@Ev I agree that someone can improve themselves and talk about past mistakes. But the group think of the internet would absolutely destroy someone over casually talking about how they used to shamelessly throw out hard-R N-words.
@@ev304 given the choice of person to idolise, you have: Person who used to be a massive racist, at a time when that was not socially acceptable, but who later realised the error of their ways Vs Person who has always been disgusted by the idea of racism. A bad past can be rehabilitated, but you're never going to completely get away from your past. You have to admit it, own it and accept that it is going to be part of how people assess you as a person. Linus would not have been served well by being saddled with a racist past he didn't actually live through purely through a euphemism confusion.
Luke just saved Linus' life, his empire, his legacy, lukes own job and the job of every single employee at LTT with one question. God fuckin bless man.
@@OldSchoolDudeGaming if by cancel culture you mean "consequences for saying the nword" then sure I guess the consequences of his actions would be detrimental!
Luke genuinely just saved the entire LTT brand, if Luke didn't ask Linus to clarify what he meant right there in the moment literally no one would have believed that excuse.
Facts tho if they didn't clarify it during the show and waited till after the damage would have already been done. I can already see how some people will just see the one segment and not the entire clip. Hopefully he doesn't get too much hate for it.
@@ZombieBacon13 People see thi one segment because creators everywhere are sharing it. They all says shit like "oh he's a great creator" and all, but they are quick to talk about cancelling anything...
idk, even in the 2000's i dont see american dad using the 'hard R' i understood what meant what he meant though i see why people could confuse his terminology
For a pointless conversation. Yeah, people say retarded. Why make it this rant where you're censoring yourself? Canadian logic, trying to signal virtues to others while unintentionally being racist.
@@crunch9876 Tell me you don't know anything about the current state of the world without telling me you know nothing about the current state of the world
@@crunch9876 when it's a company that relies very heavily on its brand image (which is centered around linus) it can actually have a pretty significant effect
There needs to be a software that delays the stream by like 10 seconds, and gives a window for the streamer to hit a button which blacks out the screen and audio. News agencies do this to try and stop gruesome footage from going live.
@@tylerdaniell2270 No. Haven't you heard? He's got controversy related to accuracy with the ltt labs and some other saddening stuff. The OP was talking about how he actually managed to ruin his career (possibly), not about him saying the hard r.
@@tylerdaniell2270Not saying it, but he managed to ruin his career fr. Tbf it likely is recoverable. At least the accuracy stuff is. The workplace abuse stuff depending on how things turn out, might be harder to recover from.
An entire action movie in 2 minutes. Everyone in that room collectively lost their shit, saying their goodbyes preemptively, and collapsed in relief. What a joyride it must've been.
Do people really do that? I see people not wanting to be canceled because companies cancel sponsorships. What I don't understand is why they cancel sponsor to appease vocal minorities that might not even buy their products. I understand not wanting ti associate yourself with hate speech, racism and such, but most of the time the canceling is over something so minor or out of context I'm just amazed they continue doing that. Or companies trying to do games and series target at those vocal minority and the product flops. It's like they want to actually lose money just to make a point.
@@jonathankitchen2202 yes, in the case of the video, if it was the n word he used to say, it would be bad, even if it was more common in the past, it shows racist tendencies of the person using it. What I was saying was that context matters and even if they slipped a bad word regarding gays on an online game (a place where rage takes place), people just assume you are this monster for saying something once (most of the time others showing your line without context) and don't give you time to explain yourself.
Dude imagine if Linus never clarified and actually got canceled for it, then came out apologizing saying he actually meant to say the other word. Nobody would believe him LOL it would be the end of him.
I missed this. This spotlight was stressful .I couldnt remember it. I never took it this way - but my wavelength was along with Linus. So hearing you lead the perception really shows how easy misinformation can spread when in the absence of Luke.
Linus's co host single handedly saved so many careers in just one second. If the podcast had just ended with him saying he used the hard R often. Twitter would have wrecked Linus and no "sorry i did'nt mean it that way" tweet could save him.
@@nerfret "why give words power" mfs when they have to communicate using a common language where words have connotations and are meant to communicate good and bad things:
@2freeIvX I mean that’s only cause it doesn’t sound as cool as n*gga. Like saying “what is up my homie” vs “sup homie” it doesn’t roll off the tongue as good.
@@pirilon78 I think it's stupid. In some sense people never are going to lose their license to carry guns, if the words are worse than bullets. I'm never going to understand fully what or why it is like that, so that people can hurt themselves? If it's going to hurt others then people are going to come up with something that hurts others anyways. How many millions of years it takes when no words are left, because everything has been used as a weapon. I just find it stupid. Just take the freedom of speech away, and lets dedicate our conversations to fill out forms and such. Way to avoid pain. I understand, but oh my god... At least let it lose its potency and meaning, but keep the history of stupidity of humanity intact. I don't know. I kinda feel scared for it.
@@dragon_ball_sucks_video ... Also try to go out and find an activity you enjoy so you can make some friends. There are better and healthier ways of getting attention from other humans than trying to bait people in random CZcams comments.
@@marcopololos GamersNexus did a full video on it, including a lot of great investigative journalism on their part. Check that out if you're interested.
I wish he did not ruin his career. I am pro Linus. But he absolutely did ruin his career. He will never be look at the same by many viewers and creators.
This is all dog shit. Only because people participate in social media cancel culture is this a problem. Normal human beings would go “huh” and that would be the end of it. But everyone buys into a shared reality where this dumb shit matters.
@@Sporomaniacos Yeah same, I didn't even know that there was a distinguishing difference between different pronunciations of the n-word. The whole time I thought he was talking about the r-word and wondering what the big deal was considering he was correct in it being a more recent cultural change XD
I also had no idea the hard-r actually meant that. I did always wonder why some people called it that instead of just the r-word. Now I know, and it only took Linus nearly destroying his entire career to find out. Thanks Linus!
what linus means was not that word apparently, he used the old mocking words and it was popular back in 9gag meme era back in 2010, what he meant "hurr durr" which used to mock people for being/saying idiotic things. it sounds similar actually, that's why people shocked
@@prohanta9360 im pretty certain linus was just referring to the r-word. hurr-durr is definitely not really known anymore, only people that i know who use it are usually in their late 20s or 30s lol. but since linus was talking about shows from the early 2000s, im sure he meant the r-word in the way of derogatory term for intellectually disabled people.
The scary thing is, had Luke not raised the question in that moment, any clarification coming from them after the blacklash would have felt like disingenuous PR jargon
I was thinking the same at first. But the fact that he mentioned older shows and specifically American Dad would have saved him in the eyes of anyone with a brain capable of realising that early 2000s shows did not in fact use the hard R casually.
Tbh his audience would probably understand. It’s not like he’s just a mainstream influencer. His persona and target demographic keeps him in the clear. I’d believe him.
@@q6x This is exactly what People constantly forget in these situations. It's advertising money that sends you into 7 and 8 digit figures in content creation environments, unless you're making material for direct subscribes (and even making that kind of money in that way isn't remotely easy). Without that advertiser cosign doors stay shut. It doesn't matter if you have a million eyes on you, unless they're the ones paying you, which often isn't the case. It's companies paying to have a million eyes on their product or service. When you work in this sector the end game is to be a billboard, and no one wants their ad on a billboard in the wrong side of town lol.
shouldn't even be a big deal, no word was actually said and even if it was said, it's a word. Our generation needs to grow up. Literally if it was such a huge deal for people to say "hard R" then it should be illegal for everyone. No more rappers using it, black people can not use it. So RETARDED.
Linus is too genuine man, I would hate to ever see this guy fall. He is such a solid dude. I'm glad he clarified himself cause he would've been crucified on Twitter and all over the internet.
Linus needs to give Luke a raise; like he literally saved Linus’ career by interrupting and having him clarify. Had the stream ended and backlash came, recovery would have been too late.
This whole situation just shows how ridiculous it is, that you can't say certain words today no matter the context. This whole confusion wouldn't have happened if he just said the word he meant.
I mean Linus is right, Humour from the old 2000´s was way better since it wasn´t woke whatsoever, Take for example "Air Afrikaans" A old south african comedy where they made jokes of black people, vegeterians, karens and terrorists, Today this would not be accepted and instead be cancelled, So i dont see why he would need to make a apology
for real, this shit was a nexus level event and we live in the timeline where linus's company DOESN'T implode over the "hard R" incident, just a few words different and we'd be in that timeline
@@user-op8fg3ny3jTo be clear, Linus was not the one being accused of sexual harassment. In fact whoever did it was never named in Maddison's long twitter feed. What he was accused of was changing her contract at the last minute as well as his wife apparently not taking her claims (unclear if they were related to sexual harassment or bullying) seriously.
I feel like he made the situation worse lol. Like is nobody listening what Linus is even saying ? Gay humour tv shows dropping Ret paladin in middle of the sentence. N word has never been ok to say with or w/o hard R. So what is the next word that has become not okay to say in public recently but was widely spread before ? Ret**d. Dunno feels like every1 only head the hard R part and not the rest of what he was saying
I don't get what the big deal is. All he said was that times have changed. Like, just kind of an obvious thing to say. Not sure how it's offenseive. He's right, people used to say retard and gay right and left.
I can't believe we live in a universe where Linus has said the words "I dropped my fair share of hard Rs". Luke had to do a hard reset on his brain after hearing that
Bro I laughed my ass off at Lukez visible concern while trying to figure exactly what the fuck he was talking about, followed by a complete mental reboot after the "I dropped my fair share of hard R". Whole thing was hilarious
Luke actually saved poor Linus here. If he didn't get the chance to explain himself live , that wouldn't have gone down well. Even if he tweeted after the stream saying it was a mistake, he'd still be pretty fucked 🤣 he comes off pretty well here bless him
I went years of my childhood replying to people don’t ask don’t tell, when asked why I don’t open up much. Didn’t find out what that meant till college.
Imagine Luke didn’t step in there and the audience was left to assume what he meant. If he said he didn’t know what hard r meant after backlash it would come across like such a bullshit excuse to anyone who doesn’t know Linus Luke deserves another raise
My word, Luke's genuine state of silent shock through that whole thing was so painful to watch. He clearly couldn't believe a word of what was coming out of his boss's mouth right in front of him.
@@toll5320 Well, haven't we all had "that" conversation with a close friend or relative at some point? You know the one. The one where they go: "Remember a few years ago when everyone wasn't so uptight and it was okay to say the n-word?" Where you go: "... Excuse me, what?"
@@toll5320 I think that's part of why Luke shut down briefly after Linus admitted to "using the hard-r" casually. I can imagine his brain just firing all synapses at once, replacing that hamster in the wheel with a roadrunner, frantically trying to recall a time where Linus was ever even implicitly racist, and then finally going "fuck it, I have to get clarification. This is either going to drive the knife all the way into the collective heart of our careers or there's some weird misunderstanding and Linus is too pure for this world." Lucky for them it was the latter, but the relief on his face when he confirmed that was so palpable.
@@1986fritzthecat I immediately knew what he was talking about just from his tone, but hard-r is used to distinguish the n-word's two forms: more or less the softer reclaimed version, and then the hard-r. xD R-word would be the disability slur. Or it'd be hard-d I guess. Which wouldn't fly at all either.
Can you imagine if Luke hadn't caught it right then and there in the live stream and Linus tried to give that explanation after the stream. It would've been disastrous and no one would have believed it.
It’s crazy how one word can now ruin your career. Modern society is so cringe. This one word in specific when there’s many other ways you can represent yourself as being racist but as soon as you say the forbidden word suddenly you are instantly racist. No, no forget any other of the million ways to be racist with more than just a word. I really think people are drones nowadays and or use it to easily, I mean easily denounce someone’s rep
Nah it would have been fine. It was pretty obvious from the way he was talking that he wasn't referring to the n word. Basically all the points charlie made that the n word was not in casual use on tv in the 2000s and the word he's actually talking about starts with r. Most people would have believed it even after the fact.
Yeah, I think a lot of fans would - I'm not really a "fan" but I'd believe Linus to do something goofy like that. But they'd definitely lose a huge portion of casuals
wowza mega oof like fr supes cringe amirite like sweatie think this over and be a decent person plz if that's not too hard jeez totes opposite of heckin cute doggo
Imagine if they never clarified what linus meant for the whole rest of the stream and only tried to clarify after people started freaking out online. No one would've believed linus at that point, and he would've been canceled for sure. Luke totally saved the company right there🤣🤣
Why for the fact that people don't know the the Hard R is. Nowhere did I ever think it was for the nword. The nword is the nword. The Hard R is kinda what it is
@@legomenjj what most black people say is the n word that ends with a soft ‘a’ sound. This is commonly understood as acceptable to say among black people. Ending the n word with a strong ‘r’ sounds is something mostly done by racists and ignorant people in order to be demeaning and rude to black people. The strong ‘r’ sound is also described as hard, hence “hard r”.
He sure does Clearing this misunderstanding right on the spot and saving the day before it's too late to convince everyone it was just an honest mistake
As a looong time viewer of LTT, Luke shouting “I’M FREAKIN NEO OVER HERE DUDE! WE’RE DODGING BULLETS!” was the greatest internet moment I’ve ever witnessed. The adrenaline was palpable
Yes, definitely. That's still a messed up word to use that I would never consider saying to or about someone. Charlie kinda laughed it off and didn't say anything about not using that word. As someone on the spectrum it pisses me off.
@@jasliketheflower, people are people and aren't always aware how meaningful certain words are for someone else. And they can casually say some stupid things without really meaning to hurt someone. It's not hard for me to imagine someone saying "you idiot" in a joking maner to their loved one. And this word is also baggaged with some heavy history.
Bro I laughed so hard at his friends initial reaction to "I've dropped my fair share of hard R's in the past." The misunderstanding makes it so much better. Top tier content.
Not gonna lie when the music video about the N word came out back then the whole school was singing to it. I still dont when when retarded became a slur because it was thrown around even til this day. Retard is a medical term that I used back then and no one was offended in anyway.
Linus accidently knocked his career off the counter, and Luke caught it before it shattered on the floor.
Not really. Why can’t he talk about past content? Is that just a bailable offence?
@Ev I agree that someone can improve themselves and talk about past mistakes. But the group think of the internet would absolutely destroy someone over casually talking about how they used to shamelessly throw out hard-R N-words.
I mean he’s known for dropping things lamo
@@ev304 given the choice of person to idolise, you have:
Person who used to be a massive racist, at a time when that was not socially acceptable, but who later realised the error of their ways
Vs
Person who has always been disgusted by the idea of racism.
A bad past can be rehabilitated, but you're never going to completely get away from your past. You have to admit it, own it and accept that it is going to be part of how people assess you as a person.
Linus would not have been served well by being saddled with a racist past he didn't actually live through purely through a euphemism confusion.
@@TestTestGo neither, you shouldn’t idolise any CZcamsr that’s unhealthy.
you can tell he genuinely had no idea what he was actually saying 😂
Ikr. He reminds me of Pinko from Toy Story over the “N” word.
I know right bruh
Also, how come all these huge verified guys are commenting??
my farts are better than Charlie's farts
he just saying shit
"I dropped my fair share of hard R's" had me cackling like an evil witch
Haven’t we all?
@@donovanberserk4993yup, it’s sort of lost its meaning now
I knew he wasn't say the N-word and got me laughing
@@donovanberserk4993I prefer the one that ends with a but okay
We talkin about the n word or retarded?
Bro his co host single handedly saved the entire business, by verifying what he was talking about, give that man a medal
If I saved the company and my boss gave me a metal and not a raise I would devote all my free time to discovering time travel.
@@dominicjarrell283 Just sell the medal.
Luke just saved Linus' life, his empire, his legacy, lukes own job and the job of every single employee at LTT with one question. God fuckin bless man.
This is more of a reflection of the current cancel culture more than Linus.
@@OldSchoolDudeGaming if by cancel culture you mean "consequences for saying the nword" then sure I guess the consequences of his actions would be detrimental!
Facts, it’s crazy that we can’t even say a goddamn word without any bad intent, even when we are explaining shit
@@danielakbari3447 I don't agree with you and there is never a time where you need to say that word and not a stand in
actually though bc nobody would believe him if he didnt clarify in the moment
Linus: “I dropped my fair share of hard R’s back then”
Luke: **bows head down in despair**
Luke looking at Linus: "what a retard" 🤦🏻♂️
“It was a good run boys”
Luke in his mind: *”oh god OH FUCK!”*
Linus just said some gamer words
@@sentientmustache8360 Dude literally shook his head in befuddlement as to why he would admit that LOL
In a way Linus saved himself by mentioning that he said it to his kids, that prompted Luke to ask for clarification
Thank goodness he said that
no Luke was going to bring it up anyway, you can tell by how quick he asked it after Linus brought up his kids.
He didn't say that he said it to his kids. He was trying to say that to his kids, that would be unthinkable.
“I don’t remember any shows just casually dropping the hard R”
The Boondocks: 👀
and still praised to this day lmao. The Boondocks is just built different 😎
There have been a fair number of hard Rs dropped in It's Always Sunny in Philidelphia.
@@MattSmith-il4tc i’m 10 seasons in and can only think of 2 uses so far tbh
@MattSmith-il4tc what eps
It's always sunny and south park: 👀👀
Luke genuinely just saved the entire LTT brand, if Luke didn't ask Linus to clarify what he meant right there in the moment literally no one would have believed that excuse.
Facts tho if they didn't clarify it during the show and waited till after the damage would have already been done. I can already see how some people will just see the one segment and not the entire clip. Hopefully he doesn't get too much hate for it.
This point isn't gonna get enough attention.
@@ZombieBacon13 People see thi one segment because creators everywhere are sharing it. They all says shit like "oh he's a great creator" and all, but they are quick to talk about cancelling anything...
idk, even in the 2000's i dont see american dad using the 'hard R'
i understood what meant what he meant though i see why people could confuse his terminology
That's Luke's job on WAN show.
Linus almost dropped his most expensive thing yet
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dropped the entire ltt
I can't stop imagining Linus throwing racial slurs, the guy is too pure for that
Not too pure for the R slur 😂
@@SavantGardeEXi refuse to call the R word a slur, that’s r***** af
He was a teen during the first x-box generation, you bet he called people the n word in public lobbies. Back then everyone who played Halo did it
@@Scooter227kinda destroyed your own argument by censoring the word lol
@@SavantGardeEXretard isn’t a slur, it’s a word used for people who aren’t exactly all there in the brain if you know what I mean
Linus is so innocent, the fact he was so confused is adorable lmao
For a pointless conversation. Yeah, people say retarded. Why make it this rant where you're censoring yourself? Canadian logic, trying to signal virtues to others while unintentionally being racist.
Bro came through with that Butters energy.
Gay
Honestly the fact that he didn’t even know the proper usage of “Hard R” probably speaks to his innocence lol
What proper use that is the correct proper use. why have 2 different thing for the same word.
@@legomenjj The N word ending with 'a' and ending with 'r' can have very different connotations
he's a hero for all of us.
@@lamywater If you think the hard r is for the end of a word is crazy
@@lamywater Not all A's are R's. But all R's are A's.
Luke literally saved a 9 figure company from absolute disaster right there
No he didnt. A company can’t be stopped by being “cancelled”
@@crunch9876 Tell me you don't know anything about the current state of the world without telling me you know nothing about the current state of the world
@@RHIOfficial23 he is not wrong.
Yea but the entire business relies on the public opinion of them. So them being cancelled would be detrimental to the company
@@crunch9876 when it's a company that relies very heavily on its brand image (which is centered around linus) it can actually have a pretty significant effect
There needs to be a software that delays the stream by like 10 seconds, and gives a window for the streamer to hit a button which blacks out the screen and audio. News agencies do this to try and stop gruesome footage from going live.
there is. a lot of streamers use it. it wouldn't have been relevant in this scenario
5 months later and Linus finally managed to do it for real!
It's so sad because he could still be a great dude, continuing his already excellent work, but we all know what happened.
Wait he actually said it?
@@tylerdaniell2270 No. Haven't you heard? He's got controversy related to accuracy with the ltt labs and some other saddening stuff.
The OP was talking about how he actually managed to ruin his career (possibly), not about him saying the hard r.
@@tylerdaniell2270Not saying it, but he managed to ruin his career fr.
Tbf it likely is recoverable. At least the accuracy stuff is. The workplace abuse stuff depending on how things turn out, might be harder to recover from.
@@hamhimstudio oh i havent heard about that, thanks!
An entire action movie in 2 minutes. Everyone in that room collectively lost their shit, saying their goodbyes preemptively, and collapsed in relief. What a joyride it must've been.
Do people really do that? I see people not wanting to be canceled because companies cancel sponsorships. What I don't understand is why they cancel sponsor to appease vocal minorities that might not even buy their products. I understand not wanting ti associate yourself with hate speech, racism and such, but most of the time the canceling is over something so minor or out of context I'm just amazed they continue doing that.
Or companies trying to do games and series target at those vocal minority and the product flops. It's like they want to actually lose money just to make a point.
@@GuilhermeDiGiorgi it definitely doesn’t look good for your company when the ceo actively says they used to regularly use a slur
@@jonathankitchen2202 yes, in the case of the video, if it was the n word he used to say, it would be bad, even if it was more common in the past, it shows racist tendencies of the person using it.
What I was saying was that context matters and even if they slipped a bad word regarding gays on an online game (a place where rage takes place), people just assume you are this monster for saying something once (most of the time others showing your line without context) and don't give you time to explain yourself.
@@GuilhermeDiGiorgi UUEEEEEE
@@joema500 You alright?
Luke deserves a HUUUGGGGEEE raise for asking for clarification lol.
Hes the co-owner
I dont think there's much further up for Luke man lmao
@@phoefire5576 I don't think he is? Pretty sure he is the owner(?) of Floatplane, but no longer have any active position on LTT.
Dude imagine if Linus never clarified and actually got canceled for it, then came out apologizing saying he actually meant to say the other word. Nobody would believe him LOL it would be the end of him.
@@faradise3819 they announced during this wan show that luke is back at lmg as coo.
But Wait, there's More.
I missed this. This spotlight was stressful .I couldnt remember it. I never took it this way - but my wavelength was along with Linus. So hearing you lead the perception really shows how easy misinformation can spread when in the absence of Luke.
Linus's co host single handedly saved so many careers in just one second. If the podcast had just ended with him saying he used the hard R often. Twitter would have wrecked Linus and no "sorry i did'nt mean it that way" tweet could save him.
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@@nerfret "why give words power" mfs when they have to communicate using a common language where words have connotations and are meant to communicate good and bad things:
@Adam you wrote that whole essay without finishing the video huh?
@2freeIvX I mean that’s only cause it doesn’t sound as cool as n*gga. Like saying “what is up my homie” vs “sup homie” it doesn’t roll off the tongue as good.
@@pirilon78 I think it's stupid. In some sense people never are going to lose their license to carry guns, if the words are worse than bullets.
I'm never going to understand fully what or why it is like that, so that people can hurt themselves?
If it's going to hurt others then people are going to come up with something that hurts others anyways.
How many millions of years it takes when no words are left, because everything has been used as a weapon.
I just find it stupid. Just take the freedom of speech away, and lets dedicate our conversations to fill out forms and such.
Way to avoid pain.
I understand, but oh my god... At least let it lose its potency and meaning, but keep the history of stupidity of humanity intact.
I don't know. I kinda feel scared for it.
This isn't the first time Luke has saved Linus by asking clarifying questions. Luke is the glue holding Linus Media Group together.
Yeah... there has definitely been quite a few moments where Luke has had to come to the rescue. Thank god for him lmao
Luke and Yvonne..
Luke grew up in America, so he is more familiar with shit that only Americans care about.
Linus just says things that he thinks mean something completely different to what they actually mean.
He’s just trying to save his job
4:39 This is the perfect reaction to the Madison's allegations that just dropped
This isn't the only "silly blunder" Linus would commit.
The sheer power of the words Linus uttered caused Luke to morph the structure of his entire skull several times.
MY CONTENT IS BETTER!!
@Patrick39 shut up
my farts are better than Charlie’s farts 💨
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Linus better give Luke a huge bonus; that dude just saved his whole career
After Yvonne (Linus' wife), Luke's probably next in line in terms of who's the boss. So he's very well paid😂
I use it casually, the nword with hard R I mean. Its not racist to use it, its racist to call someone by that word, because of its skin colour
@@dragon_ball_sucks_video ... Also try to go out and find an activity you enjoy so you can make some friends. There are better and healthier ways of getting attention from other humans than trying to bait people in random CZcams comments.
@@Nightwishmaster 👍
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Well, this time he DID ruin his career.
How??
@@marcopololos GamersNexus did a full video on it, including a lot of great investigative journalism on their part. Check that out if you're interested.
He didn't. But if it makes your day...
I wish he did not ruin his career. I am pro Linus. But he absolutely did ruin his career. He will never be look at the same by many viewers and creators.
why@@yunoticklemyballs
here we are 5 months later, and yes, he just did ruin his career.
I’m sorry what were you saying?
Kinda heartwarming that this is so removed from his mind he didn't even know wtf was happening
I didn't understand either tbh, I though he was talking about the R word the entire time and couldn't see what the big idea was until the very end
This is all dog shit. Only because people participate in social media cancel culture is this a problem. Normal human beings would go “huh” and that would be the end of it. But everyone buys into a shared reality where this dumb shit matters.
@@Sporomaniacos Yeah same, I didn't even know that there was a distinguishing difference between different pronunciations of the n-word. The whole time I thought he was talking about the r-word and wondering what the big deal was considering he was correct in it being a more recent cultural change XD
I also had no idea the hard-r actually meant that. I did always wonder why some people called it that instead of just the r-word. Now I know, and it only took Linus nearly destroying his entire career to find out. Thanks Linus!
@Diomedes I've never heard it referebd as "hard r" and i grew up with causal use of the r word.
He was so casual with throwing it around lmao. Poor Linus, you can feel his innocence when it was explained to him 😂
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As an Australian it took me a while to figure out how hard R referred to something racist, my mind immediately went where Linus's did.
what linus means was not that word apparently, he used the old mocking words and it was popular back in 9gag meme era back in 2010, what he meant "hurr durr" which used to mock people for being/saying idiotic things. it sounds similar actually, that's why people shocked
@@prohanta9360 he DIDN"T mean r**ard? what else could it be
@@prohanta9360 im pretty certain linus was just referring to the r-word. hurr-durr is definitely not really known anymore, only people that i know who use it are usually in their late 20s or 30s lol. but since linus was talking about shows from the early 2000s, im sure he meant the r-word in the way of derogatory term for intellectually disabled people.
Ya but calling it hard R makes zero sense. He simply means R word.
i'm canadian and the context he used it in was immediately obvious he meant the r word and not the n word how was it not obvious lol
The scary thing is, had Luke not raised the question in that moment, any clarification coming from them after the blacklash would have felt like disingenuous PR jargon
blacklash omg
Blacklash 💀
I was thinking the same at first. But the fact that he mentioned older shows and specifically American Dad would have saved him in the eyes of anyone with a brain capable of realising that early 2000s shows did not in fact use the hard R casually.
you can't say blacklash 💀
@@Enfiee - You might be surprised by this, but not everyone in the world watched American Dad back in the early 2000’s
You can take the “almost” out of the title now.
hahahaha
Why? What did he do?
Nah, still seems pretty "almost"
Update: He might've actually done it for real this time after his trash tier response to GN.
and now Madison's allegations, feels like another rooster teeth situation
he should rename his channel to Linus National Socialist Tips
Update update: guess not
Imagine if his cohost never questioned him and Linus just never clarified what he meant, holy shit that was literally a career saver 😅
Doesnt this just outline the hypocrisy of our modern politically correct culture? That the "hard r" is career ending but the "r word" isn't?
Tbh his audience would probably understand. It’s not like he’s just a mainstream influencer. His persona and target demographic keeps him in the clear. I’d believe him.
@@Eduardo-ji1eh the thing is he’d probably lose sponsors very fast if he didn’t clarify immediately so it probably did save a lot
@@q6x This is exactly what People constantly forget in these situations.
It's advertising money that sends you into 7 and 8 digit figures in content creation environments, unless you're making material for direct subscribes (and even making that kind of money in that way isn't remotely easy).
Without that advertiser cosign doors stay shut. It doesn't matter if you have a million eyes on you, unless they're the ones paying you, which often isn't the case. It's companies paying to have a million eyes on their product or service. When you work in this sector the end game is to be a billboard, and no one wants their ad on a billboard in the wrong side of town lol.
@@MegaHAZE21 That's a great way to put it. Totally agree
Ah goddammit it happened for real
Charlie gives the greatest video breakdowns I’ve ever witnessed online. This had me crying laughing
"What? .. NO"
So instantly obvious how sincere he was. Of course. Linus is a good guy.
Who pays his employees a fair wage, right?
@@Ryfael lol yeah he does
*Clueless* I know him personally he's a good guy☺️👍
yes, because dehumanizing black people ever makes someone bad, but dehumanizing down syndrome people in the year 2003 is completely acceptable
@@biochemicalvegan8972 Username checks out.
Linus attempted a trial by fire and Luke had a bucket of water literally prepared in that moment
Bucket? Luke literally force opened a fire hydrant.
shouldn't even be a big deal, no word was actually said and even if it was said, it's a word. Our generation needs to grow up. Literally if it was such a huge deal for people to say "hard R" then it should be illegal for everyone. No more rappers using it, black people can not use it.
So RETARDED.
i was the 1000 like
I though Hard-R was always the word for what Linus also said. I though the N-word was the only way to...Well, okay a word can have 2 shorts.
OMG..Poor Linus lol. Admitting to dropping the Hardest of R's lol.
I think the hard R is talking about the n-word only in the USA.
This video aged poorly
For the better lol
Linus is too genuine man, I would hate to ever see this guy fall. He is such a solid dude. I'm glad he clarified himself cause he would've been crucified on Twitter and all over the internet.
I met him in person hes cool
No one cares about twitter, you are a nerd if you do.
Except when he was telling everyone why they should race mix. He's a casual racist
well North americans being snowflakes yeh
We used the nword hard r casually 20years ago
Linus needs to give Luke a raise; like he literally saved Linus’ career by interrupting and having him clarify. Had the stream ended and backlash came, recovery would have been too late.
yeah fr he saved him so much right then and there.
I think his job being on the line is enough to interrupt and clarify
@@hellboundsnewscast6753 heck yeah!🤣
Let’s be real his career would have been fine. Simple apology video or some shit and that’s it
Yeah, I hate how these days you can’t even make a mistake or people will instantly make the worst possible claims about you
This whole situation just shows how ridiculous it is, that you can't say certain words today no matter the context. This whole confusion wouldn't have happened if he just said the word he meant.
Luke is the only grown up ay LTT
THEIR FANS ARE JUST AS TOXIC. SEEING THEM NOW FEEDING ON THEIR OWN IS PRICELESS!
I never liked the LTT crew but I always liked Luke. He was always the most reasonable person on screen
To think if he wasn't corrected on stream in that moment, it'd be a CZcams apology from Linus that most people would think is a lie to save himself
No he has evidence. The N word was never usee on american dad. R word pretty often
Oh so true. So true.
I mean Linus is right, Humour from the old 2000´s was way better since it wasn´t woke whatsoever, Take for example "Air Afrikaans" A old south african comedy where they made jokes of black people, vegeterians, karens and terrorists, Today this would not be accepted and instead be cancelled, So i dont see why he would need to make a apology
for real, this shit was a nexus level event and we live in the timeline where linus's company DOESN'T implode over the "hard R" incident, just a few words different and we'd be in that timeline
@@Jartran72 fair point
the sentence "I've dropped my fair share of hard Rs" is one of the funniest things ever said online in hindsight
And Luke’s response of just “hmph” 😂
The greatest 2 minutes of internet history.
whats he talkin about tho? I'm a noob
He's talking about saying retarded
@@NeroTheDemon we know
5 months later but i dont think hes going to fix it this time
I can’t believe how badly this aged 💀
yeah 💀
Wait what happened?
@@tylerdaniell2270 Linus sexual harrasment
@@user-op8fg3ny3j Just to clarify, there are no alligations against Linus, there are alligations that it happened at LMG, his company.
@@user-op8fg3ny3jTo be clear, Linus was not the one being accused of sexual harassment. In fact whoever did it was never named in Maddison's long twitter feed. What he was accused of was changing her contract at the last minute as well as his wife apparently not taking her claims (unclear if they were related to sexual harassment or bullying) seriously.
Linus would probably casually admit to gruesome murder and warcrimes without contextualizing that he did them in a video game
I burned camps with children in them.........
In a video game once
I dumped burning white phosphorus on civilians...
... in Spec Ops: The Line
Luke deserves an immediate raise. He saved the Internet tech-o-sphere from nuclear meltdown.
Well that’s up to him now. He doesn’t work for linus, he’s head of floatplane
@@ThisWillCharacter actually this very stream they announced Luke as CTO of Linus Media Group
@@Kordikk696 yup
He’s done that multiple times for Linus lol
I feel like he made the situation worse lol. Like is nobody listening what Linus is even saying ? Gay humour tv shows dropping Ret paladin in middle of the sentence. N word has never been ok to say with or w/o hard R. So what is the next word that has become not okay to say in public recently but was widely spread before ? Ret**d.
Dunno feels like every1 only head the hard R part and not the rest of what he was saying
And 5 months later.. he ruined his career!
Almost hehe, more like started the countdown
Luke saved LTT. Give that man a raise. And Linus saw his whole life flashing before his eyes when he realized his blunder 🤣
Linus could sell the company and retire today. He aint worried.
Multiple times, even. Luke also was the guy who called him out on his behavior during the warranty debacle as well.
The company is beyond failure from twitter "canceling", hogwarts is proof of that.
No one getting raises if no one can talk about their salaries
Luke don't work for LTT
Linus either pulled the biggest practical joke of all time, or he is genuinely that wholesome💀
As someone who has been watching Linus since he was still an NCIX employee making reviews outside on a campus bench, he is genuinely that wholesome.
I don't get what the big deal is. All he said was that times have changed. Like, just kind of an obvious thing to say. Not sure how it's offenseive. He's right, people used to say retard and gay right and left.
@Cloud11 bc hard r racism was never accepted even in early 2000's and linus made it seem like 15-20 years ago he was saying it casually all the time.
@FlyKai it's accepted now. Just not on Twitter.
@@pickledblowfish6178 what the fuck are you talking about
5 months later, Linus Tech Tips may have actually ruined his career
What happened
@@user-jb8fu9kj6sMadison allegations and gamer's Nexus response. And their overall production with their videos
This aged well
I can't believe we live in a universe where Linus has said the words "I dropped my fair share of hard Rs". Luke had to do a hard reset on his brain after hearing that
My farts are better than Charlie’s farts
If they hadnt recovered RIGHT when they did it would have been OVER
There nothing wrong with saying retard, gay or nigga R (yt deletes it)
Funniest shit i've seen in a week
Bro I laughed my ass off at Lukez visible concern while trying to figure exactly what the fuck he was talking about, followed by a complete mental reboot after the "I dropped my fair share of hard R". Whole thing was hilarious
That would be a mistake Linus would make 😂 he so friendly
Yeahh
I know right?? And wait a minute.. IT’S YOU AGAIN!
my farts are better than Charlie’s farts 💨
@@I1p who is he?
Who is StoneMoutain64?
Linus acting like oh yeah oh yeah I understand.
Linus is so innocent, he didn't even know he wasn't innocent, and then turned it innocent
@_Real_Clipswhat are you waffling about
There ain't a person who hasn't said the hard R ever.
@@PalpatinesPlumberyes there is? I haven’t, it’s called the bare minimum.
He isn't innocent at all. His show constantly slips in leftist communist propaganda. I don't watch it anymore.
@@SarahSoupster Good for you.
Luke actually saved poor Linus here. If he didn't get the chance to explain himself live , that wouldn't have gone down well. Even if he tweeted after the stream saying it was a mistake, he'd still be pretty fucked 🤣 he comes off pretty well here bless him
Yep exactly what I thought. Nobody would have believed him lmao.
Linus better give that man a pay raise 😂😂
@@exalexal5003 no he didn't "get his fans to harass them" lol that's a big accusation and probably a defamation
Unfortunately he can't save him from people who are questioning Linus with how much he pays his employees.
My farts are better than Charlie’s farts
Well. I wonder why this is coming in my feed.
You can tell he doesn’t even realize what he just said 😂 Good on Luke for throwing him a life preservers
imagine this isn’t the first time he’s told someone this without them correcting him 😭😭😭
😂😂
I went years of my childhood replying to people don’t ask don’t tell, when asked why I don’t open up much. Didn’t find out what that meant till college.
@@TRAKE734 😭😭😭
Imagine Luke didn’t step in there and the audience was left to assume what he meant. If he said he didn’t know what hard r meant after backlash it would come across like such a bullshit excuse to anyone who doesn’t know Linus
Luke deserves another raise
Luke saved his ass
he is the most accident prone human to ever be documented on the internet
I thought that was Chris Chan, lol.
@@theinquisitor18 I dont think anything about chris chan is accidental unfortunately LMAO
@@theinquisitor18 no chris chan is just the most documented human on the internet, none of what she did was an accident
I LOVE LTT but can someone please explain what he was talking about other than than what we all thought?
@@edug3853he*
Aaaand nearly 6 months later, he has actually ruined his career for completely different reasons
what happend?
Almost. Now I need a new video from Charlie about the recent controversy.
Luke went from mentally updating his Linkedin to a sigh of relief only a man whos just found out his wife and child are fine after she gave birth 🤣🤣
Exactly my thoughts as soon as he started his 1000 yard stare. I thought "yeah he's definitely thinking how to update his indeed and linkedin"
The range of emotions that crossed Luke’s face was fucking hilarious
My farts are better than Charlie’s farts 💨
Ok
MY CONTENT IS BETTER!!
I need more cheese on my cheeseburger but I won't yell the hard G word
The Neo line had me dying
Who's here after watching GN video
✋
Aged like a fine wine.🍷🍷🍷
My word, Luke's genuine state of silent shock through that whole thing was so painful to watch. He clearly couldn't believe a word of what was coming out of his boss's mouth right in front of him.
I think the fact that they've been extremely good friends since not long after the time period he was discussing also added to it
@@toll5320 Well, haven't we all had "that" conversation with a close friend or relative at some point? You know the one. The one where they go: "Remember a few years ago when everyone wasn't so uptight and it was okay to say the n-word?" Where you go: "... Excuse me, what?"
@@henrikhumle7255luckily no, but that’s just because my family is so small. I’m due to have one of them soon, won’t be fun.
@@toll5320 I think that's part of why Luke shut down briefly after Linus admitted to "using the hard-r" casually.
I can imagine his brain just firing all synapses at once, replacing that hamster in the wheel with a roadrunner, frantically trying to recall a time where Linus was ever even implicitly racist, and then finally going "fuck it, I have to get clarification. This is either going to drive the knife all the way into the collective heart of our careers or there's some weird misunderstanding and Linus is too pure for this world."
Lucky for them it was the latter, but the relief on his face when he confirmed that was so palpable.
@@henrikhumle7255 Based
The fact that Linus didn't know what Hard R meant goes to show just how innocent the guy is.
i feel like im old, as my mind immediately went to the word for developmentally disabled people.
@@1986fritzthecat Me too. Took me until charlie saying racist that i thought of the n word with hard r.
@@1986fritzthecat Same and I'm black, lol. But I'm in my twenties so idk why I didn't realize.
More like naive. Lol. But yes.
@@1986fritzthecat I immediately knew what he was talking about just from his tone, but hard-r is used to distinguish the n-word's two forms: more or less the softer reclaimed version, and then the hard-r. xD R-word would be the disability slur. Or it'd be hard-d I guess. Which wouldn't fly at all either.
Time to make another video with the same title eh Charlie?
"Are you talking about the N-word hard R"
"No! Like the for diassabilities!"
Uhhhh, linus?
Can you imagine if Luke hadn't caught it right then and there in the live stream and Linus tried to give that explanation after the stream. It would've been disastrous and no one would have believed it.
Luke came in absolutely clutch right there
@@S_O_O_C Dude may have single-handedly saved LTT and LMG.
Forreal!
Maybe a top 10 play of all-time. He better be getting paid well
@@nickcecil3510 oh he is. He is basically number 3 in LMG
I genuinely hope Linus appreciates his employees because theres been PLENTY of times when he had his ass saved by a number of them, especially Luke
My farts are better than Charlie’s farts
Mr. no filter needs Mr. filter as a co-pilot.
They aren’t allowed to talk about their salary.
@@justaweeb14688 are you a bot or is this fr
@@laynesobczak5818 what do you think?
It happened again
As a Canadian, I thought the hard R was what Linus thought too 😂
Canadian here and i thought the exact same thing!
linus is so powerful, he actually bent reality into an early 2000s skit that moment. All because he missed that type of content
Straight out of It's always sunny xD Linus is charlie and Luke is the gang trying to figure out what he means
@@slomnim LMFAOOOOOO for reeeaaaalll I can see that whole episode unfold I'm my head right now.
His a God
Def a real like Key & Peele skit.
I bet he WISH he had autism so he can say retard/retarded (I have autism so *I* can say it). It's the same thing with 'fag' or the n-word.
If anything it’s borderline adorable that he’s so unfamiliar with the slur that he’s completely clueless about that aspect. Never change Linus
@@kp1x what
@@kp1x ?
I honestly thought it meant the same thing I feel so silly lol
he was so innocent about it I was like dude he CANT be talking about the N word lmao
@@kp1xwhat are you on about?
Damn, can predict the future is so cool lol
It’s crazy how one word can now ruin your career. Modern society is so cringe. This one word in specific when there’s many other ways you can represent yourself as being racist but as soon as you say the forbidden word suddenly you are instantly racist. No, no forget any other of the million ways to be racist with more than just a word. I really think people are drones nowadays and or use it to easily, I mean easily denounce someone’s rep
Linus: “I dropped my fair share of hard ‘r’s back then”
Luke: *bows head down in despair*
My farts are better than Charlie’s farts
Imagine if they stopped the stream & Linus had to explain him self afterwards, no one would believe him if it wasn't uncut.
Unexpectedly i would. Because i had the same thought for the hard r. Im also not in america so i suppose thats one reason, while he is.
@@20IA same here, I was thinking he was refering to sexual assault, I had no idea of hard R was also code for the N word.
Nah it would have been fine. It was pretty obvious from the way he was talking that he wasn't referring to the n word. Basically all the points charlie made that the n word was not in casual use on tv in the 2000s and the word he's actually talking about starts with r. Most people would have believed it even after the fact.
@@20IA Can agree, i’m in Canada and a lot of people I know over the age of like 30 call that the hard R and just think the racial slur is the N word
Yeah, I think a lot of fans would - I'm not really a "fan" but I'd believe Linus to do something goofy like that. But they'd definitely lose a huge portion of casuals
i really miss the "that's gay" era
Ooof this aged like unpasteurized milk.
wowza mega oof like fr supes cringe amirite like sweatie think this over and be a decent person plz if that's not too hard jeez totes opposite of heckin cute doggo
Having known Linus over the years, I always knew he'd destroy himself to oblivion over something trivial.
Thankfully, today is not that day.
Gonna destroy him when he drops a 4090 ti
Linus drop tips babyyy!!
I thought your pfp was skydoesminecraft
Pewds got away with saying the hard R while crossing a bridge so… um yeah 😅
@@syalda0001lol he did not get away with it.
Imagine if they never clarified what linus meant for the whole rest of the stream and only tried to clarify after people started freaking out online. No one would've believed linus at that point, and he would've been canceled for sure. Luke totally saved the company right there🤣🤣
Damn. You're right. I didn't think of that.
Why for the fact that people don't know the the Hard R is. Nowhere did I ever think it was for the nword. The nword is the nword. The Hard R is kinda what it is
@@legomenjj what most black people say is the n word that ends with a soft ‘a’ sound. This is commonly understood as acceptable to say among black people. Ending the n word with a strong ‘r’ sounds is something mostly done by racists and ignorant people in order to be demeaning and rude to black people. The strong ‘r’ sound is also described as hard, hence “hard r”.
@@ocarinadude762 well put dude
@@legomenjj"Hard R" has always meant the version of the N word ending with an R, as opposed to an A
Yo Charlie you need to revisit these clowns
Time for another one
Luke needs some sort of “you saved this entire company” bonus.
Yh
It's his "never have a bad computer" garuntee
He sure does
Clearing this misunderstanding right on the spot and saving the day before it's too late to convince everyone it was just an honest mistake
"you almost killed the company but then you saved it"
As a looong time viewer of LTT, Luke shouting “I’M FREAKIN NEO OVER HERE DUDE! WE’RE DODGING BULLETS!” was the greatest internet moment I’ve ever witnessed. The adrenaline was palpable
the bot's back, damn
probably felt that way. that was a close call. luke was in panic mode during that segment.
This brings an interesting topic though that we are ok with someone admiting they have used one slur but not another slur.
Yes, definitely. That's still a messed up word to use that I would never consider saying to or about someone. Charlie kinda laughed it off and didn't say anything about not using that word. As someone on the spectrum it pisses me off.
@@jasliketheflower, people are people and aren't always aware how meaningful certain words are for someone else. And they can casually say some stupid things without really meaning to hurt someone. It's not hard for me to imagine someone saying "you idiot" in a joking maner to their loved one. And this word is also baggaged with some heavy history.
This did not age well ☠
Wym
wym
Bro I laughed so hard at his friends initial reaction to "I've dropped my fair share of hard R's in the past." The misunderstanding makes it so much better. Top tier content.
good comment gone bad with terrible bot replies. stay strong Illi humans still exist
sorry about your replies bro
Not gonna lie when the music video about the N word came out back then the whole school was singing to it. I still dont when when retarded became a slur because it was thrown around even til this day. Retard is a medical term that I used back then and no one was offended in anyway.
@@kawardt6784 Wdym, people call others thr r word all the time to insult them, that like the definition of slur dummy
@@kawardt6784 the n word used to not be a slur either, according to most people. word connotations change. wildly. don't be a dick, okay?
This is so fucking wholesome. He misses swears so much he doesn't know what they're even called anymore. Protect Linus at all costs.
My farts are better than Charlie’s farts
Doesn’t deserve protection
Linus is a clown.
@@davidpadilla2029 that felt personal
Me too apparently