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@suuuoppp: To stop the speculation and DM's I am receiving. I chose to quit my role at LTT because it, and the working environment I was facing, were ruining my mental health. The number of daily items...…

TLDR:

Over work

Mentally draining/abusive workplace

harassment

(maybe intentionally) bad management practices

lack of any signs of improvement

  • IzzyEnglish
    9•2 years ago

    It seems inconceivable that they could grow to the point of having so many employees. They don’t do anything that I would consider valuable. Clearly other people in the world disagree or else they wouldn’t be making money.

      • IzzyEnglish
        11•2 years ago

        Look, I’m trying to be subtle, but like 95% of what they put on the internet is basically an ad. I get that the advertisement industry is huge, but I personally find this to not be a valuable contribution to the world and in general a net negative. Maybe back in the day they could have some benefit of the doubt that their opinions are their own, but because they get paid by sponsors they are just shills. As far as I’m concerned this company is worthless and should split up.

        • @[email protected]English
          4•2 years ago

          There are far more pertinent hills to die on than the overspending of the ad industry.

          Like I get it, I hate adverts. We can’t escape them online and we can’t escape them IRL. Heck they’re even on the motorways here which I find wildly irresponsible.

          That said, perhaps a better cause would be climate change, inequality, poor access to healthcare etc.

    • @[email protected]English
      11•2 years ago

      Hank from Vlogbrothers runs like 10 companies, most of which are YouTube-based, and he and John together managed to raise enough money to build an entire hospital in Sierra Leone

      YouTube money/exposure is no joke.

    • @[email protected]English
      3•2 years ago

      Inconceivable?

      It’s not up for debate. You can quite easily get ball park figures from Google for the amount of revenue a channel can generate from subscriber count, viewers per video, viewer retention, etc.

      Like I don’t like DnD (never played it, so it’s not I hate it, more it’s not something I like) but I’m sure it brings in a lot of revenue.

      • IzzyEnglish
        4•2 years ago

        Yes it is inconceivable that we as a society have decided the ad industry is worth so much money rather than doing something productive.

        • @[email protected]English
          2•2 years ago

          Not really. Most people don’t care.

          I think rich YouTubers are a drop in the ocean compared to say billionaires.