage an only-fans despite making her discomfort known, the expectations of releases were unreasonable and her coworkers sabotaged her by knowingly setting her up to release videos with incorrect facts. Taking any of this to HR, or even Linus himself, ended with her being laughed off or told to stop being a tattle tale

All this is alleged and there's a lot more, but the kicker to me is the fact she cut her leg bad enough to need staples, because going to the ER was the only way she felt she could get badly needed time off.

That's what seals it for me - either she's a borderline nightmare, or the working situation is far beyond the pale. Add in the fact the pressure to release, inaccuracies, and public glimpses of Linus's attitude, and I'm inclined to believe it's more true than false

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