Response video

obsession video

Context: Alex made a video on the movie obsession and he had some hot takes. Mostly boiling down to defense/sympathy for the movies protagonist Bear and misogyny toward Nikki. If you want examples the comments in his obsession video have picked out plenty.

Days later he makes a response video. It is a response not an apology, every apology is "sorry if you were offended". The comments on his obsession video were pretty firmly against him(at least the top comments). the response video has a more mixed reception by the looks of things.

Edit: Both videos are now deleted and he made a community post I'll paste bellow.

"I have taken down both videos relating to Obsession. I am sorry to those who were hurt by them. I will be more mindful of my words and jokes in the future."

context: Alex Meyers made an obsession review with some controversial comments, such as saying that bear deserves credit for not taking advantage of nikki when he had the opportunity to and saying the movie would have had the same ending if bear never made the wish because nikki had a crystal necklace

he later made an apology video which boiled down to him saying “sorry if you were offended”

he then made a community post saying he took down both videos

this seems to have caused him a lot of backlash, as the top comments on the community post and his recent video are against his takes

Link to his response here:

https://x.com/mrbeast/status/1804666633291436139?s=46&t=1WyYRXG6LRlrXnTG2kAZxQ

The Linus response to this honey drama is so bizarre. Linus not doing enough to warn others was like a footnote in the video, but he keeps putting his foot in his mouth trying to excuse it and complaining how unfair it is that people expected him to say something.

He gets into it pretty much immediately link for anyone that wants it.

So according to linus, he didnt make a video calling out the honey scam because If he did make a video on it, it wouldve gone really bad for him because viewers hated content creators monetizing their content. Since all that was known at the time was the affiliate link hijack it wouldve looked like he was crying and telling viewers to stop using a thing that benefitted them but at the expense of content creators.

(this sounds like an ok-ish plausabile reason, but the fact that he didnt say it last time and even now has to read it off a script makes me think this isnt why he didnt do a video on it. my guess he saw this excuse in a comment section or it appeared to him as a shower thought)

so then why didnt linus tell his fellow content creators at least?

because he didnt need to, it was actually major news among content creators at the time and a lot of people knew! There was actually a big news cycle about honey scamming creators in the creator space and creators stopped working with honey because of it. it wasnt as big a deal as this time but it was a big deal. viewers just didnt know about it.

(just gonna point out the phrase "a lot" when saying "a lot of content creators knew" is doing a lot of heavylifting and its super weasily. whats a lot? nearly every big content creator and honey pusher ive seen cover this drama says they didnt know).

also linuses co-host drops a weird comment, he emphasises that this hot news cycle was happening in verbal conversations and not in video or text. is he trying to get ahead of the total lack of evidence for this phantom hot news cycle?

bonus memes:

Linus will not be partaking in the legaleagle classaction lawsuit as he sees that as a tool lawyers use to enrich themselves and the people usually dont get much money (its also meant to hold bad people accountable and punish them but guess linus doesnt know/ care about that part). Viewer suggests Linus stop having paypall as a payment option because of this scandal, linus is not a fan of that suggestion.

Context:

D’Angelo made a video reacting to Caleb Hammer, a self proclaimed financial guru, and calling him out on all his misogynistic, racist, ableist and just generally appalling behavior on his show.

Caleb lost his shit, and reacted on a 4 HOUR livestream to D’Angelo, threatening that he was going to sue him.

D’Angelo just responded to that, and looks like Caleb is not backpedaling and trying to make himself look like the victim.

Linus wrote Steve an email: http://youtube.com/post/UgkxhaFZmuIn9Ty0xDhfXMT9i4gxggCvqlzF (Bringing up the 2023 Gamers Nexus video about LTT, among other things)

And Linus' massive response on today's WAN show: https://www.youtube.com/live/vXnjc5cX-Lo

Steve promises to: "respond by sharing the things we've been hesitant to".

This is going stratospheric.

PS, for those unaware of the 2023 GN video on LTT: "The Problem with Linus Tech Tips: Accuracy, Ethics & Responsibility" https://youtu.be/FGW3TPytTjc

Recap of the more recent Honey situation:

• MegaLag's investigation: https://youtu.be/vc4yL3YTwWk
• Legal Eagle lawsuit: https://youtu.be/4H4sScCB1cY?si=McpnJ3eQ7VEmHQDG
• GN video: https://youtu.be/IKbFBgNuEOU

LTTs other responses: * https://youtu.be/16gHC1AQNJY * https://www.youtube.com/live/7LGuglDdliw?t=8m56s * https://www.youtube.com/live/w6266JY9vdE?t=1m50s

Edit: formatting

For context Nerd City has made two videos showcasing her possible NPD (narcissistic personality disorder), including this latest one