I don't even really understand what's going on, but I'm entertained nonetheless

"Knows of Linus Tech Tips but hasn't watched it": kalm

"Read the latest drama and how Linus is a horrible person": panik

"It's not Linus Torvalds": kalm

Bro. The shit he talked to people on all those Linux kernel mailing lists is in a whole different league. There was an entire subreddit dedicated to all the Torvalds rants. He wouldn't survive a day working as a CEO.

Also he and Stallman both had to back off or resign in a way.
Okay honest confession... I read it enough to make sure it wasn't Torvalds.
A actually Linus Torvalds already got accusations of sexism and toxic behavior
- Letting this stand this way is close to misinformation.
  
  Linus Torvalds got accused of sexism, as to be expected with a person so public, but nobody ever proved anything. In contrast he shows the opposite of sexist behaviour nearly every day by working with all people equally on the Linux kernel. Also his daughter Patricia is a feminist and he fully supports her. Honestly I am surprised that with so much of his communication being public (Mailing list discussions) nobody found any piece which sounds outright sexist. Not even a bad joke. He is a role model regarding this.
  
  His toxic behavior is another thing. And also up for discussion I think. Firm words to discourage bad behavior regarding contributions to the kernel. He went to far at times, recognized it, and improved. He still has the stance to not use overly polite words to play around any bad statements, which many think is correct to improve communication and finding a common ground instead of secretly harboring ever greater dissent. Many discussions by many qualified people on this in the net.
- But that was a few years ago by now and it's been handled.

I was just happy to realize this afternoon that this is a different Linus than Linus Torvalds. I was very confused this morning how out of the loop I was to not realize The Linus had become a youtuber. Now this makes more sense (or at least I no longer care at all)

This Linus failed to install Linux multiple times, but is somehow a prominent tech influencer.
- My first introduction to him is when he had like a PetaByte of data on a huge array that wasent backed up, and then managed to physically drop it somehow?
  
  As i recall actual tech youtubers flew out and helped him recover data off of it.
- lmao, the duality of Linus
- He's always been an entertainer first.

Hobbydrama needs a place on the fediverse.

!hobbydrama@lemmy.world
- We just need knowledgeable, skilled summarizers to actually fill it 🥲

I've seen that guys face on my recommendations before, but never watched anything because he looked like a whiny bitch 😂 looks like I was right!

Definite pewdiepie vibes.
- Pewdiepie is just a disgusting mustard horse son - Linus is just blissfully oblivious

I'm just getting caught up, never watched any of their videos before either. Was hoping the drama was just over something inconsequential but juicy & amusing.. but no, of course it's something icky and depressing.

Also this is from Linus Sebastian's email response to the Verge:

In addition to our existing report systems (both anonymous and otherwise) we’ve proactively reached out internally today to encourage members of our team to report any workplace bullying or harassment..

So they're proactively reacting to the allegations? Am I just really stoned?

They’re proactively reaching out to employees in case that they’ve experienced any bullying of harassment, but haven’t self reported it.
I read that as "proactively...before these people can speak up and add to our current issues".

Me watching everything go down.

Me who has never subscribed to a single YT channel or "liked" any YT video:

YouTube is overrated and too ubiquitous

Too ubiquitous, probably. Overrated, I'm not sure. There's really a lot a lot of very valuable content.
- Youtube might as well be the whole internet at this point, there's absolutely nothing you can't find in there. Memes, recipes, news, sports, vlogs, tutorials, documentaries, music, you name it, it's there. Fully degoogling my life is something I aspire to do one day but even then I'm not sure I can ever leave Youtube.
That's an interesting complaint. Is ubiquity necessarily bad?
- When the ubiquitous thing is enshittified, then yes.

This has been brewing for quite a while. The meeting after Madison left has been secretly recorded and leaked 6 months ago.

I'm waiting the ukulele song!

With the power of AI I pray for one to be actually made by someone

relatable

Same, I had heard of the channel on reddit but was never interested until now.

Honestly it has been a pretty good techy channel for a while, but like many things, apparently it's become a victim of its own success. Ive gone down the rabbit hole on LTT YouTube episodes a few times in the past - really enjoyed what I decided to watch, this news is really unfortunate to what was (in my opinion) a great channel

Gamer nexus was always great too (the few episodes I watched), that's why this is such news. I'm going to sit down and really listen to the video GN did
- I used to really enjoy watching LTT unboxing videos even if it was for a product that I wasn't interested in. Watching Linus struggle to open product boxes while he talked about their features was just a part of my nightly routine. The videos back then were much more down to earth. There was no B roll, and hardly anything got cut out. The closest thing we have to that now is the Short Circuit channel, but even that is overproduced compared to old school LTT videos.

is there somewhere I can be updated?

Most of it is floating around the fediverse, but a quick rundown from my superficially gleaned view:

Someone called out LTT for shitty quality videos, LTT responded publicly in a roundabout snarky way. Then a former employee called out LTT for their shitty treatment of employees, which LTT responded in an even more snarky way. Their subscriber count took a hit, and it's all been going downhill since then.

I'm sure someone will come along with more details, but that's about the jist of it.
- additionally they sold an expensive prototype from a small company without their permission
If you want to be fully up to speed, first watch the initial video critique here

https://youtu.be/FGW3TPytTjc?t=99

Then watch the follow-up response video:

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=X3byz3txpso

Then watch the LTT apology video:

https://piped.mha.fi/watch?v=0cTpTMl8kFY

There's also a whole other thing about workplace harassment of a former employee (who quit for mental health reasons), but I don't have the link to that right now.

Edit: The Verge have put out a really good run down of all the different issues here:

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/16/23834190/linus-tech-tips-gamersnexus-madison-reeves-controversy