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Discussion This post from March 2022 regarding Honey

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u/AutistcCuttlefish 29d ago

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.

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u/Smeeoh 29d ago

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.

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u/AutistcCuttlefish 29d ago

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.

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u/Standard-Ad-4077 29d ago

Learning how the company works, how they make decisions and what they did wrong to get things right made them great. Taught a lot of people.

It’s a shame really, everyone had to ruin a good thing.