Last night, at approximately 2AM ET, a former employee, Madison Reeve, posted a thread on X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, accusing Linus Media Group of cultivating a toxic work environment and encouraging a work culture that was detrimental to her health as well as sexual harassment directed at her by Linus Media Group employees.
“I chose to quit my role at LTT because it, and the working environment I was facing, were ruining my mental health,” her statement begins. “My work was called ‘dogshit’ I was called ‘incompetent’. When I would reach out to managers and try to get help with these situations, I would be told to ‘put on my big girl pants’ and be ‘more assertive’.”
Reeve went on to accuse the company of barring her from videos after she reported being “grabbed multiple times in the office” and being told to “calm my tits” and “stop being such a bitch.”
Madisons’ thread: https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1691693740254228741.html
(Content warning: self harm)
This whole thing was new to me. But it is sort of notable that a big company did/tolerated these things. Even if it’s some dumb new media YouTube shit.
I feel like there have been tons of even larger big companies being exposed for tolerating this kind of shit, hell Blizzard not too long ago. Not that it is bad that they are getting exposed, I had heard of this channel and it always seemed like lowest common denominator trash to me but just with a tech “theme” so I had ignored it.
Yeah but these morons have currency with the young and malleable.