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rubykgrant · 2 months

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so. Rooster teeth is gone now. Thoughts?

That's both kind of a shock, but also unfortunately not surprising. I haven't really been "in the loop" regarding Rooster Teeth as a whole thing like other people online (I literally never knew anything they did outside of RVB 10+ years ago, except for hearing people vaguely talk about RWBY and Gen:Lock, and even then, I only really saw RVB to begin with because a friend had borrowed the DVDs from their older bro, who had borrowed them from a friend of his). I only randomly remembered RVB was a thing a couple years ago, and then it took over my brain. THEN, one of the more recent incidents of how RT mistreats employees was brought up, and while a lot of people were (sadly) used to hearing about that, I was not aware of previous situations, and it honestly made me very upset. I wrote a whole thing about that, which nobody "important" really saw, because I'm not important myself, but this new situation makes me feel more of the same...

It is awful that so many problems went on for so long, a LOT of people got hurt through working there over the years. They all deserved to be treated better. Being in a bad situation like that can mess up your whole life. That kind of thing also hurts how people work, and surprise-surprise, that hurts WHERE they work. You can't mistreat employees over and over, then turn around and give the fans the equivalent of a slap in the face when it comes to letting them actually enjoy the content, and expect everything to just work out OK. I am genuinely sad that yet another thing is getting shut down; it happens so often, with different studios/creative teams, and it would be nice to actually see a group recognize what their problems have been, make an actual effort to IMPROVE, and continue to exist. I hope all the creative people involved who have been working hard don't just get thrown on the wayside, but it is so difficult to find any stability in the entire entertainment business world right now. There were a LOT of problems at RT regarding how employees were treated, and that includes so MANY people, but there is also a vast amount of problems at just about every creative workplace (and this has been going on for more than a decade). Almost nothing survives, except a handful of companies who basically just "eat" up smaller ones, and have the money to fail or lose money over and over again, and not worry. Who cares if they shut down 10 other studios and end 50 projects that were almost finished? They still have their money. It is also just honestly WEIRD how many different companies keep making the same mistakes with how they offer content to the fans (limiting availability, not even letting people buy the stuff they want to buy, etc. RT has gotten a lot of hate for recent stuff with their online videos, but availability is a whole problem with all kinds of media; Disney won't let you watch it's own movies, Nintendo won't let you play it's own games; it's STUPID), and then being surprised it isn't working. Stop shooting yourselves in the foot. Stop doubling-down on the same nonsense. It isn't WORKING.

Again, it would have been nice to see a negative situation actually be IMPROVED. Maybe that is naively hopeful of me, but I'm also not exactly surprised. I'm just sorry so many people worked on so many different projects, with all their passion, talent, and effort, got mistreated, and it is now all being thrown away. It is just plain sad that so much can go wrong for entirely too many years, and then it just ends without anything being fixed. "Well it sucked, but now it's dead"- it didn't HAVE to suck, and it didn't HAVE to die. I wish it had been better from the beginning, and I wish that things could have gone better throughout. I hope all the creative people are able to keep living their lives and find themselves in workplaces where they can be safe (for their own emotional/mental health, and in terms of making enough money to actually live).

#ask #answer #anon #rooster teeth

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the-team-sucks · 3 days

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Thank you Rooster Teeth, thank you so much.

Watching the final stream and I wanted to write out a personal thanks to EVERYONE at Rooster Teeth as i sit here in tears, gently clutching my RvB book and Sarge minifig, because without RT I'm not sure how I'd of turned out...

I first found out about Rooster Teeth when I stumbled upon Red vs Blue s9's trailer in 2014. I sat down one day and binged all the content in its entirety and was instantly hooked. Life was hard, four years previous I'd lost my mum to cancer, I struggled even then with it and I'd been on a mental decline since, I was barely happy, didn't leave my house, and life was full of therapy and meds. But Red vs Blue made me laugh, and through it I discovered Achievement Hunter, the RT Podcast, RWBY, and I'm sure a bunch of stuff I haven't watched in a long time. Rooster Teeth helped me find happiness in a time I was struggling and helped me onto the path to getting better.

Since then I've gotten better, and discovered much about myself. And this (in the least corporate way) family of people have impacted me so much, I took a character's name as one of my own (Dexter), I still have merch in my room and I continue to put on the Podcasts or Let's Plays while I draw. Hearing the news of Rooster Teeth shutting down hit like a gut punch,I knew they were going to crumple soon, but being taken out by Warner Bros feels like a kick in the teeth. RvB Restoration's on the horizon and final live stream was today and my tears are bittersweet sadness. It was a bucket list item to go to RTX one day, and while that won't happen seeing all the stories of other peoples trips makes me so incredibly happy. EVERYONE at this company helped myself and so many other people's lives.

Thank you Rooster Teeth, from the bottom of my heart, thank you so much for every memory and every laugh. I would say goodbye, but I won't, because as long as I don't... you just aren't here right now. ❤️💙

#thank you for everything #rooster teeth #red vs blue #RWBY #achievement hunter #rooster teeth podcast #the final stream

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bylightofdawn · 1 year

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I've been listening to my RVB Mercs/Lolix playlist kinda nonstop for the past couple of weeks and it has me HELLA nostalgic for Red vs Blue.

But I can't help but feel like it's been tainted as a whole by RT's kinda skuzzy turn in the past few years. The way they've treated their talent, the fact they have defended pieces of shit up until someone had to come up with all the receipts as to WHY that person is a piece of shit...all of it has just made it very hard for me to enjoy the series anymore.

It sucks because I love Red vs Blue. It's such a dumb, enjoyable series, especially in the later seasons. I adored everything with the Project Freelancer stuff and then with the Chorus trilogy. I love Felix and Locus but fuck is it hard to enjoy the series without it being in the back of my mind how shitty RT apparently is behind the scenes. And I'm not saying everyone is a piece of shit but they have clearly encouraged a very toxic culture and now I'm afraid to even say I am/was a fan.

It just...sucks.

Because now I have to be conscientious of my consumerism regarding the company. I technically own all the seasons save for the last two or three but it's a pain in the ass having to deal with DVD's. It's not on Netflix anymore so if I WANTED to rewatch them I'd have to either break out my DVD's because I don't want to give them traffic on YT or on their site. :/ And yeah maybe I'm being overly dramatic here but I am really not comfortable giving RT anymore of my cash. I did purchase some of the seasons as bundles through online streaming a while ago so I do have that as an alternative to giving them add revenue on YT. I just don't have seasons 1-5 or anything after the Chorus Trilogy. And yeah I guess I could just buy them through vudu or something like that so RT isn't getting the full profit from it and maybe that's what I will do one day when my nostalgia gets so strong I can't resist going back and rewatching the show.

It's just mired in this bitter taste now. Hell, RVB is how I got INTO Halo as a fandom. I'd always judged it by the rude dudebros shouting expletives and using the N-word in voicechat rep that the series had and just wrote it off. Then I watched RVB and it got me curious about the Halo universe so I read the first tie-in novel and I was fucking hooked. Now Halo is my second favorite sci-fi series outside of Star Wars and it has this AMAZING extended universe with all these awesome books and characters beyond just the Master Chief and I have RVB to thank for my initial hook into the series. And even THAT has been kinda tainted by association. I am still buying Halo novels and one day will own an Xbox again so I can play the newer games etc. And you can DEFINITELY make an argument that Microsoft/343 is 10x worse than RT.

But I guess that's where you have to make your own choices on how you are going to interact with a problematic creator/creative team when it comes to voting with your dollar. And I definitely feel for like say the HP fandom and the struggles they have to face when it comes to JKR being a huge piece of shit. I get it, it sucks.

It just...definitely makes me sad and bummed out I can't support a company I used to enjoy and thought was pretty cool. :/

EDIT: Also? My Lolix playlist? Is fucking AWESOME and full of certified bangers and I will continue to listen to it prolly till the world or I end. Pffft. And continue to curate with all the care and exacting standards of a true 90's kid trying to burn their perfect CD/Mixtape.

If you know, you know. 🤣

#red vs blue #rooster teeth #creators who disappoint you

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odsalt · 3 years

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This is in relation to RWBY and the Miles thing and I'm just asking cause genuinely curious but you don't gotta answer if you don't want buuut

Is there anything else from RT that you like? Like the Lets Plays or Funhaus or Off Topic or other Shows like Camp Camp, RvB, Nomad of Nowhere or whatever? Or fave member? Cause RWBY and Miles are just one part of their company so there's gotta be,,, idk at least one other thing you like?

Unless it was just RWBY in which case understandable

Have a good weekend!

I was actually a Red vs Blue fan and Rooster Teeth fan long before I was a R W B Y fan. In fact I actively avoided watching R W B Y because I thought of RT as my "escape from anime", but then I watched Chibi, which soon convinced me to watch the vanilla show. I liked the show up until v5 (or rather, the very beginning of v6). Yes, I liked v5 and firmly believe it is far from the worst volume (which would be 8, with 6 and 7 following closely behind.)

R W B Y was actually only my 4th favorite RT show, with RvB, Camp Camp (which I understand is offensive and problematic, but at least it owns that fact), and Nomad of Nowhere (which should have continued cuz it was aDORable). But then RvB started getting...ugh, season 15 wasn't good, at all. The following 2 seasons were sightly better (I liked s17 for its focus on Wash and Donut, my two favorite RvB boys), but I heard 18 was bad, like really bad, not just for RvB, but even on its own. Eesh.

It honestly hurts not being a fan of RT anymore, because RT, or specifically Red vs Blue, helped me when I really needed it. I discovered it not long after losing the only friends I had, so I looked at the Reds and Blues as friends, and it kept me from going to a bad place. To see the show, and its company, fall apart like it has been the past few years has been a terrible feeling.

And then there's R W B Y. Like I said, at least Camp Camp KNOWS it's offensive and owns it, but R W B Y thinks it's progressive when all it does it piss all over various communities, and the fans are encouraged to harass those who call it out. I had never seen such a level of toxicity in any other fandom I've so much as dipped a toe in. Ruby, Weiss, Blake, and Yang were another group that made me feel less alone, and I made some good friends through the show, but I can't look at it the same way anymore, because of what the Team and characters around them have become, how offensive and problematic and weirdly self-aware-but-also-not-self-aware-at-all the show is now. It makes me feel icky even looking back at volumes 1-3.

I got into R W B Y because I thought it was a fun story about badass girls going to school to fight cool monsters, but once it bit off more than it can chew, the flaws and choices in the writing became slaps in the face. R W B Y did a lot of good for people, myself included, but now it just harms people, from its inconsiderate and cruel writing, to its toxic fanbase which includes the people who help make the series, and unfortunately I'm watching it bleed into the company behind it, a company I used to adore and look up to. The people I respected are now people I scowl at, because R W B Y brought out their true colors.

"It's almost sad."

#ask #rwde #there it is #my life story #at least Oz doesn't make me feel alone #he's one of the best things to come out of this series #I wish he was in a different series....

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