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LMG has made a response video to Gamers Nexus' concerns (www.youtube.com)
submitted 3 years ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 146 points 3 years ago* (14 children)

The "haha, we've made an oopsie" tone of the video (sponsorship jokes, plugging their store link, possible sex joke, deflecting to "I'm just a human" instead of fully taking the blame) don't sit right with me. I was also hoping they would address Madison's comments on why she quit.

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  • [–] 65 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (5 children)

    I think Madison's post happened after the video itself was planned, recorded, etc, so it's understandable why that's not addressed. But Linus really has to address what she's said on the forums ASAP at least, because there's a lot of damning claims towards his company from her. Like seriously, wtf Linus?

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  • [–] 30 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Also, they should stop deleting all mentionings of the Madison thing on the apology video as they doing are now, makes it all seem very disingenuous and fake.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago

    I really want to make a joke about how they could have added an annotation on the video to address it and how it would have taken “$500 of people’s time” but her post was super gross (about the company, not her) and that’s more of a poison pill for a company than the sloppiness IMHO.

    I don’t watch LMG content and I have intention of starting to so I don’t have a dog in this fight but I always thought of LMG as “decent content but too over the top and silly for me”, the “decent content” part is in question now and the workplace allegations leave a bad taste in my mouth for sure.

    I thought this video was very well done aside from:

    • “I don’t agree with ALL the criticisms” - ok, then expand on that

    • Store plug - read the room, I thought the sponsor joke was ok but then they did it twice and plugged the store.

    • “6 9’s” - didn’t we just talk about filtering for sexual innuendos? Look I don’t give a fuck but, again, read the room

    • Linus’ whole section - it really felt genuine then he came on and came off as a petulant child

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Sex joke?

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    "6 9s"

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  • [+] -7 points 3 years ago* (2 children)

    Thats not a sex joke, that's just a server uptime thing

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_availability

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  • [–] 14 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    🙄 I want you to tell me with a straight face that you honestly believe someone could say something like "six nines..." whilst simultaneously quirking their eyebrow and striking a dual fingerguns pose without an implied double meaning...

    A screenshot of Luke from the Linus Tech Tips "What do we do now?" video as he strikes a dual fingerguns pose as he quirks his eyebrow and wears a grimace-like smile

    For Pete's sake, the editor even inserted a zoom cut and delayed the next shot transition for comedic effect!

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Worth noting that the "69... Nice" joke is not just a universal meme, but also specially part of LTT in-jokes. So it's very much in character for Linus or others at LMG to say something like that, but I am honestly disappointed that it came from Luke.

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