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Assuming you're in the US, your options are basically the Razr+ or Galaxy Flip. (There's supposed to be a Razr non-plus coming sometime this year) Personally I'm partial to Mr. Mobile on Youtube, and he does a good review for both these phones. Check it out and see if you like it.

That's part of the issue. With LTT Labs, they are billing themselves as the most accurate and authoritative source of benchmark data. Inaccuracies are excusable (somewhat) for entertainment content (i.e. if they test their weird car radiator loop wrong), but are not excusable if they're claiming to be the most accurate and correct benchmark source.

A host's value is not tied to their attractiveness. Linus himself -- especially in the early days -- was not so attractive and yet was a very entertaining host. Emily was an amazing host back when she was on camera, and was the amazing host she was not because of looks, but because of charisma and passion. Saying that Madison would only be a good host if she was attractive is absolutely sexist because this standard is not applied to men, and also because it reduces her to her body and looks rather than valuing her for her character.

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Yep, you're right. LTT didn't need to agree to send it back, but once they did, it should have been sent ofc.

Yes. But you asked for *ANY* evidence. In any case, the situation referenced, while unfortunately, is pretty detached from this current fiasco. Linus acted reasonably then, telling the community to back off, and the community was toxic instead. It's a horrible thing, but unrelated to either the Billet labs, Accuracy, or Madison issues.

Linus himself commented on the Reddit post with condolences.

I haven't seen that anywhere, but I may be wrong. Where did they say this?

No, the car always belonged to the car company. There's no "suddenly" about this. Products being loaned to reviewers is common. This was only offered after the GN video went live. (likely it would have been offered either way, but your retelling does skip this fact) Yes, because they've already spent money and resources to make another supercar, and the first one will take a long time to get back, plus who knows what condition it's in. Taking the money absolutely makes sense here for Billet. The idea here is that LMG should have reviewed the cooler, and then given it back so that Billet could distribute it to another media outlet. Not being able to redistribute the cooler means that they're blocked from getting any more coverage of it. It was at LMG for a VERY long time after the review was shot.

Backlash is intensified by: 1. Linus' original response, which presented a misleading-at-best version of the timeline of when communications happened between Billet and LMG. 2. The apology video being incredibly tone-deaf 3. (most important for me) Madison's experience as an employee of LMG, which seems to indicate much deeper problems.

Curious: What do you think of Madison's experience at LMG? Does this change your prespective?

IMO the ideal response is this: WAN show on Friday: "We are dealing with the Madison situation internally, but will make no public comment at this time because Linus has done enough damage already and these are serious allegations with legal consequenses" A few weeks (months if there's legal action?) down the line, when the situation is stable, LMG needs to release a statement with their version of events, ideally demonstrating proof (there *must* be emails or teams messages generated from the number of complaints Madison made, even if many agreements were verbal -- these must be found and shown to the public if LMG is to maintain credibility). Whatever mismanagement happened, LMG needs to take full accountability for. If heads need to roll, so be it. Zero-tolerance means zero-tolerance. Even if it means losing multiple otherwise very talented writers/editors/etc., it's necessary for LMG to maintain integirty.

Just curious, what are your thoughts about Madison's experience at LMG then?

They were offered 100 Million dollars as an acquisition offer, therefore the company is worth $100 million.

What's happening now (mostly) is exactly what's intended. There's certainly a fire lit under Linus/LTT, but it's hardly their downfall. With a semi-reasonable reaction from LMG this could be fixed.