Its mostly just increased reporting. Tech companies overhired when when they were doing well during lockdowns and are laying people off now that the increased revenue didn’t hold indefinitely.

https://layoffs.fyi/ has been tracking layoffs in the tech sector since covid and the charts show how much more layoffs there were in 2023 (particularly January and February). It seems like the biggest change is that now every time there is a layoff it gets more news coverage.

While I generally agree with this it feels wrong in this case since everyone who bought it can get a refund.

Games would go on sale for example 50% off and people would buy them. Then they would have a flash sale for 90% off. People who bought the game for 50% off then refunded and bought it at 90% off. This resulted in lots of refunds steam had to process. Since they couldn’t get rid of refunding games they got rid of flash sales.

For cases where injury was sustained there is legal doctrine know as the Eggshell skull rule

The rule states that, in a tort case, the unexpected frailty of the injured person is not a valid defense to the seriousness of any injury caused to them.

I keep seeing people saying that the LTT video came out first when all I can find supports that Madison’s tweet came out first. Its likely LTT made and released the video before they were aware of the tweet.

The timestamps I can see (in my local time of -7)
Madison’s tweet 11:09 PM · Aug 15, 2023

LTT video 2023-08-16 / 03:33:44

Madison’s tweet came out 4 hours and 24 minutes before the video was published.

Additionally the Verge article states a similar timeline.

Linus Tech Tips posted its latest video at approximately 7AM ET. However, last night, at approximately 2AM ET, a former employee, Madison Reeve, posted a thread on X