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LTT is starting to lose subscribers (lemmy.ml)

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[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 15 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's absolutely no excuse for hounding a child to suicide.

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Correct, but I can't blame LTT for that. That's the raving zealot LTT fanbase.

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Saik0Shinigami@lemmy.saik0.com 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] BeardedGingerWonder@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

None of which contradicts anything I said.