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Guess we're all gonna ignore all the drama about LTT from last year?
Saying he's the one who breaks is an understatement.
What was the drama?
There were kinda three separate things that rolled together, mind you, I'm not especially in the know about any of them, so hopefully others can expand
The first two that were brought up in an bombshell gamer's nexus video were, imo, handled very poorly (EDIT: I should clarify, I meant the initial first reseponse), though again, I don't remember details (about the very first response I think I remember not being great, or otherwise π )
The last item I'm honestly not sure how it panned out but my impression is that nothing really happened with it. LTT was gonna transfer CEO to being a new guy with Linus being more of a face and direction guy, and the new CEO guy I think was the one who had an outside investigation of some kind conducted. I don't think there was ever an update about that investigation? I dunno. I didn't watch much before the whole situation and just kinda stopped watching when the initial criticism from gamer's nexus was poorly handled
IIRC for the third item, the ex-employee who threw those accusations around turned out to be exaggerating things - but there was a whole ass investigation and Linus did step down as CEO, handing the reins over to a new guy who was literally brought in to fix these things (although to be fair I had the feeling that Linus has been wanting to step back for a while and this gave him an out).
Mind you I'm not saying that there weren't problems (any company that scales as much as LMG did in the past few years will have issues), but that the issues presented to the public by the disgruntled employee were heavily exaggerated.
I think maybe we should stop short of saying we know for a fact what did or didn't happen with her. An outside investigation does absolutely help, and hopefully if anything was wrong it has now been rectified.
But there are lots of ways that companies can clear their names, and bringing in a company to do an investigation could either be done in good faith, or be a very effective way of cleaning up an enormous PR mess.
I think we should be warry of making snap calls about who was factually in the right in these kinds of situations unless there's hard evidence available to us. Often these situations are about our gut feeling of what happened, and our gut feeling isn't objective. And getting it wrong in either direction has the potential to be enormously damaging (though in this case I believe there was no specific alleged perpetrator for the allegations like sexual harassment)
I feel this is one of those situations where nuance and being okay with not knowing exactly what happened is important. Though perhaps you know more facts about the situation than I do, and have more concrete reason to believe it was highly exaggerated
Thank you, it's refreshing to see someone adopt a sober mind about the situation. It's been a minefield of sweeping conclusions from incomplete information.
I understand that parasocial relationships make it difficult to be objective but frankly establishing facts in an employment dispute ex post facto is a dubious endeavor.
I'm glad its appreciated βΊοΈ
Love your username! Hope you have a lovely day my friend
Wasn't the Linus being replaced as CEO thing planned several years ago? I remember there being a video