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by tester346 2471 days ago
There's nothing wrong with telling people you're an "ex googler", but mentioning it whenever you can is quite... weird?

I mean from Youtuber that wants to get viewers perspective it's perfectly reasonable, but generally it looks not nice for me.

3 comments

Here's a good starting point for understanding what's going on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_gag

It's a running joke in the channel. "Hi welcome to my channel TechLead, with your host The TechLead who's an ex-google and now an ex-facebook tech lead"
I think it's tongue in cheek.