We've spent our week of introspection asking hard questions of ourselves and each other. We're ready to share what we've learned.Links Referenced in the Vide...
LTT did not even have the decency to speak GamersNexus’ name, and give them respect and apology. This is all I need to know about LMG.
The stuff Madison spoke of regarding workplace abuse is something I can believe and trust blindly, but I still have my reservations on the whole “I cut myself” part, because the internet has taught me that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. GrapheneOS scum dev also claimed early May 2023 that he was attempted to be “swatted”, never giving evidence of it and silencing everyone asking for evidence.
That cuts both ways. eg: GN didn’t have the decency - while claiming to do journalism - to do a standard journalist thing and approach LMG for comment. This is all I need to know about GN.
GN does not need to approach such a colossal entity when its clear how Linus can sell some startup’s prototype despite being told otherwise. He explained his reasoning clearly on this issue. GN is arguably one of the most credible people on YouTube.
LMG is 200 odd people. You could say Nvidia with >10k employees is colossal perhaps, or you could say Cisco with >80k is. 200 people is barely a medium sized enterprise. Christ, the company I work for is nearer 2k people.
And in any of those cases, the size of the entity doesn’t matter - its a very common journalistic practise to seek comment. I tend to think that because GN chose not to, that it veered away from a purely journalistic exercise because they are essentially a competitor. They still have the right to publish it and make the claims they want but it changes the framing of the video quite a bit for me.
Bear in mind that I think all benchmarking is over hyped in its reliability and importance so pretty much none of that side of things holds any real credibility with me at all - so i’m mostly judging GN based on they way they’ve presented this issue.
Finally, Linus didn’t sell the startup’s prototype, LMG did. And unless you’re ignoring the whole trail of fact on that its pretty clear it was a stupid mistake but also how that came to be isn’t some evil genius plan.
Nvidia does not even remotely have the fan following of what Linus has, because he is like top 10 YT channels, and YouTube happens to be the biggest loudspeaker besides Twitter. A company like Apple or Samsung has the kind of outreach that Linus has. Few YouTubers like MKBHD or MrBeast do.
GN did the correct thing and has explained the reason for not reaching out. He burned a massive bridge over this, and some fans have their heebie jeebies rustled because Linus is their tech god.
Who is LMG’s owner? The CEO is a placeholder. Everybody and their child knows Linus calls the shots on everything. CEO was put in place with a very convenient timing to avoid the controversy over Anthony transitioning to Emily, and since then Emily has never appeared on a LMG video, instead only works BTS. The controversy would be riled up by a lot of the transphobic techies (both cis men and cis women) in LMG’s community/fanbase, as is visible over the internet.
LTT did not even have the decency to speak GamersNexus’ name, and give them respect and apology. This is all I need to know about LMG.
The stuff Madison spoke of regarding workplace abuse is something I can believe and trust blindly, but I still have my reservations on the whole “I cut myself” part, because the internet has taught me that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence. GrapheneOS scum dev also claimed early May 2023 that he was attempted to be “swatted”, never giving evidence of it and silencing everyone asking for evidence.
That cuts both ways. eg: GN didn’t have the decency - while claiming to do journalism - to do a standard journalist thing and approach LMG for comment. This is all I need to know about GN.
GN does not need to approach such a colossal entity when its clear how Linus can sell some startup’s prototype despite being told otherwise. He explained his reasoning clearly on this issue. GN is arguably one of the most credible people on YouTube.
LMG is 200 odd people. You could say Nvidia with >10k employees is colossal perhaps, or you could say Cisco with >80k is. 200 people is barely a medium sized enterprise. Christ, the company I work for is nearer 2k people.
And in any of those cases, the size of the entity doesn’t matter - its a very common journalistic practise to seek comment. I tend to think that because GN chose not to, that it veered away from a purely journalistic exercise because they are essentially a competitor. They still have the right to publish it and make the claims they want but it changes the framing of the video quite a bit for me.
Bear in mind that I think all benchmarking is over hyped in its reliability and importance so pretty much none of that side of things holds any real credibility with me at all - so i’m mostly judging GN based on they way they’ve presented this issue.
Finally, Linus didn’t sell the startup’s prototype, LMG did. And unless you’re ignoring the whole trail of fact on that its pretty clear it was a stupid mistake but also how that came to be isn’t some evil genius plan.
Nvidia does not even remotely have the fan following of what Linus has, because he is like top 10 YT channels, and YouTube happens to be the biggest loudspeaker besides Twitter. A company like Apple or Samsung has the kind of outreach that Linus has. Few YouTubers like MKBHD or MrBeast do.
GN did the correct thing and has explained the reason for not reaching out. He burned a massive bridge over this, and some fans have their heebie jeebies rustled because Linus is their tech god.
Who is LMG’s owner? The CEO is a placeholder. Everybody and their child knows Linus calls the shots on everything. CEO was put in place with a very convenient timing to avoid the controversy over Anthony transitioning to Emily, and since then Emily has never appeared on a LMG video, instead only works BTS. The controversy would be riled up by a lot of the transphobic techies (both cis men and cis women) in LMG’s community/fanbase, as is visible over the internet.