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Linus Tech Tips pauses production as controversy swirls - The Verge (www.theverge.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Last night, at approximately 2AM ET, a former employee, Madison Reeve, posted a thread on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, accusing Linus Media Group of cultivating a toxic work environment and encouraging a work culture that was detrimental to her health as well as sexual harassment directed at her by Linus Media Group employees.

“I chose to quit my role at LTT because it, and the working environment I was facing, were ruining my mental health,” her statement begins. “My work was called ‘dogshit’ I was called ‘incompetent’. When I would reach out to managers and try to get help with these situations, I would be told to ‘put on my big girl pants’ and be ‘more assertive’.”

Reeve went on to accuse the company of barring her from videos after she reported being “grabbed multiple times in the office” and being told to “calm my tits” and “stop being such a bitch.”

Madisons' thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1691693740254228741.html
(Content warning: self harm)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I want to be clear I'm not blaming you specifically here, or I'm not trying to paint you as a bad actor intentionally. I'm saying that this trend of behavior is common around drama discourse, and I think it's to the detriment of the situation overall. You're free to act as you please, you're free to think I'm virtue signaling, that's fine and I'm not going to push on that. I'm just trying to use this as an illustration of something that I, as my own individual person, see as an issue surrounding this type of discourse and I wanted to make a point about it accordingly