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Floatplane is now below 37000 subscribers. (lemm.ee)
submitted 2 years ago by to c/linustechtips@lemmy.ml
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They have approximately now lost over 5000 subscribers which equates to about $25000 per month or $300000 per year in lost revenue.

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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (1 child)

(which drove a kid and his mom to suicide before)

Wait, what? Do you have a link to anything about this?

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  • [–] 19 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

    It's worse than that. Due to a mix-up with his MCN, he never rightfully received his play button. The kid decided to give it back, but because he was so nice about it, Linus told him to keep it and rebadge it with his own channel name. The community still harassed him.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    I'm confused, how is that Linus's fault?

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    It's not, but reddit is wild on this and brings up excuses like "he should have made a video showing they're best friends" or whatever.

    Linus did actually tweeted and talked a couple of minutes in a WAN show pleading his fanbase to leave this kid alone, but for reddit it was not enough.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    While I don't think it's Linus' fault that other people act like that, I do think he bears some responsibility in who and how he names people in his videos. A bit more consideration is necessary. It hasn't come up a lot; Maybe the pool install company that screwed him over.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    Was the Mindchop channel about video games? If so I recall watching a video about the NCIX auctions. I recall the mission being to buy back the youtube play button from Linus' early days there.

    I was watching due to the local uproar in the media of all of the customer data on the servers being sold to the highest bidder at the time. Being a former customer of NCIX for my personal system builds I wasn't excited about this.

    I thought this guy was an adult if it is the same thing I was thinking about. It was spun as the guy built a cool smaller channel and couldn't get his play button for reasons I didn't understand and at the time of the video Linus decided the guy should have it as his channel was pretty cool. Since I wasn't a rabid LTT viewer I never saw anything more about it and honestly I probably didn't see another LTT video for a while after that.

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