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Linus Tech Tips pauses production as controversy swirls - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

submitted 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Last night, at approximately 2AM ET, a former employee, Madison Reeve, posted a thread on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, accusing Linus Media Group of cultivating a toxic work environment and encouraging a work culture that was detrimental to her health as well as sexual harassment directed at her by Linus Media Group employees.

“I chose to quit my role at LTT because it, and the working environment I was facing, were ruining my mental health,” her statement begins. “My work was called ‘dogshit’ I was called ‘incompetent’. When I would reach out to managers and try to get help with these situations, I would be told to ‘put on my big girl pants’ and be ‘more assertive’.”

Reeve went on to accuse the company of barring her from videos after she reported being “grabbed multiple times in the office” and being told to “calm my tits” and “stop being such a bitch.”

Madisons' thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1691693740254228741.html
(Content warning: self harm)

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 10 months ago (20 children)

I was only vaguely aware of this guy. When he released his ratcheting driver gadget a while back, it popped up on a YT review channel that I do watch. Out of curiosity I looked into it.

This Linus guy immediately struck me as a weasel and a d-bag. I don't have any super powers of observation. People should trust their instincts better. Human instincts are bad compared to animals, but one thing we're all pretty naturally good at is detecting scumbags. Listen to your instincts, folks. His "charm" is as real as CheezWhiz.

[–] [email protected] 67 points 10 months ago (8 children)

I firmly disagree with this post. People should not just “rely on their instincts,” which have proven time and again to be highly inaccurate and subject to bias. This is starting to look like what those “body language experts” do, and those people have lower accuracy than a coin toss in controlled experiments.

The only reliable way to tell if someone is lying is through actual evidence. What we know so far certainly paints LMG in a bad light, but I will continue to wait for more information to come out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Evidence is better than instinct, no argument there. But you don't always have access to evidence, and ignoring your instincts to jump on a fan bandwagon is ill advised.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I reject the framing of "ignoring your instincts" and "jumping on a fan bandwagon" as a dichotomy. You have the option to just do... neither of those things. Admit the limits of your own knowledge and avoid taking too strong a stance either way.

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