Twitter erupts after man steals menstrual pads from Amazon's new cashier-less store

[King_of_Oz]

@LinusTech @nicklmg @James

 

Wan show topic?

[descendency]

20 hours ago, Profiled said:

"Linus a pathetic virgin" 

 

 

who is a terrible father to his daughters. 

[Ertman]

Just some consequences of using clickbait titles.

[Canada EH]

school yard boys having fun on useless subject matter

[LAwLz]

18 hours ago, WereCat said:

So you got click baited into thinking that he was stealing tampons but if he actually used a correct title that he was stealing pads, you would now know to not watch that video, right? Because you are not interested in him seeing stealing pads, but you would totally watch him to steal tampons...

No I did not get clickbaited. I haven't watched the video.

Like I said before, I think this is a matter of principle. The video title is completely misleading. They didn't steal anything, and what they "stole" weren't tampons.

How anyone can with a straight face say that this isn't clickbait is beyond me. Even Linus himself said that he chose that title in order to get more views.

I will repeat what I said before DON'T LIE IN TITLES TO GET MORE VIEWS. This really shouldn't be a hard rule to follow.

 

Linus lied in the title to get more views. You can not argue against that fact.

 

18 hours ago, WereCat said:

Your comparison example is way blown out of proportion, it is just not the same. Obviously, talking about Google Pixel as a daily driver and having iPhone X in the title is misleading and you would be in a full right to be angry about it.

What's the big deal?

Calling a Pixel 2 an iPhone wouldn't be a big deal because both exists, both serve the same purpose and one is recognizable everywhere while the other could mean hundreds of different things depending on context and what language you speak. While we're at it, let's imagine that it wasn't his new daily driver. He just used it for a day and for that day it was his primary phone. It was his "for the day, driver".

@Master Disaster

 

Fundamentally my example is exactly the same as this video. The product name is wrong, and the words used to describe the situation are ambiguous at best and misleading at worst.

 

If you're going to try and use logic to defend one situation then your argument needs to hold up in both situations. Then if you on an emotional level think that one is more acceptable than the other that's up to you. But at that point you're not arguing from logic but rather from your own subjective feelings about the situation. You are OK with being lied to in this situation but might not be in other ones.

 

 

I think it's astonishing how far some viewers will go to defend Linus and his clickbait. Is it really so hard to accept reality that Linus is perfectly content with lying if it means he gets more views? I think that's a line that should never be crossed. Once you have crossed it (which Linus has) then it will be very hard to ever trust anything he says, because you never know if he is lying to the viewers for personal gain or if he is telling the truth.

[Bhav]

And what about women that think CPUs = the whole computer?

 

Well OK, there's also men that think that, but then there are also women that call pads tampons.

[Bhav]

8 hours ago, descendency said:

who is a terrible father to his daughters. 

Also I'm pretty sure he says they're for his wife, yet the article still writes that they hope he at least donates them to a woman's shelter.

 

As though men that buy feminine products are obviously single. Well, actually, about all those hairsprays and foundation and nail varnish I have .... Erm, ok, never mind what I just said.

[Noyu]

hey guys! did Linus release an official statement regarding this issue?

(aside from the twitter post he made re: artistic license)

 

I heard he went livestream for his response for this but is there some way I can watch those vids?

 

Personally I think Twitter SJWs went stupid on this. It was obviously meant as a joke/clickbait as he clearly states they were pads in the video.