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Pretty damning review.

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

LTT claims to be hitting the brakes and asking itself how to proceed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0cTpTMl8kFY

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1691693740254228741

This came out around the same time that was likely being filmed.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

JTFC... It's starting to seem like boycotting YouTube entirely is the only option anymore. If Google wasn't bad enough, it feels like everyone that gets big has entire warehouses full of closets full of skeletons. And when they get exposed it rarely puts a dent in their fan base or bottom line.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

If that went down they way they said, that's ugly af.

Of course, it's hard to confirm any of this unless other employees want to get fired for talking about it.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

3 tweets, 2 Instagram posts, and 2 TikToks minimum per day

fuck me, i gotta switch my job if that's considered incredible

Edit:

I was told I was chunky, fat, ugly, stupid. I was called "retarded" I was called a "faggot"

Okay if there is any proof of that, it might bring down the whole company

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Presumably they have to be good/generate interactions.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

She was replaced by a team of 4

Also Here's Colin who left the company in 2022 on good terms

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here is an alternative Piped link(s): https://piped.video/watch?v=0cTpTMl8kFY

Piped is a privacy-respecting open-source alternative frontend to YouTube.

I'm open-source, check me out at GitHub.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Videos pull up but nothing plays. Both in firefox and chrome.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

seems a nice response