I'm more shocked learning that Rooster Teeth was owned by one of these companies to begin with.
this post was submitted on 06 Mar 2024
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Funhaus needs to survive this.
Sure hope they spin off like some of the previous crew.
Bruce and Lawrence can welcome them into their world.
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I haven’t watched their videos in a long time but I actually listen to a few of their podcasts… damn how wild. One of their podcasts posted on IG they’d try to keep going.
Damn, I remember watching RvB when it was still just cropped gameplay footage with the reticle visible on the screen. I have the Blu-ray box set of seasons 1-10 and the Chorus Trilogy. After Monty died everything kinda started going downhill. Final nail in the coffin I guess.
RvB was like '00s at it's best.
"It would be ironic if we were made of iron."
Hard cut to the next scene.
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Wow TIL achievement hunter was shut down last year. I guess it was all down hill..
Didn’t two of them try to fuck kids or something?
No one tried to fuck kids.
Kovic pranced around naked in the office on cam with a girl he was actively cheating on his wife with.
and Ryan manipulated emotionally vulnerable people into sex to cheat on his wife with. One of which was 17, but iirc she admitted about lying about her age, So while Ryan was a predator, he wasnt a child predator iirc.
These two were just the tips of the iceberg. Roosterteeth has been problematic since damn near the start.
One of their early advertisers was "Alpha Brain", some sugar pill that was supposed to make you think better to game better. Pure pseudoscience junk.
Much later they started shilling for an online prescription mill to their young audience, and in typical roosterteeth fashion. They got really super pissed off at being called out about it, then had geoff come out and try to twist the valid criticism into an attack on his miraculously convenient Erectile Dysfunction.
They also had MASSIVE issues with bigotry behind the scenes, Which IIRC is why Micah Burton and KDin got the fuck out of dodge. (I strongly suspect that Gavin was one of the worst about this, judging from edits early videos made around him and just my pure supposition, I can totally see him being the kind of person to drop the hard R in casual conversation without warning, and think its a laugh).
Also they spent years exploiting fans for free/low cost labor. Not just at expos and events, but behind the scenes in their animation department.
and anytime there was valid criticism about anything they did, They'd spend an entire post/podcast/etc railing against their "idiot" fans for not knowing better.. I think at one point, someone.. maybe burnie? told all the old, diehard, complaining fans to fuck off and that the can be replaced with new fans?
Which really turned out well, considering they've been floundering for years before the guillotine finally came down.
This is just the shit I can remember. Theres a whole plethora more of bullshit that Roosterteeth has done. Sucks for the behind the scene not-asshole folks to be losing their jobs, but RT deserves its ignominious death.
edit This is all to the best of my recollection, If I have some small details wrong let me know so I can correct.
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Only one of the two, the other was just a sexual predator.
Damn, it’s fucked up that that’s somehow better as well.
I don't know what rooster teeth is. Anyone willing to summarize?
Content creators from the early days when that was a novelty.
Some stuff is legit animation like RWBY, they made the biggest mechinima ever in Red vs Blue, a show made by voicing over video game characters controlled by a player, they made videos showing how to get Xbox achievements called Achievement Hunter, Let's Play with people just doing fun stuff in video games, and then later podcasts with random stuff like people chatting about current topics RT Podcast, plane crashes in Black Box Down, and Austin in ANMA.
A bunch of other stuff too. But that's a good summary I think.
Early internet sensation Red vs Blue comedy group
Spun off into a half dozen youtube channels/podcasts/animated shows as well.
Funny internet people who were meh to shitty buisnesses owners who sold out to WB a decade back and now are gone.
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Damn, someone really didn't like the new episode of Camp Camp.
~~Also, please, RWBY my beloved be OK~~
I haven't actively followed their stuff much at all, especially in the last many years, but this one hurts me. Red VS Blue was such a big part of my childhood into my teenage years, with the first ten seasons having gotten more rewatches by me than any other show out there.
Starting to feel those Blood Gulch Blues. Might marathon the whole series, myself.
The final season was expected out later this year. I wonder if they'll still finish it. I assume so since they mentioned finishing obligations.
Edit: Allegedly the final season will be the last thing the company puts out, outside of the podcasts.
Were the seasons past 10 any worth watching? I'd heard some mixed views on the latter seasons, and season 10 ends SO strongly with such a good sense of closure to it, it was genuinely confusing to me when I heard they dropped an 11th season.
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Rooster Teeth was a shell of itself for a long time, but those first few seasons of Red vs Blue were a fundamental part of my damn teenage years.
They shifted over the years. From RvB, to Achievement Hunter, Rage Quit, and Let's Play, to RWBY, to podcasts. It seems like the current move is just cutting out the non-pod stuff since that's what is successful right now.
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