Rooster Teeth / Achievement Hunter / Let's Play / Funhaus / Inside Gaming - The company was resurrected.

[Gondola Enjoyer]

>FIRST is our Twitch

Except you don't have to pay 6$ a month to watch a twitch stream. The whole idea of sponsorships, and then FIRST was to pay a tiny amount of money to remove ads, get some behind the scenes content, and get a fancy star next to your name on the website, which was much closer to how subscribing on Twitch really works. But nobody on twitch, who is sane and wants to actually grow, puts half, or more, of their content behind a paywall, which is how FIRST works now.

 

[Übertroon]

Here is half a fag Andy take on the recent drag show for kids that happened in Dallas.
Also did Jeremy buy it for 10k or is it worth 10k.
Had to edit cause of this pic the posted. I feel
Like they are just asking someone to photoshop Ryan.

Shitty logic. The drag queen show might not have directly have killed children, but it's part of the cultural zeitgeist that has thousands of kids and teens put on puberty blockers annually. So that's 19 dead kids vs 9000 castrated kids

 

[Mister Ferro]

Gee I wonder why you hate to play the Youtube game. It's not like its the biggest video site in the world or anything!

RT traffic is healthy af as you wrote yet you were candid in saying "We gotta play the Youtube game" What exactly is the truth??

Also has anyone checked out Ray's old twitch channel lately? They have it set up for old vods being played and the title is named RT 24/7| Always on. Only 55 viewers and chat is set to emote only from what I saw.

Speaking of Twitch, do they still take a 30 percent cut from "talent" personal channels?

 

[Chilson]

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I love that Trevor is doing so poorly in his job that they had to bring in "consultants" to help them salvage that graveyard of a channel he put into the dirt. Those consultants apparently "helped" Game grumps, which is another gaming channel in a slow viewership dive so clearly they didn't do a very good job with them and Trevor is stupid enough to say that's a good thing.

Its a fucking Youtube channel that was handed to him at a certain size where its difficult to lose relevance and even had YT's inner corporate handlers on their side. It was quite literally almost impossible to fail, yet Trevor somehow found a way to do it.

Speaking of Twitch, do they still take a 30 percent cut from "talent" personal channels?

Depends on the contract that was negotiated with partnered channels.

 

[FatSlobbe]

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Does it count as a game if you don't play it? The only game I think RT/AH are playing is Russian roulette and they are playing it with a fucking semiautomatic because they are mongoloids.

 

[Scuttle]

I'm back from hell on earth (Read: two years worth of curriculum crammed into nine months because my University are sadistic assholes).

Just wanted to say that I did TRY to cover Off-Topic episodes in my spare time. I have notes for episodes #311-313, but the episodes were completely devoid of life. They were vapid and lacking even in dumb shit I could get a kick out of poking fun at. It was like one of those 'Experience' theme park rides where your buggy goes past vaguely humanlike animatronics that converse with one another because it's not in their programming to do anything else.

After three episodes, I gave up, as did I think many others. Since around that time, the series has gone from struggling to break 40K views to struggling to break 30K. Episodes with Ky and Alfredo unanimously perform the worst.

But let's be honest, it's kind of sad to kick them when they're down. Look at the state of these graphs:


Achievement Hunter have not reported a monthly subscriber gain since May 2020, and have not reported consistent gain since August 2019 (which, even then, is negligible). For the last year and a half they have been directly contending with the zigzag of death as subscribers ebb and flow between the 1.52m threshold. They lose as much as they gain. The channel has stagnated.


RoosterTeeth have only reported subscriber losses since August 2021, with all but one month since July 2019 reporting a sub gain that was lost the following month. The channel is dead.


LetsPlay has not reported a monthly net subscriber gain since March 2020. The channel has completely stagnated, and existing viewers are nosediving as the channel continuously faces it's worst-performing month. It has buoyed a little bit from its all-time low of Feb 2022.

 

[Burt Ryan]

What about when Rooster Teeth started grabbing under their umbrella YouTubers? I remember Criken appearing in a lot of videos, then I think their contract ended? I'd like to hear more about that.

 

[Pizdec]

What about when Rooster Teeth started grabbing under their umbrella YouTubers? I remember Criken appearing in a lot of videos, then I think their contract ended? I'd like to hear more about that.

The tldr to that was, he was kind of a foot into the company, the problem however was no one in their audience really knew Criken because he was that niche. So niche in fact, when he, Tomato, and whoever else were introduced at an event, no one applauded, it was just bemusement all the way down.

 

[Cactuar King]

What about when Rooster Teeth started grabbing under their umbrella YouTubers? I remember Criken appearing in a lot of videos, then I think their contract ended? I'd like to hear more about that.

I think the same happened with James Buckley too. I vaguely remember him mentioning something about that...

 

[Chilson]

What about when Rooster Teeth started grabbing under their umbrella YouTubers? I remember Criken appearing in a lot of videos, then I think their contract ended? I'd like to hear more about that.

Criken, Tomato and Bedbanana were going to form a group under RT called "Sideshow". But the giga brained geniuses at RT did almost nothing to promote them and there was very little crossover from RT's audience and their fanbases. So few people in RT's audience had a clue who these people even were in the first place leading to embarrassing public showings at RTX where no one knew who the fuck they were.

Even worse, and what likely killed any future collabs with them and RT, was that RT didn't do the even the most basic of legwork by checking if their group name was not already trademarked. Which it was, so that entire thing collapsed.

Its probably more important to look at what they are doing now since falling out with RT just to compound the meme that "everything gets better once you leave Rooster teeth".

-Criken's streams have lost steam, but it seems to be because he is moving into a more behind the scenes production focused role in the realm of those big Twitch productions. Stuff like the "Jerma Dollhouse stream" where he worked as a game director behind the scenes. His stream still nets him a lot of money though, even if its smaller than what it was at his peak.

-Bedbanana is still around and still has a massive YT audience, but rarely posts and seems to have moved on with his life. Only coming back to the internet to play games with his streaming friends.

-Tomato has an incredibly successful streaming presence now with 5k subs and 3.5k average viewers. Really not much to say here, he is just simply successful as a streamer.

 

[Burt Ryan]

The tldr to that was, he was kind of a foot into the company, the problem however was no one in their audience really knew Criken because he was that niche. So niche in fact, when he, Tomato, and whoever else were introduced at an event, no one applauded, it was just bemusement all the way down.

I think the same happened with James Buckley too. I vaguely remember him mentioning something about that...

Criken, Tomato and Bedbanana were going to form a group under RT called "Sideshow". But the giga brained geniuses at RT did almost nothing to promote them and there was very little crossover from RT's audience and their fanbases. So few people in RT's audience had a clue who these people even were in the first place leading to embarrassing public showings at RTX where no one knew who the fuck they were.

Even worse, and what likely killed any future collabs with them and RT, was that RT didn't do the even the most basic of legwork by checking if their group name was not already trademarked. Which it was, so that entire thing collapsed.

Its probably more important to look at what they are doing now since falling out with RT just to compound the meme that "everything gets better once you leave Rooster teeth".

-Criken's streams have lost steam, but it seems to be because he is moving into a more behind the scenes production focused role in the realm of those big Twitch productions. Stuff like the "Jerma Dollhouse stream" where he worked as a game director behind the scenes. His stream still nets him a lot of money though, even if its smaller than what it was at his peak.

-Bedbanana is still around and still has a massive YT audience, but rarely posts and seems to have moved on with his life. Only coming back to the internet to play games with his streaming friends.

-Tomato has an incredibly successful streaming presence now with 5k subs and 3.5k average viewers. Really not much to say here, he is just simply successful as a streamer.

Exhaustive as always, cheers. Also damn, I watched some of Jerma's Dollhouse stream and it was amazing. I should watch more Jerma.

 

[Pig Boss]

I think the same happened with James Buckley too. I vaguely remember him mentioning something about that...

And LazarBeam who was in about 3 videos then his channel took off and he never looked back at Rooster Teeth receding in his rear view mirror.
His shirt is still for sale in the merch store but it's massively reduced probably to clear

 

[Noah Boddy]

Ky's lashing out at fans... Again...
Comments on the RT site

Spoiler: Comments

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

Look at all of those racists calling Mica #3 a fucking mindless ape. SMH, can't believe RT lets such rampant racism on their platform.

 

[Druveer]

"I don't see the need to bring race into this." Bro why are you surprised by that? Also Ky is a nigger who likes to steal shit of course she demands shit and doesn't thank the person who she got it from.

 

[Aknowledge Jontron]

Also has anyone checked out Ray's old twitch channel lately? They have it set up for old vods being played and the title is named RT 24/7| Always on. Only 55 viewers and chat is set to emote only from what I saw.

Right from Mega64's playbook. However, Mega64 stopped doing it awhile ago because it actually hurt their viewership for streaming. Since the channel is always live nobody knows when there is actually something *live*.

 

[Disc]

I'm back from hell on earth (Read: two years worth of curriculum crammed into nine months because my University are sadistic assholes).

Just wanted to say that I did TRY to cover Off-Topic episodes in my spare time. I have notes for episodes #311-313, but the episodes were completely devoid of life. They were vapid and lacking even in dumb shit I could get a kick out of poking fun at. It was like one of those 'Experience' theme park rides where your buggy goes past vaguely humanlike animatronics that converse with one another because it's not in their programming to do anything else.

After three episodes, I gave up, as did I think many others. Since around that time, the series has gone from struggling to break 40K views to struggling to break 30K. Episodes with Ky and Alfredo unanimously perform the worst.

But let's be honest, it's kind of sad to kick them when they're down. Look at the state of these graphs:

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Achievement Hunter have not reported a monthly subscriber gain since May 2020, and have not reported consistent gain since August 2019 (which, even then, is negligible). For the last year and a half they have been directly contending with the zigzag of death as subscribers ebb and flow between the 1.52m threshold. They lose as much as they gain. The channel has stagnated.

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RoosterTeeth have only reported subscriber losses since August 2021, with all but one month since July 2019 reporting a sub gain that was lost the following month. The channel is dead.

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LetsPlay has not reported a monthly net subscriber gain since March 2020. The channel has completely stagnated, and existing viewers are nosediving as the channel continuously faces it's worst-performing month. It has buoyed a little bit from its all-time low of Feb 2022.

You're reading these charts a bit wrong, i think.
At this scale, youtube only shows 10k increments. So the ones on the 0 line aren't gains, they're just months where the losses didn't cross a 10k threshold.

That Zigzag isn't AH getting and then losing 10k subscribers, that's them losing about 5k subscribers each month and it only being reported every second one. they actually seems to peak at about 1650000, from my research.

 

[Scuttle]

You're reading these charts a bit wrong, i think.
At this scale, youtube only shows 10k increments. So the ones on the 0 line aren't gains, they're just months where the losses didn't cross a 10k threshold.

That Zigzag isn't AH getting and then losing 10k subscribers, that's them losing about 5k subscribers each month and it only being reported every second one. they actually seems to peak at about 1650000, from my research.

Ah, I see what you mean. Yes, that seems right to me: the 0 is an indicator that any losses or gains don't exceed ±9999, but doesn't necessarily mean they've gained any at all.

So I guess you can also chalk AH and LetsPlay as channels that are only losing subs.

I appreciate the correction.

 

[Pizdec]

Ky's lashing out at fans... Again...
Comments on the RT site

Spoiler: Comments

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I highlighted the part with Ky and Jack. It's VERY obvious how annoyed Jack is, and you can clearly hear him wanting to say no to her dumb ass as she basically tells him what he's probably already aware of: You're not good enough, with Ky completely ignoring the fact that... it's a fucking video game my dude, chill.

 

[CptnSnshn]

Criken, Tomato and Bedbanana were going to form a group under RT called "Sideshow". But the giga brained geniuses at RT did almost nothing to promote them and there was very little crossover from RT's audience and their fanbases. So few people in RT's audience had a clue who these people even were in the first place leading to embarrassing public showings at RTX where no one knew who the fuck they were.

Even worse, and what likely killed any future collabs with them and RT, was that RT didn't do the even the most basic of legwork by checking if their group name was not already trademarked. Which it was, so that entire thing collapsed.

Its probably more important to look at what they are doing now since falling out with RT just to compound the meme that "everything gets better once you leave Rooster teeth".

-Criken's streams have lost steam, but it seems to be because he is moving into a more behind the scenes production focused role in the realm of those big Twitch productions. Stuff like the "Jerma Dollhouse stream" where he worked as a game director behind the scenes. His stream still nets him a lot of money though, even if its smaller than what it was at his peak.

-Bedbanana is still around and still has a massive YT audience, but rarely posts and seems to have moved on with his life. Only coming back to the internet to play games with his streaming friends.

-Tomato has an incredibly successful streaming presence now with 5k subs and 3.5k average viewers. Really not much to say here, he is just simply successful as a streamer.

Good to see the constant thread of "RT fucks up, people don't sign on with them, it ends up being the best possible choice they could have made."