Oh dear. In the wake of the community criticism of #LinusTechTips & #LinusMediaGroup, Madison is also writing about her experience at LMG and why she quit.
I’ve seen how cringeworthy Linus talks about & interacts with his wife Yvonne on camera, and the bro culture in the company is clearly visible in a lot of videos.
So, while I’m sure they’ll deliver on their testing & benchmarking promises, I can’t support LMG anymore until they’ve gotten rid of their misogyny, improved gender (and other tbh) diversity in their company, and stopped exploiting their employees.
I’ve cancelled my #Floatplane subscription and unsubscribed from their channels on #YouTube.
I’ve just watched the first(?) on-camera appearance of Emily Young after announcing her transition. I’m a #Floatplane subscriber, so I’m watching it there (https://www.floatplane.com/post/yF5fDqJbi3), and while there are lots of positive comments, there’s also deadnaming, “he’s a man”, “this is mental illness” etc. in the comments, and Floatplane doesn’t even have a “report” button. The YouTube comments (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F6Gi2LcXhxM) look less vile, to be honest.
(Non-)Update: I haven’t heard back anything from #Floatplane or #LMG. I won’t be awake during tonight’s #WANShow (because I’m living in the EU timezone), else I’d bring up the topic during the show via a merch message. I’d buy a gift card at LTTStore just for being able to send the message into the show and then give it to a random US or Canadian #trans person on the fedi or something.
I won’t be offended if anyone of you steals this idea ;)
Seems that LTT's #FloatPlane doesn't want my money. Their website has some issues for #ScreenReader users, I opened a support ticket almost a week ago, not heard back from them. I offered to take them through what's wrong with the site on a call, free-of-charge and everything. Oh well.