No WAN Show this week. The streak has ended.
"Heads up, there won’t be a WAN Show this week. Instead, we will continue to focus on addressing issues raised both internally and by the community during our production break. We appreciate you all for your patience."
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They needed a poll to make this decision? Didn't they decide to put a halt to video production in their apology video? Or are floatplane exclusives not considered video production like selling something is different from auctioning it...?
They've been using polls for a lot for a while now - even things that were recently criticized like the Framework investment, was originally a poll on WAN asking how the audience felt about the ethical implications of that investment. And whether the audience thought it was acceptable so long as they always disclaim that Linus is a Framework investor during coverage of other laptops. To me it kinda makes sense how they could get so caught up in an echo chamber of die-hard fans who encourage them into things that people who aren't in that core fan group see as problematic or at least ethically questionable. I see using fans to guide decision making as one of the root problems at LTT, because fans, pretty much by definition, already think you can do no wrong, and will often be blind to the way things look to a broader audience.
This is my concern as well. A charitable reading of this might be that their decision making team's sense of knowing what is ethical and normal has been soo shaken that they're uncomfortable with making those decisions without outside guidance. Given Terren has only been there for six weeks though, he should be able to provide outside insight on this. The non-charitable read is that this is all for show and they're reaching out to see what the minimally acceptable most profitable line they can toe at the moment is.
So every youtber who has patron is ethical questionable?
They probably had some floatplane exclusives ready to go pre- scheduled. Asking about that from their paying customers honestly seems fair.
Pretty sure I saw another screenshot that said they did have a couple in the wings they asked about postponing.
But at a certain point the outrage has to apparently turn into a witch hunt and blaming them for stuff they didn't or haven't done, so here we are. There's plenty of real stuff to be mad about without making anything up.
Little different for being paying outright for the content I guess.
Yeah, I'm by no means happy with this turn of events, but given that they actually pay for content on Floatplane, it makes perfect sense to me to ask them if they should do a show.
how else do you expect him to read the room and know not to make sex jokes or steal auction shit that isnt his.
They had exclusives already produced, uploaded and scheduled to go live, so no actual work to release them. The poll was if they should let those go ahead or hold them back in the spirit of the break.
Haha. I saw what you did there. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)