No WAN Show this week. The streak has ended.

WAN Show's real appeal (to me, at least) has always been the unfiltered and real time conversations. Though as of late, those conversations have been more about creating controversy then real discussion 😐

Either that or the whole management team had to drag him away kicking and screaming so he wouldn't throw more oil into the fire.

Yup, agreed. In isolation, working late or unusual hours is not bad, but with the other things going on, perhaps worth them stepping back and evaluating if it's the right thing to do.

I doubt Colton has an on-call agreement to cover him getting call up on the show.

I am currently doing on-call work, I get a daily lump sum to hold the phone, and a fixed call out sum of I get called out. There are lots of different arrangements it seems. Compensation and balance is key though

Linus has this attitude with everyone. The reason you see it more with Dan is because it's Live.

He has an attitude problem

It's really off-putting to me too, even if it was truly fake banter. And I'm no longer sure it's even mostly fake banter.

I know what you mean. Without knowing their personal relationship it can seem a bit cruel at times.

That's good, thanks for letting us know, I must have missed it whenever that has been said.

We are no longer dicussing facts anyway and want to burn people at the stake

But when you take in over $10k an hour in merch, you might put up with it.

Their leaked internal WAN Show dashboard:

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.

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

Little different for being paying outright for the content I guess.

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

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.

Haha. I saw what you did there. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)

These people are paying for content. Seems to make sense that they would be involved in the decision to stop producing content. Although the smarter thing may have been to just discount their subscriptions by 25% for the month.

I'm not in the crowd of should be, and I'm all for second chances. But, I could see why someone wouldn't want Linus, and a company under his name, to not be successful because of who he is and what's happening. Liking a product but not the person behind it is ok. Making a choice not to support either is also ok.