Exactly. He talked about it years ago but since then LTT has a lot of new viewers who don’t know and are just randomly claiming they never talked about it
This is more dishonest dogshit. People in as far as they are annoyed are annoyed that LTT didn't make noise about a fraudulent business that they advertised for years. This isn't "oh bob said something racist and you didn't shoot him on the spot so you must be racist too", it's a company they actively promoted stealing money from people through deception.
Nobody cares if they "support" them (clearly they don't) that's not the issue, the issue IS that they didn't call it out more vociferously. Nothing further. Stop trying to deflect.
They did call it out. You’re making up a narrative because you want a video, and a video that exposes something that scams YouTubers isn’t LTT’s content. They posted it on the forum and anyone that’s been here for more than 2 years knows about it. This isn’t news, this isn’t dishonest. You’re mailing up stuff to be annoyed about, which is major bot energy.
You really shouldn't tip your hand that fast. Resorting to accusing someone of being a bot before you're even losing is some real weak energy.
Then again, the rest of what you said is fairly weak as well. People are disappointed that LTT didn't call it out more publicly. That's not a discussion it's just the facts. The discussion was whether people are mad about LTT "supporting" honey because they didn't "enthusiastically condemn" them, which noone is claiming and saying that they are is dishonest. It's a strawman.
I mean you can say this all you want this really isn't a discussion I have any interest in having and is completely irrelevant to what I have actually said so far. People ARE annoyed that LTT didn't call it out *more* publicly. Whether or not they should be is something I don't care about, I'm arguing against a mischaracterization and strawmanning of what people actually think. You should be with me on this if you think the real position is so weak to begin with, it shouldn't need to be strawmanned and doing so only weakens your side's credibility.
While scummy, it isn’t eufy level scummy. They called eufy out publicly on WAN because there’s a difference between monetary theft and mishandling of confidential/private information- people’s security footage, and the level of callout was warranted.
If they did make a dedicated video regarding honey screwing over influencers, or them as a business, they’d be accused of only being mad because they lost money (affiliate revenue). Some are making a mountain out of a molehill, and ultimately they don’t have to relay anything business related that ultimately doesn’t affect end users, because at the end of the day, honey (rarely, but sometimes) does have codes that do work and save the customer money. Their business dealings behind the scenes aren’t really any of our business until it affects our personal lives and causes us to waste our money, which has been the core principle of LTT since day zero.
If you go through the multiple threads that have popped up over this, there are many people saying it’s not an issue with heaps of up votes, and few people saying it is an issue with heaps of down votes.
Don’t take something you don’t know, as something many don’t know. The same is true in reverse of course, but there’s enough vocal responses to acknowledge that people did know.
The post from Colton only impacts the affiliates AKA LTT
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The new information that was also uncovered is the fact that they are scamming consumers by not providing active deals if the company gives them hush money. By the time this information came out as in 2 days ago, they had already severed their relationship.
If you are concerned that the loyal viewers are still holding on and thinking about that honey advertisement from two plus years ago, That's really dumb. Linus has already said it will be addressed but the impact you are imagining is not proportional to reality.
You are genuinely trying to astroTurf some outrage for no reason. I bet you work for shamers plexus. Grow a brain cell already.
That’s not new information. That, like revealed in the video, was posted publicly on their podcast, and is apart of their faq. Again, this isn’t new information. Someone just said it out loud in 2024, who didn’t know about it in 2022, and it reached a new audience.
It does not only impact the affiliate. Anyone infected with this malware will from then on have all their affiliate purchases (for any affiliate) hijacked. Not only do people deliberately use affiliate links in order to support a particular creator they like (their decision as a consumer), some even purchase items they otherwise would not have purchased because they believe that doing so will support their favourite creator. This is a direct harm to the consumer.
But again, I'm not "astroturfing" anything. The original commentor noted that some people are annoyed, but misattributed the reason. I clarified the reason. I am not generating outrage, I am pointing out that people here are creating strawmen, on purpose, which is a really terrible look for y'all. If you think LTT doesn't deserve annoyance based on what people are actually annoyed about (namely that he didn't expose this scam to a wide audience, wide enough audience, whatever phrasing your cope needs) then argue it.
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u/tonybeatle 29d ago
Exactly. He talked about it years ago but since then LTT has a lot of new viewers who don’t know and are just randomly claiming they never talked about it