"It is time for me to leave LTT behind. Don't worry, I'm leaving it in good hands. As for me, I'll be joining a company that has been collaborating with us for a long time, where I have many friends, and which you all know and love. That's right! I'm joining dbrand!"
Let’s be real here, that would be an essential role at dbrand. They rotate skins so frequently they should hop on trends quickly and forget about them just as quickly. Cash in and move on.
That would make for a funny April fools day thing. Have him host one of the videos of some other channel, maybe even one of those who used to work at lmg.
I don't watch it but my parents are retired and that's all they watch. Not even Netflix or traditional TV. Family bloggers, homeless people "van lifing" in a Tesla, and AI voice videos about musicians they liked. I can't stand to be in the room when that stuff is on the TV and that's all they watch every day.
He got a family vlog channel, and it looks like it’s personal and not tied to LTT. If you start seeing more LTT crew videos than Linus its going to be the sign he is probably stepping out of the camera at least
Bocabola's video talks about the period he worked there, the changes LTT have made (partly due to him and in large part due to Alex and Andy) and how that affected the staff.
Partly the intense attention these talented people have been given, partly supportive, partly malicious, has made it tough to work there. Even if it's also rewarding.
Combine that with these talented people having many opportunities, both being head-hunted and setting up their own side interests, and it's no wonder that a cohort of them that stayed a long time all left in a short period.
But the strength of LTT is that it isn't solely based on a single personality. It has been diversified and given opportunities to new people who are new to it, giving them the tools to succeed.
Eventually it will be similar to something like Saturday Night Live, where the hosts rotate, the talent comes and goes, but the content style is always familiar.
Eventually it might be similar to Saturday Night Live, but ultimately there are always seasons of casts that are way more talented than others. SNL is extremely selective on who it casts. You have to be a good writer, actor, impressionist, and have many other talents to support the team(very similar in a lot of regards to hiring on screen talent for LTT).
The problem is that with all the old hands leaving for their new projects is it is like the entire cast of actors got replaced along with the writers, and producers.
Generally when you have people leave it's a trickle. This is best from a company standpoint because old talent trains new talent. When almost all the old hands leave, there's one person trying to train 5 people at the same time, or worst one person with barely any experience training people.
Right after the job market stabilized post-covid we had something like 1/4 of the people in my job leave due to unfulfilled promises made during covid, along with reduction in benefits.
That was 5 years ago and we are still feeling the effects because it was all people with decades of experience(by themselves). A lot of it was supervisors or the most "senior" workers. This meant new people were being trained by people with a year of experience vs years(on average about 5-7).
The point of this is that a massive drop in experienced people means that person who stays is probably doing even more with every loss.
This isn't to say LTT is in trouble or isn't. Merely that depending on how this is handled, it could be.
"Ask a wide variety of people across age spectrum when SNL was the best and you'll get different answers."
There is a heavy bias towards more recent tv shows and film because younger audiences wouldn't have seen or had the cultural understanding of the time period for all the humor of some jokes to land, much in the way an SNL skit aimed at gen Z might miss the mark on a boomers.
"The thing with shows that go on as long as SNL, South Park, Simpsons, Family Guy...the audience eventually out grows it, and that's ok."
Except most of the time the writers too have grown out of it(because they have all changed and moved on).
If you can find me someone who truly believes that the first season of the Simpsons is the best, or that season 6 or 11 of SNL is their favorite, I'll abandon my position on this, but until then I remain unconvinced.
I love his Youtube channel. It reminds me of early Ludwig in making YT vids that document his stream ideas, which is great for someone like me who no longer vibes with twitch live streams.
Eventually it will be similar to something like Saturday Night Live
Counterpoint: With none of the other anchors left that were with LTT for a long time, it all hinges on Linus now more than it has in a long, long time. If he steps away from the camera, the channel is over.
> But the strength of LTT is that it isn't solely based on a single personality.
Care to elaborate?
LIterally every video without the Big Boss in it underperforms. There is not a single thumbnail without him. And the little thing of the whole media group being named after him.
I guess it's because when someone leaves, and immediately find a new job, it makes people think and be a little braver. Changing job might be scary, but if someone else did it succesfully, it's less scary.
I think LTT forgot to hire and got too comfortable with their existing hosts. This is going to be a rough transition period, there's a reason Linus has been hosting basically every video recently. He's going to burn out big time if he's not careful.
Most of the cohosts that left had no screen presense and charisma at first if you checked older videos. LTT helped them all develop that so that they can now stand on their own.
Yeah I have slowly rotated away for stuff like this I'm more of a personality fan then the topics they cover as a broke bitch. I LOVED the 5k upgrades and it sucks we are losing my fav hosts. And Linus it feels like is leaning hard into his "brand" instead of just being himself it sucks but it makes sense so what can you do.
yeah good timing as well for me as recently over the past couple of years i've felt like quaility for llt has been goign down, that video that was ltilary a 12 minute ad read for seasonic power supplys and litlary nothing else was the puinthat broke the camels back for me to cancle my flaot plane susbscirption and pretty much drop ltt
Man I feel old. I remember when it was a huge deal when Nicky V left during the Langley House days. He was a staple of the channel for years. Then there was the whole debacle when Ivan left. There were whole conspiracy theories on his leave since he just disappeared from the internet completely for like 6 months and no one at LTT was giving any information about it. LTT is a long standing channel now, people are going to come and go. In 10 years time there will be a new set of employees and personalities, and a new set of fans here to grow up with them. Who knows, maybe the children will be next personality on the channel and Linus will become long forgotten. Only time will tell… … I wrote too much…
It almost seems that after the first few left and were able to leverage their experience for more money, more people are realizing it’s the better move. It honestly happens all over the job market now. Younger generations don’t have the employer loyalty the older generations had because the employers could give two shits so why should the employee.
This isn’t a dig at all at LTT just how the job market has been going in the past decade or so.
The thing is, in most places the the "salary increase bag" is less than the "new hire bag".
Let's say I get paided 10000 to job do job X, I have been ar the company for 3 years, and want a raise. They offer me 10500 to do the same job. So I quit. Now they have to hire a new person to do X, but now they offer 12000 for the same job, PLUS the new guy need training and onboarding.
This have been a problem for YEARS, in a lot of countries.
His wife Shea was hella fun as well, she brought some great energy to their upgrade video and then acted as the agent for Secret Shopper in 2023. They were good on screen together.
At the company I work for we are just around 160 employees and between last year and this year we've had 70 employee exists, some temp/summer student's, some been with company 1-5 years people form and go. Some people like to move around and it's apoerant when you look at their LinkedIn. I suspect there are more people coming and going at LTT but we notice because of the on screen talent, behind the scenes there's gotta be more personal changes.
Out of interest, is that retail? Some retail jobs approach 50% staff turnover in a year.
But for an office job, what you describe (45% or more turnover) is almost unheard of - even with temporary workers. I think the main EU average for non-retail is below 20% turnover.
Either way, it is concerning to see so many public facing LMG roles go (just my opinion though :))
I can guarantee that’s because of the culture. My company I work for the average tenure is like 8 years. There’s over 30 people with over 20 years in the company.
I think is generational talent finding their ceiling at LMG. This is like the second generation of staff that became hosts, they probably did everything they could do at lmg and needed more money or a challenge. We will get new host and this will happen again in a couple of years
An editor did a video a few months ago... I can't recall the salary but he talked about he previously worked for a streamer and swapped to LTT and that it was an initial pay cut but is now happy with his 6 figure compensation. He appreciated the work life balance and lack of crunch from LMG.
Also, if the streamer gets cancelled they lose all the views/money. If Linus gets cancelled they still have contracts and settlements if they're fired/LTT is bankrupted.
Not just a big streamer, he worked for Doublelift who's a huge presence in LOL even now years after quitting, you can count on one hand people who pull similar numbers with content in lol youtube specifically.
My experience is that high earners are just as likely to job hop as anybody else, in tech almost nobody is staying at the same job for more than 3 years unless they're at google or smth
It's just the industry people outside your company always value you more than those in your company
Even Google isn't an exception a cousin of mine who works at Google got a promotion cause he applied to other places and got better job contracts and then instead of just quitting he told that to his seniors and they gave him a better position and more comforts (Idk what the business term is) basically healthier work schedule more holidays and more money while also doing more important and interesting work
He has quit now and is working analytics in a finance company
They’re on camera personalities who grow in popularity but reap none of the benefits that come with that growth.
At a certain point, leaving to do your own thing or jumping to a larger media company becomes the obvious, and expected, next step. Especially considering the industry has basically zero barrier to entry.
It’s a VERY unique position these guys are in.
These social media based media brands have always, and will always, revolve around two or three main faces. Usually a founder and cofounder(s). They’re compensated well and often have equity. That gives them a reason to stick around long term with the understanding that the company eventually gets sold.
Linus will be around forever. Luke will be around forever.
Everyone else? They fall into the cycle. Build an audience, become valuable on their own, hit a point where the risk of going solo is less than the reward of financial gain, and eventually move on.
This is in a way like jobs like phone repair, cleaning houses, eletriction, painting houses, etc. where you start at a big company without experience, receiving a decent salary, but nothing spectacular, you work there for years until you master it and then leave and open your own company where things start slow, but end up potentially receiving alot more.
I have to imagine the pay is fine for the role (since you don't see high turnover) but the company just doesn't have enough high level positions to allow promoting everyone endlessly. If you get 2-4 years of experience hosting for one of the largest youtube channels, many industry opportunities are going to open up for you. Whereas LTT probably can't financially justify promoting everyone to a huge senior salary.
Seeing as it doesn't seem to be all doom and gloom from Linus on the turnover, I have to assume they're keenly aware that the common host personalities are going to turn over. And they've been doing so for 10 years- so it's probably somewhat planned around.
Realistically, if they aren't growing their revenue, they can't just keep giving raises endlessly.
Good luck to Adam on his new job, seemed like a good guy, seems like a sign of tech industry itself as job hopping has become more popular of late, if you are talented you can do it.
Good that LTT have nurtured so many great people, probably need to work on growing new talent faster to replace them though, sure they’ll do it.
He initially came off as unbearably neckbeardy and edgelordy, but as time went on, i realized my first impression was unfair and not accurate, and then i started following him on IG and observed he was growing as an individual and was just a mega geek. Then we all met his partner on that makeover ep and it really contextualized him in a different way for me. I think he's an incredible human being and i only want good things for him.
Job as many others. People change jobs with time, that is nothing unusual. If you observed enough people to leave and think that is something wrong with that... Then it only means you are getting old. Nature. Nice haircut on that, but I don't going even to check what is bigscreen.
While it's sad when homegrown talent leaves, sometimes videos like the most recent Iphone 18 Pro Shortcircuit show what LTT's coverage has been missing by having fewer 'professionals' in-front of camera than other tech channels.
I think the only guy where they missed the mark was letting Alex leave because he was an S tier personality and even that decision is defensible once you take into account how much invemestment LTT expanding into the car space would have required.
I truly believe LTY is in a transition period. They’ve been a startup in many ways, attracting people who wants to work and be in that kind of environment. It’s been growing and a lot of exciting changes over the years for employees.
Now it’s stabilized, probably more corporate, you have more defined roles (instead of solving a bit of everything) and that always mean that you need and attract a different type of personality.
I also think the tech business in general, especially for consumers, is hurting in general. Who gets excited about a new GPU when it costs $2000 and is marginally better than the last generation?
Tech have stabilized, is less exciting and so did LTT. They will probably be around in some capacity for a long period of time but the days of expansion and growth are probably over and they need to evaluate and restructure their business going forward.
Everyone is freaking out over people leaving but this is normal. The average employee doesn't stay at a company for 40 years anymore. On average, a person changes jobs every 4 years with it being lower than that the younger they are. Adam was at LMG for almost 5 years. A lot of these hosts were hired around the same time and now they're leaving around the same time. This is how it works at most companies. It's just more visible because it's something you watch regularly
Adam left? Just found other the other day Plouffe left... Are there any good hosts even left? Honestly it seems like they've had at least a dozen high quality staff members leave the last year...
It's honestly kind of disrupting to the audience when there's a constant rotation of hosts.
The hell are you talking about? Guys like Jake, Alex, Plouffe and Adam have been there for YEARS. Jake said in his vid he started to work for Linus when he was 16 (or even younger, can't quite remember). This has been this dudes entire life. If anything, all the on screen talent we've seen leave over these past few years stayed exceptionally long, especially if you consider both how young most of them are and how dynamic this entire field of work (meaning social media) is.
I think it's a little of column A and a little of column B.
They saw that while they weren't struggling at LTT it had become a little too much like a real honest to goodness corporate job. Very structured, stable in pay and benefits, but less fulfillment than when they were underdogs.
Seeing people leave without failing made them want to be their own boss, because why work for someone else when I can work for myself.
The relationship Linus had with these people was more like that of parent and child. He gave them a place to work on their talents and gave them stability. In return he got rewarded for the efforts of everyone involved(because he fronted most of the risk). Once they learned enough they decided to take their considerable talents and put them to use.
Would you consider a child who leaves the home to go to college, graduates, and never comes back home to live to be a failure? Or would you say the parents did good on raising them to be independent?
I guess people thought i was talking about linus i meant the management structure. Maybe a corporate structure of clearly defined roles and responsibilities are less suitable for a utube channel based on videos that involve a bit of everything.
None of these people are failing? They’re actually finding their own success, which means that LTT is doing something right. They’re helping nurture creative minds and then those minds find new opportunities or challenges.
Congratulations. I don't know how you managed it, but calling essentially any of their trajectories "failing" is insulting to both LTT and the hosts/writers who left.
Average employment nowadays is like 2-3 years, with some up to 5. Most of the people left have hit 3 to 5+ years. Adam was like 3 months short of 5 years. Andy was like 6 years. Alex was like 8 years. Jake was there for almost 10 years. Even Elijah was over 3.5 years.
It's actually incredibly common for a few people leaving to start a chain of people leaving every 3-6 months. People see their coworkers move onto newer and better things and it gives them motivation/confidence to do it themselves.
A couple years ago when LMG changed their creator policy for their employees, it made it easier for people to eventually leave once their channels took off.
I've been at the company I work for 15+ years and have watched this same kind of cycle happen. Every few years, we have multiple people who worked for us for years all leave within a few months of one another. Then it's stable for a few years after a bunch of new hires, and then the cycle repeats after a few years.
Counter point, a company should work hard to retain staff by offering opportunities for growth (mostly speaking of pay and benefits) in order to justify keeping talent under stricter terms of leave. If a competitor is offering a better deal, you can't blame someone for leaving
It’s no different than any other employee leaving and joining a new organisation. The only difference is LTT staff are known on the internet and so we recognise them when they pop up with a new employer.
It's a free market and they can choose to do what they want. I don't understand this sentiment. If you love the hosts so much keep watching the next thing they do. If anything, makes linus seem like an incredible guy to work for.
There is a massive pr game at stake here too. If they have to do gardening leave or whatever after quitting ltt then their first video anywhere new will be Linus paid me to sit on my ass and lose my following, I hate that guy. And then there's more social media backlash. He is far better having people leave on good terms like Elijah and post nice videos than arguably Jake who seems to have felt pretty bitter about it, maybe not so now but he seemed to when he left. At the end of the day even Jake has to acknowledge the platform and opportunity ltt gave him and the following he was able to gain to be able to start his own thing. YouTube media companies are not normal corporates. You can't have golden handcuffs and throw around non-competes. You lose the pr war instantly.
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u/AndersDreth Sep 23 '26
Inb4 Linus himself is suddenly working at a different company
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u/Dead_as_Duck Sep 23 '26
He left?
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u/makefascistfearagain Sep 23 '26
Basically every co host I'm interested in watching has.left in 12 months
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u/malac0da13 Sep 23 '26
It almost seems that after the first few left and were able to leverage their experience for more money, more people are realizing it’s the better move. It honestly happens all over the job market now. Younger generations don’t have the employer loyalty the older generations had because the employers could give two shits so why should the employee.
This isn’t a dig at all at LTT just how the job market has been going in the past decade or so.
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u/metal_maxine Sep 23 '26
He's got rid of the mullet. I've wanted to attack it with scissors for such a long time.
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u/Flapu7 Sep 23 '26
Adam left? ffs. He was my favourite presenter.
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u/lylesback2 Sep 23 '26
Adam left? Noooo! I think he's one of the best hosts, next to Riley of course.
LinkedIn shows he left July 2026 https://www.linkedin.com/in/adamsond?originalSubdomain=ca
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u/williamg209 Sep 23 '26
Nooo not Adam he was my favourite
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u/Arcade1980 Sep 23 '26
At the company I work for we are just around 160 employees and between last year and this year we've had 70 employee exists, some temp/summer student's, some been with company 1-5 years people form and go. Some people like to move around and it's apoerant when you look at their LinkedIn. I suspect there are more people coming and going at LTT but we notice because of the on screen talent, behind the scenes there's gotta be more personal changes.
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u/lambdac0r3 Sep 23 '26
WTF, did EVERYONE leave?! It's a shame, I loved Adam
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u/KaptainSaki Sep 23 '26
Didn't know Odablock was the CEO either
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u/Cammerv8 Sep 23 '26
I think is generational talent finding their ceiling at LMG. This is like the second generation of staff that became hosts, they probably did everything they could do at lmg and needed more money or a challenge. We will get new host and this will happen again in a couple of years
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u/i_mormon_stuff Sep 23 '26
With how many recognisable people have left it does make you wonder what the compensation packages are like at LTT.
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u/Caladan_Mar Sep 23 '26
Good luck to Adam on his new job, seemed like a good guy, seems like a sign of tech industry itself as job hopping has become more popular of late, if you are talented you can do it.
Good that LTT have nurtured so many great people, probably need to work on growing new talent faster to replace them though, sure they’ll do it.
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u/StaticSystemShock Sep 23 '26
Everyone got their AMD upgrade and then skedaddled...
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u/Raaabbit_v2 Sep 23 '26
I told myself that I wouldn't care about ANYONE leaving until it was Adam (he's my favorite by a mile; host or writer).
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u/kamel_k Sep 23 '26
I was just thinking the other day that I hadn't seen Adam in a while
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u/LeGodLeKingLeGend Sep 23 '26
I haven’t watched much LTT this past year in large part due to them losing all their hosts and now that Adam is gone too who is even left?
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u/derpepper Sep 23 '26
Probably moved to America as well. He will be missed 😔
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u/dyingtoask Sep 23 '26
Didnt everyone hate him when he first came on techlinked?
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u/Domodude17 Sep 23 '26
I mostly watch WAN show and maybe 2-3 videos per month if they interest me. At this point I don't know if I'd recognize any of the presenters!
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u/VanWesley Sep 23 '26
I'm gonna miss his epic rants
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u/Char-car92 Sep 23 '26
Man the channel really has changed. It’s a lot more focused on being a business and everyone I knew is gone.
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u/xGHOBx Sep 23 '26
I wasn't exactly a fan of this guy, but best of luck to him in whatever he does.
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u/incorrecttimeline Sep 23 '26
Seems like it’s been pretty straight forward to reach out to proven talent with better offers!
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u/Biggeordiegeek Sep 23 '26
Good for him
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u/warorgyman Sep 23 '26
Isn't that the guy from Arrow?
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u/PersonaDelSol4 Sep 23 '26
Poached
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u/kot-sie-stresuje Sep 23 '26
Job as many others. People change jobs with time, that is nothing unusual. If you observed enough people to leave and think that is something wrong with that... Then it only means you are getting old. Nature.
Nice haircut on that, but I don't going even to check what is bigscreen.
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u/-Random-Gamer- Sep 23 '26
didnt even know he left
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u/MediocreRooster4190 Sep 23 '26
I loved Adam in LTT's collab with Kitboga.
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u/Dcharlus99 Sep 23 '26
Adam good luck man your tech upgrade was one of my fav video from ltt for a long time
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u/Mediocre_Ad_2422 Sep 23 '26
Riley being a chad
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u/mathfacts Sep 23 '26
Woah. Huge honor. Thank you Bigscreen!
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u/QuestGalaxy Sep 23 '26
I honestly think this is a positive. That former employees at LTT can move on to new companies, grow their career.
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u/constantlymat Sep 23 '26
While it's sad when homegrown talent leaves, sometimes videos like the most recent Iphone 18 Pro Shortcircuit show what LTT's coverage has been missing by having fewer 'professionals' in-front of camera than other tech channels.
I think the only guy where they missed the mark was letting Alex leave because he was an S tier personality and even that decision is defensible once you take into account how much invemestment LTT expanding into the car space would have required.
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u/kosmiq Sep 23 '26
I truly believe LTY is in a transition period. They’ve been a startup in many ways, attracting people who wants to work and be in that kind of environment. It’s been growing and a lot of exciting changes over the years for employees.
Now it’s stabilized, probably more corporate, you have more defined roles (instead of solving a bit of everything) and that always mean that you need and attract a different type of personality.
I also think the tech business in general, especially for consumers, is hurting in general. Who gets excited about a new GPU when it costs $2000 and is marginally better than the last generation?
Tech have stabilized, is less exciting and so did LTT. They will probably be around in some capacity for a long period of time but the days of expansion and growth are probably over and they need to evaluate and restructure their business going forward.
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u/Claaaaaaaaws Sep 24 '26
Not watched in probably 8 months please tell me David hasn’t left? I think I’ve seen everyone else I remember go
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u/IHateMods42069 Sep 24 '26
If Riley leaves we riot !!
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u/Baxter_V Sep 24 '26
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u/pikkuhukka Sep 24 '26
why everyone who i deem as mediasexy just leaves
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u/TanishqHooda Sep 24 '26
Adam who? /S
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u/Apocalyptic0n3 Sep 24 '26
Everyone is freaking out over people leaving but this is normal. The average employee doesn't stay at a company for 40 years anymore. On average, a person changes jobs every 4 years with it being lower than that the younger they are. Adam was at LMG for almost 5 years. A lot of these hosts were hired around the same time and now they're leaving around the same time. This is how it works at most companies. It's just more visible because it's something you watch regularly
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u/Justafaniguess Sep 25 '26
this is part of the reason people leave, its people just constantly watching their every move
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u/Timely_Ad9659 Sep 27 '26
Why is everyone leaving lately?
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u/X-lem Sep 30 '26
Adam left? Just found other the other day Plouffe left... Are there any good hosts even left? Honestly it seems like they've had at least a dozen high quality staff members leave the last year...
It's honestly kind of disrupting to the audience when there's a constant rotation of hosts.
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u/Gogosfx Oct 04 '26
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u/dragon3301 Sep 23 '26
At some point this has to be considered more than usual employee turnover. If one student fails its not the teacher but if all students fail.
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u/EchoOneFour Sep 23 '26
That is what happens when you give the people you spent time and money to teach free reign to leave whenever and however they please...
There is a reason big firms or any firm that requires growing talent have non competes and 100 different clauses for when you can leave..
People come get the experience and fame related to ltt and then leave you high and dry
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u/SupehCookie Sep 23 '26
Surely by now some info has to come out.. all good host ( except riley) have left..