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Darc Requiem on 18 August 2023
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Chazore said:
Shinobi-san said:

I guess Linus could have avoided this mess had he just listened to his regular viewers! Linus and even the LMG community (and lets face it the PC community at large) tend to be on the arrogant side of things, which is what pushed me away from the WAN show, LTT Forums and other content. That being said I generally feel like he doesn't have malice in any of his takes or actions ( even when I go through what happened with this Billet situation). I hope he and the rest of the group recover from this and come back strong. 

Linus doesn't do malice, but man is he so god damn bone-headed when it comes to just taking the L and fessing up on the spot. The fact he had to be called out twice by GN and the community speaks volumes of his general viewpoint on refusing to accept he fucked up.

I think he should in future, just fess up the moment his community calls him out, instead of doing this usual rigmarole of burying himself deeper and deeper for a few days until he caves and has to make the good guy redemption arc video (which is starting to become a common trait amongst youtubers these days like it is for corps to pull, and it shouldn't).

LMG needs to put a rule in place requiring Linus to take 24 hours before responding. He gets hyper defensive and goes on rants that just make things worse. 

Also, I don't get the "GN drama" point of view. This Linus situation is something that his own community, other YouTube tech channels, and even general viewers had already noted and complained about. Yet the errors kept happening. I see why other TechTubers were hesitant to address the issue. The amount of vitriol GN has gotten for factual unmonetized video shows they were right to keep to themselves. The LMG response video should been their first reply and they shouldn't have monetized it. Which they were called out, and subsequently changed.