If RoosterTeeth is going to be mentioned, I have a
thread just for them. My OP isn't perfect, but it highlights the grease and shady shit that went on behind the scenes, as well as how and why the company is on the path of going broke for their wokeness. The TL;DR of it being:
- Mica Burton, child of LeVar Burton was hired on seemingly for talent (she's average at best), only in retrospect she's clearly being used as an equality card and to get closer to her Dad's Hollywood connections. She also ranted about racism, which can be summarized as "I hated my skin, but I'll punch you if you say racism doesn't exist." She immediately got backlash, to the point she considered suicide while Burnie and higher ups were more concerned over her dad not liking them (hint: he didn't, considering they made a joke out of him
microwaving a phone.)
- She quits in the following months after her rant, only to come out in 2021 confirming these speculations, leading to an awkward
Off Topic episode where one of the founders, Geoff Ramsey, goes on camera and cries for new equality card named Fiona Nova, who is somehow worse then Mica. He would later go on to confirm he's genuinely scared of being consumed by the cancel culture beast. Which he fed.
In regards to RoosterTeeth's Shady shit, most of it has had to do with their animation team.
- Cliques formed within it, and hostility was the order of the day. Overtime was also the norm, was often unpaid, and done of the back of interns who were fired after being promised a position if they did well enough.
- The person in charge at one point, Gray Haddock, embezzled the budget of another show to fund his own animation called Gen:LOCK, often mockingly called Gen:ERIC due to how unappealing it was.
- Despite getting actual air time on TV, Gen:LOCK tanked as expected, but Gray was set on making season 2, only to be given a summery firing by CEO Matt Hollum directly after an employee went to him directly to complain with reciepts. Matt then put two people in charge to keep things checked and balanced.