Specifically:

What’s the controversy?

What’s Gamer Nexus about?

What is with the allegations of sexual harassment? Is the allegation against Linus Sebastian himself or employees in Linus Media Group?

  • Skimmer@lemmy.zip
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    1 year ago

    Basically, LMG were producing way too much content way too fast without proper testing of products and were making tons of mistakes, and wouldn’t take the proper measures to take accountability for or fix the mistakes they were making. An egregious example was a mouse they reviewed where they literally didn’t take the tape off the bottom of it. They also got a one of a kind prototype cooler from a very small start-up company, improperly tested it (used the wrong GPU that it wasn’t even made for), blasted the product and called it horrible because of it, then refused to properly retest it because it’d at most cost $500 (despite them being a $100 million dollar company), and to put the cherry on top, auctioned off the product despite the company explicitly requesting it back and LMG even agreeing to send it back.

    Now LMG is also being accused of sexual harassment and being an overall extremely toxic and horrible work place by a former employee.

    I’d strongly recommend just watching the Gamers Nexus video and reading the thread from the former employee because this reply doesn’t near do this shitshow justice and I’m sure I’m missing out on a lot details.