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

[Fishy Fish Fish]

I find it funny that Kdin's been in big boy professional VA career for about four-ish years now, and his most relevant role is STILL May Marigold, a supporting character in RWBY, which is no longer even notable in current year.

Lindsey is about as bisexual as a straight woman acknowledging another women is attractive, about as non-binary as "I like to throw balls and play video games", and about as neurodivergent as every other child/adult who obsesses over their new favorite show. Does she think dying her hair blonde and painting on makeup is going to make her pretty or something? Besides voice-acting for the main character of the irrelavent faux anime, she's really just some boring white woman.

Pissbear- I mean MALIK wasn't bad-looking before he fagged out. And I find that little article about his Twitch content to be prime "we love black people until they have wrongthink."

The death of this company is so prolonged and boring. Have some drama already or something.

I think a good analogy for Rooster Teeth as a company is like a boat. 2015-2016 it grew to the point where it's a nice skiff that just may be competant enough to sail with the other big boats. It wasn't necessarily groundbreaking, but it had heart at least. Now it's just two and a half rotting boards with some bent nails sticking out of it, and the only being that rides on it is a seagull.

 

[indomitable snowman]

I think a good analogy for Rooster Teeth as a company is like a boat

The ship of theseus analogy. Turns out when you replace integral parts that work with ones that don't, the boat sinks.

 

[Arthur Morgan]

I had a flashback at how every single Rooster Teeth affiliated channel video around 2015 had to insert an intro with the Lazer Team short trailer, with that God awful rap song and Barbara's voiceover, and then the outro with Burnie asking fans to promote the movie and have it appear in their hometown theaters, ending it up with a cute "Thanks gorgeous."

Despite all the cringe of those segments, the man had passion. Thank God he saw the writing on the wall and bailed.

I went to a screening for that movie, had a great time and would have recommended it to anyone, until I bought it on bluray and realized that, no, it wasn't that great a movie. But everyone else in the audience was on board, and you could tell the crew believed in this, so the theater experience was great. Even YouTube believed in it enough to fund the sequel. It was a film that succeeded based solely on the fact that everyone was into it.

It's a shame that we'll never see that RT ever again.

 

[ToddleDoddle]

I went to a screening for that movie, had a great time and would have recommended it to anyone, until I bought it on bluray and realized that, no, it wasn't that great a movie. But everyone else in the audience was on board, and you could tell the crew believed in this, so the theater experience was great. Even YouTube believed in it enough to fund the sequel. It was a film that succeeded based solely on the fact that everyone was into it.

It's a shame that we'll never see that RT ever again.

I remember enjoying it but also realizing that if I was not so familiar with Burnie, Gavin and Michael I wouldn't like the movie. I enjoyed it more because I was happy to see the guys pull it off rather than the quality of the movie.

 

[Rabbi Palpenstein]

I remember enjoying it but also realizing that if I was not so familiar with Burnie, Gavin and Michael I wouldn't like the movie. I enjoyed it more because I was happy to see the guys pull it off rather than the quality of the movie.

If you look at it through an objective lens, it's just a cheap, dogshit movie
But when you look at it through the eyes of a fan, you appreciate it not for what it is ( a cheap, dogshit movie) but something the people you like worked hard to get going.

 

[Cyan]

First Dogbark video dropped.

TL;DW it's 3 disjointed skits that are clearly (and terribly) improvised.

 

[Hugbox Kommissar]

F in chat.

Spoiler: Thoughts

Reading between the lines it sounds like Michael and Trevor wanted to shut down AH because they wanted to create their own new thing that they can own (mostly Trevor) and they feel like AH has run its course (mostly Michael) and is approaching diminishing returns. They don't directly address the fact that viewership dropped off a cliff but Michael does hint at it, talks about their "changing audience" and "not everyone was happy".
I had to laugh when Michael mentioned Survive: Block Island as "one of the best things we've ever created". Wow, I'd never know that, Michael, because you paywalled the whole thing.
Geoff: "Achievement Hunter started because a couple of assholes played Halo the wrong way."
Geoff and Michael wanted a definitive ending to AH and for it to stay dead and not be "brought back as a cash grab".
Geoff talks about starting AH because he felt he was "in Burnie's shadow" with Red vs Blue.
Jack talks about hiring Michael off of Reddit.
I hate the way Trevor talks. Even when he's trying to be sincere he sounds like a zoomer parody of an HR admin.
Jack and Geoff reminise about getting drunk at AH and Off Topic events.
They all talk about what they've accomplished in life. Jack talks about getting his name on the wall of the Chicago theater and Michael talks about him and Gavin getting the special shoutout in the Super Bunnyman credits. Jack and Geoff talk about being in RDR2.
Geoff and Michael both talk about playing video games on the F**kface and FaceJam channels and joke about uploading them back up to the AH channel.
Geoff ends the video by getting the "Geoff is a legend" achievement (with great difficulty) in Gems of War.
Geoff: "It ends how it begins: a complete trash fire."

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

Reading between the lines it sounds like Michael and Trevor wanted to shut down AH because they wanted to create their own new thing that they can own (mostly Trevor) and they feel like AH has run its course (mostly Michael) and is approaching diminishing returns.

Well congrats Trevor and Michael, you've created your very own financial guillotine. Now, don't be pissy when this lobs your head off.

 

[Fishy Fish Fish]

If you look at it through an objective lens, it's just a cheap, dogshit movie
But when you look at it through the eyes of a fan, you appreciate it not for what it is ( a cheap, dogshit movie) but something the people you like worked hard to get going.

That was the clincher of a lot of RT's older content. It was cheap and clunky, but people cared and that's wholesome, so you couldn't help but want to have fun along with them.

 

[indomitable snowman]

First Dogbark video dropped.

TL;DW it's 3 disjointed skits that are clearly (and terribly) improvised.

That was shockingly unfunny.

 

[Rabbi Palpenstein]

That was shockingly unfunny.

I hope it was worth it, Trevor/Michael, because now you don't even have the AH brand to fall back on name recognition/legacy fans. Can't wait to see how long it takes to shitcan this one

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

Can't wait to see how long it takes to shitcan this one

Taking bets on this. My money is on 1 year.

 

[Jaded Optimist]

Good job guys

 

[Arthur Morgan]

Taking bets on this. My money is on 1 year.

Good job guys
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I'm thinking maybe even a year is optimistic. But will they have the courage to admit they fucked up and go back to AH? Or will they do like Barbara and push through on a channel that's clearly not working.

Speaking of which, let's see how All Good No Worries is doing:

...Okay, uh maybe it's just a temporary stumble. Let's see their most popular numbers:

Yikes, only three videos over 50k in six months, and nothing breaking six figures. Just accept that you failed and move on, fuck.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

Good job guys
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Oh wow, it's that bad?

 

[indomitable snowman]

I hope it was worth it, Trevor/Michael, because now you don't even have the AH brand to fall back on name recognition/legacy fans. Can't wait to see how long it takes to shitcan this one

Taking bets on this. My money is on 1 year.

Should we place our bets to see how long dogbark will last?

I'm thinking 8-9 months.

We should make this a new poll for the thread.

 

[Hugbox Kommissar]

Imagine dumping a channel with almost 1.5 million subscribers for this.

I don't understand the obsession with improv sketch comedy but I'm going to blame Trevor for pushing it, he's the theater kid archetype.

 

[Rabbi Palpenstein]

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Imagine dumping a channel with almost 1.5 million subscribers for this.

I don't understand the obsession with improv sketch comedy but I'm going to blame Trevor for pushing it, he's the theater kid archetype.

A year might be generous, legacy fans don't give a shit about this. The only OG left is Michael, and he's been a corporate sellout for a while

 

[ThisIsGonnaBeGood]

First Dogbark video dropped.

TL;DW it's 3 disjointed skits that are clearly (and terribly) improvised.

Someone please tell Michael to stop dying his hair and shave his fucking face. He looks like a goblin crossed with Logan Paul with that patchy shit.

 

[Fishy Fish Fish]

Someone please tell Michael to stop dying his hair and shave his fucking face. He looks like a goblin crossed with Logan Paul with that patchy shit.

I mean, his wife's a dump truck, they might as well hit the wall together.