Even their apology video with the dbrand plug-in at the end, pretty cringey. They're like that Key and Peele slap ass skit, they need to plug-in their sponsors like an addiction. If they wouldn't have mentioned which sponsor, then yeah stupid joke to lighten the mood, but they had to mention dbrand.

LTTSTORE.CUM

"And a message from our sponsor! Just kidding...

DBrand did offer though. :D

You can watch our progress transparently.... on floatplane"

Is all I loosely heard from it. Shame his newly appointed CEO has to deal with this, I feel like he should have been the only one in the video. It would have put extra value and emphasis on his message, and cut out all the blame passing and job title responsibilities; they could have dealt with all the other stuff separately. They shouldn't need to put their staff out there to dry like that (even if they're management), the issue is blatantly deeper rooted.

If they're trying to address their accuracy, management processes, or talk about video content burnout that influence their staff and viewers, it should have been short and sweet. They should have posted an update video to show us the progress. Not make promises and jokes and put half of it behind a paywall.

They wrote and uploaded their apology so quickly, they didn't even let the fallout settle before more controversy came inevitably to light. Now they need to eventually address that in a video too seeing as there's an investigation. Though it would have been hard to comment on year old incidences without an investigation to be fair.

I was told that when making apologies don't use too many if at all any reasons... Justifying your action with excuses means you felt there was an exception. They shouldn't have gone into specifics and just said "God damn we really ballsed that one up".

The video is overall good, just not the linus part.