Linus Tech Tips apology video - BEST PARTS

Oof, you wanna TL;DR half a week of "influencer" drama? I'll bite.

1. On July 28th, Tim "Big Bald Mouth" Holowachuk decided, of his own volition, during the LTX labs tour, to entirely undeservedly diss friendly tech youtubers GN and HUB in a MurfsGaming video released the same day (timestamp: 8:30).
2. During LTX, a full copper block, artisan prototype owned by Billet Labs (apparently their best performing), previously inaccurately (of course) "tested" by Linus, was fraudulently sold on the silent auction.
3. HUB answered via a tweet throwing some well deserved shade; while GN, unbeknownst to LMG, had accumulated months worth of data about their repeated egregious errors, inaccuracies and general unprofessionalism, and made an outstanding, demonetized, 45 min long video about it. I highly recommend watching all of it.
4. Linus responded within hours essentially reading "Yeah, you don't really deserve an answer, be happy you got one privately. As for the guys we wronged, they don't matter, and they made an absurdly atrocious product, so who cares. And I didn't sell it, I auctioned it to profit a charity; plus we already have an agreement on how to compensate Billet Labs." (that last part was a lie).
5. GN took the first 12 minutes of their next upload to react on Linus's atrocious take, commenting how unsavory it is.
6. Madison Reeves (@suuuoppp), seeing the tide turn after 2 years of silent suffering, decided to publish everything (apparently) she had about her horrible experience (TW: outrageous abuse of authority, humiliation, self harm, sexual harassment & abuse) at LMG. Unfortunately, being mostly ignorant of OpSec, she apparently did not manage to collect much proof. Fortunately, Colin Worobetz (@DubMFG) chimed in, corroborating her version of the facts, and adding a much needed third party confirmation (reddit thread about it).
7. LMG decided to then publish a sort of "Apology" video (sort of, because not only they managed to sound nauseatingly bland, dishearteningly corporate, incredibly unconcerned, they also plugged their merch, and threw goofy jokes with sexual references around, proving the absolutely laughable extent of their seriousness).
8. Freeman decided to make a video montage of the much worse, much more boring, much longer video released by LMG, and posted it here. And he's right. That's all you really need to see.

Gamers Nexus (another highly respected tech YouTuber) called out LTT for their mistakes and performances over the last few years, the overall point being that they're moving too fast and causing multiple mistakes in their content.

There's a current controversy with a company called Billet who gave LTT a custom water block to test and instead of testing it properly with the 3090 it was made for, they tried it with a 4090 card (and it obviously didn't work)

Linus doubled down on their results saying it wouldn't have mattered anyway because it's a rubbish product and no one should buy it (which came across very poorly, why even agree to test a product if you know your going to trash on it)

The whole situation specifically looks like it's triggered some upcoming changes in LMG and hopefully the outcome is better, more accurate video content

Regarding the initial drama, the timeline is as follows:

• GN exposes LTT's sloppy-at-best practices: https://youtu.be/FGW3TPytTjc
• Linus responds emotionally in forum thread: https://linustechtips.com/topic/1526180-gamers-nexus-alleges-lmg-has-insufficient-ethics-and-integrity/?do=findComment&comment=16078641
• GN responds to Linus' response: https://youtu.be/X3byz3txpso
• LTT responds more thoughtfully: https://youtu.be/0cTpTMl8kFY

I will not try to summarize these different events, since that risks not covering all of the finer details in the issue.

Then there is also some very recent issue that has been raised about a former employee at LTT that allegedly has been the victim of sexual abuse, and very harsh working conditions, but I'm not fully read up on that yet.

I would just like to thank all the kind souls that helped recap the situation. It is very appreciated.

Tbh you should do your own DD and form an opinion on your own rather than listening to what randoms on the internet have to say about something they aren’t directly involved with.