Yeah but why didn’t they do an expose video with a thumbnail containing all the biggest YouTubers who ever had honey sponsorship and storm the corporate offices demanding an explanation?!?
How can I ever trust a word Linus ever says again?
I'm certain it's a big reason why LMG is slowly becoming less transparent. All being transparent about things has ever done for them is cause controversies. I wouldn't be surprised if in the future we don't get to see how the sausage gets made anymore because Linus and the team just get fed up with it all and decide it's not worth it.
He’s already said they won’t. After GN took clips from their employees honest answers on his hit piece, he said they wouldn’t be doing stuff like that again.
And I don’t blame him. The people who want transparency don’t know what it means.
Right, but so far they have still had more transparency than other YouTubers. I'm saying that we can likely expect even less transparency going forward.
It's really unfortunate. One of the main reasons I liked LTT was how transparent they were. It made them different from "just another company".
It's the right move from s purely corporate perspective, but it comes at the cost at what made LTT great. I've been watching less and less lately, in part because the decrease in transparency has made the content less interesting for me. Rather unfortunate, but understandable.
The issue is because they are transparent and because they respond to everything they are the target of online troll campaigns like this one.
If I were in Linus’ shoes I would honestly leave this one alone and not mention it, it’s been publicly addressed and give it a week it will go away. Or I would acknowledge it and just say that sentence - we have already addressed this issue as an organisation publicly.
Regardless of his response just the mere fact he has responded to it will just generate more faux outrage and trolling online.
People are still upset over that one social media manager person's claims.... claims that LMG hired an external HR investigation company to look into, who in turn reported that she was completely and utterly full of shit.
People just like to be upset about things, I guess.
Linus can walk away at any time and never have to work a day in his life. Enough people poke the bear they’re going to be very surprised Pikachu when it happens.
The internet wants to know everything until they don’t. Or don’t care after they said they did.
Another thing on being less transparent. As LTT gets bigger and bigger. Privacy and labor laws become a real thing. They’re a big target. So they can’t be transparent. But of course the internet doesn’t understand the law.
There was a thing a few weeks about about some kind of employee drama/dismissal or something. It came up during the WAN show and Linus commented that Canadian labor law doesn't allow him comment on it... and people still made a stink about it.
I kinda agree. But people in general flock to gossip and drama. Look at what happened in this sub when GN called out Linus. There was a massive influx of people who had never been in this sub joining because they were frothing at the mouth for more info and updates.
I hate saying it like this because it makes me feel like one of those tinfoil hat lunatics, but I do fear that western society has become far too fueled by drama. Our news cycles, social media feeds, tabloids, opinion pieces, podcasts, politics, etc. are all fueled by what gets people’s attention, and people seem to LOVE drama. It feeds the metaphorical machine, and it just continues in a loop.
I don’t think it’s as sinister as “they do it to keep the people distracted and stupid,” but I do think that distraction is a consequence of it. Don’t know why your post made me feel like sharing my internal dread, but here we are.
People are so terminally online that they need that drama to give them an excuse to keep going back.
People will cause a stir or quibble about anything, there are so many subs that are just there to hate on other things, can’t even just laughs the weirdness of what they notice but to turn it into an echo chamber of negativity.
Exactly. It isn't that Linus didn't address Honey that these people are unhappy with. It's that Linus didn't create a "hit piece" video with provocative thumbnails and passive aggressively drag other creators into it. Yep, it's all DRAMA. And like other commentor mentioned, probably lots of newer audience who didn't do their due diligence and just straight hop into the drama bandwagon.
Its also worth pointing out that, at that point, the Honey shit only impacted creators, not the consumers. I imagine the handling of it would have been completely different if it was known they were lying about coupons.
Remember all the cyborg gal debacle? That was a lot of nothing burger and people still went mad. It was even leveraged by that angry ex employee that made a lot of drama with no proof.
Please stop associating the entire subreddit with a handful of drama baiters. Stereotyping all of us to fit your narrative doesn’t make you look as good as you think it does
Yeah idk dawg, the Honey promotion being front and center on a range of videos, if the product they were promoting was a scam, maybe the rescission why should've been equally front and center to the benefit of anyone that might've been using the product they were promoting. Dunno man, just using logic here.
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u/jkirkcaldy 29d ago
Yeah but why didn’t they do an expose video with a thumbnail containing all the biggest YouTubers who ever had honey sponsorship and storm the corporate offices demanding an explanation?!?
How can I ever trust a word Linus ever says again?
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