There are a couple more tweet that can be found here.

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    I’m surprised that an outspoken anti-labour anti-union employer would be abusive towards their employees. Truly astonishing.

    I hope she’s doing better now, and working someplace that appreciates her.

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      Sounds like her immediate manager really hated her. Repeatedly ignored her requests, told her to figure things out on her own then reported her to upper management for doing what he told her to do.

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        No. It sounds like her line manager was every single untrained techbro manager at a startup.

        Everyone hates HR and managers. And there are a lot of reasons to. But taking someone who is “good at technical work” and expecting them to understand how to manage people is a mess. You almost immediately find out about all their “under the surface” biases and they genuinely have no idea how to work around those.

        Like, it is good that people are acknowledging how massively fucked this is. But people should really understand that… this is “normal” for women in tech. And you get the occasional “Oh god, that is horrible. Good thing things aren’t like that here” as your co-worker screams internally because she learned that rocking the boat at all is a good way to never get promoted again.

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        I don’t know why, but somehow I can really picture James saying to Madison “calm your tits!” with his annoying smirk.

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        Don’t think so any more, they had one as an April fools (LinusSexTips) and it stuck around for a while for the memes. But I imagine there were lots of horrible things sent to that account

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      It’s funny how all the shithole places to work where top management are psychopaths who abuse their employees and tolerate (or encourage or perform) sexual assault and encourage and model deeply toxic work interactions also are companies that chase dollars over everything including truth, quality, ethics, and proper basic respect for customers (viewers).

      The world would be so much better if these types of fucked up toxic people weren’t here or at least were shunned and always failed downwards.

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    Linus has always struck me as fake as FUCK. He acts like every manager I’ve ever had that completely changes their attitude when behind closed doors. He also seems like his favorite thing in the world is one more penny in his bank account.

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      Whenever he speaks about the business side of things, work conditions or unions you can feel it, he’s a soul crusher. Heck he mentioned something along the line of “Although we don’t necessarily respect labor laws all the time, we know we’ve got good work conditions and if an employee wants to start talking labor laws… Well, two can play this game.”

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      Yeah, it feels like a lot is breaking lose right now, it’s crazy honestly

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      I applaud her for coming out with this at this time, maximizing the scrutiny they’ll have about it. Assuming all of it is true (which I’m inclined to believe, aside from the observations), this is very fucked up to the point I don’t even know what kind of resolution I want, aside from hopes of Madison being able to be at peace instead of being harassed by terminally online people.

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    After I came forward about being assaulted, Someone accused Linus of inappropriate conduct on twitter.

    He came over to my corner and started BERATING HER. Calling her insane, mentally ill, an attention seeker, and just digging into this poor woman who had felt wronged by him.

    o.0 what a hell hole. company is run by woman haters. zero respect for women.

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    … I suppose the only way to move forward is to see how LMG/LTT responds… Untill then, I’ve halted all FP subscriptions and unsubbed from all channels. Especially considering the response to GN’s piece.

    If it’s true that all they care about is their bottom line, unsubbing is the best thing you can do.

    Sadly Idk how many subs they’re gonna lose due to both this and the GN piece. It might not be enough to send a strong enough message.

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      Halting all payments is the best thing you can do. But subscribe count hasn’t really mattered for a long time now. Not a bad thing to unsubscribe but just wanted to point out it’s not the best thing you can do.

      View count is what matters so simply stop watching, less watchers means less ad revenue

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      The only response that’s appropriate and sufficient is firing everyone who has contributed to this unethical, actively hostile environment including the CEO and Linus himself, and instituting zero tolerance ethics and inclusion policies and an ethics group to stamp this toxic culture into dust. Nothing short of that will have any effect.

      Because these problems start and end at the top of the org.

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    This is terrible. I hope LTT is done for and this can be reckoned with. Also, some of this might be better turned into a criminal case.

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    That’s bad. I could look over the idea that the thing with billet was just stupid mistake after stupid mistake leading to a bad outcome. I saw the weird ways Linus expresses himself in his forum post and hoped he would address it in a video rather than WAN show. I thought he might do right by us, learn from it and continue to strive to being better. But this goes way too far. I boight the Screwdriver and I was going to spend lots of money on the store once the cable management system is out. That’s not going to happen anymore. I’m really disappointed.

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    Seeing all these groupie tech bros in the comments bending over backwards to justify what LTT has done makes me understand why she was afraid to come forward.

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    I already had dwindling respect for the company, now it’s zero, it’s disgraceful and a horrible asset to the tech world

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    I just want to say to the kids at home, you can do anything you want to do in life… because Linus gave you that platform.

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    I hope Madison is in a good, safe work environment now. The few episodes she was in were amazing, such a likeable, funny person. Stay safe out there.

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    Sad story. I hope getting it off your chest has helped, bottling things up is never good.

    I’ve been a fan of the LTT crew for years and watched Linus evolve, or rather, succumb to the pressure he was never able to cope with, change him. The massive responsibility for the business he has created and all those people’s jobs obviously weighs heavy on him. He needs to fully step back, be proud of what LTT is, and let experienced management take over. I’m hoping the new CEO will maker the right changes but this drama is very bed timing.

    Edit: This place reminds me a bit of the Yogscast dramas with individuals doing things they shouldn’t, while also making the place a bit toxic. They seem to have turned that shit around. I hope LTT can do the same.

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        He’s already recently no longer the CEO, I’ve unsubscribed and cancelled my floatplane. Waiting to see how this is addressed further but it’s not looking good.