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1 minute ago, ILuvUrMun said:

I agree it is pretty sus, but when would she have been able to come forward without the wrath of this community coming back at her? LTT was spotless until the GN incident, but she saw that the image was shatteted and took the oportunity to say her piece with minimal backlash from the community since everyone ia already pretty ticked off at them. 
 

I feel for her, truly. If that actually happened then LMG Is a horrible company, but i still believe that we should hear both sides before jumping to conclusions. 

its not sus. Drama happened with LTT, clowns initiate harassing her with questions and accusations about LTT.

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11 minutes ago, Owsleygarcia95 said:

Madison is such a whiney millennial about having to actually work, that I find her more serious allegations hard to beleive, especially considering the timing. And she sure is vague about what people are calling "assault". I read her entire thread.

 

I don't think you know what a millennial is.

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1 minute ago, Charlotte_in_Shinbashi said:

I have read multiple concerns that Emily might have quit due to the same reasons Madison claims. I have watched nearly every LTT video the last 6 years (except for the sponsored nonsense), but I can't remember who Emily is. First I thought it was Lukes girlfriend they talk about on WAN sometimes. But that doesn't make any sense. Or did she work for LMG at one time, and doesn't anymore now?

That's because Emily went previously by Anthony. You would have seen plenty of Anthony videos.

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2 minutes ago, Charlotte_in_Shinbashi said:

I have read multiple concerns that Emily might have quit due to the same reasons Madison claims. I have watched nearly every LTT video the last 6 years (except for the sponsored nonsense), but I can't remember who Emily is. First I thought it was Lukes girlfriend they talk about on WAN sometimes. But that doesn't make any sense. Or did she work for LMG at one time, and doesn't anymore now?

Emily is still working at LMG according to a friend of hers.  

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3 minutes ago, Taf the Ghost said:

She's accused the management of violations of BC Worker's Rights laws. There's a couple of agencies, part of the BC government, that handle these types of cases directly. There's also criminal complaints that may or may not have been available.  None of which would require her to hire her own lawyers.

True but from my reading.... it appears BC has a six month window in which they must report this kind of thing.   There are exceptions, there can be exceptions, she'd need to be one of them. 

I don't know how Canada looks at these things but I am a transgender woman you bet I've had to file discrimination complaints.  Here in Illinois a lawyer won't even look at a case unless there is a finding from the IL department of human rights finding that the case has merit.   Given the profile of her case she may be able to retain counsel.   LTT should have counsel on retainer, so should people at LMG in their individual capacities. 

 

Sounds awful but this all smells.  I HOPE IT IS FALSE.  I hope, I really HOPE she didn't have to deal with any of that, that LTT is not that kinda place... but I've learned in my own life you can never know what places will be good 

3 minutes ago, Taf the Ghost said:

I feel like everyone has forgotten that the Activision stuff came to light because of a long running State of California investigation of the company. Madison lives & works in a Western country. There's are boatloads of agencies that deal with things. How well, obviously, is up for debate, but she has yet to take that direction.

 

Though if there's one criticism that can be laid at LMG's feet, it's probably pretty clear no one noticed her in severe mental destress over a long period of time, unless she was really good at acting around it or compartmentalizing it.

That last part kinda sounds... 

A young woman complaining of sexual harassment is not crazy. 

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1 minute ago, Rhino16 said:

That video above seems old, I can’t imagine anyone is laughing like that at the end right now.

Going to use this post for my 2c

 

This is allegedly the day after Madison exited the company. Based on the context it it sounded like Madison's complaints never made it past her direct supervisor/manager until the exit interview - Linus says in the video "Um, We can't solve problems we don't know about though". It seems like this meeting is very boiler-plate corporate HR speak spurred on by the fact that upper management/Linus was only made aware of any amount of the allegations as she exited. (Speculation) By then, I imagine she would have been too exasperated/overwhelmed/in such a low state that she also probably didn't give the entire Twitter account she just did to the team. 

 

Linus says they have multiple avenues of conflict resolution/reporting. It could maybe be construed that because of the order he lists them in he's trying to usher people away from the 'best' option of going to their 3rd party HR counsel, but it really just sounds like he's listing the options in the order of 'chain of command' and repeatedly says all avenues are available. This is consistent with his take on the whole union topic, which is that he wants to run a company that treats its employees so well they don't need unions - you can take this whatever way you want, but the face value is 'if you treat your employees well, if you pay them well, they don't need to unionize'. I'm not here to argue whether that's right or wrong, just pointing out that that also seems to fall in line with the "You can go to the offender, you can go to your supervisor, you can come to me or Yvonne, or you can go to our 3rd party and you can do it anonymously. You have options". 

 

(Speculation) Based on how this convo went down and the glass door review being much more generic, I don't think upper/senior management likely ever found out about the extent of what Madison is alleging on Twitter today. I don't believe that speaks to the validity of her claims at all either, not here to argue to her character or mental health. It sounds like she exited, was obviously exasperated, there were likely documented performance reports and issues and any internal investigating that took place after her exit was likely easily swept under the rug by those who were directly involved. If she complained about bro culture, inappropriate comments, poor management etc, someone simply talking to her direct report likely would have had an easy time writing generic feedback like that off, or having her come off as emotional, unstable, or a poor worker. 

 

Again, I want to reiterate that I'm not passing judgement on Madison, just taking the recording for what it is. 

 

 

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I am a millennial (1989), and I am disappointed and disgusted with my lazy generation that thinks running social media accounts, editing videos, and god forbid making phone calls to sponsors is hard work. Gen Z is even worse. They are doomed. If anyone ever invades America we will have to draft 40+ year Olds to have a chance.

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1 minute ago, Owsleygarcia95 said:

I am a millennial (1989), and I am disappointed and disgusted with my lazy generation that thinks running social media accounts, editing videos, and god forbid making phone calls to sponsors is hard work. Gen Z is even worse. They are doomed. If anyone ever invades America we will have to draft 40+ year Olds to have a chance.

I'm 1989 as well, but you sound like you were raised by your grandparents 

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11 minutes ago, Charlotte_in_Shinbashi said:

I have read multiple concerns that Emily might have quit due to the same reasons Madison claims. I have watched nearly every LTT video the last 6 years (except for the sponsored nonsense), but I can't remember who Emily is. First I thought it was Lukes girlfriend they talk about on WAN sometimes. But that doesn't make any sense. Or did she work for LMG at one time, and doesn't anymore now?

https://linusmediagroup.com/#:~:text=Cinematographer-,EMILY YOUNG,-Writer
 

Here she is, right on the LMG website. Hopefully this helps, but from what I have seen and heard, Emily is still with LMG.

 

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10 minutes ago, Owsleygarcia95 said:

I am a millennial (1989), and I am disappointed and disgusted with my lazy generation that thinks running social media accounts, editing videos, and god forbid making phone calls to sponsors is hard work. Gen Z is even worse. They are doomed. If anyone ever invades America we will have to draft 40+ year Olds to have a chance.

 

The average age of a US solider is 23. Wow, the youth are so lazy!

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1 minute ago, Uttamattamakin said:

True but from my reading.... it appears BC has a six month window in which they must report this kind of thing.   There are exceptions, there can be exceptions, she'd need to be one of them. 

I don't know how Canada looks at these things but I am a transgender woman you bet I've had to file discrimination complaints.  Here in Illinois a lawyer won't even look at a case unless there is a finding from the IL department of human rights finding that the case has merit.   Given the profile of her case she may be able to retain counsel.   LTT should have counsel on retainer, so should people at LMG in their individual capacities. 

 

Sounds awful but this all smells.  I HOPE IT IS FALSE.  I hope, I really HOPE she didn't have to deal with any of that, that LTT is not that kinda place... but I've learned in my own life you can never know what places will be good 

That last part kinda sounds... 

A young woman complaining of sexual harassment is not crazy. 

Per her own thread, her mental state was very bad at the start because of the death of her brother, she had consistent focus issues and eventually stabbed (cut?) herself to take a day off.  You aren't in those mental places if your physical health isn't already fairly poor. She needed professional help and likely a different job regardless of any other issues that may have arisen.

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41 minutes ago, Neroon said:

Maybe I will. Can I have your full real name please, so I can accuse you of sexual abuse please? I really want to get it off my chest.

 

I mean you have to support me in my truth right?

When that's your reaction, it's clear that you're definitely the problem.

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11 minutes ago, stuffybear said:

Emily is still working at LMG according to a friend of hers.  

lol, "take the kids and run"

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7 minutes ago, Owsleygarcia95 said:

I am a millennial (1989), and I am disappointed and disgusted with my lazy generation that thinks running social media accounts, editing videos, and god forbid making phone calls to sponsors is hard work. Gen Z is even worse. They are doomed. If anyone ever invades America we will have to draft 40+ year Olds to have a chance.

Hard work isn't just manual labor. I've worked at a factory, I've done the military thing, and I do IT. IT is the hardest, Military was the Easiest(do what you are told, don't think)

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31 minutes ago, KOAO said:

This but also if they were trying to get rid of you in any way possible which includes framing you for something, and you live in a one party consent state you were well within your right to record that privately and use it against them on your way out.

You can not in the UK.  In Canada yes but you can be fired for it.  From sounds of this she quit. That is her choice.  Sounds a bit odd

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2 minutes ago, ILuvUrMun said:

I'm 1989 as well, but you sound like you were raised by your grandparents 

No I've just done several different kinds of hard labor, the kinds that are essential for civilization to exist. And making YouTube videos and running social media accounts don't qualify.

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1 minute ago, ILuvUrMun said:

Yo this is popping ul in my recommended tab now. The internet doesn't sleep smh

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Aren't text-based word association algos wonderful?

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1 hour ago, Blademaster91 said:

Well considering you're denying any of the allegations because she should've just went to the police, and you're claiming people are just "angry mobs" or just "putting up pitchforks" here it seems like you're taking sides and siding with LMG.

 

I don't know how it works in Canada, but going to the police doesn't usually do anything, unless there is substantiated evidence  of LMG breaking HR policies or evidence of sexual harassment going on, but I'm just going from what other people have said here I am not a legal professional and this is not legal advice.

I think its fine for Madison to bring up concerns on twitter/X, especially if they felt threatened and felt like they didn't have any other options, also when this happened, Linus and LMG tried to dismiss any wrongdoing and the fans just called Madison an upset ex-exployee that was lying. So for Madison to bring this up again now is understandable and a matter of timing when the fans aren't going to be going all out to defend LMG.

I side with evidence, truth and fairness. Innocent until proven guilty. It means nothing to pitchfork mobs that's why I am calling you one. Wrongdoing require investigations and should be and is punished by law.

You are unable to see how harmful accusations on Twitter are. It is completely beside the point if she is telling the truth or not. She chose the poorest most harmful way to do this. And she will be suffering for it again - regardless if she is or isn't telling the truth. Your mob - because that is what you are now, have dissect jokes, company meetings and likes made by people on Twitter.

There was talk about integrity here just yesterday. There is nothing left but disgust now. 

Have a good day Sir. I will not be responding here anymore as I simply feel dirty seeing this. Enjoy your riot. 

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What y'all "she should've gone to the police" folk seem to have missed from her thread is the fact she said she was made to feel like she'd done wrong, that it was her fault. It took the ER incident to realise she had a problem and needed to get out. That's is what she said.


It's very easy to say "why didn't she gather evidence" or "why didn't she tell the authorities" or "why didn't she use a spy pen" (fucking lmao) with the gift of hindsight, but why would her first thought be to go to a police station if she's feeling the way she describes? That she was at fault, that she was bad at her job, etc?

 

Any of y'all been in a failed relationship where after some time has passed you think "how on earth did I ever put up with all that?" Where the weight of it and how bad it was didn't fully manifest for you until you'd got some distance from it?

 

It's entirely common to not see the forest for the trees when you're in the midst of things, when you're being told things are a certain way, when your own mental state has led you to believe that you're at fault, or that things aren't as bad as they later appear.

 

Sure, in an ideal world she had receipts for everything, had recorded all pertinent interactions, had insisted on bringing a neutral party to all HR meetings, etc. In an ideal world she does all that. But just because she didn't doesn't automatically make her a liar, or discredit her. It doesn't automatically means she's telling the truth either, of course. But surely well all have some situation, big or small, where we can think back on it and realise "wow, that was actually kinda worse than I realised at the time" or "I wish I'd seen how bad it was and done things differently as a result".

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9 minutes ago, Owsleygarcia95 said:

No I've just done several different kinds of hard labor, the kinds that are essential for civilization to exist. And making YouTube videos and running social media accounts don't qualify.

 

Ah shit, I don't farm the fields or work in the steel mill. I guess I will walk out into traffic.

 

Well if making YouTube videos are not essential for civilization I guess LTT just shouldn't exist right? 

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2 minutes ago, Sasha2D said:

 

Ah shit, I don't farm the fields or work in the steel mill. I guess I will walk out into traffic.

 

Well if making YouTube videos are not essential for civilization I guess LTT just shouldn't exist right? 

LTT is not essential for survival, correct.

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2 minutes ago, Taf the Ghost said:

Per her own thread, her mental state was very bad at the start because of the death of her brother, she had consistent focus issues and eventually stabbed (cut?) herself to take a day off.  You aren't in those mental places if your physical health isn't already fairly poor. She needed professional help and likely a different job regardless of any other issues that may have arisen.

Yeah but none of those things mean she is not telling the truth about this.  Some people see someone young and in distress and want to help.  Offer a job, offer a fresh start.   Some other people see someone in distress and want to take advantage.   Sometimes a little of both.  I've seen this happen to others and had people try that nonsense with me.  

Not everyone has the self esteem to tell those with more institutional power where to stick it.   Madison sounds like that kind of person.  I mean thinking that the employee handbook had any legally enforcible standing beyond "here are a list of things that LTT wants you to do while you work there".  Of course LTT wants you to keep issues internal.  (If their hadbook says, or implies, or anyone of standing at LTT says or implies that a complaint to authorities about these things is cause for dismissal that is illegal). 

In fact I'm going to go farther, I'm going to play a bit of devils advocate here. 
IT is a well known thing for companies to give a set of bad reviews on record for anyone they think will file a complaint.  Then they can fire them, and say "it's not retaliation they are on the way out".  Madison being told her work is "Dog ***T" etc is a very immature persons version of doing that.  

I see a lack of business maturity.  I'll gladly say I'm a looser who takes care of my decrepit parents at home, never been married.  I can't leave for a week without one of them being in the hospital once I get back from Copenhagen, (True story).  So pot meet kettle.  Plus I'm  older what's my excuse?  My excuse is my type of immaturity only effects me, and kinda helps my family.  I spend all my maturity at work.  LTT and LMG have been structured like a group of friends/ family who are friends not a company.  It needs to be a company.  It needs to be more Arasaka and less Tyger Claws. 

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What's up with people saying comments are being hidden/deleted from the latest "What do we do now?" video? I honestly can't find some of these examples of 5K likes comments about Madison even thought I sorted by TOP and this is what I get:

 

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The rest of the comments in the next few pages barely have any likes and a few randomly scattered 24K and 3K likes down below like these ones:

 

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But I could barely find any mentioning anything harsh about the Madison thing in the first 10 pages. What sort of "sort by top" algorythm is this? Is it Google's incompetence in ranking comments or is there something actually going on with commetns being deboosted?

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9 minutes ago, Master Link said:

I'm a millennial too, (1986), calm yourself.  They are doing fine considering what crap show we were given by the previous generation, unfortunately it wasn't cleaned up in time for the next gen.

 

That's why we are there to help them.........right?

I appreciate your optimistic view. And yeah the boomers and gen x definitely lived through the most prosperous times in human history, but that's long gone. I wish I could be optimistic too, but all I see is 1984 closing in around us faster by the day, and the vast majority of people welcoming it, or pretending like it's no big deal and laughing it off.

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