Discussion Gamers Nexus video on LTT (LMG)

[Brainonska511]

I don't.

Yeah, I don't think that is believable at all.

 

[Hans Gruber]

I've always suspected he used cocaine. drug use is rampant in the tech industry. Although I hesitate calling ltt or lmd a tech group at this point in time.

The rumor was cocaine on the web earlier this year. I even posted some LTT videos where you could see he was on drugs. With that kind of behavior, it hurts the morale of his team. Add to it the selling of LTT where he is still the boss with millions.

Whatever substances he is using affect his judgment. For the last 3 or 4 years, LTT videos have had little to no substance. Jay 2 Cents has had terrible videos for the last few years as well. He makes terrible mistakes in testing or attempting to test and posts the videos as content. No substance and basically they say look at all the cool stuff vendors sent us to try out. Both LTT and Jay2cents say oh, we got a 4090 just sitting around. Can't find it a 3090ti will have to do type talk.

The there is the next tier down where youtube channels grifting stories and review benchmarks without actually ever testing anything. All these channels chasing views and creating videos with no connections to the tech industry other than google searches for rumors and stories.

At least Gamers Nexus shows their test benches and all their testing gear. Steve acts as if they have a team. He is just the editor in chief at GN. But in reality, he takes credit for everything over there. Like a boss with employees but it's his show entirely.

 

[A///]

The rumor was cocaine on the web earlier this year. I even posted some LTT videos where you could see he was on drugs. With that kind of behavior, it hurts the morale of his team. Add to it the selling of LTT where he is still the boss with millions.

Whatever substances he is using affect his judgment. For the last 3 or 4 years, LTT videos have had little to no substance. Jay 2 Cents has had terrible videos for the last few years as well. He makes terrible mistakes in testing or attempting to test and posts the videos as content. No substance and basically they say look at all the cool stuff vendors sent us to try out. Both LTT and Jay2cents say oh, we got a 4090 just sitting around. Can't find it a 3090ti will have to do type talk.

The there is the next tier down where youtube channels grifting stories and review benchmarks without actually ever testing anything. All these channels chasing views and creating videos with no connections to the tech industry other than google searches for rumors and stories.

At least Gamers Nexus shows their test benches and all their testing gear. Steve acts as if they have a team. He is just the editor in chief at GN. But in reality, he takes credit for everything over there. Like a boss with employees but it's his show entirely.

jayz does sniff a lot in his videos and I find it incredibly disgusting myself. like a snot ridden child constantly smearing its boogers all over their sleeve. like I said tech is rampant with illegal drug use. at broadcom it was an open secret who was using drugs outside of work. if you could do your job you had no problems. the industry back then was a pain in the bum to play because of limited grads and icreasing demands as the industries grew and it's the same problem now. gen z grads trying to take a crack at the industry seem to be better at not being on any substance or at least the handful at work. old timers such as yours truly here don't want to retire even though we're grossly overpaid for what we do because of our yoe and technical knowledge that's not easy to pass onto younger kips or teach because we suck at teaching. I plan on retiring within the next 5 years, well before the age of retirement in this country.

 

[Hans Gruber]

jayz does sniff a lot in his videos and I find it incredibly disgusting myself. like a snot ridden child constantly smearing its boogers all over their sleeve. like I said tech is rampant with illegal drug use. at broadcom it was an open secret who was using drugs outside of work. if you could do your job you had no problems. the industry back then was a pain in the bum to play because of limited grads and icreasing demands as the industries grew and it's the same problem now. gen z grads trying to take a crack at the industry seem to be better at not being on any substance or at least the handful at work. old timers such as yours truly here don't want to retire even though we're grossly overpaid for what we do because of our yoe and technical knowledge that's not easy to pass onto younger kips or teach because we suck at teaching. I plan on retiring within the next 5 years, well before the age of retirement in this country.

Jay2Cents used to weigh 500lbs before he had gastric bypass surgery. None of the youtube channels has anybody that graduated from a 4 year university. This includes Linus and Steve as well as Jay2Cents. I think just about all the youtube computer tech channels are composed of people who didn't even go to technical schools or graduate high school.

 

[fleshconsumed]

As far as Madison allegations against LTT/LMG, consider the following:
1. Watch the What's It Like to Work For Linus? video again. Long hours, unrealistic expectations, toxic culture, it's all right there.
2. Madison's Glassdoor review from July 2022 (more than a year ago)
3. Read the whole allegation thread on threadapps

While an accusation like that may not hold up in court without supporting evidence in the form of emails or corroborating testimony, contextually speaking the pieces do fit. The toxic culture is there, right in the open on their own youtube channel as told by their own employees, Madison's glassdoor review highlighting toxic culture is from a year ago meaning Madison didn't just jump on the LTT hate bandwagon giving her most recent comments a lot more weight, and then the most recent allegations, while as of right now they're unproven in a court of law, at least the pieces about toxic work culture do fit the overall pattern of how LTT operates.

If true, and in my opinion it is very believable, it's absolutely horrible what happened to that woman. I hope something good is going to come out of this.

 

[Glo.]

I think your post says more about you than it does about women.

What does it says about psychology in general, which teaches this principle at the universities?

 

[Hail The Brain Slug]

What does it says about psychology in general, which teaches this principle at the universities?

dude.

 

[Brainonska511]

What does it says about psychology in general, which teaches this principle at the universities?

Sorry for the delay in the response, I had to check my calendar to see if I had fallen into into the 1950s. What the hell universities are you attending that these things are taught as factual?

 

[Hans Gruber]

What does it says about psychology in general, which teaches this principle at the universities?

Sorry for the delay in the response, I had to check my calendar to see if I had fallen into into the 1950s. What the hell universities are you attending that these things are taught as factual?

It says all these tenured professors are all about to get fired.

 

[Glo.]

Sorry for the delay in the response, I had to check my calendar to see if I had fallen into into the 1950s. What the hell universities are you attending that these things are taught as factual?

What is not factual here?

 

[A///]

Jay2Cents used to weigh 500lbs before he had gastric bypass surgery. None of the youtube channels has anybody that graduated from a 4 year university. This includes Linus and Steve as well as Jay2Cents. I think just about all the youtube computer tech channels are composed of people who didn't even go to technical schools or graduate high school.

One of steve's employees is some kind of engineer, no? Strange to see him working there if that's the case. either it's some form of work experience going forward or he couldn't hack it.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Strange to see him working there if that's the case. either it's some form of work experience going forward or he couldn't hack it.

Sometimes you just get too cozy working someplace and ignore your core competency, especially if working in your field of expertise can be more challenging and stressful. I've always aced programming in courses/bootcamps/amateurishly and I was exceptional at accounting (without really needing to study much). I DO NOT want to do either on a daily basis especially with deadlines.

 

[A///]

Sometimes you just get too cozy working someplace and ignore your core competency, especially if working in your field of expertise can be more challenging and stressful. I've always aced programming in courses/bootcamps/amateurishly and I was exceptional at accounting (without really needing to study much). I DO NOT want to do either on a daily basis especially with deadlines.

this explains the microsoft excel fascination a while back 🤣

 

[dlerious]

Must have been a lot of backlash.

 

[Grooveriding]

tbh I think gen z is too touchy with any assertion by anyone higher than them on the food chain in the work place. Even a slightly raised voice wounds their ego and makes them feel sad. end of humanity i say.

Come on now. I agree that there is a cohort out there that is just on a constant vision quest to claim things are offensive, racist, sexist, whatever else. Making it their identity and taking a hard black & white world view. But, above that there is plenty of legitimacy, and a lot of the progress we're seeing currently has been a long time coming and is good.

You should read what this employee has said. If true, it's really damning, well beyond someone just getting their pearls rustled over choice of language or subjectively perceived slights. This person was treated like shit from what they are saying.

I always like to try to remain objective, but considering the sort of risk she would be taking by fabricating such a tale; i.e.: the resources LTT could bring to battle against her, and that she waited until this moment when they were finally on defence - rather than at the point of her leaving the company. I am more inclined to believe her than any denials. Depending on response, it will illuminate the voracity of what she is saying. If they don't go for a straight denial, it's almost certainly true to an extent. If we get that usual refrain of 'two sides, sorry they felt things were this way, but we didn't find it to be that way' etc etc. I'll be near certain it's true.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Must have been a lot of backlash.

Wow. They are genuinely scared now. As they should be.

 

[Saylick]

Must have been a lot of backlash.

Dang, that's like an all-hands-on-deck response from LMG. I kinda wish it wasn't so obvious they were reading off a teleprompter because it doesn't help with coming off being sincere, especially from Terren, their CEO. Every time he shows up, I'm not sure if he's being held hostage at gunpoint by an off-screen Linus who is forcing him to read from a predetermined script. Like, dude, just blink twice if you're in trouble.

 

[A///]

Come on now. I agree that there is a cohort out there that is just on a constant vision quest to claim things are offensive, racist, sexist, whatever else. Making it their identity and taking a hard black & white world view. But, above that there is plenty of legitimacy, and a lot of the progress we're seeing currently has been a long time coming and is good.

You should read what this employee has said. If true, it's really damning, well beyond someone just getting their pearls rustled over choice of language or subjectively perceived slights. This person was treated like shit from what they are saying.

I always like to try to remain objective, but considering the sort of risk she would be taking by fabricating such a tale; i.e.: the resources LTT could bring to battle against her, and that she waited until this moment when they were finally on defence - rather than at the point of her leaving the company. I am more inclined to believe her than any denials. Depending on response, it will illuminate the voracity of what she is saying. If they don't go for a straight denial, it's almost certainly true to an extent. If we get that usual refrain of 'two sides, sorry they felt things were this way, but we didn't find it to be that way' etc etc. I'll be near certain it's true.

this isn't the first time she's aired this dirty laundry. she did so after leaving lmd or whatever they call themselves. why sit on it longer and readdress it when she could have gone to an employment attorney back then? nearly 2 years later she speaks up again? initially she said she didn't want to discuss it when she parted ways in late 2021 and then would make snide comments online as the months passed by asserting the jack assery that went on at lmd.

 

[A///]

Dang, that's like an all-hands-on-deck response from LMG. I kinda wish it wasn't so obvious they were reading off a teleprompter because it doesn't help with coming off being sincere, especially from Terren, their CEO. Every time he shows up, I'm not sure if he's being held hostage at gunpoint by an off-screen Linus who is forcing him to read from a predetermined script. Like, dude, just blink twice if you're in trouble.

that apology video which I did skim through was a train wreck.

 

[igor_kavinski]

Like, dude, just blink twice if you're in trouble.

The smiles are the dead giveaway that they are being FORCED.

It's a serious matter and they shouldn't be smiling AT ALL.

 

[A///]

The smiles are the dead giveaway that they are being FORCED.

It's a serious matter and they shouldn't be smiling AT ALL.

Id say because they likely have matter that would destroy any "evidence" she had in court if she tried to sue. I wouldn't put it past ltt to put silent monitoring software on employee computers and since there's always security cameras with sound they either scrubbed that data religiously or have evidence, actual evidence, to the contrary.

let's not get confused here. I'm not cheering for ltt. they could go away and linus himself could drown in a pit of lava and the tech world would hardly care after a few months. ltt is mostly irrelevant these days.

 

[Saylick]

that apology video which I did skim through was a train wreck.

Yeah, I couldn't watch it in its entirely myself either. Too long of a video when something shorter would have sufficed. If it were a 2 minute video with the exact same people all sitting on a single couch telling the community that they 1) accept blame for past mistakes, 2) working to rectify past mistakes, and 3) promise to not repeat the same mistakes and to do better, it would have been fine. It didn't need to be some massive script that was developed by their writing team and produced like how they do for all their other videos.

The smiles are the dead giveaway that they are being FORCED.

It's a serious matter and they shouldn't be smiling AT ALL.

Yeah, I agree. The tone was not right for the situation at all.

 

[A///]

Yeah, I couldn't watch it in its entirely myself either. Too long of a video when something shorter would have sufficed. If it were a 2 minute video with the exact same people all sitting on a single couch telling the community that they 1) accept blame for past mistakes, 2) working to rectify past mistakes, and 3) promise to not repeat the same mistakes and to do better, it would have been fine. It didn't need to be some massive script that was developed by their writing team and produced like how they do for all their other videos.

my reasoning was it's hard to watch something on my ipad when I'm cooking sausages that are spitting hot fat out onto my arms and hands. this is a better excuse but even if I were not cooking I'd still follow what you did. youtube videos need to be less than 3 minutes long. any video that's longer asks to be skipped around.

 

[igor_kavinski]

initially she said she didn't want to discuss it when she parted ways in late 2021

Not everyone is strong enough to go against a powerful company. If she had said something at that time without having a proper backup plan for her career, a lot of doors would have been closed in her face. First, no one would be sure if she was really telling the truth so they wouldn't hire her, considering her to be a potential liability. Second, any HR dept of a prospective employer requesting feedback from LMG's HR on her would have gotten fabricated lies about how bad she was at her job and why they would advise against hiring her. I've seen MY company do it to some employees who were fired dubiously. Rather than wish them well and let them have a job somewhere else, the dickhead management decided that person deserved to starve to death and sent unfavorable feedback that I saw with my own eyes, saying stuff like "his performance was unsatisfactory and he was a problematic employee etc." when I hadn't noticed anything really bad in that employee.

 

[A///]

Not everyone is strong enough to go against a powerful company. If she had said something at that time without having a proper backup plan for her career, a lot of doors would have been closed in her face. First, no one would be sure if she was really telling the truth so they wouldn't hire her, considering her to be a potential liability. Second, any HR dept of a prospective employer requesting feedback from LMG's HR on her would have gotten fabricated lies about how bad she was at her job and why they would advise against hiring her. I've seen MY company do it to some employees who were fired dubiously. Rather than wish them well and let them have a job somewhere else, the dickhead management decided that person deserved to starve to death and sent unfavorable feedback that I saw with my own eyes, saying stuff like "his performance was unsatisfactory and he was a problematic employee etc." when I hadn't noticed anything really bad in that employee.

lmd is considered a small to medium size business. If youtube terminated their account they'd be bankrupt within a few short months. that's not powerful. they're leveraging a third party for their income.