“Heads up, there won’t be a WAN Show this week. Instead, we will continue to focus on addressing issues raised both internally and by the community during our production break. We appreciate you all for your patience.”

    • MrMcGasion@lemmy.world
      251·
      11 months ago

      They’ve been using polls for a lot for a while now - even things that were recently criticized like the Framework investment, was originally a poll on WAN asking how the audience felt about the ethical implications of that investment. And whether the audience thought it was acceptable so long as they always disclaim that Linus is a Framework investor during coverage of other laptops. To me it kinda makes sense how they could get so caught up in an echo chamber of die-hard fans who encourage them into things that people who aren’t in that core fan group see as problematic or at least ethically questionable. I see using fans to guide decision making as one of the root problems at LTT, because fans, pretty much by definition, already think you can do no wrong, and will often be blind to the way things look to a broader audience.

    • Aasikki@sopuli.xyz
      15·
      11 months ago

      They probably had some floatplane exclusives ready to go pre- scheduled. Asking about that from their paying customers honestly seems fair.

      • abir_vandergriff@beehaw.org
        34·
        11 months ago

        Pretty sure I saw another screenshot that said they did have a couple in the wings they asked about postponing.

        But at a certain point the outrage has to apparently turn into a witch hunt and blaming them for stuff they didn’t or haven’t done, so here we are. There’s plenty of real stuff to be mad about without making anything up.

        • LufyCZ@lemmy.world
          2·
          11 months ago

          They have stopped releasing videos, maybe they could, you know, just postpone what they’ve already got?

            • LufyCZ@lemmy.world
              2·
              11 months ago

              The fact they don’t just fix it in post with audio is insane to me.

              They can do it, I remember several insances where they have (f.e. Linus voicing over with his phone mic). It’s a bit jarring when not shot on the same equipment, but it’s so worth it

      • abir_vandergriff@beehaw.org
        4·
        11 months ago

        Yeah, I’m by no means happy with this turn of events, but given that they actually pay for content on Floatplane, it makes perfect sense to me to ask them if they should do a show.

    • Dubious_Fart@lemmy.mlEnglish
      94·
      11 months ago

      how else do you expect him to read the room and know not to make sex jokes or steal auction shit that isnt his.

    • kalleboo@lemmy.world
      2·
      10 months ago

      They had exclusives already produced, uploaded and scheduled to go live, so no actual work to release them. The poll was if they should let those go ahead or hold them back in the spirit of the break.