Haha, no. If he\they don’t know their fanbase, what are they even doing? LTT is a public brand\person. They have indirect responsibility for what their words cause. Usually, they get money for that, by shilling for sponsors, by entertaining millions of fans each day, so they know how much power they have by voicing their opinions. Be they agitating for something unethical, like testing a wall socket with a fork, without disclaimers, how many kids and idiots would fry themselves? Mass bullying of a kiddo couldn’t happen without this channel’s vid.
No, but you did suggest you should expect this level of abuse for the “shady” act of buying subs and buying a YouTube button someone else feels they’re entitled to.
Ultimately if a group of people whose unifying property is you and they’re hounding a child in your name you are absolutely responsible for doing everything in your power to stop them abusing that child.
Not to say they deserved to be harassed, but you can’t expect not to be if you do things in a really shady way.
Is what I said. As in I don’t believe that they should have been harassed, but the internet being the internet… we know that’s what happens when people do shady shit like that.
Linus can’t control idiots that just watch his videos. He was on record as “don’t bother this person” in several places. And I’ve not seen any case where Linus “sent” people to harass this kid. So yes… even if the group is ultimately unified by Linus… I can’t necessarily blame him.
There’s absolutely no excuse for hounding a child to suicide.
Correct, but I can’t blame LTT for that. That’s the raving zealot LTT fanbase.
Haha, no. If he\they don’t know their fanbase, what are they even doing? LTT is a public brand\person. They have indirect responsibility for what their words cause. Usually, they get money for that, by shilling for sponsors, by entertaining millions of fans each day, so they know how much power they have by voicing their opinions. Be they agitating for something unethical, like testing a wall socket with a fork, without disclaimers, how many kids and idiots would fry themselves? Mass bullying of a kiddo couldn’t happen without this channel’s vid.
No, but you did suggest you should expect this level of abuse for the “shady” act of buying subs and buying a YouTube button someone else feels they’re entitled to.
Ultimately if a group of people whose unifying property is you and they’re hounding a child in your name you are absolutely responsible for doing everything in your power to stop them abusing that child.
Is what I said. As in I don’t believe that they should have been harassed, but the internet being the internet… we know that’s what happens when people do shady shit like that.
Linus can’t control idiots that just watch his videos. He was on record as “don’t bother this person” in several places. And I’ve not seen any case where Linus “sent” people to harass this kid. So yes… even if the group is ultimately unified by Linus… I can’t necessarily blame him.
None of which contradicts anything I said.