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What started as criticism over errors in recent YouTube videos has escalated into allegations of sexual harassment, prompting the company to hire an outside investigator.

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[–] [email protected] 79 points 2 years ago (12 children)

So much for the flippant "I won't be responding to this outside of this text post".

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 years ago (11 children)

You would think that after so many YouTubers sucked at apologizing and got called out they would figure out how to do it the right way. But no!

That big ass team and you couldn't get a PR person to help you?

None of this was irredeemable. Sure, it will take a significant amount of time to rebuild trust but you can choose to be transparent in response and right your wrongs.

The hubris

[–] [email protected] 24 points 2 years ago (9 children)

I mean the Madison stuff is pretty bad. The rest of it, was probably recoverable from.

I think the thing is in these kind of situations they are typically no win situations. When the fuel is burning really the only answer is let it burn itself out, then deal with the aftermath. I don't think any response would be good enough because right now people are out for blood, some of it very justifiably but people would need to be blind to not see there are people who have an axe to grind and the usual drama chasers. I'm not here to say they didn't do anything wrong but people are going to try to connect some unrelated controversies to keep the fire burning (Note: This isn't about the Madison leak) like the mindchop tragedy.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

Oh I didn't see the Madison stuff yet I guess I am behind

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