Linus Tech Tips issues response to Madison's accusations

that fucking comment lmao

“After this brutal belittling, gaslighting, and sexual harassment, you’re gonna have a lot of baggage. And the best way to carry it? The LTT backpack!”

From what Madison said it sounds like it goes far too deep for this to change much. I hope things get better (since it's unlikely LTT just up and disappears immediately), but from what we've seen this culture of dismissal goes right to the top.

It is good they are taking public steps to change their corporate culture, but it is clear they had a top down culture of not taking harassment seriously. Hate to share a reddit link, but this video: https://www.reddit.com/r/LinusTechTips/comments/15t1mzn/mandatory_meeting_the_after_madisons_departure/ purports to be from when Madison left. The language here is not the language of a corporate culture that takes harassment seriously. Especially since James didn't get immediately corrected.

If they want to win back the viewers (and likely sponsors) they are losing or have lost because of all of this toxicity, they are going to have to continue to publicly show they are committed to improving not only their culture to move away from a harassment friendly, grindset focused content farm, to one worth our time (and sponsor dollars).

Gonna take one fucking amazing d-brand wrap to make this shit look good.

Mfers talking like they were out in Europe totally unaware of what the US branch had been doing all this time, like what! Also what’s with the third person, who else is there with you calling the shots?

It was you. You were there and you knew from day one. Lots of allegations were directed at you, specifically. What is happening.

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Oh look your pr and legal team wrote some words that no one gives a fuck about

Corpo-speak doesn’t mean shit. Actions do.

Any chance on some context on this for someone who doesn't follow tech closely enough? I know who Linus is, and what LTT is, and I've seen a lot of stuff these past few days about the community being angry at them for all sorts of stuff, but who is Madison? And what did they allege?

Edit: Never mind, only had to scroll two posts in my feed to find the answer. For others out of the loop: ex LTT employee Madison Reeve alleges toxic work environment and sexual harassment.

If they had made a statement like this proactively years ago, I maybe would believe it. But now after the years of rumored toxic workplace conditions this just seems like an attempt to calm their fans lol

Plot twist: the "quick, decisive action" will be to tell them to shut the fuck up or get fired.

Sounds pretty empty to me! We already know how he really feels. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F3ogQ7sakAAhnCB?format=png&name=large

It feels like this year is the beginning of a reckoning for a lot of bullshit. Why give our time and money to bloated corporations when they pull the same shit again and again?

Linus is probably regretting the hell out of not taking that $100 million deal right about now. What a mess!

You know, it's wild that poorly reviewing a GPU cooler can lead to stuff like this coming out.

On one hand the corpo speak annoys me bit on the other would we really want another Linus statment?

@briongloid I do have the opinion that people and companies can change to their better. At least it seems as if they are taking this seriously. I tend to give them a chance. But also I hope that the community will watch this closely and will come back to them, if they don't do it right.

LTT has shown their true colors before this statement came out. They can say whatever they like, i won't believe them.

Ya I'm sure the sponsors are more like... angry

At least it's not a poop emoji this time.